2027 Conference in Santiago, Chile

Call for Papers

2027 Global Political Thought Conference
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile | April 28–29, 2027

The Association for Global Political Thought (AGPT), in collaboration with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, invites submissions for its 2027 annual conference, to be held in Santiago, Chile on April 28–29, 2027.

This will be the first AGPT annual conference convened in Latin America. It will bring the Association’s international and interdisciplinary community into conversation with the intellectual traditions, political experiences, and scholarly communities of Chile, across the Americas, and around the world. The conference will explore the diverse ways in which political ideas have been formulated, transmitted, contested, and transformed across historical, geographical, linguistic, and cultural contexts, as well as how political ideas have encircled the globe or taken the globe as their premise.

The annual conference has no predetermined theme: we welcome papers that contribute to the broad study of political thought in international and global contexts. We particularly encourage work that expands the geographical and conceptual horizons of existing scholarship, examines the circulation and translation of political ideas, or brings political theory into dialogue with intellectual history, international relations, and related fields.

Submissions may address, among other areas:

• political theory and the history of political thought in global and comparative perspective;
• the history of international thought and the intellectual history of world politics;
• international relations theory and international political theory, including theories and histories of international order, international society, diplomacy, and global governance;
• political theories of authority, sovereignty, and hierarchy; theories and histories of constitutions, treaties, and international institutions; colonialism and its aftermaths
• critical traditions of global political thought;
• political thought in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the relationship between Latin American traditions and other intellectual traditions, in the contexts of wider global debates;
• methodological questions concerning comparison, translation, circulation, reception, and the study of political ideas across boundaries.

The conference will feature a range of panels involving scholars at different career stages. We are also pleased to announce that the Association has invited Professors William Bain (National University of Singapore), Iván Jakšić (Stanford University), and Diego Rossello (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and the Institute of Advanced Studies), as keynote speakers. 

We welcome submissions from scholars of various intellectual backgrounds and institutions from around the world. The conference is intended as a genuinely international forum, and we invite contributions addressing political ideas and traditions from all regions and historical periods.

Submission guidelines

Please submit a draft, with an abstract of no more than 200–500 words by November 29, 2026. Abstract without the full draft is accepted, though full papers are expected ahead of the meeting.

Submissions should be uploaded via the Association’s website at https://globalpoliticalthought.org/submit-a-paper/. If you are unable to do so, please send them to submissions@globalpoliticalthought.org with the subject line “AGPT 2027 Conference Submission.” Individual papers will normally be grouped into conceptually or geo-culturally themed panels by the Reviewing Committee. 

The conference language will be English. Further information concerning the program, registration, travel, and accommodation will be announced in due course. The Organizing Committee will make every effort to support broad participation.

For further information, please contact info@globalpoliticalthought.org or visit the Association for Global Political Thought website: https://globalpoliticalthought.org/.

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Organizing Committee:

Managing Coordinator: Lamar Hendrikse 

Co-Organizers: Hansong Li, Yi Ning Chang, Nayeli Riano, Thomas Ashby

2027 Annual Conference Reviewers and Organizers: Carlos Pérez Crespo, María Esperanza Casullo

Association for Global Political Thought
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