Categoria: Curriculum Ethics
CALL FOR PAPERS
On the 19th and 20th of September 2018, 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 16th 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 support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino. 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, and Cécile Laborde. This year’s keynote speakers are:
Luigi Caranti (University of Catania)
Margaret Moore (Queen’s University, Kingston and Olof Palme Visiting Professor,
University of Stockholm)
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 Monday 14th May 2018. 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. Please note that Monday 14th May is also the deadline for registration for anyone
who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper.
CONTACT AND REGISTRATION
Conference registration is free of charge. Accommodation in university colleges is available to
paper givers. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually. Details about meal
arrangements and conference programme to follow.
For more information, please see the conference website:Â http://www-4.unipv.it/paviagc/