We are delighted to announce that our next annual conference will take place in Exeter from January 6th-8th, 2027!
Academic Convenors: Alex McLaughlin (Exeter), Jemima Repo (Newcastle), Camila Vergara (Essex)
Local Organisers: Sarah Drews Lucas, Kate Goldie Townsend, Andrew Schaap, Bingshu Zhao
The BIAPT conference is the flagship event of the scholarly community of political theorists across Britain and Ireland. Taking place annually since the 1970s, it brings together theorists working across the whole field of political thought.
This year’s plenary speakers are Davina Cooper (King’s College London), Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington), Rauna Kuokkanen (University of Lapland), Richard Whatmore (St Andrews University), Musab Younis (University of Oxford)
We now invite proposals in the following formats:
(1) Panel proposals of three papers per panel (please include panel title, author information, plus individual paper abstracts);
(2) Individual paper proposals (please include paper title, author info, and abstract; accepted proposals will be organised into panels by the convenors);
(3) ‘Author meets critics’ roundtables (please include book title, publisher and year, and description, including provisional list of critics and their affiliations). Please note that it is expected that only up to 2 proposals will be accepted in this format.
(4) First book manuscript workshop, where monograph manuscripts of an author’s first book will be presented and discussed with selected respondents (please submit a description of your manuscript and a list of up to 4 provisional respondents. At least one respondent should be confirmed). Please note that it is expected that only up to 2 proposals will be accepted in this format.
We look forward to a conference that represents a diverse set of intellectual traditions, including analytic and normative political philosophy, the history of ideas, all traditions of critical theory, as well as comparative and global political theory. Panels that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and submissions from graduate students are welcome.
BIAPT has some funds available to defray conference fees for scholars from the Global South and for graduate students. Those wishing to be considered for such support should note this on the proposal submission form.
Please submit proposals here.
The final deadline for submission is Friday 24th July 2026 and notifications will be issued in September 2026.
For any questions, you can write to us at conference@associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk