CFP: 12th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
Submission deadline: April 27, 2014
Conference date(s):
September 18, 2014 - September 19, 2014
Conference Venue:
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia
Pavia,
Italy
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On the 18th and 19th of September 2014, the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the twelfth edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller, Alessandro Ferrara, Valeria Ottonelli, Adam Swift, Gerald Gaus, Serena Olsaretti, Thomas M. Scanlon, Philip Pettit. This year’s keynote speakers will be:
Carla Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
Conference registration is free of charge. Paper givers will be offered accommodation in local university colleges. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually. Anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper can write to check availability. Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.
Graduate students interested in giving papers should send their contributions (max 2500/3000 words – in English) accompanied by a short abstract (max 300 words – in English), by Sunday 27th April 2014. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy, and presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at least another twenty minutes of discussion. Please note that the 27th of April is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper.
Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) to the conference email address: [email protected]
The conference is held within the framework of the PhD Program in Philosophy FINO - North-west Italy Philosophy Consortium with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino.