Articles by Emanuela Ceva

Debating Toleration: Attitudes, Practices and Institutions

3 - 5 November, 2011 - University of Pavia (Italy)

3 November

13:30 Registration

14 -15 Presentation of current European Research Projects on toleration
Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia), Coordinator RESPECT Project
Zacharoula Kouki (European University Institute), ACCEPT PLURALISM Project
Silvia Rodriguez (Centro de Estudos Sociais), TOLERACE Project

15 -16:30 Keynote speaker: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (Piemonte Orientale University, Vercelli), A Case ofz
Disrespect: the Contested Mosque in Vercelli
Chair: Federico Zuolo (Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia)

16:30 - 17 Coffee break

17-18:30 Session 1
Panel a - Toleration and education
Tore Vincents Olsen (Aarhus University), Tolerance and Intolerance in European Education
Michele Bocchiola (University of the Witswatersrand), Illiberal Views and Liberal Education
Chair: Roberta Sala (San Raffaele University, Milano)
Panel b - Toleration and groups
Sune Lægaard (Roskilde University), Toleration, Groups and Multiculturalism
Bart van Leeuwen (Radboud University Nijmegen), Urban Civility or Urban Community? A False Opposition
in Richard Sennett’s Conception of Public Ethos
Chair: Enzo Rossi (University of Wales, Newport)

4 November

9:30-11:00 Keynote speaker: Colin Bird (University of Virginia), Does Religion Deserve our Respect?
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)

11-11:30 Coffee brea

11:30 -13 Session 2
Panel a - Respect, toleration and the treatment of minorities
Sune Lægaard (Roskilde University) & Maria Paola Ferretti (University of Darmstadt), A Multirelational
Account of Tolerance and Respect
Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia) & Federico Zuolo (IUSS, Pavia), A Matter of Respect. On the Relations
between the Majority and Minorities in a Democracy
Chair: Enrico Biale (Piemonte Orientale University, Vercelli)
Panel b - Toleration and the Roma population
Ladislav Toušek (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen), What’s ‘Out of Place’? Tolerance and Intolerance As
Functions of the Construction of the Public Space
Alexei Pikulik (European Humanities University, Vilnius), Sedentary Roma and the Regimes of Bounding
Space in Lithuania
Chair: Claire Moulin-Doos (University of Darmstadt)

13-14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16 Session 3
Panel a - Toleration and respect
Ian Carter (University of Pavia), Are Toleration and Respect Compatible?
Peter Balint (University of New South Wales), Respect, Toleration and the Citizen
Chair: Sophie Guérard de Latour (University of Paris 1, Sorbonne)
Panel b - Toleration and the social imaginary
Ayelet Banai (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Can Crucifixes be Secular? Towards a ‘Social Contract’
Approach to Diversity and Toleration
Daniel Augenstein (Tilburg University), The Principle of Tolerance in the Liberal Social Imaginary
Chair: Charles Girard (University of Paris 4, Sorbonne)

16-16:30 Coffee brea

16:30-18 Session 4
Panel a - Toleration and racism
Katy Sian (University of Leeds), (In)Tolerance and (Anti)Racism in Employment: Muslims in the UK
Magali Bessone (Université de Rennes I), Will the Real Tolerant Racist Please Stand Up?
Chair: David Weberman (Central European University)
Panel b - Respect, discrimination and difference
Frej Klem Thomsen (Roskilde University), Discrimination, Disrespect and the Bigoted Billionaire
Irina Mirea (European Humanities University, Vilnius), A taxonomy of difference - from tolerance to respect
Chair: Gideon Calder (University of Wales, Newport)

5 November

9:00-10:30 Session 5
Panel a - Toleration, respect and differential treatment
Filippo Santoni De Sio (Delft University of Technology), Blaming as a Form of Respect: The Cultural Defence
and its Limits
Yossi Nehushtan (Haim Striks Law School), What is Tolerance Really About?
Chair: Chiara Testino (Piemonte Orientale University, Vercelli)
Panel b - Tolerating the intolerable
Robert Brecher (University of Brighton), On not Tolerating the Intolerable
Makoto Usami (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tolerating the Hardly Tolerable: The Offence Principle
Reconsidered
Chair: Constantinos Adamides (University of Nicosia)

10:30-11 Coffee brea

11-12:30 Keynote speaker: Peter Jones (University of Newcastle), Should we tolerate identities?
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia)

For further information, please contact: respect[at]iusspavia.it

The conference is kindly supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy (UK) and is a part of the activities carried out within the framework of the RESPECT research project (GA no: 244549), funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme.

The views expressed during the execution of the RESPECT project in whatever form and or by whatever medium are the
sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information
contained therein.

Debating Toleration: Attitudes, Practices and Institutions

3 - 5 November, 2011

Faculty of Political Science, University of Pavia (Italy)

Instances of xenophobia, marginalisation and discrimination directed against vulnerable groups are often framed in terms of (in)tolerance on the part of the majority against a minority. Recent cases highlighted in the media include the Swiss referendum which resulted in the banning of new minarets and the expulsion of Roma in France. Yet, while appeals to toleration are often made in order to devise appropriate political responses to such questions, it is far from clear and uncontroversial what such appeals actually mean and require. Are such issues correctly understood and addressed in terms of toleration, or should they instead be interpreted with the aid of other cognate ideals, such as respect or recognition?

The conference invites discussions both of theoretical interpretations of toleration, respect and recognition, and of more applied contributions on the role of these ideals in informing social policies in contemporary democracies.

Participants are invited to address the following questions:
• What does the ideal of toleration require of contemporary societies?
• What particular problems of societal conflict can be usefully analysed in terms of the concepts of tolerance and intolerance?
• Are issues raised by minority claims correctly understood in terms of toleration?
• Are respect and recognition interpretations of toleration, or do they represent different, and sometimes conflicting notions?
• Are group-oriented policies a threat to social cohesion? What alternative policy solutions can be offered to promote a tolerant society?

Keynote speakers

Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
Peter Jones (University of Newcastle)

Papers are welcomed from the fields of ethics, political philosophy/theory, law and social policy.

Deadline for paper proposals (500 words): 26 June 2011

Conference registration is free of charge. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually.
Anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper can write to check availability.
Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.

For further information, or to submit a proposal, please contact: respect[at]iusspavia.it

The conference is kindly supported by the Society for Applied Philosophy (UK) and is a part of the activities carried out within the framework of the RESPECT research project (GA no: 244549), funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme.

The views expressed during the execution of the RESPECT project in whatever form and or by whatever medium are the sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

On the 22nd and 23rd of September 2011, the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia and the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the 9th edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller, Alessandro Ferrara, Michael Otsuka, Nadia Urbinati, Valeria Ottonelli, Adam Swift. This year’s keynote speakers will be:

Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli), speaking on Autonomy and Double Standards

Gerald Gaus (University of Arizona), speaking on Public Reason as an Equilibrium Concept

Graduate students interested in giving papers should send their contributions (max 2500/3000 words - in English) accompanied by an abstract (max 300 words - in English) and a short CV, by Sunday 29th May 2011. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy, and presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at least another twenty minutes of discussion. Please note that the 29th of May is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper.

Conference registration is free of charge. Paper givers will be offered accommodation at reasonable prices in local university colleges. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually. Anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper can write to check availability. Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.

Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) to the conference email address: graduate.conference@iusspavia.it

Updated information will shortly be available on the conference website:
www.iusspavia.it/hdcp

Discussing differential treatment

A symposium on occasion of the publication of the book
Diversity in Europe. Dilemmas of differential treatment in theory and practice (Routledge 2010, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580823/)

edited by Gideon Calder and Emanuela Ceva

10 January 2011

University of Pavia, Faculty of Political Science, Aula Grande

9:00 Welcome
Fabio Rugge, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Pavia
Roberto Schmid, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia
Emanuela Ceva, Institute for Advanced Study - University of Pavia
Gideon Calder, University of Wales, Newport

9:30
Robert Vischer (University of St. Thomas), Beyond the Individual and State: Will the Relational Dimension of Conscience Find Fertile Ground in Europe?

Discussant: Emanuela Ceva (Institute for Advanced Study - University of Pavia)

11 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13
Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester), Demands of Conscience

Discussant: Federico Zuolo (Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia)

13 - 14:30 Buffet lunch

14:30 - 16:00
Peter Cave (The Open University), Morality, mini-skirts and the niqab: muddling through

Discussant: Sune Lægaard (Roskilde University)

16 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18
Andrew Shorten (University of Limerick), Groups, Institutions and the Rule-and-Exemption Approach

Discussant: Gideon Calder (University of Wales, Newport)

Participation is not restricted, but all participants are asked to register beforehand with the conference organizers. Registration is free of charge and includes lunch and refreshments. Papers will be pre-circulated to registered participants only. To register, please contact Rade Bjelan (bjelan[at]gmail.com) by 15 December 2010.

Workshops in Political Theory, Seventh Annual Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University, 1-3 September 2010

TOLERATION AND RESPECT: CONCEPTS, JUSTIFICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Conveners:
Emanuela Ceva (Institute for Advanced Study, University of Pavia)
Sune Laegaard (Roskilde University)
Federico Zuolo (Institute for Advanced Study, University of Pavia)

Discussions of the ideas of toleration and respect have animated vivid and ongoing debates in political and moral philosophy during the last decades. The formulations given to the idea of toleration have come to range from the negative appeal to non-interference to the positive recognition of difference. In a similar vein, the idea of respect has been object of some serious reformulation building on the works of neo-Kantians up to the most recent applications to issues of cultural diversity and religious liberty. However, the sophistication of the dicussions revolving around each of the two ideas has not been accompanied by a clarification of their reciprocal conceptual and normative relations, thus leading, in fact, to a blurring of the lines between them.

On this backdrop, the workshop will offer an occasion to engage in debates leading to a more systematic exploration of the intricate relations, conceptual and practical, between the two ideas. In particular, papers could address one (or more) of the following issues: Read the rest of this entry »

Conference on Respect, Global Justice and Human Rights

Organized by HDCP/IRC- Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at IUSS-Institute for Advanced Study (Pavia) and Faculty of Political Science, University of Pavia. Kindly supported by: FIRB Research Project: RBIN06ZFSE and Fondazione Cariplo

5 Nov 2009 - Aula Grande Facoltà di Scienze Politiche

12:30 Welcome buffet lunch (Aula Leoni)

14:30 - 15 Welcome address:
Prof. Fabio Rugge, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Pavia
Prof. Roberto Schmid, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) Pavia

Introduction: Dr Emanuela Ceva (IUSS, University of Pavia)

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VII Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, 24-25 September 2009.

Sponsored by HDCP/IRC- Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at IUSS-Institute for Advanced Study (Pavia) under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy.

24/09/2009

9-9.30 Registration

9.30-11 Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Michael Otsuka (University College London), Risking Life and Limb

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Hello everyone!

My name is Emanuela Ceva and I’m a political philosopher based at the University of Pavia (Italy). The paper I’d like to discuss with you is an attempt to address (and hopefully provide an answer to) a well-known challenge to proceduralism about justice: if procedural theories of justice were genuinely open-ended, they might lead to controversial outcomes which, by definition, could not be disputed, because they had been produced by a just procedure. On the other hand, if they were committed to ruling out some outcomes by virtue of their inherent qualities, their very procedural nature would be jeopardised.

Those who endorse this position also think that it could be used to declare the implausibility of entirely procedural theories of justice.

As someone who has spent a few years trying to argue that proceduralism is at least a plausible (if not necessary, under certain conditions) alternative to substantivism, I have decided to take up this challenge, and devote this paper to showing that a qualified version of proceduralism may be developed, which is equipped to rebut the critique above.

To this aim, I shall unpack the first horn of the dilemma presented above into a twofold challenge, according to which proceduralism risks (i) fostering an “anything-goes” attitude towards justice and (ii) condemning agents to a “deaf and blind” acceptance of any outcome. In order to refute (i), I shall show that it is possible to construct a version of proceduralism that combines open-endedness with cogent prescriptions on justice. Addressing (ii), I shall concede that, for proceduralists, the outcomes of a just procedure cannot be disputed as unjust. However, this does not imply that a genuine procedural theory of justice may not allow some (admittedly limited, but still significant) space for contesting the substance of outcomes on the ground of values other than justice.

I should mention that I shall not offer an argument here explaining why a theory of justice should go procedural in the first place (a task which I’ve tried to carry out elsewhere - see E. Ceva, ‘Plural Values and Heterogeneous Situations. Considerations on the Scope for a Political Theory of Justice‘, European Journal of Political Theory, vol.6 (3), 2007, pp. 359-375). I shall, rather, focus on a more restricted defence of the plausibility of proceduralism against the dilemma outlined above.

For those who cannot cope with my dodgy accent, the pdf of the paper is available here.

David Lefkowitz’s discussion of the paper may be found here.  I thank David for his thoughtful comments, to which I shall post replies by Monday at the latest.

In the podcast (below), I read the full paper (and have added a brief commentary on the tables) but not the footnotes - which I have kept to a minumun, anyway.

Last but not least, I’d like to thank Simon for setting up this great virtual venue for seminars. I hope you’ll enjoy the paper and I very much look forward to any comments or suggestions on it.

Best, emanuela

 

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On the 24th and 25th of September 2009, the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the seventh edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy.

This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller and Alessandro Ferrara. This year’s keynote speakers will be:

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University), speaking on “Unpolitical Democracy”
Michael Otsuka (University College of London), speaking on “Risking Life and Limb”

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