Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Submissions

To submit a proposal for consideration, please click here

The deadline for submissions is December 27, 2024. Proposals should be between 750-1,000 words.

We welcome papers that speak directly or indirectly to the following themes:

  • Insurgent democracy
  • The politics of social movements
  • Constituent power and radical constitutionalism
  • Democratic imaginaries within and beyond the nation state
  • Non-sovereign social and political organization 
  • Representation and direct democracy
  • Citizenship and the category of the ‘citizen’
  • Theory and practice within and beyond the academy
  • Democratic theory in times of crisis
  • Ecology and degrowth communisms
  • Utopia and futurity
  • Political pessimism
  • Democracy, speech, and discourse
  • Knowledge, power, and ideology
  • Political violence
  • Crisis, urgency, and temporality


For more information concerning the aim and themes of the conference, please refer to the home page.