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27-28 June 2019

The Anthropocene is the era of pervasive human impact on the planet. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane concentrations that exceed Holocene peak levels, techno-fossils frozen in Greenland ice sheets, and massive species extinction are all indications of planetary boundaries that have come under stress due to human industrial, commercial, and agricultural activity. Humanity’s relationship to its environment is changing. Lagging behind that change is serious reflection on how best to understand and direct it.

Goethe University Frankfurt
"Normative Ordnungen", 5.01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Organized by Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf (Chair for International Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University, Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders")

Konferenz

25. und 26. Oktober 2018

Gebäude „Normative Ordnungen“, EG 01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
Campus Westend
Goethe-Universität

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten an ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

This conference will revisit G.A. Cohen’s Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence on the occasion of its 40th year. It is organized by Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Frankfurt) and Prof. Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden) and hosted and supported by the Excellence Cluster Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt.

KMTH combines analytic rigor with a commitment to understanding the dynamic of historical transition from one social form to another. It was the founding book of a philosophical current that came to be called “Analytic Marxism,” and which brought Marxist theory to the discipline of analytic philosophy. The current was influential across left-leaning Economics, Philosophy and Political Science for more than two decades, from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

The conference will offer an opportunity for critical reflection on KMTH’s arguments, import, and legacy. It will also engage critically with the moment that was analytical Marxism. Our hope is that critical engagement with KMTH will serve to further develop analytic critical social theory.

International Conference

21-22 June, 2018

Goethe University, Campus Westend
Normative Orders, Room 5.01

17th May 2018, 11.00am - 6.00pm and 18th May 2018, 10.15am - 4.00pm

The international community has committed itself to limiting global warming to well below 2ᴼC, possibly as low as 1.5ᴼC. But the vast majority of the scenarios that forecast how that might be done require the use of carbon dioxide removal technology. That technology has not yet been developed to a sufficient extent, and there might be bio-physical and economic limits to deployment on the scale forecasted. Alternatives would seem to include only 1) very deep emissions reductions, perhaps requiring economic austerity, risking global recession, and constraining poverty eradication projects in the developing world, 2) exceeding the 2ᴼC warming limit, or 3) the use of solar radiation management, which also remains underdeveloped. Should limiting warming to well below 2ᴼC with the aid of carbon dioxide removal technology be the primary focus of mitigation policy or should policy be redirected towards one of the alternatives? How should trade-offs be evaluated? What moral considerations should guide decision-making?

Hörsaal im Arthur-von-Weinberg-Haus
Robert-Meyer-Straße 2
60325 Frankfurt am Main

Workshop on Idil Boran's Book Manuscript

14 May 2018, 9.30am - 6.30pm

In the last two decades, there has been growing interest in looking at global climate change from the lens of global political theory. Most of the debate in this field revolves around allocating rights and responsibilities with regard to climate change across a map of global politics based on the state-system. This book presents a different picture of the landscape. While the role of the states is acknowledged, the book turns its attention to the evolving interrelations between non-state actors and the intergovernmental process in the implementation phase of the Paris Agreement. In so doing, the book seeks to open a window into an intricate fabric of a global life of climate action. By bringing a multiplicity of actors below and above the state into the field of vision, the book challenges underlying assumptions about global politics regarding climate change endemic to contemporary political theory. Harnessing the resources of recent work on global studies and transnational governance, its aim is to take a step forward toward recasting the public sphere at the conjuncture of a changing global polity. This shift in framework provides an angle to better see new risks and dilemmas, as well as new questions of equity, legitimacy, and political debate, arising in this domain.

Advance registration is required for attendance. For more information or to register, please contact Ellen Nieß (ellen.niess@normativeorders.net) or Brian Milstein (brian.m.milstein@gmail.com)

Lecture as Part of the Conference "Workers of the Wolrd. Labour, Migration, & Solidarity"

10 July 2017, 18.00-19.30 h

Claus Offe

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", EG 01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Registration required:
ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Organized by the Chair of International Political Theory, Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders"

Conceptualizing the term “integration” as a deal, we set out to define a scale on which all refugees⸗ related policy tools can be located. It is demonstrated that most of these tools are employed in order to circumvent and avoid the chal-lenge of integration rather than effec-tively coping with it.

Conference

10-11 July 2017

Convenor: Eszter Kollár (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Organized by the Chair of International Political Theory

Registration required: ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Goethe-University Frankfurt, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
Frankfurt am Main

Lecture

Erik Olin Wright

15th May 2017, 6-7.30pm

Chair:
Eszter Kollár (Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders")

Discussants:
Thomas Biebricher (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Nicholas Vrousalis (Universiteit Leiden)

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", EG 01
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Please register in advance:
ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias will be published in German, Reale Utopien - Wege aus dem Kapitalismus, by Suhrkamp in May 2017.

Abstract
While capitalism has become more destructive both to the lives of people and the health of the environment, it seems to most people an unalterable force of nature. Social democratic hopes of taming capitalism by neutralizing its harmful effects through decisive state regulations have been undermined by the globalization and financialization of capital. Revolutionary ambitions of smashing capitalism through a ruptural seizure of state power, a coercive dissolution of capitalist institutions and their replacement by an emancipatory alternative, lack credibility. Are these the only logics of transformation? There may be a different route that points beyond capitalism: eroding capitalism by revitalizing the state’s capacity to democratically subordinate the market from above, by strengthening initiatives from below to build emancipatory alternatives in the spaces and cracks within capitalist economies where this is possible, and by struggling politically to defend and expand such spaces. These are central aspirations of constructing real utopias.

Book Workshop with Simon Caney - Part II (Frankfurr)

27. Januar 2017, 9.30am-6.40pm

This will be the second of two workshops being held on Caney’s manuscript. The first was held on the 20th of January at the University of Birmingham Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, where participants focused on Caney’s theory of environmental justice. In this workshop, we will be looking closely at the right to resist global injustice. Caney’s egalitarian conception of global justice is a theme of both workshops.

Please register in advance: ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

`Author meets Critics’ workshop with John Baker

19-20 December 2016

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Convenors: Darrel Moellendorf and Eszter Kollár

Participation is free and open to all. Registration is necessary and available until room capacity. Please, register with ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Author meets critics” workshop on the manuscript of the 2nd ed. of John Baker’s 1987 book Arguing for Equality. It discusses the justification for, and political implications of, valuing social, political, and economic equality.  Arguing for Equality is a philosophically informed book written for activists and citizens interested in public political life. The workshop aims to bring together the new generation of political theorists to critically assess the main ideas of the book and to discuss the prospects for the idea of equality in our times.

Frankfurt - Ottawa Workshop

6 June 2016, 9am-6.15pm

Speakers:
Christian Barry (ANU)
Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa)
Eszter Kollár (GU Frankfurt)
Paul Bou-Habib (University of Essex)
Dimitrios Efthymiou (GU Frankfurt)
Oliviero Angeli (TU Dresden)
Luara Ferracioli (University of Amsterdam)
David Owen (University of Southampton)
Ayelet Shachar (MPI Göttingen)

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", Room 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Participation is free and open to all. Registration is necessary and available until room capacity. Please, register with Ellen.Niess@normativeorders.net

Workshop with Chris Armstrong on his book manuscript: Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory (forthcoming in Oxford University Press).

With: Chris Armstrong (University of Southampton), Ayelet Banai (University of Haifa), Daniel Callies (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Ian Carter (University of Pavia), Anca Gheaus (University of Sheffield), Eszter Kollár (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Merten Reglitz (Goethe-University Frankfurt).

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Registration required: ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

About the book:

Natural resources are an important sources of advantage, and their fair distribution - and, in many cases, their conservation - poses formidable practical and philosophical challenges. This book provides a systematic philosophical account of natural resource justice, and illustrates some of its implications. It has three main goals. First, it offers a conceptual account of natural resources, the rights we might have over them, and the grounds and content of the special claims with which some of us might be able to make over them. Second, it defends an egalitarian approach to questions of natural resource justice, and draws out some of its implications. Third, it offers a critique of the contemporary regime of state sovereignty over resources, and sketches a set of proposals for advancing greater equality. It assesses the progressive potential of reforms to the resource trade, and global taxes on natural resources; examines the challenge of fairly sharing the oceans' resources; and addresses how we might justly distribute the burdens of conserving key resources such as rainforests, and / or leaving fossil fuels unexploited.

This is a call for extended abstracts (500-1000 words) of papers that will be suitable for 30 min presentations.

This workshop will be a chance to discuss new work in climate ethics and economics, and especially their intersection. The workshop will be held at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany on March 3^rd and 4^th, 2016. A parallel workshop will be held at Duke University on the same days, which we plan to link with via videoconferencing for a section of the workshop. Those closer to Durham should submit their blinded abstracts to the Duke workshop using this link.

A non-exhaustive list of potential topics follows:

• The ethical aspects of discounting future costs and benefits, including declining discount rates.
• Valuation of non-human nature, the continued existence of human civilization, or futures containing very different amounts of people in the context of climate change economics
• The relationship of, and compatibility between, non-consequentialist ethical approaches and economic analyses of climate change.
• The appropriate role of integrated assessment models (IAMs) and economic analysis generally in setting climate change policy.

Please submit blinded abstracts to daniel.callies@normativeorders.net by December 1. When submitting, please be aware we aim to have pre-circulation of papers by Feb 15.

Feel free to circulate this call.

Symposium with Gillian Brock and Michael Blake on their new book: Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (OUP 2015)

With Michael Blake (Washington), Gillian Brock (Auckland), Daniel Callies (Frankfurt am Main), Eszter Kollar (Frankfurt am Main), Darrel Moellendorf (Frankfurt am Main), Merten Reglitz (Frankfurt am Main), Christine Straehle (Ottawa), Lea Ypi (LSE)

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Registration required: ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Update: Many thanks to all participants of the workshop!

Registration required: ellen.niess@normativeorders.net