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Call for Papers: ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2016 (Pisa)
Understanding political violence involves many different theoretical and practical operations: from examining the social macro-structures that both enable and constrain actors engaging in violence, to investigating the motives and drives of individual perpetrators. A myriad of disciplinary approaches, both in the social sciences and the humanities, contribute to the study of political violence. One aspect, however, has received relatively little attention, even though it is central to a holistic approach to political violence: the faculty of imagination. We broadly conceptualize imagination as the ability to make present what is absent. As such, imagination is different from, and yet related to, both reason and emotion. This workshop will interrogate the role that the faculty of imagination can play in understanding past, as well as on-going, instances of political violence. Several questions motivate this workshop: Can certain uses of the imagination help us tackle the challenge of responding to unprecedented forms of violence? More concretely, in the aftermath of conflicts, what is the political value of literature and cinema recounting human rights violations? What about the use of counterfactuals in philosophical justifications of policy measures with regards to violence? Can media representations of distant suffering facilitate processes of understanding, build solidarity and catalyse action? Or are they inexorably entangled in ideological manoeuvres? Political theorists, IR scholars as well as comparativists have recently begun to raise these questions by looking into the politics of representation and narrative in the context of violence. What unites these approaches is an interest in how images and stories relate to the real world of politics. Scholars have been investigating whether, as products of the imagination, representations can have a cathartic effect on democratic societies emerging from a past of violence, give voice to victims and witnesses, trigger processes of reconciliation and forgiveness or become part of the wider societal conversation about ongoing conflicts. This workshop situates itself at the productive confluence of these fields of inquiry. No ECPR Joint Session workshop in recent times has grappled with the politics of representation and narrative. We will fill this gap by creating a forum for discussion among four constituencies within the profession: (1) political theorists working on the faculty of imagination and how it relates to other human capacities essential to political action; (2) students of transitional justice who examine the role of art in promoting reconciliation and democratic values in the wake of conflict; (3) IR scholars working at the intersection between politics and aesthetics; and (4) comparativists who investigate the institutional and informal mechanisms of tackling violence contextually. The interdisciplinary nature of the workshop will facilitate an inclusive and reflexive debate on the role that imagination as a faculty – and its artistic, philosophical and methodological expressions – can play in unpacking complex issues of political violence. --- Applications must be made through the ECPR website, where you may also find more information about the workshop format and eligibility criteria: http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=101 The deadline for paper proposals is 1 December 2015. If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at mathias.thaler@ed.ac.uk and mihaela.mihai@ed.ac.uk.
Program: European Pragmatism Conference, Helsinki, June 13-15 , 2018
The third European Pragmatism Conference will take place at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 13-15 June 2018. The conference is organized by the Nordic Pragmatism Network in collaboration with Associazione Pragma (Italy), Pragmata (France), the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the European Pragmatism Association. The conference is hosted and sponsored by the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence Reason and Religious Recognition at the Faculty of Theology, and the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Organizing committee (NPN): Henrik Rydenfelt (Oulu), chair Mats Bergman (Helsinki) Antje Gimmler (Aalborg) Katariina Holma (Oulu) Erkki Kilpinen (Helsinki) Jonathan Knowles (NTNU, Trondheim) Torjus Midtgarden (Bergen) Jón Ólafsson (Reykjavík) Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Tallinn) Sami Pihlström (Helsinki) Bjørn Ramberg (Oslo) Frederik Stjernfelt (Aalborg/Copenhagen) Ulf Zackariasson (Uppsala) Chiara Ambrosio (UCL) Programme committee (EPA) Henrik Rydenfelt (Oulu; NPN) Sami Pihlström (Helsinki; NPN) Rossella Fabbrichesi (Università degli Studi di Milano; Pragma) Guido Baggio (Roma 3; Pragma) Daniel Cefaï (EHESS; Pragmata) Mathias Girel (ENS; Pragmata) Emil Visnovsky (Comenius University; CEPF) John Ryder (American University of Malta; CEPF) Previous conferences The First European Pragmatism Conference (Rome, Italy, September 2012) The Second European Pragmatism Conference (Paris, France, September 2015) CONTACT info@europeanpragmatism.org https://europeanpragmatism.org/events/third-european-pragmatism-conference/
Editorial Years after Montesquieu has coined his famous doctrine of the trias politica, we seem to be living in what one could call the confusa politica. It is not so much that the classic institutions have developed and adopted different roles, but that it is mostly unclear what the roles of the different institutions really are. This means that it becomes difficult to assess when the institutions have transgressed their powers and when checks and balances should be in place. This does not mean that there are no checks and balances or that one or more institutions have taken absolute power, but it does implicate a world in which every institution is taking as much power as it can, only to be stopped by another institution that seemingly does the same.
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