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The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
2024 Spitz Prize Awarded to Stefan Eich
The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is awarded every year for the best books in liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier. The 2024 winner is Stefan Eich's The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. Please read the Prize Committee's commendations here.
2025 Melvin Richter Prize Awarded to Olivier Grégoire Higgins
The Melvin Richter Prize is awarded for the best doctoral dissertation in the history of political thought. The 2025 winner is Olivier Grégoire Higgins's “Progress and the People in German Political Thought after Kant 1781-1831.” Please read the Prize Committee's commendations here.
The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought is an international, interdisciplinary organization of scholars and informed citizens interested in preserving and encouraging a broad, humanistic style of thinking about politics. Founded in Toronto in 1967 by J.G.A. Pocock, Melvin Richter, and Neal Wood, CSPT is now composed of an extensive network of affiliated groups and scholarly organizations. The organization aims to hold one major conference each year on a topic of broad theoretical and political significance, drawing together scholars from intellectual history, political and social theory, philosophy and related fields. In addition to our annual conference, we plan to organize smaller gatherings – workshops, lectures, panels – on contemporary themes from a theoretically and historically sensitive perspective.
We are delighted to announce that the next CSPT Conference, The Persistence of Political Form, will take place on May 14-15, 2026 at Cornell University. The 2026 CSPT conference will explore the relationship between political action and political theory along three dimensions—regime, ideology, and social reproduction.


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Diego Rivera—The Arsenal

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