Centre for Public Values and Ethics

30/10/2024

The Leiden Centre for Public Values and Ethics (CPVE) is pleased to announce the inaugural Leiden Public Ethics Undergraduate Conference.

The conference will be held on November 22, 2024, in The Hague on the theme Borders Reimagined: Identity, Culture, and Justice in a Globalized World.
Keynote by Dr. Matthew Longo.

The conference will take place in Wijnhaven, room 3.46, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP Den Haag from 1100 to 1700.

To register for the conference, please fill out the following form before November 20, 2024: https://lnkd.in/gk-D38CB

See the conference schedule in comment below.

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22/08/2024

International Political Science Association RC31 (Political Philosophy) welcomes submissions for both open and closed panels for the 2025 IPSA congress in Seoul. Deadline open panels: August 28, 2024. Deadline closed panels: November 5, 2024.

The Call for Panels for the 2025 IPSA World Congress of Political Science is now open! Don't miss this exciting opportunity to share your research with peers and engage with the global political science community. We welcome panel proposals on any subject in political science and look forward to fea...

22/11/2022

Dear colleagues,
This message to warmly invite to the next online session of the Leiden Public Ethics Talks series.

Topic: Decolonizing Academic Work

Speaker: Raewyn Connell
Date: Thursday 8 December 2022
Time 11:00 - 12:00 hour CET
Serie
Public Ethics Talks

Address
The event will be hosted via Teams

Abstract
What is meant by 'decolonizing' in the current university world? There are different agendas: contesting racism, defending indigenous knowledge, offering alternative epistemologies. In this talk I will focus on the practical and institutional level. Our universities and disciplinary knowledges exist in a global economy of knowledge, the product of 500 years of imperialism and global economy. The knowledge dividend of empire was important in the development of disciplinary knowledge; a global division of labour constituted the colonized world as a giant data mine and located theory & methodology mainly in the elite knowledge institutions of the global metropole. Challenging hegemony in this economy of knowledge involves intellectual changes, including shifting the agendas of research and the conventions of method in research and teaching. To decolonize academic practices requires us to address the formation of a global workforce in higher education and research, to reverse the current inequalities in communication, and to loosen the controls that tie knowledge institutions to the competitive reproduction of global inequality.

Raewyn Connel
Raewyn Connell is a famous Australian sociologist, and Professor Emerita of Sydney University. Most relevantly for this talk, she is the author of The Good University (2019), where she offers an explanation and critique of how (some) universities currently work, and explores alternatives to existing higher-education institutions, policies, and practices.

For the Teams channel that will host the talk, please follow this link:

What is meant by 'decolonizing' in the current university world? There are different agendas: contesting racism, defending indigenous knowledge, offering alternative epistemologies. In this talk I will focus on the practical and institutional level. Our universities and disciplinary knowledges exist...

19/04/2022

Dear all,
Our next Public Ethics Talks event will take place on May 4, at 17:30CEST. Behnam Taebi and Nina Tannenwald will talk about the ethics of nuclear energy policies and the ethics of nuclear weapons policies. All welcome!

The debate about the future of nuclear energy is often reduced to a yes/no dichotomy. Ethics is expected to serve in this debate in a stop light fashion showing a green or red light to nuclear energy policies. The talk aims to shift from this “stop light” approach to a different one, that evalua...

07/02/2022

Governments and non-profit organizations have increasingly turned to randomized controlled trials to evaluate public policy interventions. In this talk, Douglas MacKay identifies some of the principal ethical challenges investigators face regarding the design of these studies, including the fairness...

07/02/2022

Our next Public Ethics Talks event will take place on February 18, at 16:00pm CET.

Douglas MacKay (University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill) will talk about the ethics of public policy experiments. More details about the event here:

Governments and non-profit organizations have increasingly turned to randomized controlled trials to evaluate public policy interventions. In this talk, Douglas MacKay identifies some of the principal ethical challenges investigators face regarding the design of these studies, including the fairness...

09/04/2021

The Public Ethics Talks series is continuing online! You are all warmly invited to our next talk next Thursday, April 15, Filippo Santoni de Sio (Delft/Milan) is going to talk about AI and responsibility gaps. The meeting starts at 15:15 and will last for about 1 hour.

The full details for the event are available here:

The notion of “responsibility gap” was originally introduced in the philosophical debate to indicate the concern that the introduction in society of machine learning may make more difficult or impossible to attribute moral culpability to persons for untoward eventscaused by intelligence machin...

13/03/2020

Because it now matters more than ever who you vote for and why you vote, take a look at our brand new REDEM project website on the of :
http://www.redem-h2020.eu
Feel free to drop us an email with comments, questions and suggestions via our website. We'd love to hear from you!

REDEM project

18/01/2020

This looks great!

The Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) is happy to announce the Fifth edition of the ICRN Forum, which will take place on June 11-13, 2020 at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. The ICRN Forum aims to bring together international junior researchers from all discipline...

14/01/2020

For all those interested in : The REDEM project on the of has its kick-off conference on February 5 and February 6, 2020 in Paris (see programme below). All welcome and don't hesitate to spread the word!

Venue: Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), 98 Rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, Salle Lavau (ground floor)
Note: This programme may be amended in the run-up to the workshop. From January 15 onward please check the project website (www.redem-h2020.eu) for updates.

Day 1 - February 5
Welcome address (09:45 – 10:00)

Panel 1: democratic ethics and politics (10:00 – 12:30)
Annabelle Lever, CEVIPOF/SciencesPo
Martial Foucault, CEVIPOF/SciencesPo
Valeria Ottonelli, University of Genoa
Carys Roberts, Institute of Public Policy Research

Lunch (12:30-14:00)

Panel 2: democracy, rationality and inequality (14:00 – 16:30)
Andrei Poama, University of Leiden
Alexandru Volacu, University of Bucharest
Emanuela Ceva, University of Geneva
Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva

Tea/coffee break (16:30-17:00)

Open panel (17:00 – 18:30)
The open panels will feature contributions from outside the project consortium including Cees van Dijk (ProDemos, The Hague), Sylvain Brouard (SciencesPo/CEVIPOF) and others.

Drinks and dinner (19:00)

Day 2 - February 6

Panel 1: the demos, partisanship and technology (10:00 – 12:30)
Ludvig Beckman, University of Stockholm
Andreas Albertsen, Aarhus University
Virginie Tournay, CEVIPOF/SciencesPo
Chiara Destri, CEVIPOF/SciencesPo

Lunch (12:30-14:00)

Panel 2: Membership and Voice: Local and Global (14:00 – 16:30)
Marcus Häggrot, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.
José Luis Martí, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Ismael Peña López, Government of Catalonia
Elise Rouméas, CEVIPOF/SciencesPo

Tea/coffee break (16:30-17:00)

Open panel (17:00 – 18:30)
The open panels will feature contributions from outside the project consortium including Cees van Dijk (ProDemos, The Hague), Sylvain Brouard (SciencesPo/CEVIPOF) and others.

Drinks and dinner (19:00)

26/11/2019

Thank you for a wonderful Public Ethics talk, dr. Zeynep Pamuk! We hope that the proposal for a gets to be piloted soon!

Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

19/11/2019

All welcome! Our next Public Ethics talk will feature Dr. Zeynep Pamuk, who thinks we should create an international science court where ordinary citizens have an important role to play.

Date: November 26, 16:30
Place: Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague.

More details here: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/preview/events/2019/11/public-ethics-talk-whos-watching-the-experts-a-proposal-for-a-science-court
Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
Leiden University Campus the Hague
Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University

Modern societies depend on expertise on many issues. This poses a problem for democracies since nonexperts must evaluate policies based on knowledge claims they may not understand. This talk develops an institutional proposal to facilitate democratic scrutiny over expertise : creating an adversarial...