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

Iyul 22, 2008 · Kateqoriya: Təhsil və təqaüd · Şərh 

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.
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