Upcoming conference on the social ontology of sovereignty, in Navarra, Spain, March 14-th-16th. Invited keynote speakers are Hans-Bernhard Schmid, Thomas Pink and Jenny Pelletier. See the website in Spanish or English and download the CFP (English). Organized by Mark Hoipkemier (Navarra), Michaël Bauwens (Antwerp), David Thunder (Strasbourg), Sergio Clavero (Navarra).
The University of Navarra invites paper proposals for the 57th annual Philosophical Meetings / Reuniones Filosóficas, to be held March 14-16, 2024 on the theme of the social ontology of sovereignty. Historically, the conflict between the state and rival forms of social order has prompted much of the best theorizing on the nature of social reality. The 17th-century alone saw Hobbes’s juridical absolutism, grounded on an ontology of covenants and personification, pitted against Filmer’s divine right theory grounded in a state-family analogy and Bellarmine’s dual theory of popular sovereignty in the state and divine sovereignty in the Church. Conflicts of governance, both before and since, have spurred similarly vital social-ontological debates among jurists, theologians, and philosophers. The Westphalian state remains very much with us, and the ongoing resurgence of social ontology will do well to turn full attention to the fertile and consequential puzzles that sovereignty continues to raise. What can cool-headed contemporary social ontology and heated real-world debates over the state learn from each other?
Submission Guidelines
- Submit proposals by January 10, 2024, to sovereignty2024UNAV@gmail.com
- Abstracts should be 400-600 words long
- Presentations should be around 20 minutes long and may be given in English or Spanish (or another language such as French/German, if there is a critical mass of presenters)
Michaël Bauwens 