Seminars and one day conferences
Seminars & Events
MANCEPT Seminars and Events for 2009-10:
01 October, 2009 - Jonathan Quong (Manchester) 'The Scope of Public Reason'
08 October, 2009 - Richard Child (Manchester) ‘Global Equality of Opportunity?’
15 October, 2009 - Shepley Orr (UCL) ‘Liberal Egalitarianism, Benefit Taxation, and the Supply of Public Goods’
22 October, 2009 - Daniel Butt (Bristol) ‘Moral corruption, parental neutrality, ethical vegetarianism, and robots: should carnivores feed their children meat?'
29 October, 2009 - Harry Lesser (Manchester) ‘Should assisted suicide be legalised?’
12 November, 2009 - Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Manchester) ‘Emotions and Public Reason’
20-21 November, 2009 - The Anatomy of Justice: A Conference in Honour of Hillel Steiner
26 November, 2009 - Helen Frowe (Sheffield) 'Defensive Killing'
03 December, 2009 - Martin O'Neill (Manchester) ‘Equality of Opportunity, Value and Time’
10 December, 2009 - Matthew Clayton (Warwick) ‘Discrimination and Equality’
04 February, 2010 - Cecile Laborde (UCL) 'TBA'
11 February, 2010 - Gerald Lang (Leeds) 'Invigilating Republican Liberty'
18 February, 2010 - Kimberley Brownlee (Manchester) 'Dissent and Disrespect'
25 February, 2010 - Mark Reiff (Manchester) 'Exploitation and Economic Justice in the LiberalCapitalist State'
04 March, 2010 - James Pattison (Manchester) 'Private Contractors, Institutions, and Just War Theory'
11 March, 2010 - Thomas Porter (Manchester) 'Two Approaches to Global Toleration'
18 March, 2010 - Annabelle Lever (Manchester) 'TBA'
25 March, 2010 - Gerald Gaus (Arizona) 'Property, Disagreement, and the Limits of Distributive Justice'
22 April, 2010 - Chloë Fitzgerald (Manchester) 'What do Moral Intuitions Tell Us?'
29 April, 2010 - Stephen Hood (Manchester) 'TBA'
06 May, 2010 - Qi Zheng (Manchester) 'Why Carl Schmitt in China?'
MANCEPT Seminars and Events in 2008-09
MANCEPT Seminars and Events in 2007-08
One day conference series
Since 1990, MANCEPT has held a series of one-day conferences which reflect the wide range of its members' interests and which have attracted participants from around Britain and also abroad.
The themes of these conferences have been: Freedom of Expression and Information (1990), Modernity and Post-Modernity in European Thought (1991), Children: Their Rights, Our Obligations (1991), Truth and Rationality (1992), Studying Politics (1992), The Public and the Private (1993), Subsidiarity and Democracy (1993), Future Directions of Socialist Thought (1994), Habermas: A Symposium (1994), Morality and Politics (1995), Education and Politics (1995), Rawls at 25 (1996), Political Theory and International Affairs (1997), New Perspectives on Utopia (1997), Nietzsche and Foucault: Modernity and the Political (1998), Multiculturalism and Citizenship (1998), New Directions in Democratic Theory (1999), Justice, Equality and Disability (1999), Group Rights (2000), Transitions in Political Theory: A Millennial Conference (2000) Republicanism (2002), Freedom (2003), 'Feminism, Citizenship, & the Enlightenment: Themes from Ursula Vogel' (2005), Responsibility in a Non-Ideal World (2006). Normative aspects of Rational Actor Political Theory (2006), The Ethics of Killing and Saving (2007), Democracy, Theory and Practice (2007), Value, Respect and Wellbeing - themes from the work of Joseph Raz (2008).
Graduate Conferences
The Brave New World series began in 1996 when MANCEPT sponsored a graduate conference which was attended by over 100 students from Britain, the Continent and North America. Pre-circulated papers were presented by more than 30 graduate students, drawn from many different universities and countries.
Organised entirely by Manchester graduate students, this conference series has become the leading international forum for the presentation of postgraduate research in political theory.
Brave New World 2008 was in early July and featured plenary speakers Jerry Gaus (Arizona) and Cecile Fabre (Edinburgh)
Guest plenary speakers at previous conferences have included: G A Cohen, Quentin Skinner, Onora O’Neill, Carole Pateman, Christopher Norris, Anne Phillips, Bhikhu Parekh, Adam Swift, Catriona McKinnon, David Miller, Henry Shue, Susan Mendus, Simon Caney and Peter Jones.
Special Conferences and Workshops
MANCEPT encourages and supports its members in holding special gatherings on subjects related to their current research projects. In 1996 a special one-day conference, on Forms of Libertarianism, attracted 35 participants from Britain and abroad. It featured opening presentations - by Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo), Peter Vallentyne (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester) - representing a broad spectrum of libertarian viewpoints, and lively discussion.
The Centre, in conjunction with the Centre for International Politics, hosted a seminar on 'Fairness in Trade' - speaker Mathias Risse from the Kennedy School at Harvard.
More recently, a workshop seminar series on the Holocaust, initiated by Norman Geras and involving participants from eight other universities, held a number of meetings supported by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
In May 2007 Kimberley Brownlee organised a Two Day Workshop on Disability and Disadvantage Speakers included: Dan Brock (Harvard) Leslie Francis ( Utah ) John Harris ( Manchester ) Guy Kahane ( Oxford ) Douglas MacLean ( North Carolina ) Jeff McMahan ( Rutgers ) Julian Savulescu ( Oxford ) Lorella Terzi (Roehampton) Jonathan Wolff (UCL), and the papers will form the basis of a book to be published by Oxford University Press. This project is supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
In 2008, MANCEPT combined with the Philosophy group to organise both a one-off event on The Principle of Fairness and States’ Duty to Obey International Law’ featuring David Lefkowitz (North Carolina), and a a one day workshop on the theme of Sharing Ends featuring Angelika Krebs (Basel), Hans Bernhard-Schmid (Basel/CIPP), Anita Konzelmann Ziv (Basel/CIPP).