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We propose to examine the workings of the concept of &lsquo\;civil society&rsquo\; \;not just in contemporary Europe and North America but historically \;and in contexts across the world as well as across academic \;disciplines. We will seek not to define &lsquo\;civil society&rsquo\; but to \;identify the consequences &ndash\; political\, legal\, social\, moral\, \;epistemological &ndash\; of particular ways in which &lsquo\;civil&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;society&rsquo\;  \;have been defined in different times and places. In so doing we will \;pose four overarching questions:

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  1. What has been held (in different times and places) to make a \;society (or part of it) civil as opposed to uncivil (or barbarous)? \;What have been the consequences of such a distinction?
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  2. How and to what effect has civil society been distinguished as a \;domain or sphere of society from domains considered non-civil (if not \;necessarily uncivil) such as politics\, the economy\, the \;ecclesiastical or religious\, the military\, family and law?
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  3. What distinctions have been made between civil and civic\, and to \;what effect?
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  4. What notions of society lie behind or are associated with notions \;of civil society? How have notions of society shifted from the \;medieval and early modern periods to the 19th-century birth of social \;sciences to contemporary debates about whether society exists or not?
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  5. Have notions of civil society (and society) been defined by law or \;by some other means\, and what is the difference in practice? In what \;other ways does civil society get linked to law?
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Other speakers are Raul Acosta (Applied Ethics\, Deusto)\, Michael \;Brown (History\, Aberdeen)\, Karin Friedrich (History\, Aberdeen)\, \;Dmitri Goncharov (Politics\, National Research University)\, Ajay \;Gudavarthy (Politics\, Jawalharlal Nehru University)\, Trevor Stack \;(Hispanic Studies\, Aberdeen)\, Andrea Teti (Politics\, Aberdeen) and \;Ekow Yankah (Law\, Cardoso).

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Contact: \;Trevor Stack (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk)

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For the programme and \;registration:

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