Welcome from the Organisers |
Dear Political Theorists,
We are happy to announce that the third edition of the Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory will take place this year on December 6 and 7. Our hope is that circumstances will allow for this edition of the conference to held on the campus of the University of Amsterdam. However, if this is not possible due to the COVID-19 situation, we have alternative arrangements to offer the conference in a hybrid or online format.
We very much look forward to meeting all of the attendees, whether online or in person, to share two days reflecting on some of the most urgent questions in political theory.
Greetings from the organisers,
Valerie Schreur, Vera Vrijmoeth, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp, Yonathan Listik and Gerrit Schaafsma
We are happy to announce that the third edition of the Amsterdam Graduate Conference in Political Theory will take place this year on December 6 and 7. Our hope is that circumstances will allow for this edition of the conference to held on the campus of the University of Amsterdam. However, if this is not possible due to the COVID-19 situation, we have alternative arrangements to offer the conference in a hybrid or online format.
We very much look forward to meeting all of the attendees, whether online or in person, to share two days reflecting on some of the most urgent questions in political theory.
Greetings from the organisers,
Valerie Schreur, Vera Vrijmoeth, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp, Yonathan Listik and Gerrit Schaafsma
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). the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (John Stuart Mill College).
The theme of this year's conference is: Politics in a Time of Crises: charting new normative directions in a context of economic, democratic, and environmental challenges. You can find out more about how to participate here.
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 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—organised by Uğur Aytaç, Gerrit Schaafsma, Lea Klarenbeek, and Alex Thinius—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.
Generous funding from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Dutch Research School for Philosophy (OZSW) and the departments of philosophy and political science at the University of Amsterdam has made this conference possible.
The theme of this year's conference is: Politics in a Time of Crises: charting new normative directions in a context of economic, democratic, and environmental challenges. You can find out more about how to participate here.
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 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—organised by Uğur Aytaç, Gerrit Schaafsma, Lea Klarenbeek, and Alex Thinius—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.
Generous funding from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Dutch Research School for Philosophy (OZSW) and the departments of philosophy and political science at the University of Amsterdam has made this conference possible.
Speakers
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Martin O'NeillProf O'Neill works on a variety of topics in moral and political philosophy. In recent years he has been especially interested in freedom, autonomy and responsibility; social justice; equality and inequality; and various issues at the intersection of political philosophy, political economy and public policy, including taxation, monetary policy, finance and money, corporations and economic governance, work and labour unions.
Prof O'Neill is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. Before that, he was Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester (2007-2009), and, before that, Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John's College, University of Cambridge (2004-2007). He did his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, supervised by T. M. Scanlon and Derek Parfit. During his time at Harvard he also spent time as a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra University Center for Ethics, and as a Graduate Fellow in the interdisciplinary Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics. Before that he did a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and later the B.Phil in Philosophy, both at Balliol College, University of Oxford. |
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Chiara BotticiChiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the New School in New York. She has written widely on critical theory, the history of European philosophy (particularly early modern), capitalism, feminism, racism, post- and decolonial studies, and aesthetics. Her main research interests are modern philosophy, social and political philosophy, feminism, LGBTQI+ issues, capitalism studies, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, philosophy and literature.
She is the author of several books, including Imaginal Politics: Images beyond the Imagination and beyond the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014) and A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007). |
