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Renewing the Social Contract | Conference 2024

University Room: Omid & Gisel Kordestani Rooftop Conference Center (Q-801)
6 rue du Colonel Combes
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 09:00 to Thursday, December 19, 2024 - 18:00

Renewing the Social Contract

The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory 

International Conference

Center for Critical Democracy Studies, The American University of Paris

December 17-19, 2024

Overview

December 17

CO3 Horizon Europe Consortium: Resilient Social Contracts for Democratic Societies

* Participants in the International Conference on December 18-19, are also welcome to attend the Consortium presentations

 

December 18-19

International Conference: Renewing the Social Contract: The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory

Keynotes | Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL), Albert Weale (UCL)

 

Organizers
  • Stephen Sawyer | ssawyerataup.edu
  • Roman Zinigrad | rzinigradataup.edu
  • Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger | ncolinjaegerataup.edu
  • Emilia Palonen | emilia.palonenathelsinki.fi
  • Anna Björk | anna.bjorkatdemoshelsinki.fi

Provisional Schedule

Tuesday, December 17

CO3 Horizon Europe Consortium: Resilient Social Contracts for Democratic Societies

* Participants in the International Conference on December 18-19, are also welcome to attend the Consortium presentations

 

9h00-9h30 - Welcome & Coffee

09h30-10h45 - T2.1

Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger AUP | Overview of Social Contract Theories

Stephen Sawyer AUP | Sociological Social Contracts

Other proposals for T2.1

10h45-11h00 - Break

11:00-12:15 - T2.4

Cristiano Gianolla University of Coimbra | States, Empires, Post-colonialism and the Social Contract

Other proposals for T2.4

12h15-13h30 - Lunch

13h30-14h45 - T2.3

Emilia Palonen University of Helsinki | Polarization and the Social Contract

14h45-15h00 - Break

15h00-16h15 - T2.2

Claudia Wiesner Fulda University and Ruzha Smilova Sofia University | Social Contract in the European Union

16h15-17h30 - Discussion of WP2 // Links with WP3

17h30-19h00 - Break

19h00Dinner

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December 18-19

International Conference: Renewing the Social Contract: The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory

Keynotes | Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL), Albert Weale (UCL)

 

Wednesday, December 18

9h00-9h30 - Coffee

09h30-11h00 - Session 1

Social Contracts Revisited

9h15-9h30 - Welcome remarks

11h00-11h15 - Break

11h15-12h45 - Parallel Sessions 2 & 3

  • Session 2 Post-colonial Perspectives on the Social Contract
  • Session 3 Social Contract in Non-ideal Conditions

12:45-14:00 - Lunch

14h00-15h30 - Parallel Sessions 4 & 5

  • Session 4 Les fondements du contrat social (in French)
  • Session 5 Alternative Social Contracts

15h30-16h30 - Coffee & discussion break

16h30-17h30 - Keynote

Albert Weale UCL | Political Contracts and Democratic Values: What Can Constitution Making Tell Us?

17h30-19h00 - Reception at AUP

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Thursday, December 19

9h00-9h30 - Coffee

9h30-11h00 - Parallel Sessions 6 & 7

  • Session 6 Critiques des théories traditionnelles du Contrat Social (in French)
  • Session 7 Capitalism, Public Reason and the Social Contract

11h00-11h15 - Break

11h15-12h45 - Keynote

Myriam Hunter-Henin UCL | The Regulation of Religious Interests: A Test for the Resilience of Social Contract Theory

14h00-15h30 - Parallel Sessions 8 & 9

  • Session 8 Constitutional Norms and The Social Contract
  • Session 9 Extending the Social Contract

12:45-14:00 - Lunch

15h45-16h45 - Session 10

  • Capitalism, Democracy, and the Social Contract

16h45-17h00 - Break

17h00-17h45 - Concluding round table discussion:

Anna Björk Demos Helsinki

Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger AUP

Emilia Palonen University of Helsinki

Stephen Sawyer AUP

Roman Zinigrad AUP

Session Details

Session 1: Social Contracts Revisited
  • Chair | Annabelle Lever SciencesPo
  • Zachary Swirski McMaster University | Hegel’s Rabble and Nomadic Becomings
  • Fabien Lechevalier Université Paris-Saclay | Crafting the Future: A New Social Contract for the Digital Age
  • Olivia Custer AUP | Consent to the Social Contract in the Wake of #metoo

 

Session 2: Post-colonial Perspectives on the Social Contract
  • Alnusf Marzouq Kuwait University | The Global Aspect in the Racial Critique of Social Contract Theory
  • Vanda Amaro Dias & Cristiano Gianolla University of Coimbra | The Articulation of Mythologies Through the Social Contract in Empires, Nation-States and Europe: Challenges to Democratisation in Modern Liberal Polities
  • Andrew Stewart Chapman University | Counterstories and the Social Contract

 

Session 3: Social Contract in Non-ideal Conditions
  • Daniel Smilov Sofia University | The Concept of Social Contract in the Theories of European Integration
  • Ana Matan University of Zagreb | Realist Utopia for a Compound Democratic Community of States
  • Théophile Pénigaud Yale University | Engaging with the Non-ideal Behind the Veil of Ignorance

 

Session 4: Les fondements du contrat social (in French)
  • Clara Lucas Centre Émile Durkheim, ScPo Bordeaux | Le Contrat social jaune : Rousseau et les Gilets jaunes
  • Simone Leotta LIER-FYT/EHESS | Du nouveau sous l’ancien ? Le statut de la « religion civile » dans le Contrat social
  • Maude Vidal EHESS | Contrat social et norme fondamentale, Kelsen lecteur de Vaihinger

 

Session 5: Alternative Social Contracts
  • Chair | Zach Freig UC Berkeley
  • David Peters AUP | James Wilson’s Revolutionary Critique of and Alternative to Contract Theory
  • Kevin Leportier Université de Caen Normandie | Freedom, crises and liberal social contracts
  • Clémence Pellissier Trinity College Dublin | The Social Contract versus Autonomy? A Study on Arendt’s Critique of Rousseau’s Theory

 

Session 6: Critiques des théories traditionnelles du Contrat Social (in French)
  • Léa Antonicelli SciencesPo | Une critique féministe intersectionnelle de l’utilité publique pour refonder un contrat social inclusif
  • Djamel Chikh Ottawa University
  • Valentin Avenard Université de Nantes | En finir avec un contrat social

 

Session 7: Capitalism, Public Reason and the Social Contract
  • Chair | Leora Dahan Katz Hebrew U
  • Tonci Kursar University of Zagreb | How to restore democratic capitalism as a social contract? Controversies of Streeck’s understanding of ‘interregnum’
  • Elias Moser University of Graz | Nozick’s Individualist Anarchist and a Libertarian Argument for Redistribution
  • Cyril Hédoin Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne | Living in Disagreement: Public Reason and Jurisdictional Rights

 

Session 8: Constitutional Norms and The Social Contract
  • Chair | Roman Zinigrad AUP
  • Mohsin Bhat QMUL School of Law | Adjudicating Belonging: Citizenship and the Identity of the Constitutional Compact
  • Vandana Singh USLLS | Jurisprudential Foundation of Rule of Law through Prism of Social Contract Theory
  • Tamar Hostovsky Brandes Ono Academic College | Is solidarity necessary for democracy?

 

Session 9: Extending the Social Contract
  • Aviezer Tucker University of Ostrava | Panarchy: Non-territorial Contractarianism
  • Nefeli Lefkopoulou Sciences Po | FRenewing the social contract through city empowerment
  • Xhejn Xhindi Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Oliver Feltham AUP | Locke’s state of nature as colonial practice: social contract and ecology

 

Session 10: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Social Contract
  • Peter Hägel AUP | Customizing Social Contracts for Consumer Society?
  • Anja Thomas Hochschule Fulda/University of Lille/EUI | A Question of the Underlying Social Contract? About the Differentiated Impact of Populism on Policy-Making in Proportional and in Majoritarian Democracies
  • Elijah Okpanachi Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria | Democracy in the 21st Century: Current Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Democratic Governance