Month: March 2013

3 May 2013
Leslie Stephen Room
Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Morning session: Domination and Unfreedom

Chair: Hallvard Lillehammer

10.20 – 11.40 David Blunt (Cambridge)
Conceptualizing Domination

Respondent: Amanda Cawston

11.40 – 1.00 Laura Valentini (UCL)
Freedom as Independence

Respondent: Neal Carrier

Afternoon session: Domination and Inequality

Chair: Chris Thompson

2 – 3.20 Stuart White (Oxford)
The Relevance of Republicanisms

Respondent: Claire Benn

3.20 – 4.40 Nicholas Vrousalis (Cambridge)
What domination is (and what it is not)

Respondent: Sebastian Nye

Fascism: what it is and how to fight it

Sunday 17th February
Keynes Hall
King’s College, Cambridge

Session 1: Fascism in History
Chair: Dr Lorna Finlayson

10.00 – 10.50am Dr John Pollard on Italy
10.50 – 11.40am Dr Martin Ruehl on Germany
11.40 – 12.30pm Dr David Renton on the UK

Session 2: The Politics of Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Chair: Amy Gilligan

1.30 – 2.15pm Joseph Choonara on the United Front
2.15 – 3pm Dr Nicholas Vrousalis on Fascism and the State (and a note on no-platform)

Session 3: Fighting Fascism Today
Chair: Laura Kilbride

3.10 – 3.50pm Mitch Mitchell on the UK
3.50 – 4.30pm Elisabeth Mantzari on Greece
4.30 – 5.10pm Dr Clement Mouhot on France

17 May 2013

Coleridge Room
Jesus College, Cambridge

Should fascists and/or racists be given a platform? Does denial of platform deprive racists of freedom of speech? Should that freedom be protected? Liberal conventional wisdom tends to answer most, or all, of these and related questions in the affirmative. This workshop will critically engage with the liberal conventional wisdom and challenge the assumptions underpinning it.

Morning session

Chair: Priya Gopal

10.30 – 11.30am Caleb Yong (Oxford)
Liberal Rights, Free Speech, and Hate Speech

11.30 – 12.30am Nicholas Vrousalis (Cambridge)
Hate Speech and Inequality

Afternoon session

Chair: Chris Thompson

2 – 3.00pm Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge)
Free Speech as Liberal Fiction

3 – 4.00pm Sebastian Nye (Cambridge)
No-platform, Speech and Speech Acts

The Political Philosophy Workshop is a forum for discussing work in progress by Cambridge political philosophers at the doctoral level and above.

Papers are pre-circulated on the Workshop mailing list and must be read in advance: there will be no presentation of the paper at the Workshop.

The Workshop is open to senior members and graduate students in Political Philosophy and is not limited to members of the Faculty of Philosophy. More details here.