Fay Niker / Political Theory Workshop

Date
Fri November 3rd 2017, 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Political Science
Location
ENCINA HALL WEST, ROOM 400 (GSL)
Fay Niker / Political Theory Workshop

FAY NIKER, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Ethics in Society

Fay Niker completed her PhD in political theory at the University of Warwick. Her research on the ethics of public nudging (entitled "Living Well by Design") was awarded a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy grant in 2015, together with the John L. Stanley award for the most outstanding project in the Ethics category. Alongside her doctoral research, Fay is also involved in interdisciplinary collaborations, principally with members of the National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia. Her research and teaching interests include: contemporary political theory, applied ethics (including neuroethics and the ethics of technology), behavioral public policy, and intersections between normative and empirical research.


The Political Theory Workshop offers faculty and other scholars an opportunity to present "in progress" or recently completed work to a diverse audience from political science, philosophy, law, and other social sciences and humanities.  Workshop papers come from all areas of political theory, including normative and positive theory, legal theory, and the history of political thought.  Papers are circulated ten days before the seminar. Participants are expected to read the paper before the workshop.  Each session begins with comments and questions on the paper by a discussant, a brief response from the author, followed by a general discussion.