CFP: Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory 2025

The political science and philosophy graduate students at Stanford University will host our fifth annual graduate political theory conference on February 7-8, 2025 on the Stanford campus.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Anna Stilz, Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Stilz will speak on Friday on a topic to be announced.

Accepted graduate students will be invited to present their papers in panel format to an interdisciplinary group of faculty, post-docs, and students. Papers from all themes and topics in political theory will be accepted.

Submissions are due by November 20th, and acceptances will be announced by early December. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. Because we have to select conference papers on the basis of abstracts alone, we will be grateful for clear, forceful, concise, and well-edited submissions. A brief and useful guide to constructing an abstract can be found here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/06/20/essential-guide-writing-good-abstracts/ 

Meals will be provided during the conference thanks to generous support from the Stanford Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Participants will also be offered free homestays with current Stanford students.

Send questions to Malloy Owen at [email protected].