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Sciences Po Political Theory (SPOT)
About
The SPOT seminar is an intellectually stimulating and convivial space for discussion, mobilizing researchers, professors and doctoral students around the major issues of contemporary political theory.
The program for the 2025-2026 season unfolds as a lively composition driven by the plurality of approaches to and objects of political theory. This ambition is based on a dual requirement of distinction and openness. Firstly, distinction, since the aim is to discuss the singularity of the theoretical gestures of our discipline, its problems, its conceptualities and its methods; and secondly, openness, because this seminar will exist in conversation and dialogue with friendly disciplines.
Detailed programme and minutes are available on the SPOT website.
Program
The sessions take place on Thursdays from 5pm to 7pm, at Sciences Po, campus St Thomas, Paris 7e, in room K 008 or K 011. Exceptional sessions, detailed programme and minutes are available on the SPOT website.
11 September 2025
Dialogue sur la justice, le mal et la vengeance avec Antoine Garapon et Justine Lacroix.
17 September 2025
Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 2024. En collaboration avec le Séminaire Marx.
9 October 2025
Dialogue entre Gérald Bronner (À l’assaut du réel, PUF, 2025) et Gloria Origgi (La vérité est une question politique, Albin Michel, 2024, Dictionnaire des Passions sociales, PUF, 2019)
23 October 2025
Yascha Mounk, The Identity Trap, Penguin Press, 2023.
13 November 2025
Perspectives sur la Théorie politique avec Aurélia Bardon, Benjamin Boudou (dir. Théorie politique, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2025) et Julie Saada, Daniel Sabbagh, Magali Bessone, Denis Ramond.
11 Décember 2025
Alessandro Mulieri, Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism. Democracy in Early Modern Philosophy, Londres, Bloomsbury, 2025
8 January 2026
Arnaud Miranda, Les « Lumières sombres » : le retour de la réaction ?
12 February 2026
Alexandre Dupeyrix, Visions du monde. Histoire d’un concept, enjeux contemporains, Garnier, 2025
12 March 2026
Ninon Grangé, Philosophie avec personnages : essai de fictionnalisme politique, Mimésis, 2024
9 April 2026
Emmanuele Coccia, Hiérarchie, la société des anges, Payot-Rivages, 2023, avec Frédéric Gros
21 May 2026
En attente de confirmation
11 June 2026
Patrick Cabanel, Le droit de croire, La France et ses minorités religieuses, XVIe-XXIe siècle, Passés composés, 2024, avec Philippe Portier
