We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.
Great job, Joe; well deserved!
10.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The deadline for our Edinburgh conference has been extended to July 22nd. So there’s still ample time to submit something. Join us in Scotland!
15.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The deadline for nominations for the Early and Mid-career prizes has been extended to June 6th. So there's still time to submit!
23.05.2025 08:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just 4 more days left to nominate someone! If your marking is done and dusted then spare a few minutes to help a scholar you admire get the recognition they deserve.
19.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
13.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
This is going to be really good!
13.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We’re re-upping this to encourage more nominations. These prizes can give a huge boost to scholars in our field. When the dust settles after marking season, spare a moment to nominate someone (possibly even yourself?).
12.05.2025 09:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This great event is actually in July, not June. Apologies @jowolff.bsky.social for the typo!
12.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Public Philosopher
Join us for a day of philosophical discussion in honour of Professor Jo Wolff's career.
If, like many of us, you’ve been impressed by @jowolff.bsky.social’s contributions to public philosophy over the years, then be sure to sign up for this event at @blavatnikschool.bsky.social in June. Details 👇
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
14.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Please consider nominating someone (even yourself?) for our BIAPT early and mid-career prizes.
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Workshop on policy-oriented political philosophy
Many political philosophers theorise not only for the sake of pure theory, but also because they want to convince citizens and policymakers to bring about changes in the real world. Join us for a two ...
Delighted 2 be a co-organiser of this workshop on pol-philosophy & public policy @ox.ac.uk & @blavatnikschool.bsky.social thx 2 @jowolff.bsky.social. www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/works... Please SIGN UP & COME ALONG if interested @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social
10.03.2025 10:13 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India - University Of Worcester
Can’t wait to present at this event in July. The Hastings impeachment was a massive event, and has left all subsequent impeachments in the shade. I’ll be examining Edmund Burke’s trial speeches uses ideas about injustice borrowed from Judith Shklar. www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
17.02.2025 17:17 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Amen! Here's my proposal...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
12.01.2025 15:21 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Had a bracing conversation at @biapt.bsky.social 2025 on why political theorists should take political economy seriously.
12.01.2025 14:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You may indeed. It was an excellent— and excellently-organized and -managed— conference@ @biapt.bsky.social
11.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Relaxing with the cats and an old episode of Top Chef after a busy few days at the York @biapt.bsky.social conference.
11.01.2025 21:43 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A black cat is fast asleep on my lap, he is lying on his side and has one arm draped over my leg so there really is no chance of me even moving slightly.
At least *someone* is getting to have a nap after a very successful (if I may say so myself!) BIAPT 2025 annual conference @biapt.bsky.social
11.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday, I was formally presented with the 2024 Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought (@biapt.bsky.social) Early-Career Prize, ‘in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research, teaching, and service in political thought’.
11.01.2025 15:51 — 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Final day at the @biapt.bsky.social political thought conference, starting with a terrific keynote by @ulasince.bsky.social on his new project 'Before the Colour Line"
#BIAPT2025
11.01.2025 09:49 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Mary Jo MacDonald (BA '17, RGCS Student Fellow alum, now postdoc at Jyväskylä), presenting “Mary Astell and Judith Drake on Conversation and Civility”
Daniel Lukac, PhD3, “Believing with Others: Loyalty, Associative Life, and the Virtues of Epistemic Irresponsibility”
Shal Marriott, PhD2, “Imagining Ourselves in the Eyes of Others: The Political Function of Narrative Forms”
Jacob Levy, faculty, "An Injustice Which Was No Part of Their Intention"
RGCS @mcgill.ca at @biapt.bsky.social conference at the University of York.
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social (BA '17, RGCS Student Fellow alum, now postdoc at Jyväskylä)
Daniel Lukac, PhD3
@shalmarr.bsky.social PhD2
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social faculty
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10.01.2025 16:57 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of a blue mug with the BIAPT logo. In the background the philosopher Josh Milburn talks about the ethics of killing animals in video games.
Currently at the BIAPT annual conference 2025 @biapt.bsky.social - about to present at a panel on animals and non-violence, with @joshmilburn.bsky.social, Hannah Battersby and Fred Matthews.
10.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Very grateful to @camilavergara.bsky.social and @constantartifice.bsky.social for their comments on my book at @biapt.bsky.social
10.01.2025 14:55 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Great to have had Jacob Levy give the CRISPP BIAPT lecture once again
10.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Second day of the @biapt.bsky.social political thought conference starting with a thought-provoking keynote by Sumi Madhok on anti-imperial epistemic justice and human rights!
10.01.2025 10:07 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social rocking the (literal!) after-dinner slot at @biapt.bsky.social #BIAPT2025
09.01.2025 21:52 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
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
09.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, part of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. We offer seven undergraduate programmes, an MA in International Security, and doctorates.
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford. Research LGBT experiences of conflict, crisis, and displacement.
Political theorist. Rewriting the global history of political thought from the perspective of bureaucrats, 3000 BCE to the present.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/douglas-i-thompson/home
Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at Bristol
Working on citizenship and immigration, women in the history of philosophy, and the political theory of Judith Shklar
Co-editor of The Philosopher Queens (2020)
Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Cambridge University via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
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Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Section for Political Theory and History of Ideas in the German Political Science Association (DVPW) |
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Associate Professor of political theory at SOAS; British Academy Senior Research Fellow; author of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford 2018; https://bit.ly/3a8F0mr); writes on colonialism, capitalism, race; www.ulasince.com
Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Lecturer in Political Philosophy (UoYork). Ethics of war, global justice, animals. Posting in personal capacity but mostly about work. She/her, fucking massive nerd. I write for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
Oxford political theorist. https://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1010/
Reader in Politics & International Relations. Editor of Journal of Pacifism & Nonviolence (@jpacnv.bsky.social). Consumer/sharer of politics. Foreigner everywhere. Views my own.
Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
historian of political thought @yale
Political theorist in Limerick
Dad of four; London-Irish turned northerner; Arsenal fan; professor of political philosophy at the University of York; trustee at the Democracy Collaborative. Writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice.
Associate Prof in IR, DCU, research EU security & defence, occasional runner, dad of triplets, mo thuairim fèin
Political philosopher working on climate justice, intergenerational ethics, biodiversity collapse, geoengineering. University of Exeter
Associate Professor at the University of Bath, UK. Ecological Politics, Imaginaries, Just Transitions, Political Theory, Rhetorical Studies.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/sophia-hatzisavvidou
Political science/theory, fraternity, wine, piano, cats. Lambing in the spring. Quaker tendencies. AUK.
