The Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference is a biennial conference that invites graduate students and a keynote speaker to convene with the Northwestern political theory community around a given theme.
The next conference, “Contesting Narratives: Myth, Memory, and Histories,” will take place on October 31-November 1, 2024. Please see the call for papers here.
Our last conference, “The Politics of Worldmaking,” was held on November 10–11, 2022. For more information, visit the conference page.
For questions, please contact Jinxue Chen, Amanda Fu, and Charlotte Mencke at politicaltheory.nu@gmail.com.
Past Conferences
November 2022
- “The Politics of Worldmaking”
Keynote speaker: Anna Jurkevics (Political Science, University of British Columbia)
Organized by Usdin Martínez, Sam McChesney, and Charlotte Mencke
November 2018
- “Specters of Domination: Politicizing the Terms of Resistance”
Keynote speaker: Jennet Kirkpatrick (Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University)
Organized by Shaul Notkin, Julia Brown and Christina LoTempio
November 2016
- “Crisis of Collectivity”
Keynote speaker: Jason Frank (Government, Cornell University)
Organized by Boris Litvin, Emre Gercek and Christina LoTempio
November 2014
- “History, Tradition, Revision”
Keynote speaker: Kirstie McClure (Political Science & Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles)
Organized by Désirée Weber and Chris Sardo
