Hi @jcbrady.bsky.social Yes! I remember you. That was a good group that year. Thanks for your kind words. I can see that you've done very well 🙂

📣 Interested in deconstruction and discourse theory as methods for social research?

💥2-week online course on Deconstruction and Discourse Theory as Method at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social💥

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📝 New to discourse analysis?
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This summer, we offer four courses designed to apply discourse theory to real-world research, from foundations to advanced advanced discourse theory.

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Looking forward to this on Tuesday next week!

CEPS Seminar

"Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory"

14/04/2026 @ 3 pm

With:
António Baião (CEPS, Minho)
Ines Zampaglione (CEPS, Minho)
@bolandeira.bsky.social (CEVIPOF, Sciences Po)
Giuseppe Ballacci (CEPS, Minho)

With @emiliapalonen.bsky.social Jason Glynos Allan Dreyer Hansen

With @emmyeklundh.bsky.social Allan Dreyer Hansen @salomeietter.bsky.social Francisco Panizza

Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx reading group

We’ll meet three times at Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus to discuss the book and its implications for us today

23/4, 1/5, 5/5 @ 2-4 pm @qmul.bsky.social

IHSS
@qmulsse.bsky.social
@theorylab.bsky.social

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Studying Populism as Discourse: New Directions

Research Workshop

22 April 2026 @ 1-5 pm @qmul.bsky.social

A critical assessment of the discourse theoretical (Essex School) approach to the study of populism

IHSS
@qmulsse.bsky.social
@theorylab.bsky.social

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Analysing and Using Concepts: Discourse Theoretical Approaches

Research workshop for Master’s students, PhD-students and ECRs on discourse theoretical approaches to political concepts

30 April @ 1-5 pm

IHSS/@qmulsse.bsky.social/@theorylab.bsky.social/ @qmul.bsky.social

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Job alert! Loughborough University is advertising a three-year Research Associate position in Political Theory as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment’ (managed by Dr. Guy Aitchison).
Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW886/r...

Thanks to the three wonderful discussants Agnes Czajka, Paulina Tambakaki and Engin Isin, and to Kim Hutchings for chairing - and to Deheng Wang for the photo 😊

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Karin Narita: An Outline of a Theory of Civilizationism: Civilizational Discourse in Japanese Post-Liberal Thought

Nobutaka Otobe (University of Osaka): Anarchist or Statist?: Nobuyuki Okuma and Japanese Economic Thought in the Mid-20th Century

Now with the titles of the talks:

Tomohito Baji: Travel, Colonial Encounter and Theorization of Settlement: Yanaihara Tadao on Zionism and De Facto Colonization

New! MA in Political Theory @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @drjoehoover.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @georgeboss.bsky.social More info here: www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

And now also with Paulina Tambakaki, University of Westminster as a discussant!

It's here! @edinburghup.bsky.social

More about the book here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...

Global Theory Forum's working group sessions return this Thursday at 5pm! Anton Bronfman will present his paper 'Mystifying Possibilities: towards a conceptualization of the diplomatic mystique' with Dr. Alvina Hoffmann from SOAS as discussant. Join us at QMUL Bancroft 1.02.5, followed by the pub!

Beyond the West? Modern Japanese Political Thought as a Resource for Comparative Political Theory

Beyond the West? Modern Japanese Political Thought as a Resource for Comparative Political Theory 18 March 2026 @qmulsse.bsky.social @theorylab.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

☀️ Applications for ESS 2026 are OPEN! ☀️

Join us next summer for the Essex Summer School - intensive courses, expert teaching, and a global research community.

Read more in our January newsletter:
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We are excited to announce that we have four great topics lined up for our Spring Working Groups, beginning on January 29th with Anton Bronfman (Central European University) who is presenting Mystifying Possibilities: Towards a Conceptualization of the Diplomatic Mystique.

Volume 47 Issue 4 | New Political Science | Duke University Press

Just out! Representative Institutions and Radical Change symposium in @npsjournal.bsky.social 47:4 with contributions from Lisa Disch, @lawrencehamilton.bsky.social Hamilton and Efthimios Karayiannides read.dukeupress.edu/nps/issue/47/4

Book launch: Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory Join us for the launch of Lasse Thomassen’s Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory

Book launch! 25 February @qmulsse.bsky.social launching edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida... @edinburghup.bsky.social Registration link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Deconstruction and Discourse Theory as Method course @essexsummerschool.bsky.social 3-14 August 2026 essexsummerschool.com/courses/ess-...

The Birth of Sensory Power - Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons The Birth of Sensory Power - Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons. A CfSM & (B)OrderS Book Forum

Book launch! Engin Isin's The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons @edinburghup.bsky.social with @couldrynick.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @cearadau.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social

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Fully funded PhD scholarships @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social Doctoral research studentships for 2026 start www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...

Fully funded PhD scholarships from the AHRC. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. Come and work with us at @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

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We are excited to announce our 2025 Autumn Term Working Group Series! Do make sure you are signed up to our email list (indicated below) to make sure you are up to date with Forum updates and the circulation of the relevant readings prior to each session.