CFP: International Colloquium on Justice, Democracy and Political Emotions in Transnational Perspective

International Colloquium on Justice, Democracy and Political Emotions in
Transnational Perspective - Recife, Brazil, April 27-9, 2015 -
http://www.justicatransnacional.org.br/en/

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Scientific Committee:
Prof. Dr. Luiz Bernardo Araújo (Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro)
Dr. Dorothea Gädeke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Prof. Dr. Marcus André Melo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Prof. Dr. Nythamar de Oliveira (PUC-Rio Grande do Sul)
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Pinzani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Dr. Julian Culp (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / University of Toronto)

We invite contributions for three sets of panels that will focus on,
respectively, political and economic justice (1), democracy (2) and
political emotions (3) in transnational perspective. Contributions may
address questions like the following:

(1) Justice:
- Which, if any, principles of distributive and political justice should be
used in order to assess and regulate transnational political and economic
affairs?
– Which kinds of institutional reforms are necessary in order to reduce
transnational distributive and political injustices?
– Who are the agents of transnational justice – states, transnational social
movements, and/or international institutions?
– Which philosophical traditions and concepts are appropriate for a
transnational conception of justice, and how, if at all, can culturally
distinct philosophical ideas be translated?

(2) Democracy:
- How can aspiring and consolidated democracies defend themselves in light
of pressures from economic transnationalization? How, for example, can
democratic societies resist the imposition of economic imperatives like
those of deregulation, liberalization and privatization that hallow the
effective sovereignty of states?
– How can the increasingly influential regional, supra- and international
organizations and institutions become more democratic?
– What is the role civil society in the (re-)democratization of politics?
– What are the prospects of a more influential and deliberative
transnational civil society and public sphere?

(3) Political Emotions
- How do processes of transnationalization affect political emotions like
solidarity and patriotism?
– What are the prospects and possibilities of transnational solidarity?
–  What kind of conceptual changes in our normative thinking about
solidarity are necessary?
– What kind of education and experience are likely to cultivate democratic
attitudes?

Submission information: Paper abstracts of no more than 500 words should be
sent to ‘[email protected]’ and ‘[email protected]’ by Friday,
December 19, 2014. Acceptance notifications will be sent to applicants by
Monday, January 12, 2015. Final papers of no more than 8000 words are due by
April 6, 2015. A selection of the papers presented in the conference will be
published in a special issue on the conference theme in Revista Perspectiva
Filosófica.

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