WINTER SCHOOL: THE RELEVANCE OF KANTIAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL THEORY FOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES 

Call for Applications

22 November - 24 November 2023, hybrid event, at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Harbour House, Colchester 

The ECPR'S Kantian Standing Group, in association with the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre@Keele University, the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna, invites applications for its hybrid Winter School, which explores the relevance of Kantian moral and political thought in addressing pressing global challenges of our time such as environment, climate change, world poverty, human rights, toleration, pandemic, AI, and migration, among others. 

Approximately 12 postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers are invited to participate to 3 days of themed sessions and discussions with the additional option of giving a presentation and receiving feedback from expert scholars leading the sessions, including: Alasia Nuti (York), Dana Howard (Ohio), David Owen (Southampton), David James (Warwick), Luigi Caranti (Catania & Frankfurt), Norman Ajari (Edinburgh) and Sorin Baiasu (Keele – TBC); one other instructor will be confirmed shortly. 

Please note: this year, the Winter School will be preceded and followed by two ‘Rousseau’ Annual Lectures and Conferences, on 20-21 November and 24-25 November. The ‘Rousseau’ Annual Lecturers will be Katrin Flikschuh (LSE) (on “External Freedom and the Idea of General United Will in Kant) and Rainer Forst (Frankfurt) (on “Legitimacy, Rationality and Morality”). The themes of the Annual Conferences will be, respectively “Kant and Rousseau” and “Justice, Kantian Constructivism, Trust and Solidarity”. Application to the Winter School will grant exclusive access to the two Annual Rousseau Lectures and Conferences at a discounted rate. 

To register, please see: https://ecpr.eu/Events/239 

Application deadline: 16 August 2023 midnight BST. 

For more information, please email the Kantian Standing Group’s Event Officer, Jakob Rendl (Jakob.rendl@univie.ac.at) or the KOSAK’s Media and Research Coordinator, Eric Sancho Adamson (kosak.rc@gmail.com).