Tag: political science

Jill Locke delivered an invited paper, “#MeToo and the Feminist Politics of Shame,” as part of the Shame, Shaming, Shamelessness conference at the University of Vienna on November 29, 2019. She then traveled to the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, DK) and delivered a keynote, “The Death of Shame and the Rise of Authoritarianism? A…

Jill Locke was quoted at length in the Mankato Free Press story, “Demonstrators stand vigil as high court weighs abortion access,” published on Sunday, November 3, 2019.

Jill Locke attended the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, August 29-September 1, 2019. Locke had the pleasure of being chair and discussant for a panel titled “Shame and Other Political Emotions,” which was comprised of graduate students and junior scholars engaging her book on shame (Democracy and the Death…

Jill Locke has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal Politics & Gender. She will serve a three-year term.

Chris Gilbert served as a discussant on the panel “Let’s Talk about Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy” at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting held in Chicago April 4-7, 2019.

Jill Locke delivered an invited paper at the “Doing Democracy Differently” conference hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (March 22-23, 2019). Many of the sources in Locke’s paper, “Fighting with the Children: Toward a Political Theory of Youth Activism,” are on the syllabus of the Political Science seminar she is currently teaching, titled “Revolting…

Jill Locke (Political Science) will present “The Politics of Shame and the Stories We Tell: Narratives of Loss and Hope from Sophocles and Plato to Slut Walks and #MeToo,” as part of the Philosophy Department Lecture Series at Minnesota State University-Mankato. The lecture is an adaptation of the keynote Locke gave at the Diversity in Nordic…

Jill Locke was invited to write an opinion piece, “Don’t count on shame to get the GOP to behave,” for the Washington Post, published December 11, 2018.

Jill Locke participated in an author-meets-critics panel discussion of her book, Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance, at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Francisco, California.