Updated title for Elena Ruiz's talk on Thursday: The Problem of Adaptive Regeneration in Building Solutions to Structural Violence. Thu 4pm. @lsegovernment.bsky.social #politicaltheory
📢 Next @lsepoltheory.bsky.social seminar:
Elena Ruiz (Michigan State) — "Epistemic Capitalism: Structure, Ideology, and the Economics of Inequality"
🗓 Thu 5 March, 4:00 PM
📍 CKK.2.06, LSE
All welcome! External visitors please register in advance (link 👇) @lsegovernment.bsky.social
The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
🔔 Next LSE Political Theory seminar:
@manongarcia.bsky.social (FU Berlin)
"Putting Consent Back in Its Place or the Double Social Meaning of Sex"
📅 Thursday, 19 Feb, 4pm
📍 CKK.2.06
All welcome! External visitors must register in advance:
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WBSQABK5yj
@lsegovernment.bsky.social
LSE Political Theory Group research seminar TODAY:
Speaker: Daniel Häuser (LSE)
Title: In Defense of a Modest Political Liberalism
When: Thursday, 12 February, 4:00 PM
Where: CKK.2.06
All are welcome!
📣 Call for Abstracts!
Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)!
Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y...
Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!
CFA for the LSE Graduate conference, 28-29 May 2026. Submit your abstracts by 22 February here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📢 LSE Political Theory Group seminar this Thursday!
Christine Straehle: "Migration, Death and Human Rights"
📅 Thu 22 January, 4:00 PM
📍 CKK.2.06
All welcome! External visitors please register in advance for security: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WBSQABK5yj
@lsegovernment.bsky.social #PoliticalTheory
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📢 CFP: LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
📅 28–29 May 2026 • London (in person)
Grad students in political theory & related fields: submit an anonymized abstract (≤1000 words) by 22 Feb 2026.
✨ Keynotes: Sean Ingham & Shuk Ying Chan
🔗 Submit via form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Leigh Jenco, Kai Spiekermann and Bruno Leopold in conference venue.
Fantastic @biapt.bsky.social conference in beautiful Edinburgh with five great keynotes, some snow, and three LSE colleagues. @brunoleipold.com @kspiekermann.bsky.social and Leigh Jenco.
Our new schedule for the Winter Term - now corrected. Thursdays 4pm. All welcome!
Students in gowns and their teachers, celebrating.
Congratulations to our graduates MSc Political Theory 2025! (Better photo to follow!)
And tomorrow Thursday at 4pm we have Pablo @pablogilabert.bsky.social in our own research seminar at 4pm in OLD.4.10.
Almost at the same time, Kate Vredenburgh presents in the Choice Group on "Gender Egalitarianism, Work, and Technology" www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
What an incredible week of political theory talks at LSE. Yesterday, David Owens presented on "The Fragmentation of Justice" in the LEJ seminar series @lsephilosophy.bsky.social . Today Chandran Kukathas launches his new book in the Legal and Political Theory Forum. @lselaw.bsky.social.
Workshop this Thursday with @vharting.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com .
Our last research seminar this term:
Pablo Gilabert (Concordia)
“Why We Should Support Working Artists”
Thursday, 11 December, 4:00 PM
OLD.4.10
All welcome! If you are external to LSE, please register in advance so you can pass security:
forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
Our very own @pjthinker.bsky.social on Ideas Matter!
Our next research seminar: Speaker: Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University); Title: Three Bad Arguments Against Lottocracy; Date & Time: Thursday, 4 December, 4:00 PM; Location: OLD.4.10
All welcome. If you are external to LSE, please register in advance:
forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
Wonderful reflection with Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán on the relation between journalism and political theory, and careers connecting the two. Also a great opportunity to hear about Máriam's new book. www.penguinlibros.com/es/economia-...
The recordings of our virtual graduate open day are now available. For all MSc programmes in @lsegovernment.bsky.social and for the MSc Political Theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=My__...
Great collection -- with @halcyene.bsky.social editing.
Our very own @brunoleipold.com wins the Deutscher Prize 2025. Amazing news! And we celebrate by walking to Marx's grave with our Msc students. www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/
Next LSE Political Theory research seminar is with Agnes Tam (Calgary & Frankfurt). The paper is called “The Social Normativity of Social Norms: A Pluralist Account”. All welcome. Thursday 4pm in OLD.4.10. @lsegovernment.bsky.social Please register if LSE-external: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
We're holding a Graduate Open Day for all MSc degrees in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social , including political theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social . Please join us to hear about the programme and ask any questions you might have. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Our very own Bruno @brunoleipold.com wins an ERC Synergy Grant! We are thrilled!! Huge boost for political theory @lsegovernment.bsky.social.
This Thursday, 4pm, in our research seminar: Jeff Spinner-Halev (UNC) on "Liberal Democratic Theory and the Rebuilding of the Administrative State". @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...
TODAY 11:30am! Tickets are gone but returns may be available. Chaired by our @pjthinker.bsky.social . www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...
