3rd and 4th September 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
On the 3rd and 4th of September 2012, the Human Development,
Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at the Institute
for Advanced Study of Pavia (Italy) and 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 tenth 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. This year’s keynote
speakers will be:
Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra, Cambridge University)
Thomas M. Scanlon (Harvard 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), by Sunday 29th April
2012. 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 29th
of April is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes
to attend the conference without presenting a paper.
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.
Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and
additional inquiries) to the conference email address:
Updated information will shortly be available on the conference website:
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Emanuela Ceva, PhD
Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Pavia
Address: Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
Universita' degli Studi di Pavia
Strada Nuova 65, 27100 PAVIA (Italy)
phone: +39 0382 984542
skype name: e.ceva
Home page: http://cfs.unipv.it/compo/
RESPECT Research project: http://www.respect.iusspavia.
