The University of Surrey School of Law seek to appoint a lecturer to a teaching and research position. Candidates are invited from any research area. The successful applicant will be expected to deliver teaching in Equity and Trusts and support will be given to develop the required pedagogical expertise. There is an expectation that the appointee will demonstrate exceptional research potential.

For an informal discussion about the position, please email Professor Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov, Head of School, at b.donnelly-lazarov@surrey.ac.uk.

For more information regarding this position, please click here.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2023

Conference date(s): April 24, 2023 - April 25, 2023

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held on the 24th-25th April 2023 at Nuffield College, Oxford.

This year we are honoured to host two keynote lectures that will be delivered by Andrea Sangiovanni and Lawrie Balfour.

We welcome submissions from graduate students in any area of political theory, including, but not limited to critical theory, history of political thought, analytical political philosophy, and continental social and political thought. Interested applicants should send anonymised abstracts of no more than 500 words — along with a separate cover sheet detailing the applicant’s name, paper title, and institutional affiliation — to oxgradconference@email.com by 1 February 2023. Abstracts should include keywords to indicate the primary research areas of the paper.

The 2023 conference will be held in-person. We have a limited number of small travel grants available for those who cannot attain institutional funding. Please indicate whether you would like to apply for a travel grant when you submit your abstract.

Conference registration is free of charge. The registration deadline for those who wish to attend the conference without presenting a paper is 1 April 2023. Please address any inquiries regarding the conference to the organisers at oxgradconference@email.com. Support for the 2023 Graduate Conference has been generously provided by Nuffield College and by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

https://oxgradconference.wixsite.com/oxfordgradconference

Submission deadline: February 2, 2023

Conference date(s): May 25, 2023

Conference Theme

Personal relationships have long been a topic of interest within traditional moral theorising. In more recent years, however, philosophers have expanded their focus, investigating how personal relationships might bear upon other normative phenomena. There is, for instance, a burgeoning literature that investigates our epistemic duties to our loved ones. Another recent development examines how personal relationships fit into theories of well-being. There has also been a revival of interest in the question as to how personal relationships contribute to the development of agency and the construction of personal identity.

The primary aim of this conference is to capitalise upon the momentum of this emerging research programme. The papers presented will establish illuminating connections between personal relationships and our understanding of the wider normative landscape.

Speakers

The conference will comprise four sessions, followed by commentaries on each. Two of the sessions will be delivered by invited speakers.

The other two sessions will be delivered by speakers selected via an anonymous CFPs. We will cover each of these two speakers’ accommodation costs for two nights, and contribute up to £100 towards each of their travel costs. Speakers will also be provided with lunch and dinner on the day of the conference.

Call for Papers

Those wishing to apply for the two remaining speaker slots should submit an abstract of up to 300 words (in a PDF or word document) to J.M.Isserow@leeds.ac.uk by February 2, 2023. Please do not include any identifying information in the document containing the abstract. Please title the email ‘Submission to Personal Relationships Conference’.

All submissions will receive an email response confirming receipt of the abstract. All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by February 17, 2023. Junior faculty and members of under-represented groups in Philosophy are strongly encouraged to apply.

Funding for PGT/MA/MPhil Students

We welcome PGT/MA/Mphil students with an interest in doing a PhD in an area of Philosophy linked to the conference theme to apply for funding to attend. We will cover three students' accommodation costs for two nights, and contribute up to £100 to each student’s travel costs. Students will also be provided with lunch and dinner on the day of the conference.

Those wishing to apply for funding should submit a personal statement of up to 300 words (in a PDF or word document) to J.M.Isserow@leeds.ac.uk by February 2, 2023, detailing their current programme of study, their interest in the Conference topic, and why they believe they would benefit from attending. Please do not include any identifying information in the document containing the statement. Please title the email ‘PGT Submission to Personal Relationships Conference’.

All submissions will receive an email response confirming receipt of the statement. PGT students will be notified of the outcome of their application by February 17, 2023. Members of under-represented groups in Philosophy are strongly encouraged to apply.

https://www.jessicaisserow.com/conference.html

Submission deadline: February 1, 2023

Conference date(s): March 3, 2023

We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the workshop “Philosophy & Science for Human Rights: the Political Brain", which will take place on March 3rd, 10:00 am-8:00 pm, at the Senate House building of the University of Bristol.

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions the “right [...] to share in scientific advancement and its benefits," implying that there is a “Right to Science” (RtS). Inspired the idea of a Right to Science, this interdisciplinary conference will examine how a scientific understanding of the brain can and should ground democratic citizenship in the twenty-first century. It will invite philosophers, neuroscientists, and mental health researchers to explore this idea in a way that is accessible to the students and members of the public who will be invited to attend.

We are seeking abstracts that address any aspect of the right to science, including but not limited to:

• Theoretical foundations of the right to science

• Political and social implications of the right to science

• Applications of the right to science in fields such as psychiatry, public health, and education

• Case studies of the implementation of the right to science in different contexts

The workshop will be organized in collaboration with Science for Democracy (https://sciencefordemocracy.org), a non-governmental organization that advocates for and monitors the right to science globally, and Dr. Dan Degerman’s Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Mortifying consciousness’.

We are looking for 5 to 6 abstracts for short sessions of presentation (20 to 25 minutes circa, including Q&A). We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, law, and clinical practice.

To submit an abstract, please send a 500-word abstract to dan.degerman@bristol.ac.uk by February 1st, 2023.

We look forward to receiving your abstract and seeing you at the workshop!

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee

https://philevents.org/event/show/106717

Deadline for submission: 20 March 2023

Conference dates: 5-6 June 2023

Conference Theme: Justice, Oppression, Resistance

We are pleased to announce the first joint Graduate Conference in Political Theory organised by the University of Edinburgh and St. Andrews University. The conference is supported by CRITIQUE – Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought at Edinburgh – and by the St. Andrews International Political Theory Research Group. The two-day conference will be held in a hybrid format: we will convene in-person at the University of Edinburgh, though attendance and participation may be in-person or online. The conference will open with a panel on ‘Empire, Race, Nature’, featuring Shuk Ying Chan (University of Oxford) and representatives of the Political Theory PGR community at the University of Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Four themed panels will follow (see list of possible themes below), with keynote lectures delivered by Dr Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford) and Dr Raul Rao (St. Andrews).

Conference Brief:

Various scholars have pointed to numerous blind-spots in classic liberal theories of justice and as a result the world of normative theory has undergone significant changes. The scope of critique is far-reaching, coming from proponents of various traditions within political theory and beyond. Most notably, with the increasing understanding of the role of structural injustices stemming from, for example, centuries of economic, gender, and racial inequities, the idea of justice as resistance against oppression is becoming a central concern of critical normative theory. This conference seeks to explore the ways in which normative theories of justice are problematised in contemporary scholarship, and how this may enable the realisation of a more just world.

Themes:

We particularly seek submissions related to the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Postcolonial, decolonial, and anti-racist critiques of global politics and ethics

• Feminist perspectives on global justice

• Environmental perspectives on oppression (e.g., ecofeminism and eco-Marxism)

• Ableism, disability, and neurodiversity

• Intersectional perspectives on global justice

• The linkages between justice, oppression, and resistance

• Intergenerational dimensions of justice

• Economic justice and anti-capitalist critique

• The role of research and critical pedagogical methodologies, across the globe, in shaping paradigms of justice

Further Notes:

Out of a commitment to interdisciplinarity and methodological pluralism, we will consider papers from disciplines beyond political theory (for example, law, sociology, anthropology, education, etc.). We particularly encourage submissions from marginalised and vulnerable groups, including PGRs from the Global South, women, and persons with disabilities.

Submission Guidelines:

Those who are interested in applying to the conference are requested to send a 400-500 word (max) abstract prepared for anonymous review. Submissions are made via e-form. Applicants are asked to include their information (full name, position, affiliation, contact details) in a separate section of the e-form. Link to e-form: https://forms.gle/UfB2K7Cq2Vc3djdm8

The final date of submission is 20 March 2023. Applicants will be informed of the decision regarding their proposal by mid-April.

For any questions, please email the Organising Committee: Edinburgh.StAndrews.Conference@gmail.com.

https://philevents.org/event/show/106625

Conference Date: 18 February 2023

Location: The University of Warwick

Plenary sessions:

Sophia Moreau (University of Toronto): Objectionable Obligations

Emily McTernan (University College London): TBD

The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for graduate students to receive useful feedback on work in progress. Papers may deal with any area of contemporary political theory, political philosophy, legal theory, or the history of political thought, and should take no more than twenty minutes to present.

Graduate students interested in presenting papers should send abstracts (no more than 500 words) to PLTGradConf@warwick.ac.uk by no later than 8 January 2023.

To help students needing our response to secure travel funding from their home departments, we shall reply promptly to early submissions with our decisions.

Those wanting to attend the conference should register by no later than 6 February 2023 via email. Attendance is free of charge. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

For any enquiries, please feel free to contact the conference organisers using the email address: PLTGradConf@warwick.ac.uk.

For more information, see here.

Submission deadline: July 8, 2022

Keynote speaker: Professor David Owen

In the history of western political philosophy dignity is a feature of theoretical discourse about human values and human status, so personhood and humanity. The concept of dignity became a core concept and a universal principle, especially from the work of Pico della Mirandola or Kant who conceptualized dignity as a characteristic of human beings in virtue of their reason. In other words, dignity is a foundational concept. Moreover, this concept of dignity can entertain a relativity, especially in ethical debates regarding, for instance, the question of the death penalty. To put it differently, when the question of dignity is related to the one of individuality, it raises all sorts of political and juridical debate.

Nevertheless, dignity has not always been associated with the universality of the individual or personhood. In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon related dignity to the question of the land. It is the land that provides dignity and not an abstract conception of universal humanity or personhood. For him, dignity is not a human property, precisely because for the colonized it is something that needs to be fought for, acquired, sometimes through a violent struggle. Accordingly, dignity is a central concept of decolonial thought, Africana philosophy or indigenous studies. From that perspective, dignity is also an existential question as it concerns the modes of existence.

We welcome PhD students to submit abstracts that highlight topics/questions from a wide range of approaches totheorising dignity – e.g. submissions in phenomenology, feminist philosophy, decolonial thought, Africana philosophy,ideal and nonideal political theory, but are certainly not restricted to these approaches.

Topics of interest:

· An existential and phenomenological account of dignity

· A pluriversal account of dignity

· Dignity and personhood

· Recognition and dignity

· Feminist ethics and dignity

· The dignity of the land

The conference will be in person, there will be a £20 attending fee and a single £150 travel bursary is available for self-funded PhD. Proposals will be selected from the abstracts (approximately 300-500 words) by the Conference Program Committee. The deadline for sending abstracts is July 8, 2022. Please send your abstracts formatted for blind-review to ccptconf2022@gmail.com and put your contact details in the email and indicate if you want to be considered for the travel bursary.

Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence, in association with Legal Theory, invites submissions of draft papers in any area within the philosophy of law, broadly defined, for presentation at an in-person conference on the 4th and 5th July 2022, to be held at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be given serious consideration for inclusion in a special issue of Legal Theory, after post-conference revisions. Please note that acceptance into the conference is not an assurance of ultimate publication. But review will be expedited with a view to inclusion in the special issue.

By submitting a paper to the conference, you agree that, if the paper is accepted for the conference, you will present the paper at the conference, submit the paper for the special issue of Legal Theory, and not submit the paper elsewhere until an editorial decision has been made. You also agree to publish the paper in Legal Theory, if the paper is accepted for the special issue.

Limited financial support for travel and accommodation may be available for those who do not have another source of funding.

Submission Details

Please email submissions, by the closing date, to oxjuris@gmail.com.

Papers and abstracts should be fully anonymized to allow for blind review. Only one submission per author will be considered. An abstract of up to 400 words should be included.

Submissions must be full papers of up to 15,000 words, including footnotes, and must be unpublished work.

Closing Date for Submissions: Tuesday 15 March 2022.

We aim to notify all authors of the decisions by 1 April 2022.

About Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence

Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence is an online forum for the discussion of new work in the philosophy of law, broadly defined. Previous papers have discussed ideas about the fundamental nature of law, political obligation, criminal law theory, private law theory, equality and discrimination, feminist theory, human rights, and social philosophy.

The series is convened by James Edwards, Kate Greasley, and Adam Perry. For more information about the forum, and about previous seminars, please see our website: https://oxjuris.com. Please direct any enquiries to oxjuris@gmail.com.

https://oxjuris.com/

We welcome submissions from all graduate students working in philosophy for the 26th Annual Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference to be held on November 12 and 13 at the University of Oxford.

The University of Oxford’s Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference enjoys a reputation as one of the most prestigious philosophy conferences at the graduate level in the United Kingdom.

Papers can be on any topic in philosophy. We aim to represent a broad range of philosophical debates and traditions in our final selection, across areas of both theoretical and practical philosophy.

Each student presentation will be followed by a response from a member of the Oxford Philosophy Faculty.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process.

Presenting offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your work to an enthusiastic and welcoming audience.

Eligibility:

All current graduate students in philosophy may apply (except students enrolled at Oxford at the time of the conference).

Submission details:

The submission deadline is Friday 8 July 2022 at 11:59PM (GMT)

All submissions are to be made through the Easychair portal (link here) (instructions here). You will have to register for an account.

When registering for an account, please include your full name, affiliation and degree being studied, and contact details. You will also be asked to specify whether you have studied at Oxford in the past, as it may be necessary to cap the number of Oxford alumni accepted in order to maximise outreach and ensure diversity.

On the submission form, you will be asked to provide the following:

A (preliminary) title;

An abstract of no more than 500 words;

Three keywords identifying the areas of philosophy the paper deals with; and

The main paper (to be uploaded), which should be strictly no more than 4,000 words, including title and footnotes (suitable for a 45-min presentation);

be in .doc(x), .txt, or .pdf formats; and

contain no information identifying the author or the author's institutional affiliation.

We particularly encourage submissions by philosophers from groups who are underrepresented in the discipline.

For further enquiries, please see the FAQ on our website, or email gradconf[at]philosophy.ox.ac.uk. If you have any problems with your particular submission, please contact Jen (jen.semler[at]philosophy.ox.ac.uk)

https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/oxford-philosophy-graduate-conference

Newcastle University is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Political Philosophy/ Political Theory. For more information, please see here.

The University of Leeds is hiring a permanent (ongoing) position, with an open specialism within political theory (analytic, continental, critical, decolonial, feminist, non-Western, etc). For more information, please see here.

The Politics of Territory and Climate Change

Date: 5-6 September 2022

Keynote speakers:

Prof Margaret Moore (Queen’s University)

Prof Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford College)

As climate change is set to cause mass displacement, resource scarcity, and loss of habitable territory, this workshop wants to explore how ideas about territorial rights, resource distribution, sovereignty, citizenship, and nationhood can help to describe, explain, and resolve the normative issues that will arise from this crisis. We welcome papers in political theory and political philosophy, or interdisciplinary papers with a strong connection to political theory, that address such issues.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Territorial rights and the challenges of the environmental crisis

• Environmental refugees and issues of relocation

• Challenges of resources and land management to address global climate problems

• Challenges of conceptualising state sovereignty if territory is uninhabitable

• Ideas about the deterritorialization of nationhood

• Impact on under-represented groups within a territory (ex. indigenous populations)

• Natural resources justice and distributive issues

• Territory, resources and sustainability

Submission guidelines

We invite submissions for abstracts related to the workshop’s theme that should consist in an anonymised 500-words abstract with a title and keywords. Early career researchers are especially welcomed to send their contribution. Please also send a separate cover letter with your name, institutional affiliation, and main research interests. If the abstract is accepted, you will be required to submit a full paper that will be made available to participants in advance and discussed during the workshop.

Please send your abstract and cover letter to pt-workshop-22@york.ac.uk. Confirmation of acceptance will be received at the beginning of June.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS / Deadline: 6 May 2022

Registration and attendance

Given the uncertain and rapidly changing situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop will take place online. Attendance is free. Details about the conference programme will follow.

For any additional enquiries, please email: pt-workshop-22@york.ac.uk

The Organising Committee

Virginia De Biasio, Erik Cardona-Gόmez and Jesse Machin

The MANCEPT Workshops is an annual conference in political theory, organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory. This year’s conference will take place largely in person from Wednesday 7th of September to Friday 9th September.

The conference offers academics an opportunity to come together in a series of workshops to develop specialised work and engage in lively philosophical discussion. Attracting scholars throughout the world, the conference is now established as a leading international forum dedicated to the development of research in all subfields of political theory.

The programme in 2022 has been released. You may find the panels and information on the call for papers here.

Jeff Howard, a US philosopher based in UCL’s Institute of Law, Politics and Philosophy, is looking to hire as a postdoc a philosophically-minded lawyer interested in working on free speech and social media regulation. If you are interested in applying for this, please find the details here.

May 27-28, 2022 in St Andrews

The Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (CEPPA) is now accepting submissions for the 4rd Annual St Andrews CEPPA Graduate Conference at the University of St Andrews. The submissions should broadly fit into CEPPA's scope - ethics, moral, political and applied social philosophy, in particular it's current projects:

· Effective Altruism

· The Future of Work and Income

· Exoplanet Ethics

· Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse

· Virtue and Character

· Human Rights

· Blame and Responsibility

· Philosophy and Education

We are delighted to host the following keynote speakers:

Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)

Jonathan Quong is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His areas of research are political liberalism, public reason, democracy, distributive justice, and the morality of defensive harm. He is the author of Liberalism Without Perfection (OUP, 2011) and The Morality of Defensive Force (OUP, 2020).

Charlotte Unruh (Technical University of Munich)

Charlotte Unruh is postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Relations, Technical University of Munich, and a researcher at the TUM Institute for Ethics in AI. Her research focuses on the ethics of future generations, the philosophy of harm, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Susan E. Notess (Durham Univerisity)

Susan E. Notess is a Research Associate working in Curriculum Design with the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. She researches on listening in clinical encounters as a fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham, and on discourses around live organ donation as a postdoctoral fellow of the Society for Applied Philosophy.

If you wish to apply, please submit an abstract of not more than 1000 words (excluding references). The abstract should be in PDF form, be prepared for blind review and have the world count included. It should be sent to ceppaconference@st-andrews.ac.uk by 31st of March, 2022. Papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 30 minutes.

We welcome submissions from postgraduate students at any stage in their studies and encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in particular. If you identify as a member of an underrepresented group, feel free to include this information in the email (not in the PDF).

All accepted papers will receive comments during the conference from faculty and postgraduate students at the St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Program in Philosophy (SASP). We aim to design the conference programme in such a way that it ensures balanced representation and such that the participants can benefit the most from the commentators.

The event will be held online.

For any queries, please write at ceppaconference@st-andrews.ac.uk or visit the webpage https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk.

All the very best wishes,

The organizers Joel Joseph, Nick Küspert and Luca Stroppa