BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CEPS - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CEPS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CEPS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Lisbon BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20220208T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20220208T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T012348Z CREATED:20240117T220812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T012348Z UID:3068-1644332400-1644339600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Susan Spronk // Development Alternatives Beyond the “Free Market” DESCRIPTION:The 4th session of the 2021/2022 PREDPOD- Democracy online seminar\, will take place on March 8th\, at 3pm (Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing the recent paper “Development Alternatives Beyond the “Free Market”’ (2021). Susan Spronk\, the author\, and our invited speaker will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of her paper which will be followed by a reply by a discussant to be announced and a debate with the participants. \nSusan Spronk (speaker): Susan Spronk teaches at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the impact of neoliberalism on the transformation of the state\, social policy\, and the rise of anti-privatization movements in Latin America and South Africa. She is also a research associate with the Municipal Services Project\, an international research project that focuses on policy alternatives in municipal service delivery in Africa\, Asia and Latin America (http://www.municipalservicesproject.org). Her articles have appeared in Studies in Political Economy\, Water Alternatives\, Latin American Perspectives\, International Labor and Working Class History\, amongst others. Her most recent book in English and Spanish is Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings (with David A. McDonald and Daniel Chavez). URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predistribution-and-property-owning-democracy-development-alternatives-beyond-the-free-market/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211215T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211215T193000 DTSTAMP:20240129T012237Z CREATED:20240117T220936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T012237Z UID:3071-1639591200-1639596600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Cindy Holder // Human Rights Without Hierarchy: Why Theories of Global Justice Should Embrace the Indivisibility Principle DESCRIPTION:The 3rd session of the 2021/2021 PREDPOD online seminar\, will take place on December 15\, at 6pm (Lisbon time). In this session the following article will be discussed: ‘Human Rights Without Hierarchy: Why Theories of Global Justice Should Embrace the Indivisibility Principle’ (2020). Cindy Holder\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by a discussant to be announced and a debate with the participants. \nCindy Holder (speaker): Cindy Holder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. Her research focuses on human rights (including the human rights of Indigenous peoples)\, international ethics\, transitional justice and the philosophy of international law. Dr. Holder’s articles have appeared in journals such as Human Rights Quarterly\, Human Rights Review\, Politics Philosophy & Economics\, Public Affairs Quarterly and Criminal Law and Philosophy. Her 2013 co-edited volume Human Rights: The Hard Questions is currently available through Cambridge University Press. Her current book project focuses on ethical and theoretical issues posed by the state-centrism of international law. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predistribution-and-property-owning-democracy-human-rights-without-hierarchy-why-theories-of-global-justice-should-embrace-the-indivisibility-principle/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211117T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211117T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T012502Z CREATED:20240117T221230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T012502Z UID:3078-1637164800-1637168400@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Christian Neuhäuser & Louis Mosar // Property-owning democracy\, market socialism and workplace democracy DESCRIPTION:The 2nd session of the PREDPOD online seminar\, will take place on November 17\, at 4pm (Lisbon time). In this session the following article will be discussed: Property-owning democracy\, market socialism and workplace democracy (2021). Christian Neuhäuser\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Louis Mosar and a debate with the participants. \nChristian Neuhäuser (speaker): Christian Neuhäuser (*1977) is Professor of Political Philosophy at TU Dortmund University. His re-search focuses on theories of dignity\, theories of responsibility\, philosophy of economics and philosophy of international relations. He is a member of the Green Academy and editor of the Journal for Business\, Economics & Ethics. He studied Philosophy\, Sinology and Sociology in Göttingen\, Berlin and Hong Kong and received his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam with a thesis on “Corporations as Moral Actors”. \nDiscussant: Louis Mosar is a PhD researcher at the RIPPLE research group (KU Leuven). Since November 2020 he has been working on his Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) funded PhD project about (neo)republicanism and domination in the market. Besides (neo)republicanism\, he is interested in the thought of Karl Polanyi\, the normative assessment of economic institutions\, radical forms of political theory such as anarchism\, Marxism\, socialism and questions regarding the nature of the economy and economic science. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/redistribution-and-property-owning-democracy-property-owning-democracy-market-socialism-and-workplace-democracy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211026T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20211026T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T012534Z CREATED:20240117T222528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T012534Z UID:3094-1635264000-1635267600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Andrew Lister & Roberto Merrill // The Difference Principle\, Capitalism\, and Property-Owning Democracy DESCRIPTION:The 1st session of the PREDPOD online seminar\, will take place on October 26th at 2pm GMT+1. In this session the following article will be discussed: Andrew Lister “The Difference Principle\, Capitalism\, and Property-Owning Democracy” (2017). Andrew Lister\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by a discussant. \nAndrew Lister (speaker): Andrew Lister is Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston\, Ontario. His main area of research is contemporary normative theory\, in particular in relation to political liberalism and public reason\, and distributive justice. His current project is about the roles of reciprocity in theories of justice. \nRoberto Merrill (discussant): Roberto Merrill is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Minho\, where he coordinates the Master of Political Philosophy. He also is a researcher at the Center for Ethics\, Politics and Society (CEPS)\, where he directs the Research Project on Unconditional Basic Income. e is also president of the Portuguese Association for Unconditional Basic Income. e is Visiting Assistant Professor in the MSc in Public Policy at ISCTE and an Associate Researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po-Paris). His research interests within political philosophy include liberal neutrality\, paternalism and pluralism of values\, as well as contemporary theories of distributive justice. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predistribution-and-property-owning-democracy-the-difference-principle-capitalism-and-property-owning-democracy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210927 DTSTAMP:20240129T013211Z CREATED:20240117T221455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T013211Z UID:3082-1632096000-1632700799@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:[UBIEXP] 14th International Basic Income Week DESCRIPTION:For the 14th International Basic Income Week (September 20-26\, 2021)\, three events co-organized by UBIEXP in Athens with expert analysts from Greece and abroad. \nOn Tuesday\, September 21st\, Professor Guy Standing talks about the vitality of Basic Income in a lecture at Panteion University. \nOn Wednesday\, September 22nd\, Professor Roberto Merrill and PhD Student Catarina Neves examine the basic income experiments at a round table on their soon to be published book on UBI experiments\, to be held at Panteion University. \nAnd finally\, on Thursday\, September 23rd\, in an online event\, we talk with experts from the pilot programs that took place in Finland and Barcelona. \nThe dialogues are taking place on the occasion of the European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income which aims to collect 1 million signatures from the citizens of the European Union. \nOrganisers: \nUBIEXP / Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society\, University of Minho \nEuropean Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income\, Greece \nSocial Policy Lab\, Department of Social Policy\, Panteion University \nUnconditional Basic Income Europe \nMedia Sponsor: International Press Agency Pressenza URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/ubiexp-14th-international-basic-income-week/ CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210718 DTSTAMP:20240129T005152Z CREATED:20210717T091022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T005152Z UID:1567-1626307200-1626566399@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:12th Summer School​ in Political Philosophy ​and Public Policy DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657019492801{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1706489276806{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”] \nThe Workings of Capital:\n​Perspectives on Exploitation in Law\, Labor\, and Distribution\nJuly 15-17\, 2021\nOnline |​University of Minho\, Braga – Portugal\n​\n\n​Where: The school will be held online. We will monitor existing conditions and regulations\, and if possible\, we will reorganize the event into a blended format\, featuring on campus lectures and online sessions. In case of a blended format\, the event will be hosted at the Auditorium of the Institute of Letters and Human Sciences (ILCH) at the ​University of Minho.  \nOrganization: This event is co-organized by the Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society of the University of Minho\, and the Philosophy Department at the University of York \nConvenors: Catarina Neves\, Daniele Santoro\, and Pedro Teixeira\n\nLectures by:\nMartin O’Neill – University of York\, UK\nKatharina Pistor – Columbia University\, USA\nNicholas Vrousalis -Erasmus University Rotterdam\, The Netherlands\nBruno Lamas – UL-ISEG\n​ \nDescription\nSince Marx’s early theorization\, exploitation has been identified as a defining feature of the capitalist mode of production. Exploitation sheds light on the causes of the unfair distribution of resources\, opportunities\, and wealth\, the commodification of the labor market\, as well as the plundering of natural resources. It has also the normative significance of both a moral wrongdoing and a structural aspect of an unjust system that calls for change\, activism\, and revolution once again. As inequalities soar\, and the concentration of wealth lacerates the social fabric of traditional welfare state societies\, the exploitative nature of late stage capitalism has drawn the attention of a new generation of political philosophers\, both in the critical and in the analytical traditions.\nHow does capitalist exploitation take place through legal\, distribution and productive means?  How should we understand the conceptual and normative dimensions of exploitation\, and what policies should be pursued to create a less exploitative form of production? The goal of the 12th edition is to answer this question by exploring the role exploitation plays within new forms of capitalist production.\nThe critique of capitalism is a recurrent theme of the School. In past editions we discussed alternatives to the existing capitalist regime such as property-owning democracy (2014) and democratic socialism (2018). We also questioned the legitimacy of free market capitalism and the role of corporations (2019).\nOur aim in this edition is to elucidate the concept of exploitation\, investigate its distributive implications for public policy\, its impact on labor and the labor market\, and the legal framework enabling exploitative processes. \nAmong the questions we are particularly interested in debating are the following: \n\nWhat is exploitation? Is exploitation always unjust? How to distinguish exploitation from other forms of moral wrongdoing?\nWhat taxonomy of exploitation can we identify in capitalistic and socialist regimes?\nAre new forms of exploitation essentially distinct from traditional forms of exploitation?\nWhat forms of labor are most affected by current forms of exploitation? How can decommodification mitigate individuals’ exploitation in the labor market?\nHow can policies of predistribution and/or redistribution address issues of exploitation?\nCan egalitarian policies mitigate exploitation\, and if so\, which ones are the most effective?\nCan exploitation also happen in an egalitarian society\, and what can we do about it?\nWhat is the role of the law in perpetuating inequality and exploitation\, especially through financial markets?\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Visite Event Website” shape=”square” color=”danger” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2F12thsummerschoolcepsbraga.weebly.com%2F”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/12th-summer-school-in-political-philosophy-and-public-policy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:SummerSchool ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/12th-Summer-School.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210630T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210630T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T013337Z CREATED:20240117T221921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T013337Z UID:3089-1625068800-1625072400@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Teresa Marques // How can philosophy of language help us navigate the news cycle?" DESCRIPTION:CEPS SEMINAR SERIES IN ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY \nTeresa Marques (Universitat de Barcelona)\, “How can philosophy of language help us navigate the news cycle?” \nIn this paper\, I try to answer the above question\, and another question that it presupposes: can philosophy of language help us navigate the political news cycle? A reader can be sceptical of a positive answer to the latter question; after all\, citizens\, political theorists\, and journalists seem to be capable of following current politics and its coverage in the news\, and there is no reason to think that philosophy of language should be capable of helping people make sense and respond to the news. I will illustrate the application of philosophy of language to three contrasting strategies of political propaganda: dogwhistles\, meaning perversions\, and bald-faced lies. I hope that these help us see that philosophy of language can be a good tool in diagnosing demagoguery\, and in resisting it. \nThe Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics\, Politics\, and Society at the University of Minho\, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics\, social and political philosophy\, political and social theory. The seminars are open to everyone\, but pre-registration is required. \nAfter registering\, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries\, contact the organizers at gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt or dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/ceps-seminars-how-can-philosophy-of-language-help-us-navigate-the-news-cycle/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210629T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210629T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T014111Z CREATED:20240121T184721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T014111Z UID:3662-1624982400-1624986000@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Margaret Somers // Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Diagnosing Oligarchy\, Dedemocratization\, and the Deceits of Market Justice DESCRIPTION:The 19th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 29 at 4pm GMT. In this session the following article will be discussed: Margaret Somers “Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Diagnosing Oligarchy\, Dedemocratization\, and the Deceits of Market Justice” (2021 forthcoming). Margaret Somers\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Catarina Neves and a debate with the participants. \nMargaret Somers (speaker): Margaret R. Somers is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is a comparative historical sociologist specializing in the work of Karl Polanyi\, as well as political economy and economic thought (predistribution and the political economy of moral worth); democracy and citizenship rights; concept formation and historical epistemology. She is the author\, with Fred Block\, of The Power of Market fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique\, Harvard 2014\, an intellectual archaeology of Polanyi’s thought that aims to generate a repertoire of Polanyian concepts\, theoretical insights\, and a usable social theory (named “Book of the Year 2014” by Economic Sociology and Political Economy (economicsociology.org). Her book Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets\, Statelessness\, and the Right to have Rights (Cambridge 2008)\, is a study of how the moral authority of the market has transformed rights-bearing citizens into the internally stateless\, making rights\, inclusion and moral worth a privilege dependent on contractual market value (awarded the 2009 Giovanni Sartori Award for concept formation by the American Political Science Association). Her work in-progress\, Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Free-market Utopianism and the Alchemy of Misrecognition examines how the fiction of the free market primes us to misrecognize the cause of inequality as deregulation\, blinds us to how capital grows relative to labor by extracting value rather than creating it\, and to the role of predistributive dedemocratization in accelerating and institutionalizing oligarchy. \nCatarina Neves (discussant) : Catarina Neves is a researcher at Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society\, where she is also doing her PhD in Political Philosophy\, with a thesis titled “Justifying an Unconditional Basic Income: reciprocity\, productive justice and the impact of UBI in the labor market”. She is also a teaching assistant at Nova School of Business and Economics\, in Lisbon. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-toward-a-predistributive-democracy-diagnosing-oligarchy-dedemocratization-and-the-deceits-of-market-justice/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210618T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210618T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T014417Z CREATED:20240117T223646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T014417Z UID:3110-1624032000-1624035600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Ingrid Salvatorre // Work in Property-Owning Democracy: Freeman\, Rawls\, and the Welfare State DESCRIPTION:The 18th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 18 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following articles will be discussed: Work in Property-Owning Democracy: Freeman\, Rawls\, and the Welfare State (2020) and replies proposed in the Symposium on Samuel Freeman. Ingrid Salvatorre\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper. \nIngrid Salvatorre (speaker): Ingrid Salvatore is associate professor at the University of Salerno (Italy)\, where she teaches Political Philosophy. She also teaches Gender Studies at Luiss University\, in Rome where she lives. Last works include: Liberalism and Social Justice (ed.)\, Book Symposium on S. Freeman\, Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Oxford\, 2018). What is Pluralism? (co-editor)\, Routledge 2020. “Ingiustizia e instabilità sociale. Gli impegni teoretici della giustizia sociale” (Social injustice and Instability: The Theoretical Burdens of social justice). Rivista di filosofia\, forthcoming. She is currently trying to write a book on the theoretical status of feminism. \nGavin Kerr (discussant): Gavin Kerr is an independent post-doctoral researcher currently based near Bonn in Germany. His research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of politics\, philosophy\, and economics. He pursued his doctoral studies in political philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast\, and has been conducting research on the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy since graduating in 2011. His current research focuses on the importance of land and other forms of rent in economic theory and practice\, and on the relevance of land economics to the issue of environmental sustainability. His book on these topics was published in 2017\, The Property-Owning Democracy: Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century\, by Taylor & Francis. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-work-in-property-owning-democracy-freeman-rawls-and-the-welfare-state-with-ingrid-salvatorre/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210612 DTSTAMP:20240129T005427Z CREATED:20220701T150046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T005427Z UID:1423-1623196800-1623455999@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:11th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nContemporary Challenges to Citizenship and Democracy\nThis year the Braga Meetings will have as a general topic the “Contemporary Challenges to Citizenship and Democracy” but\, as always\, we welcome proposals in any area of moral\, political\, or legal philosophy and in normative political theory. Moreover\, we accept submissions for a Special Session on John Rawls’ life and work. \nThis year\, exceptionally and due to the pandemic\, the Braga Meetings will be held on an online-only format. \nThis event is organized by the CENTRE FOR ETHICS\, POLITICS AND SOCIETY (CEPS)\, University of Minho (Braga). ​ \n\nThe Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy have established a reputation for providing scholars with an excellent opportunity to present both advanced and exploratory work to a welcoming audience. Graduate students\, junior researchers and senior scholars are welcome to submit their work. \nThis year the Braga Meetings will have as a general topic the “Contemporary Challenges to Citizenship and Democracy” but\, as always\, we welcome proposals in any area of moral\, political\, or legal philosophy and in normative political theory. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/11th-braga-meetings-on-ethics-and-political-philosophy/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Meetings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/11m-cartaz-v05-22042021_orig.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210601T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210601T150000 DTSTAMP:20240129T014819Z CREATED:20240117T222757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T014819Z UID:3096-1622556000-1622559600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Paul Raekstad // Marx and alienation DESCRIPTION:The 17th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 1st at 14h (GMT+1 Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing Paul Raekstad’s current book project on Marxism and alienation. Paul Paul Raekstad will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper\, followed by comments from an invited discussant. \nPaul Raekstad (speaker): Paul Raekstad is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. They work on methodological questions in political theory; concepts of freedom\, equality\, and democracy; and debates about alternative economic institutions and how to attain them – with a particular focus on questions of prefigurative politics\, direct action\, and proposals for a Green New Deal. They recently co-authored Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today. \nSara Amighetti (discussant): Sara Amighetti is a Post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Ethics of the University of Zurich. She works on egalitarianism (in particular defending relational or social equality)\, immigration and various topics in global justice (including redressing international injustices like colonialism). More recently\, she has also begun working on solidarity. She holds a PhD from the University of London (UCL). She spends her free time playing with her dog Pepe. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-marx-and-alienation-with-paul-raekstad/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210527T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210527T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T014932Z CREATED:20240117T222934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T014932Z UID:3098-1622131200-1622134800@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Jens van't Klooster // Central banking in Rawls’ property-owning democracy and Central Banks DESCRIPTION:The 16th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on May 27 at 16h (GMT+1 Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing Jens van ’t Klooster’s papers: Central banking in Rawls’s property-owning democracy (2019) and Central Banks To appear in: The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (3 vols.). Jens van ’t Klooster\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his two papers\, followed by comments from Josep Ferret. \nJens van ’t Klooster (speaker): Jens van ‘t Klooster is a Research Foundation – Flanders postdoc at the KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy and a member of the University of Amsterdam’s “A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt” research group. His research in political philosophy focuses on normative questions in the governance of financial markets. \nJosep Ferret (discussant): Josep Ferret pursued doctoral studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, having authored a dissertation on the distributive justice and political legitimacy of independent financial institutions. He has since carried out postdoctoral research at the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique. He was also a visiting professor at the Central European University. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-central-banking-in-rawlss-property-owning-democracy-and-central-banks-with-jens-vant-klooster/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210519T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210519T190000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015103Z CREATED:20240117T223334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015103Z UID:3106-1621441800-1621450800@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Camila Vergara & Mark Warren // Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions DESCRIPTION:CEPS SEMINAR SERIES IN ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY \nDiscussants: Camila Vergara (Columbia University); Mark Warren (University of British Columbia) \nWednesday\, 19 May 2021 | 4:30 pm–7 pm Western European Summer Time | 5:30 pm–8 pm Central European Summer Time | Zoom \n\nFrom the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the country’s economy\, to President Trump’s appointment of family members to high-ranking White House positions\, to President Lukashenko’s desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus\, across the world political corruption is rampant—indeed practically too ubiquitous to keep track of. As these examples illustrate\, political corruption is often associated to a variety of instances of abuse of power that either derive from a vicious trait of individual character\, or develop within deeply dysfunctional institutions. To Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti\, however\, this piecemeal view is inadequate: individual and institutional instances of political corruption have a common root that we can understand only by treating corruption and anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. Political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via an interrelated action of officeholders. Even well-designed and legitimate institutions can veer off track if the officeholders fail through their conduct to uphold a public ethics of office accountability. \nThis book offers an analytically rigorous definition of political corruption. It also investigates the common normative root of its two manifestations—corrupt individual character\, and corrupt institutional mechanisms—as a relationally wrongful practice that consists of an unaccountable use of the power of office by officeholders in public institutions. From this perspective\, political corruption must be understood from within\, for it is an internal enemy of public institutions that can only be opposed by mobilizing the officeholders to remain accountable and mutually answerable for their conduct. In this way\, anticorruption calls on the officeholders’ responsibility to work together to maintain an interactively just institutional system. \nThe Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics\, Politics\, and Society at the University of Minho\, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics\, social and political philosophy\, political and social theory. \nThe seminars are open to everyone\, but pre-registration is required. \nAfter registering\, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. A 30% discount code for the book purchase is available for registered participants. For inquiries\, contact the organizers at dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt or gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/ceps-seminars-political-corruption-the-internal-enemy-of-public-institutions/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210426T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210426T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015239Z CREATED:20240117T223825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015239Z UID:3112-1619449200-1619456400@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:William Lazonick & Jang-Sup Shin // Predatory Value Extraction DESCRIPTION:The 14th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on April 26 2021 at 3pm. This will be a special session\, where we will be discussing William Lazonick’s and Jang-Sup Shin’s recent book “Predatory Value Extraction”. The session will last between 2h30 and 3h\, and it will feature the presentation of the book by William Lazonick\, as well as a comment by Alan Thomas\, Joshua Preiss and Rahul Basu. \nWilliam Lazonick: \nWilliam Lazonick\, professor of economics emeritus at University of Massachusetts\, is co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network\, a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization\, based in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. He is an Open Society Fellow and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow. Over the past decade\, the Institute for New Economic Thinking has funded a number of his research projects. \nHe has professorial affiliations with SOAS University of London and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris. Previously\, Lazonick was assistant and associate professor of economics at Harvard University\, professor of economics at Barnard College of Columbia University\, and distinguished research professor at INSEAD in France. Lazonick earned his B.Com. at the University of Toronto\, M.Sc. in Economics at London School of Economics\, and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University. He holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and the University of Ljubljana. Lazonick was president of the Business History Conference in 1990-91. \nHis research focuses on the social conditions of innovation and economic development in advanced and emerging economies. His book Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute 2009) won the 2010 Schumpeter Prize. He has twice—in 1983 and 2010—had the award from Harvard Business School for best article of the year in Business History Review. In 2014\, he received the HBR McKinsey Award for outstanding article in Harvard Business Review for “Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off.” In January 2020\, Oxford University Press published his book\, co-authored with Jang-Sup Shin\, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the U.S. Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored. \nAlan Thomas: \nProfessor Alan Thomas began his professional career in Philosophy as a lecturer at King’s College\, London\, between 1993 and 1998. Following this he moved to the University of Kent to take a position as senior lecturer there. In 2007 he was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and in 2010 he held the position of Fellow of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University. During that time he also held a visiting fellowship at the Australian National University (2015) and a visiting research professor position at St. Louis University (also 2015). In 2016 he came to York to be Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department. \nJoshua Preiss \nJoshua Preiss is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics at Minnesota State University\, Mankato. His research is in moral and political philosophy\, political economy\, and the philosophy of economics\, including freedom in markets and the ethics of economic relations. His recent monograph Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century (Routledge 2021) concerns the theory\, practice\, and politics of justice in the face of winner-take-all trends in contemporary political economy. \nRahul Basu \nRahul Basu is the Research Director at Goa Foundation and a member of The Future We Need\, a global movement to make intergenerational equity foundational for civilization beginning with minerals. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-special-book-symposium-lazonick-william-shin-jang-sup-predatory-value-extraction-oxford-university-press-2019/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210423 DTSTAMP:20240129T015403Z CREATED:20240117T223518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015403Z UID:3108-1619049600-1619135999@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:[Workshop] Unconditional Basic Income: Can We Afford It? DESCRIPTION:Paper presentation and Roundtable discussion with Karl Widerquist\, Georg Arndt\, Filipe Duarte\, Pedro Teixeira\, Susana Peralta. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/workshop-series-unconditional-basic-income-can-we-afford-it/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Workshop series ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210409T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210409T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015506Z CREATED:20240117T223931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015506Z UID:3114-1617984000-1617987600@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Nuno Martins // Political Liberalism and Property-Owning Democracy in Contemporary Capitalism DESCRIPTION:The 13th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on April 9 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: “Political Liberalism and Property-Owning Democracy in Contemporary Capitalism” (2018). Nuno Martins\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Paul Bou-Habib and a debate with the participants. \nNuno Martins (speakers): Nuno Martins has a PhD in Economics by the University of Cambridge\, and a licenciatura in Economics by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto)\, where he also obtained his habilitation in History of Economic Thought. He is currently full professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa where he teaches History of Economic Thought and Social Philosophy and Ethics. He also taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of the Azores. He is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG) interdisciplinary research network\, and of the editorial board of various academic journals. He published the book The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy in 2013 (London and New York\, Routledge)\, and co-edited the book Contributions to Social Ontology (London\, Routledge). He has also published several articles in various academic journals. \nPaul Bou-Habib (discussant): Paul Bou-Habib teaches political theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He has written a number of articles in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. He is currently writing a book on the consequences of the “brain drain” for global justice. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-political-liberalism-and-property-owning-democracy-in-contemporary-capitalism-2018/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210317T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210317T183000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015611Z CREATED:20240117T224044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015611Z UID:3119-1615998600-1616005800@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Mónica Brito Vieira // A Silent Sisterhood DESCRIPTION:CEPS SEMINAR SERIES IN ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY \nMónica Brito Vieira (University of York)\, “A Silent Sisterhood”. \nThis chapter of Brito Vieira’s forthcoming book\, The Politics of Silence\, explores the complex historicity of a seemingly paradoxical tradition: feminist silent protesting. Within feminism\, silence figures prominently as the sign of oppression – as something that is done to one\, or a historically endured condition\, excluding women as speaking subjects. To break silence\, and to reclaim a speaking position for women\, is thus\, justifiably\, a key feminist desideratum. But is it necessarily the case that in speech\, and speech alone\, women might harbour any hope of enacting a “blueprint for a new life” (to cite Adrienne Rich’s famous poem)? This is the question the chapter pursues. \nThe Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics\, Politics\, and Society at the University of Minho\, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics\, social and political philosophy\, political and social theory. \nThe seminars are open to everyone\, but pre-registration is required. To register\, visit the link in attachment. \nAfter registering\, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries\, contact the organizers at gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt or dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt . URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/ceps-seminars-a-silent-sisterhood/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210312T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210312T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015828Z CREATED:20240121T182109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015828Z UID:3658-1615564800-1615568400@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Nicholas Vrousalis // Socialism Unrevised: A Reply to Roemer on Marx\, Exploitation\, Solidarity\, Worker Control DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Vrousalis (speaker): Nicholas Vrousalis is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before coming to Rotterdam\, he also taught political philosophy at Cambridge\, Leiden\, and KU Leuven. His research interests revolve around distributive ethics\, democratic theory\, the history of political thought (especially Kant\, Hegel and Marx). \nDaniele Santoro (discussant): Daniele is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics\, Politics\, and Society\, where he is also in charge of Political Philosophy Research Area and the Center Seminar Series. HE previously held appointments at Luiss University (where he also taught courses in political philosophy\, history of political thought\, philosophy of social sciences\, and bioethics) and at the National Research Council of Italy. HE earned a PhD in Philosophy of Law from the University of Padua\, and held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University\, and the Hoover Chaire of UCL Louvain. His current interests are in constitutional rights\, the justification of dissent\, and the epistemic aspects of rights. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-socialism-unrevised-a-reply-to-roemer-on-marx-exploitation-solidarity-worker-control/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210312T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210312T000000 DTSTAMP:20240130T221731Z CREATED:20240130T221647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T221731Z UID:3657-1615507200-1615507200@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:PREDPOD Reading Group - Socialism Unrevised: A Reply to Roemer on Marx\, Exploitation\, Solidarity\, Worker Control DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Vrousalis (speaker): Nicholas Vrousalis is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before coming to Rotterdam\, he also taught political philosophy at Cambridge\, Leiden\, and KU Leuven. His research interests revolve around distributive ethics\, democratic theory\, the history of political thought (especially Kant\, Hegel and Marx). \nDaniele Santoro (discussant): Daniele is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics\, Politics\, and Society\, where he is also in charge of Political Philosophy Research Area and the Center Seminar Series. HE previously held appointments at Luiss University (where he also taught courses in political philosophy\, history of political thought\, philosophy of social sciences\, and bioethics) and at the National Research Council of Italy. HE earned a PhD in Philosophy of Law from the University of Padua\, and held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University\, and the Hoover Chaire of UCL Louvain. His current interests are in constitutional rights\, the justification of dissent\, and the epistemic aspects of rights. URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-socialism-unrevised-a-reply-to-roemer-on-marx-exploitation-solidarity-worker-control-2/ CATEGORIES:Events,PREDPOD Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210304T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210304T180000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015710Z CREATED:20240121T184901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015710Z UID:3664-1614877200-1614880800@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Tom O’Shea // Socialist republicanism DESCRIPTION:The 11th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on March 4 2021 at 5pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: O’Shea\, T. Socialist republicanism. Political Theory\, 48(5)\, 548-572 (2020). Tom O’Shea\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Vincent Bourdeau and a debate with the participants. \nTom O’Shea (speaker): Tom O’Shea is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton. He researches several areas of practical philosophy – including moral\, social\, and political philosophy – with a focus on human freedom. Tom’s current project excavates the history of radical republican thought and defends a socialist republican conception of political and economic liberty. \nVincent Bourdeau (discussant): Vincent Bourdeau is Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Besançon (UBFC\, France) and researcher in the lab Logiques de l’agir (E.A. 2274). He is working on the relations between republicanism\, socialism and the emergence of social sciences in the 19th century and has also published on contemporary developments concerning republicanism. Amongst recent works on these subjects in French: Quand les socialistes inventaient l’avenir. Presse\, théories et expériences (1825-1860)\, La Découverte\, 2015 (directed with Thomas Bouchet\, Edward Castleton\, Ludovic Frobert and François Jarrige) and La République et ses démons. Essais de républicanisme appliqué\, éditions è®e\, 2006 (directed with Roberto Merrill). Publications in English include : “Revolutionary France and the Social Repubic that never was” (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revolutionary-france-and-social-republic-that-never-was/) and “What do todays republicans have to say about work” (https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-todays-republicans-have-to-say-about-work/). URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/predpod-reading-group-socialist-republicanism/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:PREDPOD Reading Group ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210219T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20210219T170000 DTSTAMP:20240129T015956Z CREATED:20240121T185014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T015956Z UID:3666-1613750400-1613754000@ceps.elach.uminho.pt SUMMARY:Robert Hockett // Open labor market operations DESCRIPTION:The 10th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on February 19 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: Hockett\, Robert. “Open labor market operations”. Challenge 63:6 (2019). Robert Hockett\, our invited speaker\, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Alan Thomas and a debate with the participants. \nRobert Hockett (speaker):