Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory
Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis)
Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7...
Please circulate widely!
Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows: Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.
Coming soon to an open access APSR near you:
(all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)
If you hear of visa revocations for international students, please contact @wearehighered.bsky.social. We're maintaining a tracker and coordinating with other folks tracking and helping.
We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...
Image of text announcing a Call for Papers for the 2025 Association for Political Annual Conference (November 6-8, Chicago IL), with paper proposals due February 21.
One week left to submit your paper proposals to APT 2025 in Chicago!:
associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...
Will never forget watching it on a little TV in the kitchen when I was barely 14.
At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:
The CBC "Ideas" episode on Hobbes and anxiety featuring RGCS Ph.D. student Vertika will be broadcast on CBC Radio tonight at 8:05, or is available here:
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
