Conferences and Schools
December 2022: ANNUAL JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU LECTURE AND CONFERENCE
Held annually since 2008, the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lecture and Conference celebrates the Swiss-born philosopher, writer and composer and his legacy in the fields of political philosophy and moral psychology.
This year’s event, organised in association with Keele University and the Jagiellonian University Krakow, was hosted in ECPR’s home, Harbour House in Colchester, and online.
November 2022: WINTER SCHOOL ON KANTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT TODAY: WAR AND OTHER GLOBAL CHALLENGES
To view more details about this virtual event, please click here.
September 2021: SUMMER SCHOOL ON KANTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT TODAY: GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Organised in association with Keele University and the Jagiellonian University Krakow, the Summer School will feature insightful lectures delivered by leading academics and offer opportunities to present and reflect on your work in connection with the continued relevance of Kantian moral, legal and political thought. For a description of the workshops, view here.
July 2020: SUMMER SCHOOL ON POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
The virtual Summer School on Political Epistemology, held from 27–31 July 2020, allowed students and postdoctoral researchers to meet top scholars and discuss key methods in normative political theory.
Organised in association with Keele University and the Jagiellonian University Krakow, the Summer School featured insightful lectures delivered by leading academics and offered the participants opportunities to present and reflect on their work with relevance to issues in political epistemology. To find out more, view the details here.
April 2019: JOINT SESSIONS OF WORKSHOPS
The ECPR Kantian Standing Group organises a workshop on ‘Kant on Political Change: Theoretical Grounds and Global implications’ for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at the Catholic University of Louvain, Mons (8-12 April). The call for papers is now closed. To see a description of the workshop, see the Joint Sessions’ website.
Summer 2019: SUMMER SCHOOL ON METHODS IN NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY/PHILOSOPHY
The Kantian Political Thought Standing Group has applied for a summer school grant and the application was successful. Further information concerning the event will be posted here as it will become available. At the moment, the plan is to organise the event in June 2020, at the ECPR’s Harbour House. For information on previous summer schools organised by the Kantian Standing Group, see the event’s webpages.
September 2019: 13th ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE
Section organised by the Kantian Standing Group: Kantian Political Theory/Philosophy Today
Call for Paper and Panel Proposals (now closed): The ECPR Kantian Standing Group organises a section on ‘Kantian Political Theory/Philosophy Today’ for the 2019 ECPR General Conference (Wroclaw, 4-7 September). We invite proposals for panels and papers on the topic. For a presentation of the Section, please see the ECPR conference’s webpages. To propose a panel or paper, go to the conference’ webpages and use the menu on the right.
September 2018: SUMMER SCHOOL ON METHODS IN NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY/PHILOSOPHY
Jointly organised by the ECPR Kantian Standing Group, Keele University, University of Siegen and two research centres under the aegis of the British Academy Newton Advanced Studentship “Dealing Morally with Conflict Between Deep Commitments: A Dual Critical-Hermeneutic Approach”; the two research centres are the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Standing Group and the Research Centre for Justice and Critical Ethics. For details, see the summer school’s webpages.
August 2018: Section on ‘Kant on Political Change: Global Challenges’ for the ECPR General Conference (Hamburg, 22-25 August): for details, see the Section’s page on the ECPR website.
Previous Seminars
The Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought regularaly hosts seminars on a wide range of relevant topics. Discover more about ‘Kantian Conversations’ by visiting the webpage.
January 2023: Fairness in law and economics – Requiem for a paradox?
Speaker – Behrang Kianzad, University of Copenhagen
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September 2022: Popper’s moral thought between Kantian and utilitarian ethics
Speaker – Thomas Krumm, University of Marburg
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April 2022: Kant and Slavery – Or Why He Never Became a Racial Egalitarian
Speaker: Huaping Lu-Adler, Georgetown University
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December 2021: The fragility of the Kantian civil condition and how to remedy it
Speaker: Paola Romero, Fribourg University
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May 2021: Whose progress? Kant on Cultural Hierarchy and Human Development
Speaker: Sofie Møller, Goethe University Frankfurt
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March 2021: Which Kant? Approaching Kant on Race and Racism
Speaker: Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović, University of Bonn
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