The Profession
Below you will find a listing of resources for political theorists and philosophers. They are grouped in the following categories:
- Associations
- Research institutes
- Courses
- Conferences
- Calls for papers
- Fellowships & grants
- Other links
Online journals, texts, an papers are on a separate page, as are the most recent job listings and placement news.
Associations
- The American Philosophical Association
- The American Political Science Association
- The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
- The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
- Association for Political Theory
- The British Society for Ethical Theory
- The Canadian Political Science Association
- Conference for the Study of Political Thought
- The Communitarian Network
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society
- International Gramsci Society
- The International Political Science Association
- The Michael Oakeshott Association
- The North American Society for Social Philosophy
- The Political Economy of the Good Society
- The Political Studies Association (UK)
- The Society for Ethics
Research Institutes
- Social & Political Theory Program
at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
- Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University
- The Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
- The Kenan Ethics Program at Duke University
- Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
- John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- The Institute for Advanced Study
- Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland
- University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park
- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
- The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies
- Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University
Courses
Submit links to your on-line syllabi.
- Egalitarianism, John Baker, Valerie Bresnihan, and Adrienne Boyle, University College Dublin
- Political Philosophy Lectures, Chris Bertram, University of Bristol
- Theories of Justice, Chris Bertram, University of Bristol
- Democratic Deliberation: Current Controversies, David Kahane, University of Alberta
- Equality and Social Justice, David Kahane, University of Alberta
- Introduction to Political Theory and Modern Political Theory, John Kilcullen, Macquarie University
- Pluralism, Jacob T. Levy, University of Chicago
- Eighteenth-century political thought, Jacob T. Levy, University of Chicago
- Jurisprudence and philosophy of law, Jacob T. Levy, University of Chicago
- Multiculturalism, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Jacob T. Levy, University of Chicago
- Introduction to Political Theory, James Schmidt, Boston University
Conferences
- August 31 - September 1, 2005
Annual Conference,Northern Political Theory Association, University of Glasgow - September 1-3, 2005
American Political Science Association,Washington DC - September 4-7. 2005
Tenth International Kant Congress, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil - September 7, 2005
Second Annual Conference, Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK - September 19-21, 2005
International Conference on Religious Emotions, University of Antwerp, Belgium - September 30 - October 2, 2005
Conference on Terrorism, Democracy, and Empire, Carleton University
- October 5-7, 2005
Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks and Christians, Villanova University, Villanova, PA(html version, via Google) - October 6-8, 2005
31st Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts (STP&A), University of Oregon - October 14-16, 2005
Conference for the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University - October 21, 2005
Migration and Political Theory, University of Sheffield, UK - October 21-22, 2005
Tom Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era Symposium, San Diego State University - October 21-23, 2005
Association for Political Theory Conference, Washington University, St. Louis - November 3-6, 2005
Marcuse's Eros and Civilization after Fifty Years, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA - November 12-13, 2005
Meeting of the Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society, University of Illinois, Chicago - November 17-19, 2005
2005 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA - November 30-December 1, 2005
"Intellectuals and the Nation-State", Clinton Institute for American Studies (CIAS), University College Dublin, Ireland - January 9-13, 2006
Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Hanoi, Vietnam - January 11-14, 2006
Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu - January 26-28, 2006
First Annual Missouri Philosophy of Religion Conference, University of Missouri - February 2-5, 2006
2006 Southern Humanities Council Conference, "Identity, Self, and Community", Asheville, NC - March 16-18, 2006
Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association - March 16-18, 2006
Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA), "Democracy and Diversity", Albuquerque, NM - April 3-5, 2006
British Society for the History of Philosophy conference on Philosophy and Historiography, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK - April 20-22, 2006
The Society for Critical Exchange working conference: Con/Texts of Invention, Cleveland, OH - May 4-7, 2006
Forty-First Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI - July 9-13, 2006
Twentieth World Conference of the International Political Science Association, "Is Democracy Working," Fukuoka Japan
Calls for Papers
- The Public Sphere: The Tel Aviv Journal of Political
Science
Special Topic: Relationship Between the Rights and Duties of Citizenship
Articles (6000-9000 words), essays (up to 1500 words), and book review (1000 words).
Contact editorial board at: pjournal@post.tau.ac.il
- The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
invites submissions for its 2006 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual
prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance
interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the
humanities. The award will be presented at the Association's annual meeting at
Syracuse University in New York on March 17-18, 2006.
The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and visual studies, legal history, and legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2006 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005. Each submission must be accompanied by a letter of support from a faculty member.
Deadline for the 2006 award: October 31, 2005. On or before that date, the committee must receive the following: 1) three hard copies of the dissertation and dissertation abstract; 2) three hard copies of a letter of support from a faculty member; 3) one email version of the dissertation and abstract (pdf or word format); 4) contact information for the nominee. All materials should be sent to Martha Merrill Umphrey, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002 (mmumphrey@amherst.edu).
Fellowships & Grants
- American Council of Learned Societies general fellowships
- American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt residential fellowships
- American Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp fellowships
- Stanford Humanities Center fellowships
- American Philosophical Society grants and awards
- Governmental Studies Fellowships at the Brookings Institution
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities at Cornell University
- New America Foundation Fellowships
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford
- John M. Olin Foundation grants
- Fulbright Programs
- Open Society Institute Individual and Organizational Project Fellowships
- Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships, Princeton University Center for Human Values
- Russell Sage Foundations fellowships
- Open Society Institute fellowships from the Soros Foundation
- Princeton University James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
- Princeton Council of the Humanities: Hodder Fellowships
- Princeton Council of the Humanities: Summer Grants for Student Interships in the Media
- Hackworth Grants for Teaching and Research in Applied Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
- APSA Sponsored Grant Programs
- Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships at the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
- University of Michigan Society of Fellows postdoctoral fellowships
- Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships
Other Links
- Academic Info
- Professor Amitai Etzioni's Blog
- Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity
- Lawrence Hinman's Ethics Updates
- The Philosophical Lexicon
- Political Philosophy Online, hosted by Kansas State University
- Political Philosophy Resources, from Episteme Links
- Political Theory Daily Review
- PolyCy: Internet Resources for Political Science
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy



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