A Friend of Dorothy - full Oscar nominated short film starring Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry YouTube video by Attitude Magazine

Only available for a short time: "A Friend of Dorothy", short film with costumes by my husband, Francisco Rodriguez Weil. youtu.be/CMqUMXn7y5g?...

📢 Next @lsepoltheory.bsky.social seminar:
Elena Ruiz (Michigan State) — "Epistemic Capitalism: Structure, Ideology, and the Economics of Inequality"
🗓 Thu 5 March, 4:00 PM
📍 CKK.2.06, LSE
All welcome! External visitors please register in advance (link 👇) @lsegovernment.bsky.social

LSE Political Theory Group research seminar TODAY:
Speaker: Daniel Häuser (LSE)
Title: In Defense of a Modest Political Liberalism
When: Thursday, 12 February, 4:00 PM
Where: CKK.2.06
All are welcome!

📢 LSE Political Theory Group seminar this Thursday!
Christine Straehle: "Migration, Death and Human Rights"
📅 Thu 22 January, 4:00 PM
📍 CKK.2.06
All welcome! External visitors please register in advance for security: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WBSQABK5yj
@lsegovernment.bsky.social #PoliticalTheory

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📢 CFP: LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory
📅 28–29 May 2026 • London (in person)
Grad students in political theory & related fields: submit an anonymized abstract (≤1000 words) by 22 Feb 2026.
✨ Keynotes: Sean Ingham & Shuk Ying Chan
🔗 Submit via form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Leigh Jenco, Kai Spiekermann and Bruno Leopold in conference venue.

Fantastic @biapt.bsky.social conference in beautiful Edinburgh with five great keynotes, some snow, and three LSE colleagues. @brunoleipold.com @kspiekermann.bsky.social and Leigh Jenco.

Our last research seminar this term:
Pablo Gilabert (Concordia)
“Why We Should Support Working Artists”
Thursday, 11 December, 4:00 PM
OLD.4.10
All welcome! If you are external to LSE, please register in advance so you can pass security:
forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj

Many congratulations!!

Really excited to see this renewed interest in social norms. Looking forward to it.

I'll be there to answer questions. Please join us online!

We're holding a Graduate Open Day for all MSc degrees in the @lsegovernment.bsky.social , including political theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social . Please join us to hear about the programme and ask any questions you might have. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Our very own Bruno @brunoleipold.com wins an ERC Synergy Grant! We are thrilled!! Huge boost for political theory @lsegovernment.bsky.social.

Political Theory Group The Political Theory Group in the LSE Department of Government - researching political theory and philosophy

This Thursday, 4pm, in our research seminar: Jeff Spinner-Halev (UNC) on "Liberal Democratic Theory and the Rebuilding of the Administrative State". @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Our next research seminar is with Daniel James (TU Dresden). The title of his paper is “Racism and Racialised Oppression”. Thursday 16 Oct 4pm.
PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: For this week only, we meet in CKK.1.14. Registration for externals: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
danieljamesphilosophy.com

Cool -- I will look at @edmundhandby.bsky.social and @nahshonp.bsky.social 's work. Send papers and ideas, please!

Thanks! Yes, it's like crtl-F, except it also tells you what words are frequent in the first place. Still. it's very crude. I don't think we learn much here -- but I wonder whether things get more interesting when one thinks about word connections.

(3) This is really just using AI for vibe coding for a quick-and-dirty analysis. It does not draw on other LLM capabilities. Everything here could be achieved with conventional coding or using specialist software (4) This benefits from others providing data. Thanks, Project Gutenberg! (5) Leviathan!

(1) This is not at all validated. It's really just playing around. Pinch of salt, etc. (2) It stems from me thinking about the uses of AI for political theory. To my mind, this is not a serious use -- but can LLMs be used for something serious in our discipline? Any thoughts welcome.

So which famous work in political theory is represented by this figure? (Frequency of select key terms by chapter). This was made with the help of Claude and the repository of Project Gutenberg. Some thoughts below.

From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .

Two of my doctoral students submitted their thesis in the last two days. Many congratulations! So much hard work, thinking, debating, presenting. All culminating in one short email.

On Thursday 2 October, we'll be kicking off our 2025-26 LSE poltiical theory seminar with a book launch of Tom Parr's "Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation". The event will be followed by a reception at the George IV pub. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering...

New seminar schedule for Autumn Term. All welcome!

Great essay by Meghan O'Rourke in the NYT about LLMs in academia and beyond. An extract on paper (!).

LLMs are such a tricky challenge for Higher Ed. But sometimes they are genuinely useful for admin. I just managed to get Claude to write a timetable analysis tool to eliminate clashes in our MSc degree. It extracts data from a huge spreadsheet and turns it into a readable table. YES!

The good news is: if they do (despite their efforts), the cognitive gap between the groups shrinks. But what is going on? In-group solidarity, cognitive dissonance avoidance, self - deception? Sobering but fascinating work.

In this remarkable study, Shayo and co-authors show that subjects from israel pay to avoid reading about Palestinian victims while subjects from Jordan pay to avoid reading about Israeli victims. This is bad news.

Inspiring PPE Conference at KCL, and first, poignant keynote with Moses Shayo on 'News avoidance in times of war.'

Amazing workshop at the @csh.ac.at, thinking about collective learning, democracy, social media regulation, and LLMs. Thanks to Mirta Galesic and Henrik Olsson -- and the great interdisciplinary set of colleagues gathered in Vienna. No doubt some great work will emerge from this.

Opinion | Trump’s Deportation Program Is About Control. Even if You Are a U.S. Citizen.

Important insights from Chandran Kukathas:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...