KANTIAN STANDING GROUP OF THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH & THE KEELE-OXFORD-ST ANDREWS KANTIAN (KOSAK) RESEARCH CENTRE (in association with the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research) CALL FOR COMMENTATORS AND CHAIRPERSONS ECPR Headquarters, Harbour House, Colchester 'J.-J. ROUSSEAU'* ANNUAL LECTURE AND CONFERENCE 20&21 November 2023 External Freedom and the Idea of the General United Will in Kant By Katrin Flikschuh (LSE), Followed by a conference on Kant and Rousseau; invited speakers: Stefanie Buchenau (Paris), Norman Ajari (Edinburgh), Luigi Caranti (Catania) and David James (Warwick), With a response by Katrin Flikschuh 24&25 November 2023 Political Legitimacy, Rationality and Morality By Rainer Forst (Frankfurt) Followed by a conference on Rainer Forst's Work; invited speakers: Alasia Nuti (York), Fabienne Peter (Warwick), Sorin Baiasu (Keele), David Owen (Southampton), With a response by Rainer Forst All welcome! CALL FOR COMMENTATORS AND CHAIRPERSONS: If you would like to act as commentator for the papers given by Professors Buchenau, Ajari, Caranti, James, Nuti, Peter, Baiasu or Owen, or would like to chair any of the sessions, please send an expression of interest to sgconference(a)ecpr.eu. Commentators and chairpersons will benefit from a discount of a 50% discount on their registration for the event. For further information on the event and event registration see: Call for Chairs and Discussants (ecpr.eu) [1] Deadline: Tuesday 12 September 2023. --------------------------- The 'Rousseau' Annual Lecture and Conference are organised with the support of the European Consortium for Political Research and the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre. The 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau' Annual Lecture and Conference usually take place at the end of November (occasionally moved on the following year in March). The previous Rousseau Annual Lectures were given by David Owen (2021 - took place in November 2022), Jens Timmermann (2020 - took place in April 2022), Adrian W. Moore (2019 - took place in July 2021), Susan Shell (2018), Pauline Kleingeld (2017 - took place in March 2018), Julian Savulescu (2016), Mark Timmons (2015 - took place in March 2016), Howard Williams (2014), Adrian Piper (2013), Alan Montefiore (2012), John Horton (2011 - took place in March 2012), Stephen Engstrom (2010), Miranda Fricker (2009) and Giuseppina D'Oro (2008). *Why the _Jean-Jacques Rousseau _lecture? We hereby celebrate the true but very little known fact that Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived for a time in Staffordshire. From 22 March 1766 to 1 May 1767 Rousseau lived in the little Staffordshire village of Wootton. Rousseau had been invited to England by David Hume with whom he soon afterwards quarrelled. He then spent the next year in seclusion in Staffordshire writing the first drafts of his Confessions. When he was not writing it is said that he roamed the Staffordshire countryside in his Armenian costume studying wild flowers. Many years after his departure the locals remembered 'Owd Ross Hall', not just for his eccentricities but also for his gifts to local charities. They believed he was a king in exile! (Stephen Leach - Senior Honorary Fellow, Keele Humanities and Social Sciences) Links: ------ [1] https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Content?ID=1323&EventID=240