Freedom and Democracy: European Perceptions, European Perspectives

Location: Slovenia
Deadline: 2008-09-01

The program committee welcomes original contributions from the areas of
political philosophy, philosophy od law, political and social ethics, political
science and interdisciplinary studies on the following topics: hermeneutics of
freedom and democracy in modern Europe; treaties of the European Union:
political and philosophical aspects; EU institutions (courts, parliaments,
executives, bureaucracies) and the understandings of freedom, responsibility
and/or democracy in their respective contexts; Eastern Europe (1989-91) and
political philosophy; Southeast Europe, Turkey and the European Union; a
European ethos and the concept of European civil society; social solidarity,
integration and conceptions of European citizenship; the European Union as a
liberal legal order; freedom, justice, democracy and capitalism(s) in Europe;
migration, borders and the new territories of multiculturalism: political, legal
and social aspects; comparative issues (for
example, the EU and the USA).

Dates of the conference: December 4-6, 2008 Venue: Faculty of Humanities, Koper,
Slovenia

Lenart Skof, Univ. of Primorska, Titov trg 5, Koper, tel: +386 41 758 371
Email: tomaz.grusovnik@...
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