The Civic Agora

This podcast features Keith Baker, J.E. Wallace Sterling Emeritus Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, whose scholarship has significantly shaped the study of the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The conversation centers... more

In this episode of The Civic Agora, we sit down with Dan Edelstein, Professor of French and member of the Stanford Civics Initiative, to explore what revolution, citizenship, and education really mean today. From the history of political ideas to his... more

What can the history of political thought teach us about today's crisis of mass incarceration? In this episode of The Civic Agora (Stanford Civics Initiative), we sit down with Jacob Abolafia-Yale and Harvard graduate, and author of The Prison Before... more

In this episode of The Civic Agora, we chat with Avshalom Schwartz. Avshalom is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Civics Initiative at Stanford University studying political theory. His research focuses on the role of imagination in politics, th... more

In this episode of the Civic Agora, we chat with Dongxian Jiang. He is a political theorist and intellectual historian. His research and teaching interests include comparative political theory, the history of Chinese and Asian political thought, inte... more

In this episode of The Civic Agora, we chat with Emilee Chapman. She is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Stanford University. Her research explores the relationship between democratic ideals and democratic practices. She ... more

In this episode of The Civic Agora, we chat with Josiah Ober. He is the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences, specializes in the areas of ancient and modern political theory and historical institutionalism. His primar... more

In this episode, we chat with Simon Luo. He is a political theorist and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Civics Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. His primary research focuses o... more