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January 2013.
APT is now recognised by HEFC as a
learned society with the standing to be consulted on a variety
of research issues. So members were able to defend the
interests of political theory in the UK Research Excellence
Framework - we nominated four people for the Politics panel and
succeeded in securing the appointment of one of them - Richard
Bellamy - thereby increasing the number of theorists by one.
We have been working on engagement with
research councils - Jeremy Jennings has represented us at
various meetings of the AHRC, and we submitted comments on the
AHRC strategic plan. We also successfully nominated Richard
Bellamy, Thom Brooks and David Owen to the Peer Review College
of the AHRC. We have submitted suitably critical views on the
Open Access proposals and will be nominating candidates for the
ESRC research committee.
In the
current climate it is increasingly important to build links with
other groups, both nationally (members participated in a panel
on refereeing at the PSA conference) and internationally –we
maintain friendly relations with the US APT, some of us will of
course be in Chicago at APSA and we are hoping to raise our
profile there.
We welcome input from members on these and any other
initiatives they believe we should be making. In
particular, if you are attending APSA, please get in touch
via email, our webpage or Facebook.
Our Website is now live:http://www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk
and working well as an
information clearing house for conferences, seminars and
symposia, and for jobs. We are also using Facebook:
ttp://www.facebook.com/AssociationForPoliticalThought; And
Twitter: @Polthought.
Archive
appeal: If you have any past conference programmes and/or
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pages.
The
Political Thought Conference 2013,
at St Catz Oxford, January 3-5, convened by Gary Browning and
Elizabeth Frazer, was very successful – intellectually,
socially, and materially. Academic convenors David Owen and
Dan Butt put together a terrific progamme with papers of a very
high standard by Duncan Bell, Alan Finlayson, Rob Jubb, Ruth
Kinna, Patchen Markell, Margaret Moore, Anne Phillips, and Lea
Ypi - they all did a great job responding to fearsome and
challenging questions.
The field of political
thought is wide, and the audience for this conference diverse,
and questions come from many different standpoints. Thanks to
all the contributors.
Photo: The Executive deliberates!
AGM January 4 2013
As usual the AGM of the APT and the
Conference was held on Friday afternoon Jan 4. We agreed that
the conference needs to grow somewhat, and we need to make a
particular effort to increase participation by younger
professional political theorists and graduate students. The
convenors will continue to work for increased attendance, and to
build up financial resources and reserves by securing higher
levels of sponsorship, while trying to maintain the traditional
atmosphere of informality and plenary participation in single
full length paper sessions. We agreed that from next year the
conference will begin earlier - 2 p.m. rather than 4 p.m.
Thursday, with a session especially aimed at graduate students
on some aspect of professional political theory. We also agreed
that there will be a competition over the summer, to select a
doctoral student's paper to be included in the conference
programme.
Academic convenors for the conference 2014, to be
held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, January 9-11 2014,
are Chris Brooke and Moya Lloyd
-- Professor Richard Bellamy Department of Political Science School of Public Policy University College London 29/30 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9QU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 4980 (UCL internal extension number: 24980) Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 4969 Mobile 07763 174423 email: [log in to unmask] Skype richardb483 Professor of Political Science http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/people/richard-bellamy Director, European Institute http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/ Co-editor, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13698230.asp View selected past and recent papers on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=368588