CFP: 21st Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

Submission deadline: April 30, 2023

Conference date(s):
September 6, 2023 - September 7, 2023

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Conference Venue:

University of Pavia
Pavia, Italy

Details

21st Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

6th and 7th September 2023


CALL FOR PAPERS

On the 6th and 7th of September 2023, 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 21st edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. The conference is held within the framework of the PhD Program in Philosophy of the North-west Italy Philosophy Consortium (FINO), with the sponsorship of the Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin. 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, Carla Bagnoli, Thomas Christiano, Furio Cerutti, Fabienne Peter, Antonella Besussi, Andrea Sangiovanni, Mario De Caro, Cécile Laborde, Luigi Caranti, Margaret Moore, Cécile Fabre, Victor Tadros, Emanuela Ceva, Gianfranco Pellegrino, Alessandra Tanesini, Miriam Ronzoni, and Massimo Renzo. This year’s keynote speakers are:

Roberta Sala (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

Daniel Weinstock (McGill University)

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) and a curriculum vitae, by Sunday 30th April 2023. 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. Papers must be prepared for blind review and files must be anonymized.

The conference will be held on premises.


COSTS

The conference package includes coffee breaks and two lunches. Participants will be charged a fee of 50€ to contribute to catering expenses. Additionally, participants can choose to sign up for the social dinner (roughly 30€). Accommodation in university colleges is available to paper givers. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually.


EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be evaluated by the organizing committee, composed of FINO PhD students and faculty members. To avoid any conflict of interests, submissions from FINO PhD students will be evaluated separately and will be allocated a limited quota of places in the conference.


CONTACT

All correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) should be addressed to the conference email address: [email protected]


http://www-4.unipv.it/paviagc/

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