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Kort præsentation

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University.

Lars Tønder is a political theorist with a special interest in democratic theory, civil society, climate change, and political philosophy. 

He is a member of the Political Theory Research GroupREGROUPCentre for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory (CAPS), and the Emotions and Public Affairs network.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Copenhagen, Lars held positions at The University of Melbourne and Northwestern University.

HEAD OF STUDIES

Træffetid: torsdage 13-14

Research

The main purpose of Lars’ research is to examine democracy in the context of political contestation, social movements, and climate change. He is the principal investigator on two 3-year research projects (2021 – 2024), both funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark:

  • Vital Politics (VIPO): examines the conditions for normative thinking in the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the vitalist tradition and thinkers such as Canguilhem, Spinoza, and Bergson.
  • Democratic Innovations in a Green Transition (DIGT): examines the use of climate citizen’s assemblies to support societal change, with an emphasis on issues related to inclusion, sovereignty, and civil society.

In addition to these projects, Lars has written on issues related to power, tolerance, free speech, pluralism and democratic culture. He has been the PI on research projects related to liberalism and the role of reason and affect, and he has published a series of articles and chapters on the role of satire, laughter, and “comic politics”. 

Lars is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics between abundance and lack, and his book Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics was published with Oxford University Press in 2013. His most recent monograph Om magt i den antropocæne tidsalder: En introduktion was published with DJØF Forlag in 2020.

Fellowships and prizes

Lars has twice been a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, and once at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. His dissertation won the 2007 American Political Science Association Leo Strauss Prize for best dissertation in political philosophy. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Department of Political Science’s Teaching Award.

Professional service

Lars serves on the Editorial Board of Theory & EventDistinktion, and Politics and Religion. He was the Foundations of Political Theory program co-chair for the 2016 American Political Science Asssociation convention. He is regularly asked to review manuscripts for journals such as Political TheoryContemporary Political TheoryAmerican Political Science Review as well as presses such as Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge.

Kort præsentation

Head of Studies

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University.

Lars Tønder is a political theorist with a special interest in democratic theory, civil society, climate change, and political philosophy. 

He is a member of the Political Theory Research GroupREGROUPCentre for Anthropological, Political and Social Theory (CAPS), and the Emotions and Public Affairs network.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Copenhagen, Lars held positions at The University of Melbourne and Northwestern University.

Research

The main purpose of Lars’ research is to examine democracy in the context of political contestation, social movements, and climate change. He is the principal investigator on two 3-year research projects (2021 – 2024), both funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark:

  • Vital Politics (VIPO): examines the conditions for normative thinking in the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the vitalist tradition and thinkers such as Canguilhem, Spinoza, and Bergson.
  • Democratic Innovations in a Green Transition (DIGT): examines the use of climate citizen’s assemblies to support societal change, with an emphasis on issues related to inclusion, sovereignty, and civil society.

In addition to these projects, Lars has written on issues related to power, tolerance, free speech, pluralism and democratic culture. He has been the PI on research projects related to liberalism and the role of reason and affect, and he has published a series of articles and chapters on the role of satire, laughter, and “comic politics”. 

Lars is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics between abundance and lack, and his book Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics was published with Oxford University Press in 2013. His most recent monograph Om magt i den antropocæne tidsalder: En introduktion was published with DJØF Forlag in 2020.

Fellowships and prizes

Lars has twice been a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, and once at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. His dissertation won the 2007 American Political Science Association Leo Strauss Prize for best dissertation in political philosophy. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Department of Political Science’s Teaching Award.

Professional service

Lars serves on the Editorial Board of Theory & EventDistinktion, and Politics and Religion. He was the Foundations of Political Theory program co-chair for the 2016 American Political Science Asssociation convention. He is regularly asked to review manuscripts for journals such as Political TheoryContemporary Political TheoryAmerican Political Science Review as well as presses such as Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge.

 

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Born: 27 October, 1972

 

Education:

MA, Political theory, University of Essex, 1 Sep 1999

MA, Political science, University of Copenhagen, 1 Sep 2000

Ph.d., Political theory, Johns Hopkins University, 1 May 2006

 

Current position:

University of Copenhagen, Professor mso, Department of Political Science.

Subject coordinator ("fagkoordinator"):  Sociology.

 

Previous positions:

University of Melbourne, Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, 2014 - 2015.

 

Northwestern University, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2007-2015 (unpaid leave 2014/2015). Faculty affiliate: Rhetoric and Public Culture Cluster & Critical Theory Cluster.

 

DePauw University, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2006-2007.

 

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2005-2006.

Uddannelse (Akademiske kvalifikationer)

Politisk teori, Ph.d., Johns Hopkins University

Dimissionsdato: 1 maj 2006

Statskundskab, cand.scient.pol., University of Copenhagen

Dimissionsdato: 1 sep. 2000

Politisk teori, MA, University of Essex

Dimissionsdato: 1 sep. 1999

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