The Profession

Below you will find a listing of resources for political theorists and philosophers. They are grouped in the following categories:

Online journals, texts, an papers are on a separate page, as are the most recent job listings and placement news.

Associations

Research Institutes

Courses

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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).