News from the Political Theory group at the University of York.
York, England
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🚨New publication! Monica Brito Vieira and Sean Fleming's article in @apsrjournal on ecological personhood:
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A fantastic workshop with Catherine Lu earlier today! Such stimulating conversations about seeing structural injustice
We’re looking forward to Catherine Lu’s talk tomorrow on “Seeing structural injustice: A tragic view” at our political theory workshop!
We had the pleasure of hosting Raf Geenens (KU Leuven) earlier today for a talk on the nature of rights and the rights of nature
Delighted that our very own Alasia Nuti has been awarded the @PolStudiesAssoc Richard Rose Prize for outstanding contributions to advancing knowledge in political studies.
PUBLICATION ALERT: Gabriele Badano's new exciting paper on values in science, public reason, and democracy
link.springer.com/article/10…
We had the privilege of hosting @stevenmklein for his talk on a democratic theory of labour unions yesterday.
It was a pleasure to host Toby Buckle (Political Philosophy Podcast) at the York political theory workshop this afternoon.
A new fantastic Call for Abstracts: Theories of Public Reason (MANCEPT 2025). Deadline 14 May 2025
philevents.org/event/show/13…
We are delighted to welcome Rossella De Bernardi back to York to present her new work on "Despair and the Emotional Culture of the Climate Movement" -- tomorrow at our workshop in political theory!
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year's YCPT Book Workshop Award is @DrTomOShea for the manuscript "Socialist Republicanism". We received excellent applications and competition was fierce. Congratulations, Tom! We look forward to discussing your book
A new review of Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti’s “Politicizing Political Liberalism”!
NEW✨ How can liberal #democracies respond to the rise of right-wing #populism?
Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal & Antidemocratic Views by Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti @OUPAcademic reviewed by Andrew Shorten @POLITICSUL
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York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy retweeted
In their recent paper (which I highly recommend reading), Khosla & Vaishnav @MilanV address the issue of defections. They make an original and provocative argument which emphasises the value of political polarisation in addressing defections. doi.org/10.1093/icon/moae037 (1/11)
Kicking off our workshop series this semester with Patricia Owens @Politics_Oxford on 11 Feb!
The Internation Studies & @YCPolTheory clusters warmly invite you to a presentation by Prof Patricia Owens : Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men published by Princeton University Press:
🗓️ 11th February
⏰ 2:00–4:00 pm
📍 Church Lane Building, Room CL/A/028
Alasia Nuti in dialogue with Mark Pennington, discussing political liberalism and democratic backsliding.
A new episode of The Governance Podcast with Mark Pennington interviewing Alasia Nuti from York Political Theory on her new book Politicising Political Liberalism. When, if ever can it be justified to suppress anti-democratic views?
tinyurl.com/5n8652m9
Alasia Nuti discussing her new book co-authored with Gabriele Badano at the New Books Network Podcast!
newbooksnetwork.com/politici…
Final day at the
@PolThought
conference, starting with a terrific keynote by
Onur Ulas Ince
on his new project 'Before the Colour Line"
Second day of the @PolThought conference starting with a thought-provoking keynote by Sumi Madhok on anti-imperial epistemic justice and human rights!
York's very own Monica Brito-Vieira at the author meets critics panel at the @PolThought conference with @AlfMoore as a friendly critic
Delighted to kick off the @PolThought conference at York with a keynote lecture by Nadia Urbinati. #biapt #politicalthoughtconference #biapt2025
