This event, part of the Justice and Democracy beyond the Nation-State: Lessons From and For Europe seminar series, aimed to bring together people interested in legal and political philosophy with those interested in Europe for a discussion about where these two areas meet.

Speaker: Professor Philippe Van Parijs (Visiting Professor, Oxford)

Session Two: 15.00 to 15.45

Professor Iver Neumann (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, LSE), Constructivism and the Turn to Practice. Discussant: Mr Quentin Bruneau (Oxford DPIR). Chair: Professor Todd Hall (University of Toronto).

This half-day workshop discussed the contributions of constructivism and what the future constructivist research agenda might look like. The Convenor was Professor Andrew Hurrell.

Session One: ‘The Role of Agency in Constructivism’

There is now a far more sophisticated understanding of the contested character of global order and of ‘non-western’ perspectives. Much work has been done to pluralize and relativize the study of IR, and to question a mainstream that is often unaware of the deeply western-centric character of its assumed historical narratives, its allegedly universal theoretical categories, and its political preoccupations. But where does this agenda go next?

There is now a far more sophisticated understanding of the contested character of global order and of ‘non-western’ perspectives. Much work has been done to pluralize and relativize the study of IR, and to question a mainstream that is often unaware of the deeply western-centric character of its assumed historical narratives, its allegedly universal theoretical categories, and its political preoccupations. But where does this agenda go next?

There is now a far more sophisticated understanding of the contested character of global order and of ‘non-western’ perspectives. Much work has been done to pluralize and relativize the study of IR, and to question a mainstream that is often unaware of the deeply western-centric character of its assumed historical narratives, its allegedly universal theoretical categories, and its political preoccupations. But where does this agenda go next?

There is now a far more sophisticated understanding of the contested character of global order and of ‘non-western’ perspectives. Much work has been done to pluralize and relativize the study of IR, and to question a mainstream that is often unaware of the deeply western-centric character of its assumed historical narratives, its allegedly universal theoretical categories, and its political preoccupations. But where does this agenda go next?

Conference in honour of the political philosopher David Miller.

Panel 1

Chair: Ashwini Vasanthakumar 

Jonathan Quong: Miller’s Crossing 

Anna Stilz: On Self-Determination

Panel 2

Chair: Cécile Fabre 

Avia Pasternak: Mobs, Firms and Nations – a Critique of David Miller’s Account of Collective Responsibility 

Alan Patten: Public Good Fairness

Panel 3

Chair: Simon Caney