Brave New World - Postgraduate Conference in Political Theory

This year’s Brave New World is the 27th annual postgraduate conference organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). The conference will take place on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th of June 2023 at the University of Manchester. We are pleased to announce as our keynote speakers:
    • Marit Hammond (Keele University), whose work contains contributions to democratic theory and environmental political theory, with a focus on deliberative democracy, the concept of environmental sustainability, and its governance.
    • Carl Knight (University of Glasgow), who works on theories of distributive justice (egalitarianism, prioritarianism, sufficientarianism) and applied topics in distributive justice (global justice, climate change, healthcare, discrimination).

The Brave New World conference series is a leading international forum dedicated to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. Participants will have the chance to meet and talk about their work with eminent academics, including members of the faculty from the University of Manchester, as well as the guest speakers.

Guest speakers in previous years have included: David Archard, Richard Arneson, Alice Baderin, Carla Bagnoli, Brian Barry, Simon Caney, G.A. Cohen, Roger Crisp, Cecile Fabre, Dorothea Gädeke, Jerry Gaus, Bob Goodin, Jules Holroyd, Peter Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Cécile Laborde, Annabelle Lever, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Jeff McMahan, Matt Matravers, Catriona McKinnon, Emily McTernan, Susan Mendus, David Miller, Onora O’Neill, Serena Olsaretti, Michael Otsuka, Bhikhu Parekh, Carole Pateman, Carmen Pavel, Anne Phillips, Joseph Raz, Andrea Sangiovanni, Ben Saunders, Samuel Scheffler, David Schmidtz, Quentin Skinner, Hillel Steiner, Adam Swift, Philippe Van Parijs, Jesse Tomalty, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams, Stuart White, and Jonathan Wolff.