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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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/

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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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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/