Alison McQueen
@aejm.bsky.social
Associate Professor | Department of Political Science | Stanford University.
Working on religion in early modern political thought, treason and political betrayal, and digital humanities. Associate Editor, APSR.
www.alisonmcqueen.info
Working on religion in early modern political thought, treason and political betrayal, and digital humanities. Associate Editor, APSR.
www.alisonmcqueen.info
Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!
Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory
Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)
Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...
Please circulate widely!
Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)
Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...
Please circulate widely!
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!
Reposted by Alison McQueen
I have been working over the last 8 months to bring Jamaica Osorio, esteemed scholar & kanaka maoli activist, to speak at Stanford. Osorio's timely and powerful lecture is entitled, "E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation." Please join us in person or on zoom! (RSVP below)
Jamaica Osorio | E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation | Stanford Humanities Center
Critical Carceral Studies Collective
shc.stanford.edu
April 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I have been working over the last 8 months to bring Jamaica Osorio, esteemed scholar & kanaka maoli activist, to speak at Stanford. Osorio's timely and powerful lecture is entitled, "E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation." Please join us in person or on zoom! (RSVP below)
This was so fun to write!
Honored to have had Alison McQueen write such a thoughtful response to #MaryShelley’s conception of ‘Postapocalyptic Hope’ in ‘The Last Man’, by way of reflecting on Augustine, Jonathan Lear and Nick Cave: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Postapocalyptic hope
This response to Eileen Hunt's The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination explores the theme of postapocalyptic hope. I connect Shelley's treatment of hope to accounts fro...
www.tandfonline.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This was so fun to write!
Reposted by Alison McQueen
Another compelling way to think about politics and time. Gratitude to @polphilpod.bsky.social for all his great interviews.
This was such a fun and interesting conversation!
"I've always found a strange optimism in the worldly perspective of The Discourses . . .
worldly orders rise and decline, sometimes die. And yet the world does not come to an end"
@aejm.bsky.social
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ra
worldly orders rise and decline, sometimes die. And yet the world does not come to an end"
@aejm.bsky.social
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ra
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Another compelling way to think about politics and time. Gratitude to @polphilpod.bsky.social for all his great interviews.
This was such a fun and interesting conversation!
"I've always found a strange optimism in the worldly perspective of The Discourses . . .
worldly orders rise and decline, sometimes die. And yet the world does not come to an end"
@aejm.bsky.social
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ra
worldly orders rise and decline, sometimes die. And yet the world does not come to an end"
@aejm.bsky.social
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ra
REALISM & APOCALYPTICISM with Alison McQueen
How did realist thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes respond to people predicting the end of the world, and what lessons can we draw from that in our own day? Alison McQueen Joins the podcast to discuss.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:12 PM
This was such a fun and interesting conversation!
This is such a service to the discipline!
I often tell my advanced graduate students who are looking to get their work published that, if you're not getting multiple journal rejections, you're not doing your job right. So, to provide continuing inspiration, I've uploaded the annual update to my CV of Journal Article Rejections:
CV of Journal Article Rejections
I often tell my advanced graduate students who are looking to get their work published that, if you're not getting multiple journal rejections, you're not doing your job right. So, to provide inspirat...
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November 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
This is such a service to the discipline!
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The second day of the HCAS Symposium Theoretical Foundations for Interdisciplinarity was opened by @aejm.bsky.social (Stanford University) with her inspiring talk "Text-as-Data in the History of Political Thought".
Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...
Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...
December 1, 2023 at 10:20 AM
The second day of the HCAS Symposium Theoretical Foundations for Interdisciplinarity was opened by @aejm.bsky.social (Stanford University) with her inspiring talk "Text-as-Data in the History of Political Thought".
Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...
Program: blogs.helsinki.fi/interdiscipl...
Goodreads reviews of Machiavelli's The Prince: (1) "Ewww self-serving theories of tyranny for personal gain are sooo not hot." (2) “Some fine points, but it's basically the most boring fucking cover letter you'll ever read.” (3) “Rather useful if you get the urge to invade a small country.”
September 25, 2023 at 4:07 AM
Goodreads reviews of Machiavelli's The Prince: (1) "Ewww self-serving theories of tyranny for personal gain are sooo not hot." (2) “Some fine points, but it's basically the most boring fucking cover letter you'll ever read.” (3) “Rather useful if you get the urge to invade a small country.”
Reposted by Alison McQueen
Huge congratulations to @matthewblongo.bsky.social for his starred review in Kirkus for The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain - so excited to read the book!
August 10, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Huge congratulations to @matthewblongo.bsky.social for his starred review in Kirkus for The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain - so excited to read the book!