France's 1905 church-state separation law just turned 120! I talked with Katja Bigalke for DLF Kultur about laïcité, religious neutrality, and how recent French laws treat religious minorities unequally.

📖📚 Our book on cultural appropriation, co-authored with J. Page, is now available in open access! Free to read, download, and circulate.

📖📚 Our book on cultural appropriation, co-authored with J. Page, is now available in open access! Free to read, download, and circulate.

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

Next Monday we're welcoming Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social for the first #ComparativPolitics and #PoliticalEconomy Colloquium talk @uni-konstanz.de in the winter term on "Climate Change and the Democratic Dilemma: Experimental Evidence on Citizens’ Willingness to Bypass Democratic Procedures"

Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !! ▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social ▶️Fabio Franchino ▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social ▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social ▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social ▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social

Très fier de figurer, avec mon comparse Pierre-Étienne Vandamme de l'UCLouvain, dans ce tout nouveau manuel de référence édité par @aureliabardon.bsky.social et @bboudou.bsky.social, avec tout plein d'auteur.ices de référence en théorie politique. Le sujet de notre article ? "Justice" ;)

Le manuel THEORIE POLITIQUE dirigé par @aureliabardon.bsky.social et @bboudou.bsky.social paraît chez Bruylant en cette rentrée, dans la série coordonnée par @yvesdeloye.bsky.social. 33 chapitres au programme ; je signe celui sur "La délibération".

In October 2023, @bboudou.bsky.social offered me to co-edit a handbook on political theory with him. The publisher wanted it published by September 2025. I thought it was a joke. Benjamin did not. Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!

### Full Professorship in Applied Economics - 1 week left to apply ### Succesful candidates will enjoy 3 positions at once - professorship at the UKonstanz, PI at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the directorship of TWI! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a...

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

Théorie Politique: 4 parties, 30 chapitres, 876 pages 📖 @bboudou.bsky.social

[NOUVELLE VIDÉO] La Laïcité, est-ce que c'est vraiment si compliqué ? Et si je vous résumais en 7 minutes le concept philosophique de laïcité, ainsi que le cœur du débat entre ses deux principales interprétations aujourd'hui ? 😬 Nouveau format Mini-Conceptothèque ! 💡 youtu.be/5xwtAmPfozE

One more week to apply!

One more week to apply!

Fun fictional conversation @dailynous.com about what PhD programs are for. Most specifically about philosophy PhD programs but I suspect a lot of it applies to other fields as well.

Je serai en *très* bonne compagnie dans cet alléchant volume, pour un article "Justice" (rien que ça ! 😁), co-écrit avec mon comparse Pierre-Étienne Vandamme de l'UCLouvain (Chaire Hoover) 🤩 (d'ailleurs le post d' @aureliabardon.bsky.social me rappelle qu'on doit encore renvoyer les épreuves ! 😅)

Merci à @aureliabardon.bsky.social, et à @yvesdeloye.bsky.social de nous avoir accordé sa confiance. 1000 pages de théorie politique, pour les étudiants et les collègues ! Plus de détails bientôt, et RDV en septembre 🔥

Alors que la trentaine d'autrices et auteurs qui y ont contribué sont en train de corriger les épreuves de leurs chapitres, @bboudou.bsky.social et moi venons de recevoir la couverture de ce traité sobrement intitulé "Théorie Politique" - à paraître, si tout va bien, en septembre 2025!

@uni-konstanz.de is hiring a professor in political and social philosophy. More details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d...

In my new article 👇 I look at strategic litigation from the perspective of democratic theory. A short blogpost summarizing the key points is now online at the AJPS Blog. And here is a short thread:

Here it is! For anyone interested in cultural appropriation, or curious about what 2 political philosophers might have to say about Aladdin, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Victoria’s Secret or Kendall Jenner (all listed in the index)

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy. First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium. (1/7)

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Just received the proofs for a paper that I did not write, asking me to submit my corrections within 3 days. What should I have done? Evil answers only.

Aurélia Bardon @aureliabardon.bsky.social and Jennifer Page have just published a great book on cultural appropriation, when (exactly) it is wrong and what we should do about it. Original, enjoyable, and extremeley well argued! www.routledge.com/Cultural-App...

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

Teaching political philosophy is just explaining again and again that Mill, Mills, and Miller, are different people.

We @unikonstanz.bsky.social are hiring a junior professor in computational social science with a specialization in text-as-data methods and LLMs. Please share and contact me if you are interested! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

Best advice ever for PhD students: "It's not your life's work. Every initial thesis proposal is too big and ambitious. Remember: you are not Marx, and this is not Kapital. If it is any good, you will get a job and write other books."

I’m not sure if by this you mean creating a starter pack — but I’ve tried to do that anyway. Happy to add to it. go.bsky.app/44a9u3E

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

Looking forward to this panel on "Political Legitimacy in Times of Emergency" tomorrow morning at #dvpw2024 in Göttingen. Thank you @aureliabardon.bsky.social for organizing!

At Uni Konstanz

We are hosting a workshop on "Religion & Democratic Theory" @unimuenster.bsky.social on June 20th. Join us for a great day of presentations by @aureliabardon.bsky.social @uditbhatia.bsky.social @tobiasmueller.bsky.social, Cristina Lafont, Ulrich Willems, Schirin Amir-Moazami, Iman Al Nassre

With #BikeAndTalk2024 just around the corner, our campus magazine is running a short online feature about my trip. Check it out at https://t1p.de/pl9r2#BikeAndTalk2024!

Support the Ethics Lab in Yaoundé www.steunleiden.nl/project/ethi... philsky PolTheory

🚨Jobs🚨 2 postdocs up to six years: shorturl.at/BP027 Small FAQ already provided. Get in touch if you have questions, I will try to update the FAQ regularly. Please share and apply!

"Civility, Contentious Monuments, and Public Space", co-authored with M. Bonotti and S. Zech, has just been published! It's about good and bad ways in which statues can be uncivil, and focuses on 4 cases: Fearless Girl, Joan of Arc, Desmond Tutu, and Australia's settler monuments. (open access)

today is publication day! ✊

I asked ChatGPT to design an introductory course in political theory that would be popular with students, and I just came here to say that it's okay if our courses are not popular with students.

We're delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Political Philosophy, with the same editorial team & editorial board as the old JPP. Send us your new papers & support the fight against private ownership of the means of (intellectual) production! www.openlibhums.org/news/668/

I have: an article published (open access in Res Publica). We (hopefully) have: one fewer objection to binding referendums and initiatives. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Wonderful 2010 memoir of Brian Barry by Albert Weale. Brian was thrown out of Henry Kissenger’s class on international relations for questioning the assumptions that American interest was the only goal worth pursuing and military force the only means. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/17...

I mentioned The West Wing in class today. Only 1 of the 15 students had ever heard of it. The kids are not alright at all.

French government uses paragraph 49.3 to pass a law without a vote for the 19th time since May 2022. Nobody cares anymore, and it’s barely reported in the media. Crazy how much Macron has damaged French democracy. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

The deadline for our ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop on Methods in Political Theory is this week - November 23rd 👇

Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/