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Annual Conference

Since its inception, the Association has organised annual conference.
If you are interested in hosting the annual conference at your university, then please to [email protected]


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Upcoming conference

2025: University of Glasgow, UK
Organisers: Carl Knight, Nikolas Kirby and Michael Frazer
Keynotes:
  • Simon Caney
  • Lisa Herzog

Proposals for both panels and single papers are currently being accepted. Paper proposals should include a title, author's name and institutional affiliation, and an abstract of up to 300 words. Panel proposals should include a title, the names and affiliations of all participants (including a chair and discussant), and titles and abstracts for each of three papers. Please email all proposals to [email protected]. The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday 10 March 2025. The conference fee will be £120.


Previous conferences

2024: Swansea University, UK

Organisers: Paddy McQueen and Patrick Cockburn
Keynotes:
  • Tommy J. Curry (Edinburgh)
  • Emily McTernan (UCL)
  • David Owen (Southampton)

2022: Durham University, UK
Theme: Political philosophy and political activism
Organisers: Elizabeth Kahn (Durham) and Brian Carey (Durham)
Keynotes:
  • Martin O'Neill
  • Jonathan Wolff
  • Lea Ypi

2021: Online workshop (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Theme: Crises of liberalism?
Organisers: Jonathan Seglow and Nat Rutherford

2020: Conference cancelled (thanks, Covid)

2019: Newcastle University, UK
Organisers: Meera Inglis, Ian O'Flynn and Andrew Walton
Theme: Justice in times of austerity, rupture and polarisation
Keynotes:
  • Annabelle Lever
  • Victor Tadros

2018: LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
Theme: Legitimacy
Organisers: Gianfranco Pellegrino, Mariano Croce, Valeria Ottonelli
Keynotes:
  • Allen Buchanan
  • Davina Cooper
  • Fabienne Peter

2017: University of Sheffield, UK
Theme: Political ethics
Organisers: Matt Sleat and Ed Hall
Keynotes;
  • Chandran Kukathas
  • Clare Chambers

2016: London School of Economics, UK
Theme: Rebellion, resistance and revolution
Organisers: Lea Ypi and Kai Spiekermann
Keynotes:
  • Anne Phillips
  • Rainer Forst

2015: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organisers: Roland Pierik, Enzo Rossi and Stefan Rummens
Keynotes:
  • Jean Cohen
  • Cecile Laborde

2014: University of Leeds, UK
Theme: Injustice
Organisers: Kerri Woods and Derek Edvayne
Keynotes:
  • Jennifer Saul
  • Jeff Spinner-Halev

2013: Stirling University, UK
Theme: Combining theory and practice
Organisers: Rowan Cruft and Ben Saunders
Keynotes:
  • Serena Olsaretti
  • Bob Goodin

2012: Queen's University Belfast, UK
Theme: Freedom
Organisers: Keith Breen and Cillian McBride
Keynotes:
  • Philip Pettit
  • Richard Bellamy

2011: University of Warwick, UK
Theme: Democracy, legitimacy and rights
Organiser: Dean Machin
Keynotes:
  • Thomas Christiano
  • Antony Duff

2010: University of Southampton, UK
Theme: The future(s) of democratic citizenship
Organiser: Chris Armstrong
Keynotes:
  • Stuart White
  • Rainer Baubock

2009: University of Edinburgh, UK
Theme: Ethics for the 21st Century
Organiser: Cecile Fabre
Keynotes:
  • Jeff McMahan
  • Jonathan Wolff

2008: University of Nottingham, UK
Theme: Global justice
Organisers: Matthew Humphrey and Lucy Sargisson
Keynotes:
  • Margaret Moore
  • Kok-Chor Tan
  • Stephen Gardiner

2007: Keele University, UK
Theme: Aliens and nations: Citizenship, sovereignty and global politics in the 21st Century
Organisers: Monica Mookherjee and Glen Newey
Keynotes:
  • Elisabetta Galeotti
  • Stephen Macedo

2006: University College Dublin, Ireland
Organisers: Jurgen de Wispelaere, Graham Finlay and Carlos Bruen
Theme: Social justice in practice
Keynotes:
  • John Baker
  • Paola Casal
  • Avner de Shalit
  • Russell Hardin
  • Richard Hull
  • Ingrid Robeyns
  • Doris Schroeder
  • Phillipe Van Parijs
  • Jonathan Wolff

2005: University of Strathclyde, UK
Theme: Freedom of expression
Organiser: Glen Newey

2004: University of Wales, Newport (now University of South Wales), UK
Theme: Equality
Organiser: Gideon Calder

2003: University of Newcastle, UK
Theme: Disagreement, dissent and disobedience
Organisers: Peter Jones and Simon Caney
Keynote: Neil McCormick

2002: Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Theme: Altruism
Organiser: Jonathan Seglow
Keynote: David Miller

2000: University of Exeter, UK
Theme: The culture of toleration
Organisers: Dario Castiglione and Catriona Mckinnon

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