THE COMMONS
Seminar 2021/2022
- CCA presents Robert Nichols
- November 3, 1:10 – 4:10 pm
- Event Date: Nov 03, 2021
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- A discussion with Robert Nichols about the commons, property, and theft, based on his recent book Theft is Property! (Duke, 2020)
- Robert Nichols, Associate Professor of Political Theory
- University of Minnesota
- Bio: Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His areas of research specialization include contemporary political theory (esp. Critical Theory); the history of political thought (esp. pertaining to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th century); and the contemporary politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity in the Anglo-American world. Before joining the University of Minnesota, Professor Nichols was Alexander von Humboldt Faculty Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He has also held academic posts at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), the University of Alberta (Canada), University of Cambridge (UK), and Columbia University (USA). He is the recipient of grants and awards from the Fulbright, Humboldt, Killam, McKnight, and Trudeau Foundations, as well as from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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