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Only six more days to submit your abstract to the Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory!

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@lsepoltheory.bsky.social now this is a book to read - the great T.J. Clark

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Hot on the heels of this news: just heard that @yordamkitap.bsky.social y.social has acquired the Turkish translation rights! Türk yoldaşlarının Yurttaş Marx'ı okuyabilecek olmalarına sevindim ✊

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Got a footnote reference in Skinner’s Liberty as Independence (p.206). It made me very happy - I came across Quentin’s work as a 6th former in 1979 (we met much later) - on and off he has been part of the background of my career. If I’d known at 17 I might get a footnote …

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Cracking footnote on p 206 …

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¡Próximamente!

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Today at 4pm (registration required).

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Very grateful to @timchristiaens.bsky.social for this generous review, which nicely highlights the historical and contemporary value of seeing Marx's texts as political interventions

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Updated title for Wendy Salkin's @wendysalkin.bsky.social : "The Duties of Informal Political Representatives." Very much looking forward to two great talks at LSE this week.

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Two talks coming up next week: On Wed 19th we will hold a lunchtime (12pm) seminar with Bastian Steuwer (Ashoka) on “Reaction Qualifications, Fairness, and Meritocracy”. And our regular slot on Thursday 20th 4pm has Wendy Salkin @wendysalkin.bsky.social (Stanford) on "Speaking for Others".

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We're hiring ❗️ 📝Post: LSE Fellow in Political Behaviour 🗓️Deadline: Friday 7 March 2025 👇🏽 More information and how to apply jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Later this month, I'll be doing an American book tour for Citizen Marx: - Tuesday 25 Feb - New School with Corey Robin - Wednesday 26 Feb - Princeton with Alan Patten - Thursday 27 Feb - Yale with Lucia Rubinelli and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

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At yesterday's POTY research seminar Jennifer Morton from UPenn prsented some of her recent work on precarity

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Anne Phillips on how she's come to see the history of concepts like equality to be much more important to doing political philosophy link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

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Very grateful to @constantartifice.bsky.social for this generous review, which raises a number of thoughtful critical points about what the book might say to contemporary republican and Marxist debates

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Upcoming deadline for our graduate conference! Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb

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LSE new vice-chancellor Larry Kramer gives a guest lecture on the Federalists for @pjthinker.bsky.social 's Introduction to Political Theory course

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Our seminar speaker this Thursday is Jennifer Morton (U Penn) with her paper “Beyond Equality: Reconsidering Precarity”. Jennifer's visit to the UK is jointly organized with the political philosophers at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. jennifermmorton.com @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Our PhD student @fwesteren.bsky.social presenting at our internal seminar on non-anthropocentric value

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Job update: in a change of plans I'll now be staying at LSE as an Assistant Professor in Political Theory from September. Can't say how excited I am to be permanently part of @lsegovernment.bsky.social & @lsepoltheory.bsky.social and to be sticking around in London 🥳

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We're very exciting to host a book launch for @mirjam-m.bsky.social 's Global Sweathshops on 5 March, 4-6pm. Discussion will be chaired by @brunoleipold.com with comments by Paul Apostolidis, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and Sarah Goff. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/global-swe....

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I'm looking forward to it!

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We're very exciting to host a book launch for @mirjam-m.bsky.social 's Global Sweathshops on 5 March, 4-6pm. Discussion will be chaired by @brunoleipold.com with comments by Paul Apostolidis, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and Sarah Goff. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/global-swe....

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This is great so far @brunoleipold.com

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@leaypi.bsky.social introduces the Theoretical Perspectives on Gaza roundtable with Musab Younis, Muna Dajani, Neve Gordon, Ayça Çubukçuat at King's College London

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Wrote a short piece for the @princetonupress.bsky.social Ideas blog on one of the themes of my book press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...

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Maxime Lepoutre talking to us on the moral hazard argument against geo-engineering

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Interested in a Masters in Political Theory? Attend our Virtual Open Day on the 18th of February! @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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I heard that if you spot all 7 of the beavers on the poster, you get a prize. SIGN UP TO OUR GRAD CONFERENCE philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Karl Marx’ conversion from republicanism to communism in 1844 was conducted through the 19th-century equivalent of a passive-aggressive text message to your roommate: a formal letter to his housemate Arnold Ruge over hot gossip. Excerpt from @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx.

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Book launch last night was a huge amount of fun. Thanks so much to @prometheusjournal.bsky.social for organising and to Barnaby Raine for the awesome discussion

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Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Very grateful to @camilavergara.bsky.social and @constantartifice.bsky.social for their comments on my book at @biapt.bsky.social

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Here’s a great fully funded doctorate opportunity at the LSE. The lucky recipient will get to work with Paul Apostolidis and the climate action charity Hope for the Future! Details below. Deadline is January 15th. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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Strong showing of LSE political theorists at @biapt.bsky.social with @fwesteren.bsky.social, Paul Apostolidis @brunoleipold.com @stephaniewanga.bsky.social Anne Phillips & @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

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We have a new scholarship. Deadline 15 Jan! Fully funded ESRC Collaborative Studentship in partnership with the UK climate action charity Hope For The Future (HFTF) under supervision of Prof Apostolidis. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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And also huge congratulations to @vharting.bsky.social and Andreas Sorger who officially received their PhDs in political theory today! 🎓🎉

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Congratulations to our 2023-24 MSc political theory cohort who had their graduation today 👩‍🎓🥳 @leaypi.bsky.social @pjthinker.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Our Emeritus Professor Anne Phillips has a joint review of the recent books on (in)equality by Paul Sagar, Darrin M McMahon, @brankomilan.bsky.social sky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S9TIH...

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It's not often that one's book is called "superb" by the likes of Anne Phillips. I'm grateful for her review alongside three other outstanding new books on (in)equality.

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Our Emeritus Professor Anne Phillips has a joint review of the recent books on (in)equality by Paul Sagar, Darrin M McMahon, @brankomilan.bsky.social sky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S9TIH...

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Super excited to discuss Citizen Marx on its UK publication date in one of my favourite London locations, Pelican House, with one of my favourite comrades, Barnaby Raine

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