Our revision of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on political representation is live: plato.stanford.edu/entries/poli.... Suzanne Dovi's original entry introduced me to political representation during graduate school, so working with her on its revision has been especially meaningful.

The 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop program is now available. We hope you can join us in Chicago @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social! @hadassanoorda.bsky.social @raff-donelson.bsky.social @gowder.io @almadiamond.bsky.social @sgaloob.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social @yaromeir.bsky.social

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast with @wendysalkin.bsky.social from Stanford, author of "Speaking For Others: The Ethics of informal Representation," is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... #PhilSky #philosophy #podcast

Who Speaks For You?

Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk · March 8 · 51m

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Coming up: What should we make of the self-appointed spokesperson? Josh & Ray speak for themselves with @wendysalkin.bsky.social from Stanford, author of "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation." 🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in SF & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

A reminder to submit your abstracts or volunteer to comment at the 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop. The deadline is January 9, 2026.

Wendy Salkin@wendysalkin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#CFP: 13th Annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW). 📍Hosted @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social 🗓️ Submit an abstract or volunteer to comment by January 9, 2026 🗣️Please, share widely! sites.google.com/site/legalph...

CFA: Legal Philosophy Workshop 2026 June 11–12, 2026 @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social We’re now accepting abstracts for #2026LPW. Deadline: January 9, 2026 This is a great opportunity to present work at the intersection of law and philosophy. sites.google.com/site/legalph...

#CFP: 13th Annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW). 📍Hosted @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social 🗓️ Submit an abstract or volunteer to comment by January 9, 2026 🗣️Please, share widely! sites.google.com/site/legalph...

Updated title for Wendy Salkin's @wendysalkin.bsky.social : "The Duties of Informal Political Representatives." Very much looking forward to two great talks at LSE this week.

LSE Political Theory@lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Two talks coming up next week: On Wed 19th we will hold a lunchtime (12pm) seminar with Bastian Steuwer (Ashoka) on “Reaction Qualifications, Fairness, and Meritocracy”. And our regular slot on Thursday 20th 4pm has Wendy Salkin @wendysalkin.bsky.social (Stanford) on "Speaking for Others".

Two talks coming up next week: On Wed 19th we will hold a lunchtime (12pm) seminar with Bastian Steuwer (Ashoka) on “Reaction Qualifications, Fairness, and Meritocracy”. And our regular slot on Thursday 20th 4pm has Wendy Salkin @wendysalkin.bsky.social (Stanford) on "Speaking for Others".

#CFP: 12th Annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW). 📍Hosted @uvalawschool.bsky.social 🗓️ Submit an abstract or volunteer to comment by March 1, 2025. 🗣️Please, share widely! sites.google.com/site/legalph...

Join our PEA Soup Blog discussion of @lowrypressly.bsky.social's excellent new article in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social, "The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future": peasoupblog.com/2024/12/the-...

“The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future.” With Lowry Pressly and Wendy Salkin.

PEA Soup Blog is pleased to be hosting this Ethics discussion with Lowry Pressly (University of Stanford) and Wendy Salkin (University of Stanford). This discussion focuses on Pressly’s paper “The …

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ETHICS journal @ethicsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Starting soon: The PEASoup Blog Discussion on Lowry Pressly’s free article in ETHICS, The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future (doi.org/10.1086/731431). With a critical precis by Wendy Salkin (peasoupblog.com/2024/11/anno...). #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil

Really looking forward to workshopping my book manuscript 'Just Sex' next week with the Oxford political theory community, in addition to fantastic commenters Elizabeth Anderson, Emily McTernan, Zeynep Pamuk & Debra Satz. @politicsoxford.bsky.social www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Event - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Skriver om Greta Thunbergs skiftande roll som informell politisk representant på klimatområdet och huruvida det verkligen främst är hon som förändrats. www.dn.se/kultur/elsa-...

Elsa Kugelberg: Vem representerar Greta Thunberg?

Greta Thunberg är ett exempel i en ny bok om informella talespersoner. Ofta är det rätt att bara ignorera en sådan roll, just som Greta gjort.

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Thrilled to discuss Speaking for Others with the inimitable @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset) in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00 pm! Join our conversation in person or online.

Thrilled to discuss Speaking for Others with the inimitable @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset) in San Francisco on Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00 pm! Join our conversation in person or online.

Since last Sunday's broadcast of "Who Speaks For You?" with @wendysalkin.bsky.social was pre-empted by breaking news, KALW will re-air it this week. Other stations will air our regularly-scheduled program on Karl Popper, born 122 years ago this Sunday: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/karl-popper

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I will be on @philtalkradio.bsky.social on KALW 91.7 FM tomorrow (Sunday 7/21) at 11 am Pacific talking about speaking for others with co-hosts Josh Landy and Ray Briggs. Tune in if you can!

Philosophy Talk@philtalkradio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Coming up: What should we make of the self-appointed spokesperson? Josh and Ray speak for themselves with their Stanford colleague Wendy Salkin, author of "Speaking for Others" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2024-07-19/who-speaks-for-you

Coming up: What should we make of the self-appointed spokesperson? Josh and Ray speak for themselves with their Stanford colleague Wendy Salkin, author of "Speaking for Others" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2024-07-19/who-speaks-for-you

Who Speaks For You?

What should we make of the self-appointed spokesperson?

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In this episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social, I spoke with host Jim Baxter about informal political representatives, who speak or act for us although we have not elected them to do so. For more on this topic, check out my new book, Speaking for Others: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Ethics Untangled podcast@ethicsuntangled.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode out today, with @wendysalkin.bsky.social on the topic of informal political representation. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-resea...

Today is the publication day for Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation! Thank you to everyone who has supported this project over the years—family, advisors, mentors, colleagues, students, editors, friends. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I had a wonderful time discussing speaking for others today with @philtalkradio.bsky.social co-hosts Josh Landy and Ray Briggs! Thanks also to Devon Strolovitch, Laura Maguire, and KALW! "Speaking for Others" will be released by Harvard University Press on July 9: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Philosophy Talk@philtalkradio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Later today we'll be recording an episode with @wendysalkin.bsky.social from Stanford, author of "Speaking For Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation." Have you ever spoken on behalf of a group? Did you volunteer or were you roped into it? Let us know below! youtu.be/agYgEvCkc8Q

My book, Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation, will be released in two weeks. You can read a bit of it here, and pre-order it too! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Speaking for Others — Harvard University Press

A political philosopher dissects the duties and dilemmas of the unelected spokesperson, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Greta Thunberg.Political representation is typically assumed to be the purview ...

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I am honored and delighted to have received a 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Teaching Excellence Award. I am deeply grateful to all my students, who make teaching such a joy. pbknca.com/Teaching

Wendy Salkin honored with Phi Beta Kappa teaching excellence award

Wendy Salkin, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, has been honored with a teaching excellence award for 2024 from the Northern California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.Read more about ...

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The Legal Philosophy Workshop is taking place on June 13 and 14, 2024 at the University of Michigan. Program, registration, and travel details are available here: sites.google.com/site/legalph...

We've finalized the schedule for the 2024 Legal Philosophy Workshop at @UMich sites.google.com/site/legalph... A set of terrific papers from Amanda Greene, Ahson Azmat, Dominic Alford-Duguid, Gregory Antill, Elise Sugarman, Gilat Bachar, Jonathan Turner

I am looking forward to discussing a chapter from my book (Speaking for Others) on descriptive and nondescriptive informal political representation today at the IDEA research seminar series. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/event...

My paper "You Say I Want a Revolution," on W. E. B. Du Bois's John Brown, is out now in The Monist's Du Bois and Democracy issue, alongside articles by Chike Jeffers, Elvira Basevich, Robert Gooding-Williams, Inés Valdez, Kimberly Ann Harris, and Liam Kofi Bright. wendysalkin.com/papers.html

Thanks to @mariannazhang.bsky.social for writing this article about my project, "Writers Are Not Congressmen"! And thanks to the Clayman Institute and @adriandaub.bsky.social for including me in this year's Faculty Fellows group, an exciting research environment. gender.stanford.edu/news/fundame...

I've just returned the copyedited manuscript of my first book, Speaking for Others, to Harvard University Press. Preorder it (click "Buy elsewhere") for your loved ones just in time for the holidays! Preorders make a huge difference, so please do it if you can! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...