As part of a symposium on Shmuel Nili's latest book, Beyond the Law's Reach?, I wrote an essay that was just published in Ethics & International Affairs. Here it is! Check out Nili's book, a great read, and also the two other excellent essays in the symposium by Michael Blake and Alex Zakaras.

Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

If you are a political theory PhD student or junior scholar interested in discussing all things publishing in political theory, please join the WPSA Political Theory virtual community on Thursday, October 30th for a panel on Academic Publishing. We have a great group of panelists! Please do join us.

Please join us on Friday, August 22nd to discuss three new books in political theory!

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Join us tomorrow, at noon ET, for the next meeting of the "Interpretivists to Intepretive Methods" series organized by APSA's IMM. Richard Holtzman (Bryant) will be our presenter. The talks are free and open to everyone, but registration is required. We hope you can join! mailchi.mp/26d427dd95c8...

If you are interested in interpretive methods, I hope you can join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social tomorrow for the research presentations of our Spotlight Scholars! mailchi.mp/ad01ac9a3016...

Excited for this!

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-...

Loyola has a new search for an Assistant Professor (TT) in Italian American studies. The search is carried out, at large, by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the person hired could be part of any of CAS's departments. I would, of course, love to have a political theorist fill this role!

For those of you interested in ethnographic methods, please join the IMM next Friday, February 21, for a session on Intepretive Interviewing with Fred Schaffer. The sessions are held on Zoom and are open to the public, but registration is required. mailchi.mp/227367b2224a...

Giving online talk on “Ethics in Academic Publishing” at the SJ Center for Business Ethics on Feb. 10 at 5pm EST. I’ll be discussing the crisis of for-profit academic journal publishing, the emerging diamond open access alternative, and what we can do. You can register to attend online here:

This was such a good read, a welcome distraction in these times.

Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community this Friday 1/24, 4-5:30 pm ET to discuss @amitr.bsky.social and Michael Illuzzi's "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood" w/ our very own @tunablazer.bsky.social as commenter! Details here: mailchi.mp/160b383e0469... #polisky #poltheory

My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT. It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings. To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

The next meeting of the WPSA Pol Theory Virtual Colloquium, Fri. Jan. 25, will feature Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron @amitr.bsky.social presenting their paper "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood," with Yuna Blajer @tunablazer.bsky.social as discussant. Please join us! mailchi.mp/7d46c2cfd817...

In the 1920s, Gandhi developed a distinctive, neglected position in animal ethics - "progressive ahimsaism". To encourage scholarship on this, I've extracted his series of essays "Is this humanity?" from the Collected Works and put it on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/GANITH

It's breathtaking both how wrong and how many things are wrong with this guy who believes everything is an alienable commodity.

A reminder about these PhD opportunities. 6+ fully funded open studentships, plus one ring-fenced for UK minority ethnic candidates, in my school. I'm happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, including animal ethics/politics. Application deadline: 30 January. #philsky #polisky

Please join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social on Friday, January 10th at 12:00 PM Eastern Time for the next session of the Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series! We will have a talk by the wonderful Diana Kim (Georgetown) on archival research and interpretive methods. tinyurl.com/mt8437z8

anyone (know anyone) in Chicago available & interested to teach intro to theory for Loyola next semester? we had a part-time instructor leave unexpectedly and kinda leave us hanging!

I am very excited that this article is out in the world! "Habits of democracy: practices, mores, and neighborhood meetings in Paris" is now available online at the European Journal of Political Theory. If you'd like to read it but lack access, let me know. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Growing up, I remember knowing kids who had had polio; efforts to eradicate it through vaccination were underway. The last case in Mexico was recorded in 1990. Vaccines are pretty miraculous. Behold this beautiful graph about the impact of vaccines in the US. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

I am in the middle of grading tons of papers. Over and over again, students write "throughout" or "within" when they could simply say "in" (e.g., "throughout this essay" or "within his text"). I am trying to find the culprit--is this one of those silly AI suggestions to needlessly vary the wording?

Authored by @robreich.bsky.social, @tlechtable.bsky.social & Emma Saunders-Hastings, the new entry for “philanthropy" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers insights on giving in the context of philosophical traditions, current practices, and more. plato.stanford.edu/entries/phil...

If you are interested (or just curious!) about interpretive methods, considering joining the @interpretivemm.bsky.social for the events of the "Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series." We have an excellent lineup to kick off 2025: Diana Kim, Jessica Soedirgo, Aarie Glas, and Fred Schaffer.

CFP: The UChicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory is accepting abstract submissions for its bi-annual conference to be held April 12-13, 2025, with keynote Wendy Brown and plenary speaker @camilavergara.bsky.social

Three wonderful colleagues (@lrafanell.bsky.social, @glennmackin.bsky.social, and @jmayerfeld.bsky.social) and I run the WPSA political theory virtual community, a political theory workshop that meets on a monthly basis via Zoom to discuss work in progress. We would love to see new faces!

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

My department, Political Science at Loyola Chicago, is searching for a TT Assistant Professor in IR and environmental politics! The deadline is November 30, 2024. Please do share widely! www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29662

Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ

Yes! US policy affects millions of people who cannot cast a ballot: in addition to disenfranchised people, consider green card holders, people on visas, and undocumented people living in the US. But consider as well every person in the world affected by US policy on climate change, for example.

If you are (or know of) a graduate student who recently presented a paper at a conference that uses or discusses interpretive methods, please consider (self-)nominating the paper for the Hayward R. Alker award. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended to April 15! tinyurl.com/26489zty

I posted this before in the other place, but, since it is now fully published online (with page numbers and all)...: "Conceptualizing Belonging for Democratic Theory," an article related to my book manuscript just came out in the JOP and I am very excited about it! doi.org/10.1086/723980

Please join us today and tomorrow for the mini-conference in political theory organized by the WPSA virtual community. We are starting a very cool panel right now!

At 8:00 PT today, I will step in for Margaret Gilbert and chair a panel on the Politics of Shared Agency beyond State Borders, with Roberta Fischlii, Elaine Yim, and Samuel Chan. Nathan Pippenger will provide comments. The papers are wonderful, and I hope you'll join if you can!

About to start a panel on "Democratic Boundaries," which I am very happy to chair! Come join James Wilson, Kevin Ip, Lucas Swaine, and Kristin Zuhone. Elaine Yim will provide comments. luc.zoom.us/j/8544047146...

Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community NEXT WEEK for a mini-conference in support of our members who were pushed out of #APSA. No one should lose out for standing in solidarity w/ labor! This conference is OPEN TO ALL, regardless of WPSA membership. Details 👇 & in 🧵

Was I the only one who ended up on the Blue Sky website where they sell academic planners when l was trying to find this place?