INVITED SPEAKERS
DANIELE ARCHIBUGI /// CNRS (Italy) and Birkbeck College (University of London)
Daniele Archibugi is Director of National Research Council (CNR), Rome, at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS), of which he was also Acting Director from July 2018 to June 2020. He is also Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at University of London, Birkbeck College and member of the Academic Council of the Venice International University. He deals with economics and politics of innovation and technological change and with political theory of international relations. He started working at the CNR in the Institute of Research Studies and Scientific Documentation directed by Paolo Bisogno. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, Naples, Rome Sapienza, Rome LUISS, London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard. He has also taught courses at Asian universities such as Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and SWEFE University in Chengdu. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Sussex and in 2016 honorary member of the Réseau de Recherche sur l'Innovation. He is an advisor to the European Union, the OECD, the Council of Europe, various United Nations agencies and national governments. He has directed numerous research projects for the European Commission and other international organizations. |
HELEN FROWE /// Stockholm University Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She works on moral and political philosophy, with particular interests in the ethics of harming and saving. She is Honorary Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy. In 2022-2023 she is a Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. Her work on the ethics of war and self-defence has been published in Ethics, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, as two monographs (Defensive Killing, Oxford University Press; The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction, Routledge) and in numerous edited collections. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War. |
MATHIAS THALER /// University of Edinburgh
Mathias Thaler is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in contemporary political theory. Thaler regularly teaches courses on democratic theory, populism, human rights and the morality of war and violence. He currently serves as Co-Director of Research in the School of Social and Political Science. Thaler is the author of No Other Planet (Cambridge University Press 2022), Naming Violence (Columbia University Press 2018), Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? (Campus 2008), and co-editor (with Mihaela Mihai) of Political Violence and the Imagination (Routledge 2020) and of On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies (Palgrave 2014). His papers have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Environmental Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies, Political Theory, and Review of Politics, amongst others. His recent research has been funded by the European Commission, through a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2013–2017), and by the Leverhulme Trust, through a Research Fellowship (2020–2021). Thaler has moreover been the recipient of competitive awards from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Theodor Körner Fonds and the Gulbenkian Foundation, as well as smaller funders. Over the past ten years, Thaler has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Université de Montréal, KU Leuven and the University of Sydney. |
MIHAELA MIHAI /// University of Edinburgh
Mihaela Mihai is a Senior Lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh and a co-director of the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought. Her research focuses on political memory, art and politics, social epistemology and political emotions. She is the author of two monographs Negative Emotions and Transitional Justice (Columbia University Press, 2016) and of Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2022) and numerous articles published in journals such as Political Studies, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, International Journals of Transitional Justice, and Journal of Political Philosophy. Mihai has recently completed a 5 years’ European Research Council Starting Grant dedicated to the study of complicity with and resistance against violent political regimes. |
NADIA URBINATI /// Columbia University
Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. Urbinati is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and was a co-editor with Andrew Arato of the academic journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization and the Feltrinelli Foundation (Milan). Professor Urbinati is the author of Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2019); The Tyranny of the Moderns (Yale University Press 2015); Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People (Harvard University Press, 2014); Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government (University of Chicago Press, 2002). She has edited Carlo Rosselli, Liberal Socialism (Princeton University Press, 1994); Piero Gobetti, On Liberal Revolution (Yale University Press,2002). She co-edited several books, in particular: with Monique Canto-Sperber Le socialism libéral: Une anthologie; Europe-États-Unis (Éditions Esprit 2003); with Alex Zakaras, John Stuart Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press, 2007); with Stefano Recchia, A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building and International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2009); with Steven Lukes, Condorcet's Political Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2012); with Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, Hans Kelsen’s On the Worth and Values of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013); with Lisa Disch and Mathijs van de Sande, The Constructivism Turn in Political Representation (Edinburg University Press, 2019). |
RICHARD BELLAMY /// University College London
Richard was educated at the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute in Florence. After three years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford he went on to lectureships at Cambridge and Edinburgh and then to Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia, Reading, Essex and UCL. At UCL he was the founding Head of the new Department of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy from 2005- 2010 and of UCL’s European Institute, which he also established, from 2010-2013. Richard’s main research interests are in the history of European social and political theory post-1750 and contemporary analytical legal, social and political philosophy, with a particular emphasis on public ethics, and the application of normative theory to the understanding of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in modern societies. Richard has worked extensively on Italian political thought and in 2012 he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy, given `for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics’. His work on constitutionalism culminated in his Political Constitutionalism, which won the 2009 David and Elaine Spitz Prize. Richard has also been a leading figure in the normative study of the European Union and directed a number of prominent ESRC and European Commission research projects in this area as well as publishing extensively on the topic. |
SILJE LANGVATN/// University of Bergen
Silje A. Langvatn is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT). She has previously held positions such as postdoctoral fellow at SVT, postdoctoral fellow at PluriCourts, University of Oslo, Law & Philosophy, fellow at Yale Law School (2016), and Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard Government Department (2009). Her essays have appeared in journals such as Constellations, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, Ethics & International Affairs. In 2020, she co-edited a book (with Mattias Kumm and Wojciech Sadurski) of Public Reason and Courts (Cambridge University Press). |
STUART WHITE /// University of Oxford
Stuart White is the Nicholas Drake Tutorial Fellow in Politics and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. Stuart White has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University, and did his PhD in Politics at Princeton University in the USA. He gained a Career Development Research Award for his teaching as Assistant Professor in Politics at MIT, where he worked for three years before joining Jesus College in 2000. Stuart White’s research focuses on centrally of democracy, citizenship and property rights and the question of what rights to resources we should have as members of a democratic community. A unifying theme is the concern to explore visions of society that are at once anti-capitalist and opposed to authoritarian forms of socialism. He explores this theme in studies that range across political philosophy, public policy and the history of political thought. Major publications include: (ed.) New Labour: The Progressive Future? (2001); The Civic Minimum: On the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship (2003); The Ethics of Stakeholding (2003); The Citizen’s Stake: Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies (2006); Equality (2006); How to Defend Inheritance Tax (2008); (co-ed. with Daniel Leighton) Building a Citizens’ Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy (2008); and a free to download e-book (co-ed. with Niki Seth-Smith) Democratic Wealth (2014). Stuart’s most recent article is ‘Parliaments, Constitutional Conventions, and Popular Sovereignty’ in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. |