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Join us for the tenth annual Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, at Nuffield College!

On the 27th and 28th of April we will be discussing a range of new papers from across the field of political theory. We will be hosting 5-6 panels. Our excellent keynote speakers will be Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago) and Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi (University of Oxford).

Register here.

Full programme:

Monday

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome Coffee (Lecture Theatre Lobby)

09:30 - 11:10 Panel 1: Responding to Contemporary Crises (Lecture Theatre)

What (if anything) is wrong with consumer boycotting?

Adam Hudson

Ecological grief as a political emotion

Joachim Raich

Why is Structural Injustice Wrong? The Case for a Deontic Conception of Structural Injustice

Robin Waldenburg

11:10-11:30 Coffee Break (Junior Common Room)

11:30 - 12:35 Panel 2: Democracy and Disagreement (Lecture Theatre)

Deep Factual Disagreement: A Case of Testimonial Injustice in Democratic Discourse

Juliet Paiva

Rethinking Disagreement in Climate Democratic Innovations

Kate Long

12:35 - 14:00 LUNCH (Junior Common Room)

14:00 - 15:40 Panel 3: Marxism and Capitalism (Lecture Theatre)

Despite Althusser, for Poulantzas: Lukácsian Dimensions of Poulantzas’s Late Structuralism

Vedat Semiz

On the origin of societies: Revising Marx's social theory through evolution and the state

Edmund Wilson

Labor and Leisure: Theorizing Unfreedom Under Capitalism

Ismene Vedder

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break (Junior Common Room)

16:00 - 17:30 KEYNOTE: Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago)

Lecture Theatre

19:00 FORMAL DINNER (Fellows’ Dining Room)