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Amsterdam Graduate Conference in 
Political Theory

May 30-31, 2023

Welcome from the Organizers

Dear Political Theorists,

We are happy to announce that the fourth edition of the Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory will take place this year on May 30th and 31st, 2023. The conference shall be held at the John Stuart Mill College, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

We very much look forward to meeting all of the attendees to share two days reflecting on some of the most urgent questions in political theory. 

Greetings from the organizers,
Cian Higgins, Solmu Antilla, and Emi Visser

About the Conference

The Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory is a joint enterprise of Ph.D. students by the University of Amsterdam (Departments of Philosophy and Political Science) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (John Stuart Mill College and Philosophy Department).

The conference offers graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to present their research in a vibrant intellectual environment and receive feedback from dedicated discussants. Giving participants the opportunity to engage with faculty and students from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as well as the keynote speakers. Another explicit aim of the conference is to build a community and a network among those Ph.D. candidates and postdocs interested in interdisciplinary research. The conference therefore aims to create an intellectually stimulating environment in which Ph.D. candidates and postdocs can interact with their peers from around the world who share this interest.

The first edition of the conference took place on May 23–24, 2019 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam with Simon Caney (Warwick), and Lisa Herzog (TU München) as keynote speakers.

The second edition of the conference took place on May 28–29, 2020 (online) at the John Stuart Mill College, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Laura Valentini (KCL), and Karuna Mantena (Columbia) as keynote speakers.

The third edition took place on December 6-7, 2021 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam with keynotes speakers Martin O'Neill (University of York) and Chiara Bottici (New School, New York).

We kindly thank the Dutch Research School for Philosophy (OZSW) and the John Stuart Mill College and Philosophy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for making this conference possible. 
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Speakers

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Fabienne Peter

Fabienne Peter specialises in moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, and political epistemology. She has written extensively on political legitimacy in democracy, and her new book The Grounds of Political Legitimacy will be published by OUP this year.
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Jennifer M. Page

Jennifer M. Page is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the Center for Ethics at the University of Zurich, where she was previously a postdoc. Before that, she was the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. Her research areas include reparations and historical injustice, criminal justice ethics (particularly the ethics of policing), and philosophy of race. She is currently finishing a book on reparations.

Funding

The organizers are grateful for generous funding by:

  • The Dutch Research School of Philoshophy (OZSW)
  • The John Stuart Mill College at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • The Philosophy Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
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