A two-day workshop with invited participants presenting papers on different aspects of the decolonisation of political thought. The ultimate aim is to use the workshop to establish a global network of scholars committed to decolonising political thought. The project is by its nature interdisciplinary, as both our intended participants and the thinkers they will discuss come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. We intend to publish the papers from the workshop in an edited volume, Reconsidering Political Thinkers, for which we already have a contract with Oxford University Press for publication in 2021. The workshop will be invaluable in preparing for publication and exchanging ideas amongst the contributors. We will also use the workshop as an initial step towards establishing a website that will act as a key tool for researchers and educators who wish to further the decolonisation of political thought. The workshop and the book intend to bring to the fore hitherto neglected theories of people of colour and women alongside the frequently studied white male thinkers of the canon, providing critical interpretations of the canon by reading their ideas in the contexts of patriarchy and imperialism. The research will thus challenge what has been called the ‘whiteness’ of political thought, a whiteness which is problematic because it fails to reflect: contemporary cultural and ethnic diversity; the historical significance of race and racial injustices; the contributions made by non-white theorists; and the importance that the concepts of race have had to the theories of canonical thinkers. As such, we see this project as a modest but nonetheless essential contribution to the undoing of the persistent racialised and gender inequalities that are a legacy of the intersections of colonialism and patriarchy.