Articles by Roberto Merrill

Congress: Democracy Today - In Political Philosophy and Theory, 3 - 6 November 2010 - Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Today western democracies confront social, cultural and political challenges, which call for a reevaluation of our state affairs, our system of practices and our system of discourses. In contemporary pluralist and multicultural societies, there is an increased gap between citizens and political establishments. Traditional approaches of politics of recognition or redistribution, used to translate claims into the public sphere, seem no longer sufficient in this new paradigm of an increased globalized world and trans-national politics. Under this light, the meaning(s) we generally tend to attribute to the concept of democracy need to be re-evaluated and ultimately redefined.

This will be the First International Congress on ‘Democracy Today’ which will take place at Universidade do Minho, Braga. Having as starting point the assumption that the concept of democracy needs to be revised, we intent, during this congress, to accomplish two main tasks: on the one hand, to provide an account of the multiplicity of meanings of ‘democracy’ and its conceptual nuances. On the other hand, to account for the different instantiations of democracy and its intrinsic practices. Under this light we propose four days of reflection, discussion and dialogue, specially under the scope of political philosophy and political theory.

These are some of the questions we expect to explore:

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Minho University, Braga: 19 June 2009 | CFP: 30 April 2009

Participating Institutions:
CEHUM-University of Minho
IEP- Catholic University of Lisbon
IFL-New University of Lisbon
LIF-University of Coimbra
University of Lisbon
University of Porto

Scholars of all disciplines usually need opportunities to share their thoughts and to collect feed-back on their work. We hereby invite scholars of moral philosophy as well as of normative political theory who are keen to engage in a discussion with their peers to join in regular meetings at which they can present papers or chapters they are writing, or topics they are working on. The invitation is open both to graduate and PhD students and to senior scholars. The initiative aims to increase the reciprocal knowledge of our fellow researchers within the Portuguese scientific community. However, meetings and participation are open to all interested scholars, both from Portugal and from abroad. In order to accommodate a broad range of research interests and to encourage the dissemination of different ideas, the first meeting will be non-thematic. Papers can be given either in Portuguese, in English, or in French.

The first meeting will take place at the University of Minho, Braga, on Friday, 19 June. If you are interested in presenting a paper on a topic of your choice, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) by 30 April to the following address: eefp [at] googlegroups.com

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Appel à participations : Évaluations morales des technologies controversées dans les conférences citoyennes

Le CEHUM (Université du Minho) organise un colloque de deux jours ayant pour thème les « évaluations morales des technologies controversées dans les conférences citoyennes» qui aura lieu les 14 et 15 mai 2009, à Lisbonne (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa). Les chercheurs participant à ce colloque incluent :

Joana Baguenier (CEHUM, Université du Minho - Université Paris IV, Sorbonne)
João Cardoso Rosas (CEHUM, Université du Minho)
Anca Gheaus (Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin)
Simon Joss (SSHL, University of Westminster)
Roberto Merrill (CEHUM, Université du Minho)
Florence Quinche (Université de Nancy)
Bernard Reber (CERSES, CNRS-Université Paris Descartes)
Sabine Roeser (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology)
Daniel Weinstock (CRÉUM, Université de Montréal)

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Appel à contributions : Le multiculturalisme a-t-il un avenir ?

Le centre Nosophi (Sorbonne-Paris 1), LNS-IUF (Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3) et le CEHUM (Université du Minho) organisent un colloque de deux jours sur le multiculturalisme qui aura lieu à l’Université de Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, les 26 et 27 février 2010. Les chercheurs invités participant à ce colloque incluent :

Catherine Audard (London School of Economics)

João Cardoso Rosas (Université du Minho)

Will Kymlicka (Université de Queen’s)

Cécile Laborde (University College London)

Justine Lacroix (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Catherine Larrère (Sorbonne-Paris I)

Alain Renaut (Sorbonne-Paris IV)

Daniel Weinstock (Université de Montréal)

Michel Wieviorka (EHESS)

Si le multiculturalisme a toujours été un projet politique controversé, il a aussi su rallier ces dernières années différents types de partisans, des défenseurs radicaux d’une politique de la différence, aux avocats de la lutte pour la reconnaissance, en passant par la défense d’un libéralisme de gauche, ou encore par celle d’un républicanisme critique.

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Second Call For Papers: Equality of Opportunity. Submission Deadline: 1st of March 2009

Conference: Whose Opportunities? A Critique of Equality 

When? 29, 30, 31 October 2009

Where? Lisbon

Organization : Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho (CEHUM) , Centre for the History of Culture, New University of Lisbon (CHC)

The Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM) and the Centre for the History of Culture of the New University of Lisbon (CHC) are sponsoring an international conference on the ideal of equality of opportunity which will take place in Lisbon the 29th, 30th and 31st of October 2009. Participants to the conference include:

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Conference: Whose Opportunities? A Critique of Equality 

When? 29, 30, 31 October 2009

Where? Lisbon

Organization

Centre for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho (CEHUM)

Centre for the History of Culture, New University of Lisbon (CHC)

Call For Papers: Equality of Opportunity 2009. Submission Deadline: 1^st of March 2009

The Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM) and the Centre for the History of Culture of the New University of Lisbon (CHC) are sponsoring an international conference on the ideal of equality of opportunity which will take place in Lisbon the 29^th, 30^th and 31^st of October 2009. Participants to the conference include: Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego), Vincent Bourdeau (University of Besançon), Matthew Clayton (University of Warwick ), Marc Fleurbaey (Cerses, CNRS), Axel Gosseries (Hoover Chair, University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Cécile Laborde (University College London), Ruwen Ogien (Cerses, CNRS), Martin O’Neill (MANCEPT, University of Manchester), Patrick Savidan (Sorbonne-Paris IV University), Adam Swift (Centre for Social Justice, University of Oxford), Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), Daniel Weinstock (CRÉUM, University of Montreal), Jonathan Wolff (University College London).

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