TheoryLAB
Open to academics and non-academics alike, TheoryLAB explores points of connection and convergence between different kinds of political theory.
The idea of a lab for theory signals a way of thinking that is experimental and engages creatively across disciplinary boundaries. A lab builds connections, encounters new materials, and has a transformative capacity, given its open and process-led form.
We offer a platform for staff and PhD students in the Department of Politics and International Relations to engage with one another’s work, for visiting scholars to find an intellectual home, and a place for new theory-focused scholarship to be developed, within and beyond conventional academic spaces. Alongside our work-in-progress seminar series, we organise events of all kinds: conferences, workshops, reading groups, and more.
Contact us
Get in touch at spir-theorylab@qmul.ac.uk.
If you’d like to discuss organising events, visiting TheoryLAB, or anything else, please get in touch with our director, Dr Joe Hoover (j.hoover@qmul.ac.uk).