CFP: Republicanism in the History of Political Philosophy and Today (3rd Biennial Ideas in Politics Conference)
3-4 November 2017, Charles University, Prague
Hosted by the Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, and the Anglo-American University Center for Political Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at Charles University, Prague. The current surge of political populism across the Western world may be interpreted not only as a sign of the collapse of the post-Cold War (neo-)liberal consensus but also as a symptom of a deeper crisis of representative democracy itself. This development invites us as political theorists and historians of political thought alike to reflect upon the intellectual foundations of liberal democracy as well as various alternative conceptualizations of free and self-governing political regime including the important, albeit for a long time somewhat neglected, tradition of republican political thought.
The conference is open to researchers from the fields of political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history and other related disciplines.
We invite proposals of individual papers as well as panels (comprising of 3-4 papers) on the following broadly defined topics:
- Historical roots and development of the republican tradition
- The impact of the republican tradition on modern democracies
- Variety of forms of current (neo-)republican political theory
- Republicanism as an alternative to the prevailing liberal account of democracies
- Constitutionalism, citizenship and political participation
- Republican ideas and European integration
Keynote speakers: Richard Bellamy (University College London); Christopher Kelly (Boston College); Philip Pettit (Princeton University).
Paper abstracts and panel proposals of 500 words should be submitted by June 10th, 2017. For further information and submission guidelines please see the conference website.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Acta Politologica – a peer reviewed journal published by the Institute of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.
For more information, please see the conference website.