julian.hermida@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4317
Office: NW 206B

Credentials: BA (University of Buenos Aires), LLM, DCL (McGill University), PhD (University of Córdoba)

Areas of Expertise: Criminal law and criminology, comparative law, international law.

trevor.tchir@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4388
Office: SH 415

Educational Background:

• ‌PhD, University of Alberta
• MA, University of Ottawa
• BA, University of Ottawa

Areas of Expertise:

Classical and modern history of political thought, moral philosophy, Arendt’s theory of political action, Canadian political institutions.

Publications:

Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Action: Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who.’ Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Book Chapters:

“Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt’s Account of Political Action,” in Action and Appearance: Explorations in Hannah Arendt, eds. Charles Barbour, Philip Hansen, Anna Yeatman, and Magdalena Zolkos (Continuum: New York, 2011).

“Arendtian Action: Performative Disclosure of the ‘Who’” in Declensions of the Self: A Bestiary of Modernity, eds. Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir, and Dan Webb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Edited Book:

Edited collection: Declensions of the Self: A Bestiary of Modernity, eds. Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir, and Dan Webb (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Book Review:

“Review of Karen S. Feldman, Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger,” H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews, January, 2007.

Selected Conference Presentations:

• “Arendtian Resources for Truth and Reconciliation,” Prairie Political Science Association conference, Banff (2017).
• “Reconciliation and the Fusion of Horizons,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Calgary (2016).
• “Rethinking Sovereignty in First Nations and Canadian Crown Relations,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Ottawa (2015).
• “Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Secular State,” Canadian Political Science Association conference, Edmonton (2012).
• “Aristotelian Practical Reason in Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice,” Western Political Science Association, San Antonio(2011).
• “Daimon Appearances in Arendt’s Account of Action,” Western Political Science Association, Vancouver; Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago; New York State Political Science Association, New York; Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa (2009).
• “Performative Self-Disclosure in Arendt’s Account of Action,” Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon (2007).
• “Aletheia and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Theory Colloquium, University of Alberta (2007).
• “Self-Disclosure and the State: Arendt’s Critique of Marx’s Socialized Humanity,” Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2006).
• “Judging the Political Performance: Self-Disclosure and the Spectator in Hannah Arendt,” MLCS Declensions of the Self Conference, University of Alberta (2006).
• “Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment,” Talking Across Disciplines Colloquium, University of Alberta (2006).
• “Rationality and Language in Charles Taylor,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Ottawa (2006).

kelly.deluca@algomau.ca

Office: CC 3031

Credentials: BA Hons, LL.B (University of Toronto), MA, M.Phil, PhD (Columbia University), of the Bar of Ontario

Areas of Expertise: Legal history, legal theory, constitutional law, international law