​The ​ASPP Annual Conference will be hosted by the Politics Department at Newcastle University on 24 - 26 June 2019. Click here to visit conference website.

The theme will be: Justice in Times of Austerity, Rupture, and Polarisation.
 
We welcome papers in any area of social and political philosophy, and particularly encourage papers offering normative or evaluative perspectives addressed to the contemporary political climate - papers concerned with justice in or in response to the context of countries reducing public expenditure and/ or budget deficits, rising inequality, attitudes and parties veering towards political extremes, declining political civility, and both states and supra-state institutions facing schisms and separatist movements.

This could include topics such as:

• Social and economic policy
• Disadvantage and inequality
• Political ruptures
• Democratic crisis and renewal

Submission Details

• For enquiries about the conference and to submit paper and panel proposals, please contact aspp.ncl.2019@gmail.com
• Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2019
• For panel submissions, please send one document with the panel title and paper abstracts (maximum 500 words per abstract)
• For paper submissions, please send one document with the paper title and abstract (maximum 500 words)
• In all cases, please include author name, affiliation, and contact details

Accepted presenters will be notified by 28 February 2019.

Details about registration, conferences fees, and the programme will follow shortly thereafter.

Conference Organisers

• Meera Inglis
• Ian O'Flynn
• Andrew Walton

The 2018 ASPP Conference was co-organised by LUISS Guido Carli (Department of Political Science) and Sapienza University of Rome (Department of Philosophy).

The conference was held 21 - 23 June 2018 in Rome and the theme of the conference was Legitimacy.

Organisers:

• Mariano Croce, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Philosophy
• Valentina Gentile, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Department of Political Science
• Gianfranco Pellegrino, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Department of Political Science

Keynote speakers:

• Allen Buchanan, Duke University
• Davina Cooper, King’s College London
• Fabienne Peter, University of Warwick

Click here to view the keynote lecture given by Allen Buchanan, Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.

Click here to visit conference website.