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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · Nov 19
We've put together a starker pack for political theorists based at LSE
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🔔 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:
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February 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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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!
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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📣 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!
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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CFA for the LSE Graduate conference, 28-29 May 2026. Submit your abstracts by 22 February here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 26, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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📢 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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January 20, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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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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January 13, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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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.
Leigh Jenco, Kai Spiekermann and Bruno Leopold in conference venue.
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Our new schedule for the Winter Term - now corrected. Thursdays 4pm. All welcome!
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Congratulations to our graduates MSc Political Theory 2025! (Better photo to follow!)
Students in gowns and their teachers, celebrating.
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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.
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Workshop this Thursday with @vharting.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com .
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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:
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December 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Our very own @pjthinker.bsky.social on Ideas Matter!
pjthinker.bsky.social Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · Dec 6
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See link to my conversation with Louis Devine on What Post-Liberals get Right (and Wrong About) about Liberalism
Spotify – Web Player
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December 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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: 
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December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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__...
LSE Virtual Graduate Open Events - Master's study in Government at LSE
YouTube video by LSE Student Recruitment & Study Abroad
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November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Great collection -- with @halcyene.bsky.social editing.
nuffieldfoundation.org Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · Nov 3
How might philosophical thinking shape research, policy, and public debate?

“The point is to change it”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life, explores this question by bringing together perspectives from 21 leading philosophers across the UK, US, and Europe. 🧵

Read essays: bit.ly/philosophyesays
Quote on a red block that reads: “It seems to me, then, that this is one of the key contributions of academic philosophy in relation to public life: drawing out, reconstructing and scrutinising existing moral arguments that are already informing significant political work. This requires academic philosophers to relinquish any remaining notion that moral and political philosophy exists solely in the work we produce, and, until very recently, have almost exclusively studied.” Quote on a red block that reads: “…our morality, and thus our moral decision-making, is anchored in a shared history of human plurality and human social relations. It is this condition that makes us not just functional actors, but moral actors." Quote on a red block that reads: "…while everyday political change tends to take place through incremental reforms, mobilising people often requires a radical and emancipatory vision – one committed to the idea that other worlds are possible."
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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/
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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
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November 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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...
Master's study in the Department of Government at LSE - Virtual Graduate Open Events
Attend our LSE Virtual Graduate Open Events to find out more about graduate study at LSE.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Our very own Bruno @brunoleipold.com wins an ERC Synergy Grant! We are thrilled!! Huge boost for political theory @lsegovernment.bsky.social.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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...
Political Theory Group
The Political Theory Group in the LSE Department of Government - researching political theory and philosophy
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October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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TODAY 11:30am! Tickets are gone but returns may be available. Chaired by our @pjthinker.bsky.social . www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Thanks to Daniel James (TU Dresden) for a great talk on racialized oppression, followed by a great exchange. An absolutely brilliant research seminar.
Daniel James in front of a slide about some challenges for racial eliminativists.
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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TODAY!
lsepoltheory.bsky.social LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our next research seminar is with Daniel James (TU Dresden). The title of his paper is “Racism and Racialised Oppression”. Thursday 16 Oct 4pm.
PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: For this week only, we meet in CKK.1.14. Registration for externals: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
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October 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM