Conferences

Registration is required and free of charge. To register, please send name, affiliation and contact information to: taylor.conference.2012 [at] gmail.com

Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference

March 29-31 2012, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal

Charles Taylor à 80 ans: un colloque international

29 au 31 mars 2012, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

PROGRAM

March 29
9 h Introduction : Daniel Weinstock, CRÉUM, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy

• 9 h 30 Epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language I

To follow a rule : Lessons from baby logic
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)

Self-Interpreting Animals
Evan Thompson (University of Toronto)

Taylor’s Situated Epistemology
Ian Gold (McGill University)

• 13h30-16h00 Epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language II

Embodiment and Self-interpretation
Hubert Dreyfus (University of California at Berkeley)

Charles Taylor’s conception of language and the current debate about a theory of meaning
Hans Julius Schneider (University of Potsdam)

Taylor’s Engaged Pluralism
Richard Bernstein (New School for Social Research)

March 30

• 9h30-12h00 Religion and modernity

Varieties of Religious and Secular Phenomenological Experiences
José Casanova (Georgetown University)

A Crisis of Secularism ?
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)

Some (Banal and Boringly Familiar) Thoughts about Secularism
Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto)

TBA, Jeanne Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago)

• 13h30-15h00 Moral agency and the Self I

What is Wrong with Positive Liberty : The Struggles of Agency in a Non-Ideal World
John Christman (Penn State University)

What’s Right With Positive Liberty : Agency, Autonomy, and the Other
Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)

• 13h15-16h30 The interpretation of modernity I

Social Imaginaries, Human Action, and History
Craig Calhoun (New York University/London School of Economics)

The Telos of Modernity
Jacob Levy (McGill University)

• 16h30-18h00 The interpretation of modernity II

Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos ?
Michael Rosen (Harvard University)

The Fragility of Things : Fullness, Vitality and the Contemporary Condition
William Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)

March 31

• 9h30-12h00 Moral agency and the Self II

Self-creation or self-discovery ?
K. Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)

Reflective Equilibrium and Degrees of Abstraction in Moral Theory
Joseph Heath (University of Toronto)

Charles Taylor and ethical naturalism
Nigel DeSouza (University of Ottawa)

• 13h30- 16h00 Political philosophy, recognition and multiculturalism

Protecting Freedom of Conscience in the Secular Age
Cécile Laborde (University College, London)

The Multiple Social Imaginaries of Modern Indian secularism
Rajeev Bhargava (Delhi/Center for the Study of Developing Societies)

“Exercises in Retrieval” : Taylor as a Thinker of Historical Transitions
Paolo Costa, (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

TBA Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University)

• 16h15 -18h30 Canadian politics

Charles Taylor on Deep Diversity
James Tully (University of Victoria)

Cultural Differences, Languages, Perspicuous Contrasts, and Recognition
Jeremy Webber (University of Victoria)

Démocratie, diversité et inclusion
Dominique Leydet (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Charles Taylor: Closing remarks

March 30th (evening)Public event in honor of Charles Taylor as a public intellectual

Partenaires / Partners (provisional list):

• Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM)
• Centre for Global Challenges / Centre sur les défis mondiaux, York University
• Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique et philosophie politique
• Association des études canadiennes
• Department of Political Science, McGill University
• Dean of Arts Development Fund, McGill University
• Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines/Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP)
• Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales (GRSP), UQÀM
• Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University
• Secrétariat aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes (SAIC) du Québec
• Vice-rectorat à la recherche, à la création et à l’innovation, Université de Montréal

Conference co-organizers: Daniel Weinstock (Montreal), Jocelyn Maclure (Laval), Jacob T. Levy (McGill), Pierre-Yves Néron (CRÉUM)

For more information:

• http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/spip.php?article1280
• http://www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/gripp/events/taylor

Podcasts from the interdisciplinary conference ‘The Politics of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Politics’, which was organized by Jens Olesen (Oxford) and held at the Department of Politics and International Relations, have now been released on itunes. The conference provided a setting in which distinguished proponents and critics of some of the prevalent interpretive approaches currently used in humanities and social sciences research engaged in a rigorous debate about the advantages and costs of Hermeneutics, Contextualist and Straussian Approaches, Feminist Interpretations and Deconstruction, and to discuss the political assumptions that inform them, as well as aims that drive them.

Speakers: Jean Grondin, Paul H. Fry, Carsten Dutt, Dieter Teichert, Mark Bevir, John G. Gunnell, Michael Freeden, Michael L. Frazer, Pamela Anderson, Terrell Carver, Elizabeth Frazer, James Martel, Lasse Thomassen, Joshua Foa Dienstag, Al P. Martinich, Terence Ball, David Boucher, Stanley Rosen, David Weinstein, and James Connelly. A short report on the conference can be found here. For the podcasts, please check itunes here.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submission of abstract: 9th April 2012

Brave New World 2012, the Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th June 2012 at the University of Manchester.

We are pleased to announce that our guest speakers this year are:

Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego)

Charles Larmore (Brown University)

The Brave New World conference series is now established as a leading international forum dedicated exclusively to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. The conference offers a great opportunity for postgraduates from many different countries and universities to share experiences, concerns and research interests, to exchange stimulating ideas and to make new friends - all in a financially accessible and highly informal setting. Participants will also have the chance to meet and talk about their work with eminent academics, including members of faculty from the University of Manchester and guest speakers, who will deliver keynote addresses at the event.

Guest speakers in previous years have included Brian Barry, Simon Caney, G.A. Cohen, Roger Crisp, Cecile Fabre, Jerry Gaus, Peter Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Susan Mendus, David Miller, Onora O’Neill, Michael Otsuka, Bhikhu Parekh, Carole Pateman, Anne Phillips, Thomas Pogge, Joseph Raz, Andrea Sangiovanni, Quentin Skinner, Adam Swift, Philippe Van Parijs, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.

Papers focusing on any area of political theory or political philosophy are welcome. If you would like to present a paper then please send a 300-word, anonymised abstract (including the title of the paper) to Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk no later than 9th April 2012. Please also include in your email your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that the conference is self-financed and participants are responsible for seeking their own funding. For further details please contact us at Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk

A two day symposium that may be of interest to some:  http://philosophy.utk.edu/ael/main.html

March 2-3, 2012
Howard Baker Center for Public Policy
Animals, Ethics and Law Symposium
Speakers and Titles:

• Colin Allen
  Indiana Philosophy, Cognitive Science
  Ethics, Law and the Science of Fish Welfare
• Taimie Bryant
  UCLA Law
  Animal Law and Virtue Ethics
• David DeGrazia
  George Washington University Philosophy
  The Question of Animal Suffering
• David Favre
  Michigan State Law
  Respectful Use: An ethical construct for lawful interactions with animals
• Rebecca Huss
  Valparaiso Law
  The Intersection of Legal Issues Involving Animals and Gerontology
• Clare Palmer
  Texas A&M Philosophy
  What (if anything) Do We Owe Wild Animals?
• Nick Robinson (keynote)
  Pace, Law, and Yale, Forestry and Environmental Studies
  The Legal Principle of Resilience: A guiding norm for life in our anthropocene epoch

ON THE SCOPE OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE:

Relational and Non-relational Views

July 5-7, 2012, Central European University, Budapest

Organized by the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, CEU and the Global Justice Network

Keynote speakers:

Simon Caney (Oxford University)
Samuel Scheffler (New York University)

Should duties of distributive justice extend to humanity at large or be limited to compatriots? The debate about the proper scope of distributive duties explores whether the concern with individual distributive shares is grounded in our shared humanity, as cosmopolitans claim, or rather duties of justice arise only among those who are subject to the same coercive political institutions, participate in a shared social practice, or share in the same culture, as proponents of the so-called practice-dependent view hold. Parallel to this debate, discussions in the theory of justice have focused increasingly on the problem whether an egalitarian distribution of social resources has independent moral significance, as distributive conceptions propose, or instead any profile of distribution is morally desirable only insofar that it advances egalitarian social and political relations, as social-relational conceptions of justice claim. The workshop aims to bring together these two debates in contemporary political theory, with the expectation that insights from one may shed new light on problems discussed in the other. We especially welcome papers that aim to bridge the two problems, but also interested in papers with new insights in either of the two fields. We welcome papers that discuss general theoretical problems as well as those with a practical political focus.

To apply, please send us an abstract of max. 500 words by January 30^th 2012 to the email address ceuglobaljustice@gmail.com

Accepted participants will be notified by March 1^st, 2012.

For inquiries please write to Eszter Kollar: ekollar@johncabot.edu or Zoltan Miklosi: MiklosiZ@ceu.hu

Kind regards,

Eszter Kollar (JCU, Global Justice Network)
Zoltan Miklosi (CEU)
Andres Moles (CEU)
Orsi Reich (CEU, Harvard)

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2012
Call for Convenors

The MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2012 is an annual conference in political theory, organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester. The conference in 2012 will be the ninth event in the series and will take place on Wednesday September 5th until Friday September 7th 2012 at the Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester.Over the last eight years, participants from over twenty countries have come together in a series of workshops concerned with issues in political theory/philosophy widely construed. Last year the workshops had more than 200 delegates attending, and the conference is now established as a leading international forum dedicated to the discussion of research in political theory.

Applications for convening a workshop are now being accepted and more information about the event can be found here:
http://manceptworkshops2012.wordpress.com/

If you are interested in convening a workshop or require any further information please e-mail the Workshop convenor Chris Mills at:
manceptworkshops2012@gmail.com

For its third international Authority Beyond States workshop, the AUSTAT network invites submissions from political philosophy, international and comparative constitutional law, and political science to address the exercise of authority by international institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

The European Society for the History of Political Thought (ESHPT) will hold its 2nd conference at the University of Athens, Greece between 19-21 January 2012. The conference theme shall be “Athenian Legacies: European Debates on Citizenship”.

Contact: Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (e-mail: pkitrom@eie.gr).

For more information go to http://europoliticalthought.wordpress.com.

–
Dr. Evangelia Sembou
Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/polthought.aspx

On Fabre’s Cosmopolitan War

17 May, 2012
Arthur Lewis Building
University of Manchester

The Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) is delighted to host a conference on Professor Cécile Fabre’s forthcoming book, Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press). The book provides a series of incisive and challenging arguments regarding cosmopolitan principles for just war. Fabre argues for unconventional views regarding wars of national self-defence, humanitarian interventions, subsistence wars, civil wars, mercenaries, the use of human shields in wartime, and other important issues in the ethics of war and warfare.

The participants are:

Cécile Fabre (University of Oxford)
David Rodin (University of Oxford)
Daniel Statman (University of Haifa)
Anna Stilz (Princeton University)
Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)

Registration for the conference is now open and places are limited so please book early. For details regarding registration please visit us at:

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/events/cosmopolitanwar/

Global Justice: Norms and Limits
Bucharest, 10 - 12 May, 2012
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest 

Keynote and guest speakers include: Thomas Pogge (Yale), David Miller
(Oxford), Hillel Steiner (Manchester), Véronique Zanetti (Bilefield),
Sebastiano Maffettone (Roma), Paula Casal (Barcelona), Andreas Føllesdal
(Oslo), and Lea Ypi (Oxford).

Worldwide suffering caused by large-scale famine as well as poverty, human
rights violations, military interventions or environmental degradation have
a global dimension, because those responsible are not only individuals, but
also states and international institutions. Recently, what some have
perceived as global injustices related to military interventions and
economic exploitation seem to motivate terrorist and piracy attacks that
cause indiscriminate suffering. Having gained an unprecedented urgency, the
topic of global justice has received increasingly public and academic
attention, and has lately become a central issue in moral and political
philosophy. Our conference seeks to be a forum for discussing the most
important theories of global justice, their central concepts and
constraints.

The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Bucharest and is organized by The Center for the Study of
Rationality and Beliefs.

Submission of papers
Contributions are expected from researchers from different academic fields
who are interested in the outlined topic or in closely related ones.
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as attachment at globaljustice@ub-
filosofie.ro until the 30th of January 2012. The deadline for submitting
the full version of your paper is the 1st of March 2012. Along with the
abstract, please send us your contact details: current affiliation, address
and telephone number.

The organizers cannot support any travel or accommodation costs.

Follow-up:
The organizers intend to publish a volume including papers from the
conference. Acceptance of the paper for the conference does not guarantee
the inclusion in the proceedings. We kindly remind you that by submitting
the paper you implicitly agree to allow its publication in the conference
proceedings. For easier post-conference editorial work, it would be best if
you would format your paper using Chicago style of reference, but this is
not a formal condition for the publication.

Location
The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Bucharest. Address: Splaiul Independentei 204, Sector 6, postcode
060024, Bucharest, Romania. Google Maps: http://goo.gl/DI3K3.

Contact
globaljustice@ub-filosofie.ro

Programme
The conference programme will be available soon at the following address:

http://www.csrc.ro/EN/global-justice

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.

21 October 2011, University of Milan, Faculty of Political Science, via Conservatorio 7

PROGRAM

10:00 - MORNING SESSION

Chair: Antonella Besussi (University of Milan)

John Horton (Keele University)
Toleration and reasonable disagreement

Discussant: Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)

Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
Toleration revisited

Discussant: Federico Zuolo (IUSS - Pavia)

15:00 - AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)

Enzo Rossi (University of Wales, Newport)
Can tolerance be grounded in equal respect?

Maria Paola Ferretti (University of Darmstadt and Cluster of Excellence “Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen”, Frankfurt University)
Toleration and the limits of human reason

Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia):
Why toleration is not the appropriate response to dissenting minorities’ claims

Opens the discussion: Nicola Riva (University of Milan)

Organizing committee:
Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)
National Research Program “Truth, Politics, Justice: Theories and Practices” - PRIN 2008

Click here to download the program

“Democracy and Its Critics: Ancient and Modern”, 22 October 2011 at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Organized by the Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the U.K. The keynote address will be given by Professor Richard Bellamy (UCL / Chair, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought). Another keynote speaker will be Dr. Ricardo Blaug (University of Westminster).

As a number of people wrote to me yesterday and today to ask if they can still register for the above conference, I have decided to extend the call for registration for ten more days. So people who did not have the time to register are now given the opportunity to do so until 10 October 2011.

Please send a cheque for £37.00 made payable to “Zenon Stavrinides” to Dr. Zenon Stavrinides, Research Fellow, School of Law, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. People from abroad who would prefer to make a bank transfer, please contact Dr. Stavrinides directly (e-mail: z.stavrinides@leeds.ac.uk). The participatory fee will cover mid-morning tea/coffee and biscuits, a sandwich lunch and mid-afternoon tea/coffee and cake.

For queries concerning accommodation please contact me (evangelia.sembou@hotmail.com).Best Wishes,

Evangelia Sembou

–

Dr. Evangelia Sembou
Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United  Kingdom
http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/polthought.aspx

The conference of the Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom on the theme of “Democracy and Its Critics: Ancient and Modern” is approaching.

The venue and conference programme is as follows:

DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS: ANCIENT AND MODERN

22 October 2011

at
St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University
09:30-10:00: Arrival / Registration

10:00 -10:10: Welcoming talk by Dr. Evangelia Sembou (Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom)

10:10 -10:50: Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Bellamy (University College London,U.K. / Chair, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought) Title to be confirmed

10:50-11:30: Mr. Matthew Landauer (Harvard University, USA),Wagging the Demos? Demagoguery and Popular Decision-Making in Democratic Athens

11:30-12:10: Dr. Jaroslav Danes (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic), Origins of Classical Political Theory as a Criticism of the Ideals, Values and Operation of the Athenian Democracy

12:10-12.50: Dr. Andros Loizou (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Democracy, Polity and Aristotle’s Middle Constitution

13:00-14:00: LUNCH

14:00-14:40: Mr. Barry Macleod-Cullinane (Councillor, London Borough of Harrow), The Agora,the Ballot Box & the Politician: Bertrand de Jouvenel on Democracy& The Enterprise of Politics

14:40-15:20: Dr. Ricardo Blaug (University of Westminster, UK), Information Processing in Public: The Assembly and Its Council

15:20-16:00: Ms. Ana Rita Ferreira (Portuguese Catholic University/University of Minho, Portugal), Social-democratic Ideology: Liberal Democracy’s Best Friend?

16:00-16:20: COFFEE / TEA BREAK

16:20-17:00: Professor Joseph Femia (University of Liverpool, UK), The Classical Elitist Critique of Democracy: a Re-evaluation

17:00 - 17: 40: Ms. Anthoula Malkopoulou (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), Against Elections: The Political Thought of Abstention

17:40-18:20: Dr. Yossi Nehushtan (The College of Management, Law School, Israel), Is Democracy Possible?

18:20-19:00: Dr. Marta Nunes da Costa (CEHUM, Portugal), Democracy and Democracies - Between Theory and Facts

There is a participatory fee of £37.00, which will cover mid-morning tea/coffee and biscuits, a sandwich lunch and mid-afternoon tea/coffee and cake.

Those interested in attending are kindly requested to send a cheque made payable to “Zenon Stavrinides” to Dr. Zenon Stavrinides, Research Fellow, School of Law, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. by 30th September 2011. Please note that for logistical reasons we are now asking interested participants to make cheques payable to “Zenon Stavrinides”. People from abroad who would prefer to make a bank transfer, please contact Dr. Stavrinides directly (e-mail: z.stavrinides@leeds.ac.uk).

Please do not hesitate to contact me (evangelia.sembou@hotmail.com), should you have any queries (including questions about accommodation in Oxford).

Dr. Evangelia Sembou
Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/polthought.aspx

“DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS: ANCIENT AND MODERN”, 22 OCTOBER 2011, ST. HUGH’S COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

This is a reminder that the Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
will hold an one-day conference on the theme of “Democracy and Its Critics: Ancient and Modern” at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford on Saturday,
22nd October 2011. For the conference programme please go to http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/PolThought11.pdf.

There is a participatory fee of £37.00, which will cover mid-morning tea/coffee and biscuits, a sandwich lunch and mid-afternoon tea/coffee and cake.

Those who would like to attend are kindly requested to send a cheque made payable to “Political Thought Specialist Group of the
PSA” to Dr. Zenon Stavrinides, Research Fellow, School of Law, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. by 30 September 2011. People from abroad who would prefer to make a bank transfer should contact Dr. Stavrinides (z.stavrinides@leeds.ac.uk).

There will be a small number of rooms in university accommodation for those traveling from afar. Please contact me (evangelia.sembou@hotmail.com) for more information (including guest houses and hotels in Oxford).

Moreover, please do not hesitate to contact me or Dr. Zenon Stavrinides (z.stavrinides@leeds.ac.uk), should you have any more queries.

Dr. Evangelia Sembou
Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/polthought.aspx

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied
Ethics and Public Policy

Manipulation

March 16-17, 2012

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio on March 16-17, 2012. The keynote speaker will be Marcia Baron (Indiana University).

Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a 2-3 page abstract (double-spaced) by September 30, 2011. We welcome submissions in all areas in applied ethics and philosophical issues relevant to public policy. Special consideration will be given to papers relevant to this year’s conference theme: manipulation. The theme is to be construed broadly, however, and we encourage contributions from any area of moral and political philosophy where manipulation is of interest or concern.

Only one submission per person is permitted. Abstracts will be evaluated by a program committee and decisions made in October 2011. Please direct all abstracts and queries to:
pibarra@bgsu.edu

Further information about the Workshop will be available on the workshop website:

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/phil/conferences/manipulation

The Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom will be holding a
conference on the theme of “Democracy and Its Critics: Ancient and Modern” at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University on 22nd October 2011. The conference programme is as follows:

DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS: ANCIENT AND MODERN

22 October 2011
at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
09:30 -10:00: Arrival / Registration

10:00 - 10:10: Welcoming talk by Dr. Evangelia Sembou (Chair, Political Thought
Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association)

10:10 - 10:50: Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Bellamy (University
College London, U.K. / Chair, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought)
Title to be confirmed

10:50 -11:30: Mr. Matthew Landauer (Harvard University, USA)
Wagging the Demos? Demagoguery and Popular Decision-Making in Democratic Athens

11:30 -12:10: Dr. Jaroslav Danes (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
Origins of Classical Political Theory as a Criticism of the Ideals, Values and Operation
of the Athenian Democracy

12:10 -12.50: Dr. Andros Loizou (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Democracy, Polity and Aristotle’s Middle Constitution

13:00 -14:00: LUNCH

14:00 -14:40: Mr. Barry Macleod-Cullinane (Councillor, London Borough of Harrow)
The Agora, the Ballot Box & the Politician: Bertrand de Jouvenel on Democracy& The
Enterprise of Politics

14:40 -15:20: Dr. Ricardo Blaug (University of Westminster, UK)
Information Processing in Public: The Assembly and Its Council

15:20 - 16:00: Ms. Ana Rita Ferreira (Portuguese Catholic University/University of
Minho, Portugal)
Social-democratic Ideology: Liberal Democracy’s Best Friend?

16:00 -16:20: COFFEE / TEA BREAK

16:20 -17:00: Professor Joseph Femia (University of Liverpool, UK)
The Classical Elitist Critique of Democracy: a Re-evaluation

17:00 - 17:40: Ms. Anthoula Malkopoulou (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Against Elections: The Political Thought of Abstention

17:40 -18:20: Dr. Yossi Nehushtan (The College of Management, Law School, Israel)
Is Democracy Possible?

18:20 -19:00: Dr. Marta Nunes da Costa (CEHUM, Portugal)
Democracy and Democracies - Between Theory and Facts
There is a participatory fee of £37.00, which will cover mid-morning tea/coffee and biscuits, a sandwich lunch and mid-afternoon tea/coffee and cake.

It would greatly facilitate our planning and logistics if interested persons would send a cheque made payable to “Political Thought Specialist Group of the PSA” to Dr. Zenon Stavrinides, Research Fellow, School of Law, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. by 30th September 2011.

Please do not hesitate to contact the conference organizers, Dr. Evangelia Sembou (evangelia.sembou@hotmail.com)
and Dr. Zenon Stavrinides (z.stavrinides@leeds.ac.uk), should you have any queries (including queries of accommodation).

Dr. Evangelia Sembou
Convenor, Political Thought Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
http://www.psa.ac.uk/spgrp/39/polthought.aspx

Here’s this year’s lineup of political theory panels at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association next week, as organized by Loren King and Colin Farrelly. Of special interest: Carole Pateman’s plenary address, and the workshop on “Global justice and global governance.”

De l’usage du terme « libertin ». Invectives et controverses aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Colloque international et Séminaire doctoral transdisciplinaire sur la Renaissance

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Grande Salle du CIERL (17, avenue F.D. Roosevelt)

Mardi 31 mai et Mercredi 1 juin

Organisé par l’Institut interuniversitaire Renaissance et Humanisme (ULB/VUB), le Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude des Religions et de la Laïcité (ULB), le PHI - Centre de recherche en Philosophie (ULB, http://phi.ulb.ac.be/) et le Service de philosophie (UMONS)

Avec le soutien du FNRS et de l’Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles.

L’objectif de ce colloque est d’explorer les sens et les éventuelles lignes de cohérence du libertinisme en partant exclusivement des usages attestés du terme “libertin(s)” dans le cadre de controverses morales, théologiques, scientifiques, politiques ou philosophiques au XVIe et XVIIe siècles.

Mardi 31 mai

10 h: Allocution d’ouverture par Manuel Couvreur (Doyen de la faculté de Philosophie et Lettres ULB)

10 h 15 - 11h30

Thomas Berns (ULB) : Introduction : le machiavélien, l’averroïste et le libertin

Jean-Pierre Cavaillé (EHESS) : Les usages polémiques des termes « libertine », « libertinism » en Angleterre, XVIe-XVIIe siècle

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MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 8th Annual Conference

Manchester, 31 August - 2 September 2011

Call for papers: Liberalism and the Family

The particular difficulty that liberals have in dealing with the internal affairs of families is now well established and remains a contentious and vibrant area of debate. This broad-based workshop is designed to bring together those who are working on any question related to how liberalism ought to view, and deal with, relationships within the family. We invite any papers, or suggestions for roundtable discussions, related to liberalism and the family.  Here are some suggested questions, although we will consider any proposals and papers related to the broader theme.

With respect to children:

• To what extent should liberals allow children to be enrolled into comprehensive doctrines?
• Must liberals ensure children be brought up to be autonomous?
• Should parents provide public reasons for their treatment of their children?
• What is the legitimate extent of parental partiality?
• For what reasons should the state intervene in a child’s upbringing?
• Is there a specifically liberal approach to thinking about reproductive ethics?

With respect to gender roles:

• Should liberals abolish the family? Should liberals endorse marriage?
• What is a just division of labour within the family?
• How far should liberals be concerned with justice between partners?

With respect to the family within liberal theories of justice:

• Is the family part of the ‘basic structure of society’? If so, in what way?
• Can Rawls’s ‘Justice as Fairness’ deal with justice in the family?
• How can liberal theories of justice adequately represent children in their procedures of construction?
• Should we be perfectionist in bringing up children?

Please send proposals, abstracts, and any further inquiries to dean.redfearn@manchester.ac.uk by 31 May 2011.

This workshop is part of the annual Political Theory Workshops organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) in Politics at the University of Manchester. Further details about the conference are available on the website at: http://manceptworkshops.wordpress.com/

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.

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 8th Annual Conference

Manchester, August 31-September 2nd 2011

Call for papers

Deliberative Democracy, Interests and Partisanship

Convenors:

Enrico Biale (University of Piemonte Orientale)

Valeria Ottonelli (University of Genova)

In the last few years the mainstream theory of deliberative democracy has been criticized because it underestimates the value and role of self-interest and partisanship in the political arena. For this reason, deliberative democracy has been accused of (i) lacking any capacity for guidance in real politics (practical critique), (ii) misrepresenting the very nature of politics (ontological critique) and (iii) excluding the least advantaged and their perspectives from the political realm (normative critique). Should these critiques lead to a revision of the deliberative ideal? And if so, along which lines?

This workshop aims to explore the role that interests and partisanship should play in deliberative democracy. Papers discussing these issues in the light of specific case studies (e.g., international, political, and industrial negotiations) are especially welcome.

The following is a representative (and non-exhaustive) list of topics of discussion:

• Deliberative constraints: if self-interest is to be included within the scope of democratic deliberation, should we talk of ‘deliberative bargains’? Which values and criteria should constrain these forms of deliberation?
• Object and site of deliberation: can interests and partisanship play a role in deliberation over any possible topic? Or any possible level (constitutional, legislative, etc.)? Or should they be limited to specific sites and topics?
• Agents of deliberation: Who are the proper agents in a deliberative bargaining? Which forms of partisanship and political mobilization are compatible with, or should be encouraged by, the ideal of deliberative democracy?

Those who are interested in participating in the workshop are invited to send a short abstract (300-500 words) to Enrico Biale (enrico.biale@unipmn.it) or Valeria Ottonelli (vottonel@nous.unige.it) by the 1st of June 2011.

Further information on the Mancept Workshops can be found at http://manceptworkshops.wordpress.com/.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submission of abstract: 11th April 2011

Brave New World 2011, the Fifteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th June 2011 at the University of Manchester.

We are pleased to announce that our guest speakers this year are:

Joseph Raz (Columbia University)
Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College London)

The Brave New World conference series is now established as a leading international forum dedicated exclusively to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. The conference offers a great opportunity for postgraduates from many different countries and universities to share experiences, concerns and research interests, to exchange stimulating ideas and to make new friends - all in a financially accessible and highly informal setting. Participants will also have the chance to meet and talk about their work with eminent academics, including members of faculty from the University of Manchester and guest speakers, who will deliver keynote addresses at the event.

Guest speakers in previous years have included Brian Barry, Simon Caney, G.A. Cohen, Roger Crisp, Cecile Fabre, Jerry Gaus, Peter Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Susan Mendus, David Miller, Onora O’Neill, Michael Otsuka, Bhikhu Parekh, Carole Pateman, Anne Phillips, Thomas Pogge, Quentin Skinner, Adam Swift, Philippe Van Parijs, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.

Papers focusing on any area of political theory or political philosophy are welcome. If you would like to present a paper, please send a 300-word, anonymised abstract, including the title of the paper, to Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk, no later than 11th April 2011. Please also include in your email your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that the conference is self-financed and participants are responsible for seeking their own funding. For further details please contact Dean Redfearn at Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk, or visit the conference website at http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/events/bnw2011/

13-14 April 2011, Milan, Faculty of Political Science, Via Conservatorio 7

Program

April 13th , 2011

9.00: Welcome Address

Marco Maraffi (Department of Social and Political Studies)
Maurizio Ferrera (Graduate School in Social Economic and Political Sciences)

9.30: Justice, Truth, Transitions

Chair: Antonella Besussi (University of Milan)

Transitional Justice and Constitution-Making Processes
Andrea Lollini (University of Bologna)

Transitional Justice as Liberal Narrative
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School)

Discussants: Claudio Corradetti (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”); Chantal Meloni (University of Milan)

15.00: Another kind of Justice?

Chair: Alessandra Facchi (University of Milan)

Drawing the Line. Amnesty Truth Commissions and Collective Denial
Frank Haldemann (Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights)

When Transitional Justice Becomes Restorative
Sandrine Lefranc (Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique ISP/CNRS Université Paris Ouest)

Discussants: Enrico Biale (University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli); Beatrice Magni (Univeristy of Milan);
Valeria Ottonelli (University of Genoa)

April 14th, 2011

9.30: Memory, Forgiveness and the Unforgivable

Chair: Franca D’Agostini (Politecnico of Turin - University of Milan)

The (Im)possibility of Political Forgiveness
Paige Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Justice, Peace, Truth. German and Italian war crimes and Allied Justice in Italy: 1945-1948
Michele Battini (University of Pisa)

Discussants: Francesca Pasquali (University of Milan); Mario Ricciardi (University of Milan); Gabriella Silvestrini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria)

All detailed information at www.graduateschool.unimi.it/truth_justice_2011.html

 Motivation and Global Justice Workshop

22-23 June 2011

University of York

On 22-23 June, the Political Philosophy group at the University of York will host a workshop on ‘Motivation and Global Justice’.

The aim of the workshop is to consider the persistent gap between the demands generated by our best theoretical accounts of global justice and the action in support of global justice that real world agents are motivated to take; and to advance normative research on global justice that is sensitive to, and informed by, empirical questions.

Confirmed speakers:

Carol Gould (CUNY) ‘Does Global Justice Presuppose Global Solidarity?’

Katrin Flikschuh (LSE) ‘Domesticating Global Justice: An African Perspective’

Graham Long (Newcastle) ‘Justifications for Sentimental Manipulation’

Lea Ypi (Oxford) ‘Activist Political Theory and Avant-Garde Agency’

Simon Hope (Stirling) ‘The Cosmopolitanism of Fear’

Kerri Woods (York) ‘Moral Motivation and Distant Others’

Sue Mendus (York) Title tbc

The workshop will close with a roundtable discussion, with participation from Paul Gready, director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.

Interested parties are warmly invited to attend, but as places are limited, please register in advance by contacting Kerri Woods
(kerri.woods@york.ac.uk). A registration fee of £25/£15 will be payable to cover catering costs. The workshop will begin at lunchtime on 22nd June, and close at approximately 6.15pm on the 23rd.
Acknowledgements: Support from the Society for Applied Philosophy, the C and JB Morrell Trust, and the British Academy, is gratefully acknowledged.

(Apologies for cross-posting.)

The 2011 meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy will be on the topic of “Federalism and Subsidiarity” and will be held during this year’s APSA, September 1-4, in Seattle.  Our conference, to be held on a single day (TBA), is being organized by NOMOS editor James Fleming (Law, BU) and Jacob Levy, (Political Science, McGill), who will serve as co-editor for the subsequent NOMOS volume.  Principal papers will be given by:

• Sotirios A. Barber (Political Science, University of Notre Dame);
• Steven Calabresi (Law, Northwestern University); and
• Daniel Weinstock (Philosophy, University of Montreal).

Commentators include:

• Ernest Young (Law, Duke University);
• Jenna Bednar (Political Science, University of Michigan);
• Andreas Follesdal (Philosophy, University of Oslo);
• Judith Resnik (Law, Yale University); and
• Loren King (Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University).

Program schedule with paper titles and up to date information will be found in the coming weeks on our website:  www.political-theory.org.  I invite members of Public Reason to join the ASPLP as well.  Members determine each year’s conference theme and receive a copy of the NOMOS volume that emerges from the conference held in the year they were members.  More information on joining can be found at our website, or e-mail me at theasplp [@] gmail.com.   —Andrew Rehfeld, Secretary-Treasurer, ASPLP.

Hi folks -Christian Coons at BGSU asked me to post this conference announcement.  Should be a good conference, so come on by if you can make it to BGSU! Here’s the announcment

Eighth Annual Conference: August 31-September 2nd 2011

http://manceptworkshops.wordpress.com/

Final Call for Convenors - Deadline for Submission: 28th February 

From 2011, the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) in Politics at the University of Manchester will be organizing the annual Political Theory Workshops. Over the last seven years, participants from over twenty countries have come together in a series of workshops concerned with issues in political theory/philosophy widely construed. This note is a call for convenors for the 2011 workshops.

Workshop Structure  

Convenors organize a workshop which can have between 3 and 12 paper-givers.  The reading of these papers takes place over four sessions, each lasting three and a half hours. For workshops with just 3 paper givers this normally requires only one session, with 6 papers 2 sessions and so on. In most cases, paper-givers will be asked to speak for 30 minutes, and will then field questions and comments for a further 30 minutes. However, workshop convenors are free to organize the length of the presentation and question time as they see fit.  In short, a workshop can last for one session, or it may extend through all four sessions. For example, some may find it convenient to squeeze four paper-givers into one session or use 2 sessions with 2 papers read per session. Also, if a workshop has, say, 5 paper-givers, the second session can finish an hour early. On occasion workshop convenors in the past have had a ’round table’ discussion about a particular topic. This could have up to six speakers and would normally last for only one session.

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The CEU Summer University: JUSTICE: THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

July 4-15, 2011 Budapest, Hungary;
Faculty:

• Peter Vallentyne, University of Missouri-Columbia, Department ofPhilosophy, Columbia, USA;
• Andrew Williams, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalan Institute of Researchand Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain;
• Matthew Clayton, University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies, Coventry, UK;
• Greg Bognar, New York University, NYU Center for Bioethics, NewYork, USA;
• Janos Kis, Central European University, Department of Political Science, Budapest, Hungary;
• Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus Universitat, Institut for Statskundskab, Århus C, Denmark;

Course Directors:

• Andres Moles, Central European University, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary.
• Zoltan Miklosi, Central European University, Department of Political Science, Budapest, Hungary

The problem of justice occupies a special place in contemporary political philosophy. In the words of its most influential figure, Rawls, “justice is the first virtue of social institutions”. That view seems to be shared by a majority of authors and theories. However, there is no comparable agreement regarding what justice demands, from whom and to whom. These questions have utmost relevance for political philosophers. However, their importance spills over to other disciplines. Given that many choices policy makers make are distributive in nature, it is not surprising that issues of justice appear in many other spheres. In addition to dealing with purely theoretical issues, the course will revise some contexts which raise important questions about justice: education, healthcare, environmental issues, taxation. Applications are invited from graduate students, postdocs, young faculty in Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy, Law and Economics, familiar with Anglo-American political theory, especially with theories of justice.

Application deadline: 1st March, 2011. For further academic information on the course and on eligibility criteria and funding options please visit: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/justice. CEU Summer University* P.O.Box: Budapest 5, P.f.: 1082, H-1245((36 1)327 3811, Fax: (36-1) 327-3124

4th Postgraduate Conference in Law and Philosophy, University of Stirling: 28-29 May 2011

CFP: 25 March 2011 

Keynote Speakers
Professor Andrew Simester, Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
Professor David Archard, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University

Submission Deadline 25 March 2011

We are now inviting postgraduate students in philosophy, political theory, international relations and other related areas to submit high quality papers on the theme Rights and Cultural Diversity, broadly construed. Each postgraduate presentation should be of a maximum of 30 minutes, and will be followed by a 10 minute reply before an open discussion. Each session will last 90 minutes.

An abstract of 700 words (prepared for blind review) should be sent via email to kth1@stir.ac.uk by 25 March 2011 along with a separate cover letter containing the following information: author’s name, title of paper, institutional affiliation and contact information (email, phone number, mailing address). Selected participants will be required to send a full draft of their paper for review by 22 April 2011.

Please refer to the website http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2417815/L_P/Law_and_Philosophy/Welcome.html for details regarding the conference schedule, dinner, fees and accommodation.

Organizing Committee
Brian Ho kth1@stir.ac.uk
Ruth E Lowe rl332@st-andrews.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submission of abstract: 11th April 2011

Brave New World 2011, the Fifteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th June 2011 at the University of Manchester.

We are pleased to announce that our guest speakers this year are:

Joseph Raz (University of Oxford)

Andrea Sangiovanni (King’s College London)

The Brave New World conference series is now established as a leading international forum dedicated exclusively to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. The conference offers a great opportunity for postgraduates from many different countries and universities to share experiences, concerns and research interests, to exchange stimulating ideas and to make new friends - all in a financially accessible and highly informal setting. Participants will also have the chance to meet and talk about their work with eminent academics, including members of faculty from the University of Manchester and guest speakers, who will deliver keynote addresses at the event.

Guest speakers in previous years have included Brian Barry, Simon Caney, G.A. Cohen, Roger Crisp, Cecile Fabre, Jerry Gaus, Peter Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Susan Mendus, David Miller, Onora O’Neill, Michael Otsuka, Bhikhu Parekh, Carole Pateman, Anne Phillips, Thomas Pogge, Quentin Skinner, Adam Swift, Philippe Van Parijs, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.

Papers focusing on any area of political theory or political philosophy are welcome. If you would like to present a paper, please send a 300-word, anonymised abstract, including the title of the paper, to Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk, no later than 11th April 2011. Please also include in your email your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that the conference is self-financed and participants are responsible for seeking their own funding. For further details please contact Dean Redfearn at Brave.New.World@manchester.ac.uk

Call for Papers

Special Workshop at the World Congress of Philosophy of Law (IVR)
Frankfurt, 15-19 August 2011

Short summary

E-democracy aims for broader and more active Internet-enhanced citizenship involvement but can there be any “democracy” after representative democracy? Should we understand it in terms of deliberative and/or participative democracy? How is e-government impacting on transparency and accountability? What role does institutionalized mediation play in ICTs? What kind of e-governance processes can enhance legitimacy in complex legal systems?

E-democracy has been cutting the edge a while, yet we need to integrate the current state of the art with the toolkit of the analytical and normative perspectives of legal and political theory. The purpose of the workshop is to go beyond the polarization between the apologists that hold the web to overcome the one-to-many architecture of opinion-building in traditional democratic legitimacy, and the critics that warn cyberoptimism entails authoritarian or paternalistic technocracy.

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PROPERTY, MARKETS, AND MORALITY

18-20 March, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Speakers:

• Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester), “Greed and Fear”
• Richard Arneson (UC San Diego), “What is Wrong with Working for a Boss?”
• Daniel Russell (Wichita State University), “Capabilities, Redistribution, and Ownership”
• Michael Munger (Duke University), “Euvoluntary Exchange and the Difference Principle”
• Julian Lamont (University of Queensland), “University Education, Economic Rents, and Distributive Justice”

Commentators:

• Eric Mack (Tulane University)
• Geoffrey Brennan (UNC Chapel Hill / Australian National University)
• Jonathan Quong (University of Manchester)
• Daniel Shapiro (West Virginia University)
• Bas van der Vossen (UNC Greensboro)

This symposium is hosted by the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and the BB&T program in Capitalism, Markets and Morality.

All welcome. Attendance free, but registration required.

To register and for more information, please contact Bas van der Vossen: b_vande2 [at] uncg.edu

Warwick: 4-6 July 2011 | CFP: 15 March 2011

The 2011 conference of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy will be held at the University of Warwick on 4-6 July 2011. The theme of the conference is “Authority, Legitimacy and Rights.” Sub-themes include:

• Legitimacy and authority
• Human rights
• Diversity, pluralism and toleration
• Political power and punishment
• Environmental justice
• Democracy
• Property rights
• Just war.

The keynote speakers are Tom Christiano (Arizona) and Anthony Duff (Minnesota/Stirling). Send an abstract of no more than 400 words to Dean Machin (dean.machin [at] warwick.ac.uk) by 15 March 2011.

Notre Dame: 13-15 October 2011| CFP: 15 February 2011

The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites proposals for its ninth annual conference, October 13-15, 2011, at the University of Notre Dame.  To learn more about the Association and its annual conference, please visit the APT website.  The Association for Political Theory welcomes proposals from all approaches and on all topics in political theory, political philosophy, and the history of political thought.  Faculty, advanced PhD candidates, and independent scholars are eligible to participate.  We also encourage faculty to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants.

How to Apply:  To apply online, click here. Proposals are due by midnight on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 (PST).  Please review the proposal guidelines described below before completing a proposal form.  Each participant may submit one paper and one co-authored paper proposal.  To propose a paper, each participant must submit an abstract of 300-400 words and a recent copy of his/her vita.  If a copy of the CV can be found online, the applicant can provide the web address in the relevant box on the proposal form.  Otherwise, the applicant must email a copy of the CV to aptproposals [at] gmail.com with his or her name as the subject line.  Each participant is required to submit a proposal form, even if the proposal is part of a co-authored paper.  Please note:  you must both submit the proposal form and email your CV in order for your proposal to be considered by the Program Committee.

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Passions and Emotions

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the APA, Eastern Division) December 29, 2010, St. Botolph Room (Second Floor), Boston Marriott Copley Place

I. Passion & Impartiality: Passions & Emotions in Moral Judgment: 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

• Principal paper (philosophy): Jesse Prinz, City University of New York Graduate Center, “Constructive Sentimentalism: Legal and Political Implications”
• Commentator (law): Carol Sanger, Columbia University
• Commentator (political science): Michael Frazer, Harvard University
• Chair: Allen Buchanan, Duke University

II. Passion & Motivation: Passions & Emotions in Democratic Politics: 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

• Principal paper (political science): George Marcus, Williams College, “Reason, Passion, and Democratic Politics: Old Conceptions - New Understandings - New Possibilities”
• Commentator (law): Susan Bandes, DePaul University
• Commentator (philosophy): Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University
• Chair: Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University

Annual Business Meeting: 2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

III. Passion & Dispassion: Passions & Emotions in Legal Interpretation: 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

• Principal paper (law): Robin West, Georgetown University, “The Anti-Empathic Turn”
• Commentator (political science): Kenneth Kersch, Boston College
• Commentator (philosophy): Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham University
• Chair: James Fleming, Boston University

Reception: 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., also in St. Botolph Room (Second Floor)

Northwestern SETPP: 19-21 May 2011 | CFP: 15 February 2011

The Northwestern University Society for Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy will hold their fifth annual conference on 19-21 May 2011. The keynote speakers are Philip Pettit and R. Jay Wallace.  Submissions from faculty and graduate students are welcome, as some sessions will be reserved for student presentations. Please submit an essay of approximately 4000 words and an abstract of at most 150 words. Essay topics in all areas of ethical theory and political philosophy will be considered, although some priority will be given to essays that take up themes from the works of Philip Pettit and R. Jay Wallace, such as responsibility, practical reasoning, freedom, democratic theory, constructivism, contractualism, individual agency, and collective agency. Essays and abstracts should be prepared for blind review in word, rtf, or pdf format. Graduate submissions should be sent by email to leegoldsmith2012 [at] u.northwestern.edu; faculty submissions should be sent by e-mail to garthoff [at] northwestern.edu. Notices of acceptance will be sent by 31 March 2011. For more information, please contact Jon Garthoff at the e-mail address above or visit our website.

NO WAR: 3-5 Nov 2011 | CFP: 1 March 2011

Dave Shoemaker is sending out a call for abstracts for the first biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NO WAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 3-5, 2011.

Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility.  Perspectives beyond just those from moral philosophy (e.g., psychology, legal theory, neuroscience, economics, metaphysics, and more) are welcome.  (To see more about the workshop’s general aims and other details, follow this link.)

Abstracts should be 2-3 double-spaced pages and are due no later than March 1, 2011.  Please send abstracts by e-mail to David Shoemaker, dshoemak [at] tulane.edu.  A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early May.

NO WAR is a biennial workshop featuring the presentation of sophisticated original research on issues roughly captured under the label “agency and responsibility.”  This general area involves investigation of such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?  How (if at all) does the nature of personhood and personal identity across time bear on questions of agency?  What is the nature of, and relation between, moral and criminal responsibility?  What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?  What do various psychological disorders (autism, psychopathy, cognitive disabilities) tell us about agency and responsibility?  What is involved in the development of moral agency?  What is the will, willpower, and weakness (or strength) of will?  What do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility?  What is the nature of autonomy and how is it related to agency and responsibility?

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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.

Symposium on Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice

Friday, April 15th and Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Rutgers University School of Law-Camden

The Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a two-day symposium on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice (Harvard 2009) on Friday April, 15th and Saturday, April 16th 2011. The conference will feature six presentations on Sen’s recent book and its themes by leading figures in political philosophy: David Estlund (Brown), Samuel Freeman (Penn), Gerald Gaus (Arizona), Erin Kelly (Tufts), Henry Richardson (Georgetown), and Debra Satz (Stanford). Professor Sen will also attend. The symposium¹s proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Rutgers Law Journal.

Attendees must register, and the fee is $25 ($10 for non-Rutgers students).

To register, please send a check payable to Rutgers University to:

Prof. John Oberdiek

Institute for Law and Philosophy

Rutgers School of Law-?Camden

217 N. 5th St.

Camden, NJ 08102

For more information, please contact John Oberdiek at lawandphil@camlaw.rutgers.edu.