Antonia Alksnis | @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social (@antoniaalksnis) 's Twitter Profile
Antonia Alksnis | @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social

@antoniaalksnis

Polisci PhD candidate @UCBerkeley | political theory, HPT | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle | politics, passions, habit formation | BA @UofT @UofT_PolSci

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I was going to say "why have I never heard of this before" but yknow what maybe this is in fact the perfect time for me to read Alexander Pope's The Dunciad

I was going to say "why have I never heard of this before" but yknow what maybe this is in fact the perfect time for me to read Alexander Pope's The Dunciad
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Hosted the second annual Poli Sci Prom at UC Berkeley for which I got to pick the theme: Y2K! Thank you so much to Antonia and the department staff who made this a reality 🫶🏻

Hosted the second annual Poli Sci Prom at UC Berkeley for which I got to pick the theme: Y2K! Thank you so much to Antonia and the department staff who made this a reality 🫶🏻
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Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7Nd… Please circulate widely!

Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory

Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) 

Submission deadline: January 31
Date: April 11
Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7Nd…

Please circulate widely!
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New in Political Theory, by me: Does this guy's chain look like a necklace? ↓ Scholars have treated it as one. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

New in Political Theory, by me:  

Does this guy's chain look like a necklace? ↓ 
 
Scholars have treated it as one. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…