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 … 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’
2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Arendt’s celebrated Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen and the two semesters she spent here in 1972 and 1973. She was the first woman to contribute to this august series, established in 1888, which is concerned with practical theology. Arendt’s lectures were published as Life of the Mind in 1977 … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Arendt: Pluralism, Promise, Problems
Former CISRUL PhD Domenico Carolei will present his recent book to the Law School seminar. The book examines accountability issues and the problems of regulating non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through self-regulation. It focuses on methods of self-regulation for NGOs in response to prominent scandals that revealed problems with their accountability, notably the ‘Mafia Capitale’ scandal in … Continue reading Domenico Carolei “Non-Governmental Organisations and the Law: Self-Regulation and Accountability”
