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 Stefanie Buchenau (Paris).
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(a)univie.ac.at) or the KOSAK's Media and
Research Coordinator, Eric Sancho Adamson (kosak.rc(a)gmail.com).