HI-NORM CLUSTER

Meetings

The HI-NORM Cluster maintains an active schedule, with various meetings, discussions, reading groups, and lectures during the year. The HI-NORM program is planned each quarter according to its Strategic Plan and the contributions of members, collaborators, and partners. Check here for updates on cluster activities.

2021

  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Friday, February 5, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting)

Agenda:

1. News and Updates
2. Discussion on Current Trends and Events in Human Rights
3. Activities for Winter and Spring quarters
4. Other Business
  • HI-NORM Talk: Bill Talbott, “Epistemology: Learning from our Mistakes”
          Friday, January 22, 2021, 3:30 – 6:00 pm
          (Virtual Lecture — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)

2020

The HI-NORM Cluster conclude 2020 very successfully. See the activities below.

  • Guest Lecture: Klaus Vieweg, “Hegel and the Welfare State”
          Friday, December 4, 2020, 9:30 – 11:30 am
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)

Title: “Hegel as Founder of the Welfare State”

  • Guest Lecture: Luis Cabrera, “Humble Cosmopolitanism”
          Friday, November 20, 2020, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
  • Guest Lecture: Simone Chambers, “The Future of Democracy”
          Friday, October 9, 2020, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
  • Discussion Session with Guest Lecturer: Simone Chambers
          Thursday, October 8, 2020, 12:30 – 2:00 pm

          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)

  • Celebration: Conclusion of Academic Year
          Friday, June 20, 2020, 3:30 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
  • HI-NORM Talk: Jonathan Warren & Marcus Johnson, “Black Lives Matter” 
          Thursday, June 12, 2020, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
  • HI-NORM Talk: Monika Kaup, “Post-Apocalyptical Scenarios”
          Friday, May 15, 2020, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
  • CANCELLED: International Seminar “Human Rights & Cosmopolitanism”
          April, 2019
          University of Washington, Seattle
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster 
          Friday, March, 2020 25, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          (Virtual Meeting — Invitations will be sent out to members and associates)
Agenda:
1. News and Updates
2. Planning for Spring Quarter
3. Other Business
4. End of Quarter Celebration
  • HI-NORM Talk: Michael Sukhov, “Herbert Marcuse” 
          Friday, February 28, 2020, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          Foster School of Business, Library, Room 10
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster: 
          Friday, January 10, 2020, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Agenda:
1. Final Preparation of International Conference
2. Other Business

2019

  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
          TBD
Agenda:
1. Evaluation of International Conference
2. Planning for 2020
  • International Seminar “Normative Innovation, Human Rights & Democracy”
          October 20-23, 2019
          University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Political Science, Gowen 1A
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Thursday, October 10, 2019, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
          UW Club
Agenda:
1. Final Preparation of International Conference
2. Other Business
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Friday, October 4, 2019, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          UW Club

Agenda:

1. News and Updates
2. Planning of “International Seminar”
3. Content, Logistics, and Strategies
4. Other Business
  • Conclusion of the Academic Year and Planning for the Fall
          Friday, May 17, 2019, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
          TBD
  • Lecture by Nancy Fraser
          Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
          Meany Hall, UW Seattle
  • Lecture by Nancy Fraser, “Conversations on Capitalism”
          Tuesday, May 6, 2019, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
          Carwein Auditorium, KEY 102, UW Tacoma
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
          UW Club

Agenda:

1. News and Updates
2. Strategic Planning
3. Planning of upcoming events
4. Other Business
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Friday, April 5, 2019, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
          UW Club

Agenda:

1. News and Updates
2. Recent Publications by BI-NORM members
3. Visit to UW in May 7-10 – Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research)
4. HI-NORM International Seminar (with Goethe University) in October 2019
5. Other Business
  • Reading Group on Nancy Fraser (Spring quarter)
          Tuesdays, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
          Reading: “What is Critical about Critical Theory?”
          Tioga Library (TLB) 109
          * See schedule of next meetings/readings with Margaret Griesse and Michael Forman
             (April 11, April 18, April 25, and May 2)
  • Lecture by Marcus Gabriel, “New Realism” and “Neo-Existentialism”
          Friday, March 8, 2019, 10:30 – 12:00 pm and 4:00 – 6:00 pm
          Carwein Auditorium, KEY 102, UW Tacoma
  • Lecture by Markus Gabriel, “New Realism”
          Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
          Maeny Hall, UW Seattle
  • Business Meeting of the HI-NORM Cluster
          Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
          UW Club

Agenda:

1. News and Updates
2. Leadership Transition
3. Ongoing Projects
4. Lecture with Markus Gabriel (Univerity of Bonn, Germany), March 6, 2019 at 7:30pm
5. Other Business
  • Markus Gabriel Reading Group
          Monday, February 25, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
          Reading: “Fictional Objects”
          UW Club
  • Markus Gabriel Reading Group
          Monday, January 28, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
          Reading: “Neo-Existentialism”
          UW Club