First International Conference: Freedom and Democracy: European Perceptions, European Perspectives

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Organizers
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities Koper (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Humanities (Swansea University, UK)

Seminar für Philosophie, Philosophische fakultät I (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

Sponsors:
Thyssen-Stiftung (Germany) and Slovenian Research Agency

Sections: political philosophy, philosophy od law, political and social ethics, political science,
interdisciplinary studies

The program committee welcomes original contributions on the following topics:
· Hermeneutics of freedom and democracy in modern Europe
· Treaties of the European Union: political and philosophical aspects
· EU institutions (courts, parliaments, executives, bureaucracies) and the understandings
of freedom, responsibility and/or democracy in their respective contexts
· Eastern Europe (1989-91) and political philosophy
· Southeast Europe, Turkey and the European Union
· A European ethos and the concept of European civil society
· Social solidarity, integration and conceptions of European citizenship
· The European Union as a liberal legal order
· Freedom, justice, democracy and capitalism(s) in Europe
· Migration, borders and the new territories of multiculturalism: political, legal and
social aspects
· Comparative issues (for example, the EU and the USA)
Other topics falling under the conference’s remit will be considered.

Student session: graduate and postgraduate students are invited to register for the conference with a 10-minute presentation on a selected topics. Selected contributions from postgraduate students will be integrated into the senior sessions.

The conference languages: English and German

Registration fee: free

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities Koper (University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia). The University is located in the city centre of Koper, 50 minutes from Ljubljana and 20 minutes from Trieste (Italy).

Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2008. All abstracts will be published in a Book of Abstracts. The Book of Abstracts will be available at the conference. Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words to: tomaz.grusovnik@zrs.upr.si

Date: December 4-6, 2008
Deadline: September 1, 2008
Open to: graduate and postgraduate students

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