Seventh Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory

7th Grad Conference in Political Theory

The seventh annual Duke Graduate Conference in Political Theory, which will take place over Zoom on February 26 from 9:30 am to 5:15 pm EST.

The conference schedule and papers are available here.
All panels are open to the public. To receive a zoom link, please register for the conference here.

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the University Center for Human Values, will serve as the keynote speaker for the conference. Her keynote address will take place from 2:30 to 4:00 pm EST.

Through a highly competitive blind review process, four graduate students from the U.S. and Europe have been selected to present papers on a range of topics in political theory. Both Duke and UNC faculty have agreed to serve as discussants: Jack Knight, Alexander Kirshner, Susan Bickford, and Michael Lienesch.