INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC/CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE Mon 23rd – Tues 24th May, 2022 Istanbul, Turkey Hosted by Society and Legal Research Foundation (TOHAV) and Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), Aberdeen University Keynote speakers: … Continue reading Civil Society and Democratic Backsliding Conference (Istanbul)
Conference & PhD summer school Keynote speakers: Gerald Taylor Aiken (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford), and Bonnie Honig (Brown University) Applications now open until 15 February 2022. Please click here for more information about this event. Community is among the foremost political concepts. Coexistence, human or otherwise, inevitably raises questions about how this togetherness should be conceptualised and how … Continue reading Conceptualising Community
Inaugural Conference of Arendt in Aberdeen 2022-24 series University of Aberdeen 2022 – 2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s semesters at the University of Aberdeen and her celebrated Gifford Lectures, delivered here between 1972 and 1974. Arendt was the first woman to contribute to this prestigious practical theology lecture series, established in 1888. … Continue reading Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy
The CISRUL volume Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community explores how authority is entailed in different versions of citizenship and political community. Who or what claims authority in the name of “a people,” and to what effect? What kind and scope of authority is claimed? And who is held to be part of such a … Continue reading Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community
Joint Seminar with a Guest Scholar Organised by the ACCPIL with the Support of CISRUL Event information The joint seminar shall focus on the concept of citizenship, its different faces, meaning and places within various areas of law, as well as relevance to selected legal and non-legal implications for global governance, among others. Participants will … Continue reading Citizenship and Borders: The Meaning and Cost of ‘Belonging’ through the Lenses of the ‘Public’ and ‘Private’
