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Call for Papers

Conference on Republics and Republicanism. Theory and Practice. Heritage / Present and Future Perspectives

Venice International University, Venice, Italy
May 3-5, 2019

The aim of the conference is to discuss Republicanism in a broad, multidisciplinary and worldwide perspective, and to start up a series of such meetings to be held in Venice every two years. Themes covered: 1) Political theory and philosophy of Republicanism; 2) The historical manifestations of Republicanism in ideas, movements, regimes and the arts; 3) The study of contemporary political practices which are explicitly or implicitly republican and their future prospects. A more detailed description can be found here

Keynote Speaker: PHILIP PETTIT, Princeton University

Scholars in all fields are invited to apply for participation.

Paper submission

Please send your CV and an abstract with full contact address (including email), the title and a summary of the paper of approximately 250 words to silvia.casalini@univiu.org.
Deadline for submission: December 10, 2018
Notification of acceptance: by 15 January 2019

Organizing Committee

Shaul Bassi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St. Petersburg)
Natalia Mazur (European University at St. Petersburg)
Luca Pes (Venice International University)
Giovanni Zanalda (Duke University)

Download the program of the conference

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