Avshalom Schwartz
@avshalom.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @SMU polisci | Political theory; Ancient and early modern political thought; The political imagination | Ph.D. @Stanford
www.avshalomschwartz.com
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Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits” - Avshalom M. Schwartz, 2025
Among the surviving Funeral Orations, Pericles’s is the only one that does not mention the mythical Catalogue of Exploits. To explain this anomaly, this paper s...
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I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and an MPSA deadline extension
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and an MPSA deadline extension
The Stanford graduate political theory conference is now accepting proposals for its fifth annual meeting. This has been my favorite conference as a grad student, and I encourage you to submit a proposal (or pass along the CfP to your graduate students)!
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2026 Call for Papers
The political science and philosophy graduate students at Stanford University will host our fifth annual graduate political theory conference on February 6-7, 2026 on the Stanford campus. We are de…
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September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Stanford graduate political theory conference is now accepting proposals for its fifth annual meeting. This has been my favorite conference as a grad student, and I encourage you to submit a proposal (or pass along the CfP to your graduate students)!
wp.me/pb5QZ6-1A
wp.me/pb5QZ6-1A
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The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students.
The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!
The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!
Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students
Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in...
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June 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students.
The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!
The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!
I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits” - Avshalom M. Schwartz, 2025
Among the surviving Funeral Orations, Pericles’s is the only one that does not mention the mythical Catalogue of Exploits. To explain this anomaly, this paper s...
journals.sagepub.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Avshalom Schwartz
Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...
Emailing - The Association for Political Theory
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June 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...
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I'm doing podcast invites - anyone you'd recommend I have on?
Political theorists, philosophers, & anyone else with something to say in that domain
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
Political theorists, philosophers, & anyone else with something to say in that domain
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
HOME | politicalphilosophy
Discussions with Philosophers and public figures. Politics, ethics, meta-ethics, human rights, religion, atheism, liberalism, and republicanism.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm doing podcast invites - anyone you'd recommend I have on?
Political theorists, philosophers, & anyone else with something to say in that domain
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
Political theorists, philosophers, & anyone else with something to say in that domain
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
I had the pleasure of reviewing Naomi Campa's excellent new book, "Freedom and Power in Classical Athens," for The Review of Politics. You can check out my review here:
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Naomi Campa: Freedom and Power in Classical Athens. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiv, 197.) | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core
Naomi Campa: Freedom and Power in Classical Athens. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiv, 197.)
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April 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I had the pleasure of reviewing Naomi Campa's excellent new book, "Freedom and Power in Classical Athens," for The Review of Politics. You can check out my review here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Now that I am on here, a thread collecting events, discussions, interviews, and reviews connected to my new book, *Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique*, published by Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social.
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Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) [Gienapp, Jonathan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
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February 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Now that I am on here, a thread collecting events, discussions, interviews, and reviews connected to my new book, *Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique*, published by Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social.
www.amazon.com/Against-Cons...
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Me, whenever a NYT reporter is saying “the Platonic ideal of…” on The Headlines/Daily
February 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Me, whenever a NYT reporter is saying “the Platonic ideal of…” on The Headlines/Daily
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CFP: Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. #polisky
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2025 PTPS Junior Scholars Workshop
We seek paper proposals for the sixth Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) Junior Scholars Workshop, which will take place at McGill April 25-26, 2025. An ongoing collaboration among fa...
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January 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
CFP: Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. #polisky
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
Reading Seneca’s Letters and feeling very personally attacked by this sentence
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reading Seneca’s Letters and feeling very personally attacked by this sentence
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The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website:
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December 10, 2024 at 3:38 PM
The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025 is now accepting applications! To submit an abstract, visit the website:
oxgradconference.wixsite.com/oxfordgradco...
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Grad students whose work sits at the intersection of history and political science:
Would you be interested in getting involved in the WPSA Virtual Community on History and Politics I am convening with Vik Visana?
You can workshop a paper, serve as a discussant, and more!
Would you be interested in getting involved in the WPSA Virtual Community on History and Politics I am convening with Vik Visana?
You can workshop a paper, serve as a discussant, and more!
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Grad students whose work sits at the intersection of history and political science:
Would you be interested in getting involved in the WPSA Virtual Community on History and Politics I am convening with Vik Visana?
You can workshop a paper, serve as a discussant, and more!
Would you be interested in getting involved in the WPSA Virtual Community on History and Politics I am convening with Vik Visana?
You can workshop a paper, serve as a discussant, and more!
I wrote a short piece on imagination and democracy for
The Junkyard. You can read it here - comments are welcomed and much appreciated!
junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/2/...
The Junkyard. You can read it here - comments are welcomed and much appreciated!
junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/2/...
Imagination and Democracy — The Junkyard
A post by Avshalom Schwartz
The current crisis of liberal democracy has brought with it growing
concerns over the inability of citizens to agree on basic facts, beliefs,
and views about the world. ...
junkyardofthemind.com
February 22, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I wrote a short piece on imagination and democracy for
The Junkyard. You can read it here - comments are welcomed and much appreciated!
junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/2/...
The Junkyard. You can read it here - comments are welcomed and much appreciated!
junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/2/...
I had the great pleasure of joining Javier Mejia on the Civic Agora Podcast for a conversation about imagination, democracy, collective action, and misinformation!
You can listen to it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/2qrH...
You can listen to it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/2qrH...
Imagination, Misinformation, and Democracy | Avshalom Schwartz
Listen to this episode from The Civic Agora on Spotify. In this episode of The Civic Agora, we chat with Avshalom Schwartz. Avshalom is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Civics Initiative at Stan...
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January 23, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I had the great pleasure of joining Javier Mejia on the Civic Agora Podcast for a conversation about imagination, democracy, collective action, and misinformation!
You can listen to it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/2qrH...
You can listen to it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/2qrH...
A Southern twist on Rosh Hashanah dinner: smoked brisket with apple BBQ sauce and round challah dinner rolls. Shana tova y’all!
September 17, 2023 at 12:37 AM
A Southern twist on Rosh Hashanah dinner: smoked brisket with apple BBQ sauce and round challah dinner rolls. Shana tova y’all!
Join us next week for this very cool political theory "mini-conference," where I'll be presenting new work on the "democratic imagination" alongside this wonderful line-up of presenters and discussants. All are welcome!
Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community NEXT WEEK for a mini-conference in support of our members who were pushed out of #APSA. No one should lose out for standing in solidarity w/ labor! This conference is OPEN TO ALL, regardless of WPSA membership. Details 👇 & in 🧵
August 31, 2023 at 8:58 PM
Join us next week for this very cool political theory "mini-conference," where I'll be presenting new work on the "democratic imagination" alongside this wonderful line-up of presenters and discussants. All are welcome!