Conferences

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posted Mar 27, 2012 3:15 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Apr 10, 2012 9:48 AM ]


PSAI Political Theory Specialist Group workshop: Political Theory and the Global Crisis

posted Feb 3, 2012 8:44 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated May 18, 2012 11:42 AM ]

Dublin, May 25 

Political Theory and the Global Crisis: How political theory can contribute to understandings and solutions?
Keynote speaker: 
Paula Casal (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and ASAP - Academics stand against poverty)
Conservative and conservationist sufficiency

Confirmed speakers: 
Vittorio Bufacchi (UCC) Global social injustice
Keith Breen (QUB) Reason, production, and rival visions of working life

Paula Casal will also give a short talk, introducing ASAP, 'What can academics do about world poverty?'

Full programme and registration details - PLEASE SEE UPDATED SCHEDULE here .

UCD SPIRe one day workshop, Domination,Migration and Non-Citizens

posted Feb 3, 2012 8:42 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Apr 10, 2012 9:44 AM ]

Friday April 20 2012  

Newman House, St Stephens Green, Dublin 2. 10 am to 4 pm.

This is the second in a pair of workshops exploring immigration, freedom and domination.

Programme:

10-11.30am 
Sarah Fine (Cambridge) Non-domination and immigration control

Discussant: Marit Hovdal Moan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
12-1.30pm
Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway) Associative duties between compatriots

Discussant: Kieran Oberman (SPIRe, UCD)

1.30-2.30 Lunch break

2.30-4pm 
Lea Ypi (LSE) What's wrong with colonialism?

Discussant Graham Finlay (SPIRe, UCD)

There is no charge for participation, but places are limited and advance registration is required. Contact Iseult.Honohan@ucd.ie

These workshops are jointly arranged between UCD and the University of Newport, Wales. The first workshop , organised by Marit Hovdal Moan, featured four papers on exclusions of non-citizens, and was held in The University of Wales Newport, on March 25 2011.  It included papers by Meghan Benton, Marit Hovdal Moan, David Owen and Chris Bertram.

This workshop issupported by the College of Human Sciences.

See more details on conference theme here.

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy conference 2012

posted Oct 23, 2011 10:21 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Feb 25, 2012 9:55 AM ]

 The 2012 Conference will be held at Queen’s University Belfast, 25-27 June

The theme is Freedom.

The  confirmed keynote speakers are Richard Bellamy (University College London) and Philip Pettit (Princeton).

For furtther details  see here, or contact Cillian McBride [c.mcbride@qub.ac.uk] or Keith Breen [k.breen@qub.ac.uk].

Law, State and Religion, Dublin 16 and 17 September 2011

posted Aug 4, 2011 9:44 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Aug 4, 2011 10:04 AM ]

An interdisciplinary conference on themes of human rights, politics and religion

16 and 17 September 2011
University College Dublin, Ireland
The conference is being convened in honour of Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate. Dr Ebadi will be conferred an honorary doctorate, from University College Dublin, on September 16, 2011

For programme, and to register online go to  http://www.lawstatereligion.com/

PSAI Annual Conference 2011 - Updated programme now available below

posted May 21, 2011 3:33 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Oct 17, 2011 7:06 AM ]

The 2011 Annual Conference is being hosted by University College Dublin

It will take place from 21 to  23 October 2011 in the Royal Irish Academy and Newman House, Dublin.

The theme for this conference will be "Political Reform in Ireland", but papers and panels on other topics are also welcome.

Programme attached below (updated 17 October)


Toleration, a PSAI Political Theory specialist group conference: Friday May 6 2011

posted Mar 31, 2011 1:38 AM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Apr 1, 2011 6:18 AM ]

Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
10.30am - 5pm

Keynote speaker: Peter Jones
Toleration: do we still need it?

Other speakers include Graham Finlay (UCD) and Cillian McBride (QUB)

Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.  10.30am - 5pm

There is no charge for attendance, but places are limited. Please confirm your attendance with Andrew Shorten by April 29 at andrew.shorten@ul.ie.

Registration: There is no fee, but registration is required as places are limited; please confirm with andrew.shorten@ul.ie by April 29.

This conference, organised by the PSAI political theory specialist group, is supported by the Political Studies Association of Ireland

IJS Symposium on Law and Justice in Community

posted Jan 4, 2011 2:17 PM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Jan 4, 2011 2:24 PM ]

Irish Jurisprudence Society

 Symposium on Law and Justice in Community (Oxford UP 2010) by

Garrett Barden and Tim Murphy

5 February 2011

Details and booking form at: http://www.irjursoc.org/symposium-2011/

2010 Annual International Affairs Conference: Governance for a More Ethical World

posted Nov 16, 2010 10:10 AM by Iseult Honohan

The 2010 Annual International Affairs Conference: Governance for a More Ethical World will be taking place in the Royal Irish Academy on Friday 19th November 2010.  The Minister of State for Overseas Development, Mr Peter Power, TD, will be delivering the keynote address.  Other speakers include

  • Mr Tom Arnold (CEO, Concern)
  • H. E. Mr Rory Montgomery (Permanent Representative of Ireland to the EU)
  • Professor Paul Rogers (Bradford University)
  • Professor Javaid Rehman (Brunel University)
  • Dr Edel Hughes (University of Limerick)
  • Dr Siobhan Mullally (University College Cork)

 To view the programme and register a place please follow this link:http://www.ria.ie/events/events-listing/governance-for-a-more-ethical-world.aspx

PSAI Annual Conference 8-10 October 2010

posted Aug 31, 2010 12:07 PM by Iseult Honohan   [ updated Aug 31, 2010 1:31 PM ]

The annual conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland will be arranged by the Dublin Institute of Technology. It will take place in their campus in Aungier Street, Dublin 2.

Details and programme are available at:http://www.dit.ie/psai/  and http://www.dit.ie/psai/psaiprogramme/

While a number of panels may be of interest to political theorists, there is one specific political theory panel from 12noon to 1.30pm on Sunday 10 October.

Session 11; 12.00-1.30

11:1     Global Political Theory: Perspectives on Justice and Civil Society
Chair: Andrew Shorten (UL)

  • Susan P. Murphy (UCD) ‘How do the Circumstances of Assistance Shape Our Understanding of and Response to Situations of Disaster?’
  • Brid O’Rourke (UCD) ‘Bringing the People Back In: Civil Society Activism and Related Ideas of Citizenship’
  • Andrew Shorten (UL) ‘Cosmopolitanism, Toleration and “Respect for Peoples”’
  • Owen Worth (UL) & Kyle Murray (UL) ‘Hegemony Revisited: Revitalising Gramscian Theory in International Relations’
There will also be a business meeting of the PSAI Political Theory Specialist Group at lunchtime on Saturday.  Anyone with items for the agenda should forward them to Iseult Honohan (Iseult.Honohan@ucd.ie)

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