Join us for a seminar on "Constitutional Right to Truth? How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U). 🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10 🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo

Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona Zarić (AUP) 🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15 🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...

📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy at AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts (www.co3socialcontract.eu) + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 [email protected] #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law

Join Stephen W. Sawyer for a lecture on "Demos Unbound: The French Revolution, 1770-1830" in Seoul, South Korea. Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025 Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...

The CCDS goes to Korea! Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project. www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Congratulations, @Jaeger-bombe and @espol-lab.bsky.social! We are absolutely delighted to celebrate this richly deserved milestone of our brilliant postdoc Research Fellow!

[Workshop on Cities]. If you are in Paris, or interested by the topic and want to join us via zoom, we are organizing a two-day international workshop in @ccds-aup.bsky.social on the 12-13 of June, on the Autonomy of Cities: sites.google.com/view/worksho....

Are racist jokes funny or dangerous? Can they be both? My new blog on ECtHR's inadequate analysis of satirical hate speech: satire is a vital political instrument, but courts must be mindful of humor's ability to propagate and legitimize prejudice and bigotry. Based on my article: tinyurl.com/humrz

Yesterday at @ccds-aup.bsky.social, the workshop on "Autonomy and the Law", was a very insightful and stimulating event, with great colleagues. @rzinigrad.bsky.social Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)

We thank all participants & guests of the "Autonomy and the Law" workshop featuring extraordinary works on CLTs, moral autonomy of the person, typology of the right to housing, meaning of home, condition of the interpreter, child's autonomy in education, and consumer protection.

Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on “Autonomy and the Law” on May 13, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, and digital markets. Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social

Une première, je viens d'enregistrer un podcast d'une heure et demie sur le thème de la vulnérabilité en philosophie politique (avec l'aide de collègues à AUP pour la technique). J'espère que ce sera disponible dans les prochaines semaines. Quels autres thèmes vous intéresserait?

A fantastic, eye-opening lecture by @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) on the role of mainstream media, security crises, and public opinion in the normalization of far-right politics in Germany. (Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)

How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP). Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker

Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, will deliver the 2025 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture at @Stanford’s Dept. of French & Italian. 🗓 April 10, 2025 🕔 5:15 PM 🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century

Starting Deleuze in Philosophy of Film today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...

A fantastic presentation by Claudia Wiesner on her latest book analyzing the French & German national discourses that shape or undermine the formation of EU identity(ies). With incisive commentary by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social & Johannes Karremans @espol-lab.bsky.social on the looming EU crisis.

Claudia Wiesner (Fulda U) will present her recent book on "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity" (Routledge, 2024), followed by commentary by Johannes Karremans (@espol-lab.bsky.social) and @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social (AUP). Join us on April 3! Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner

The anti-fascist novel, “The Aesthetics of Resistance,” by Peter Weiss, is now out in English in its entirety. Join us on April 4 to celebrate the publication of volume III in English. With the translator, Joel Scott & commentary by Charlotte Thiessen. Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSResistance

For those interested in the intersection of Admin Law and Democracy, and are at the Yale Law School on March 28: Stephen Sawyer (AUP, @europeatharvard.bsky.social) will be launching his new book, “Demos Rising” (UCP, 2025) at the Yale European Law Association. Commentary by Susan Rose-Ackerman.

[Article Publication] Here it is : www.nature.com/articles/s41... For people interested by the relations between behavioral economics and political philosophy.

We are excited to welcome Stina Bergman Blix (@uu.se), who will speak on March 31 about "Feelings in Law: An International Comparison of Legal Decision-making." Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSBlix For more details: www.aup.edu/news-events/...

“Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production”, a new article by Daniel Stockemer (U Ottawa) & Stephen Sawyer (AUP) in Political Science & Politics. Read it in open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S10490…

"Whose Problem was Small Change?" Join our seminar with @rlspang.bsky.social (Indiana U) for a comparative analysis of 18th-century Britain & the Qing Empire in the production of small-denomination coin. Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSSpang

What a week! In untertan times, while ‚The West‘ is collapsing, searching for identity, German elections bring another change and the world that we once knew is over, i had a full and super interesting week. It was marked by the uncertainty and the dramatic changes we are facing.

JUST PUBLISHED! TODAY! 🙂🙂🙂 20 FEBRUARY 2025 🔝🔝🔝 Link here 👉https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/judicial-bricolage-9781509974009/ @iureamicorum.bsky.social @argeliaqueralt.bsky.social @iconsgermany.bsky.social @sirigloppen.bsky.social @flavioqr.bsky.social @flaviafreidenberg.bsky.social

Excellent presentation and Q&A on @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social’s new research project on the meaning and impact of European “human values”, based on the @evs-values.bsky.social platform.

For the CO3 consortium, I wrote a piece on social contract theories, accessible here shs.hal.science/halshs-04954... . It proposes a general overview of social contract theories from Hobbes to more contemporary contributions. I hope it can be a useful piece :)

Join us on March 18, at 17:00, for a seminar on "Parallel Lines: Marx, Spinoza, Deleuze" by Jason Read @usouthernmaine.bsky.social & commentary by Étienne Balibar @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social . Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSRead (Co-organized with Sive Natura)

Join us on February 19, for a lecture by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social, on "The Conflict of Human Values in Europe", examining the alarming developments and normative foundations of Western democracies. Registration: [email protected]

The paperback ed of "Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History" (@cambridgeup.bsky.social) is now available for purchase. See esp. ch. 6: "Of Rights and Regulation: Technologies of Socioeconomic Governance in a Revolutionary Age" by Stephen Sawyer (AUP) & William J. Novak (UMich).

Join our webinar to discuss the #AbidjanPrinciples on the regulation of private education in international law, with @rzinigrad.bsky.social and other experts on the right to education. Feb. 20, 10:00 (Paris time). Register here: bit.ly/4jMRhhS.

Le colloque Philosophie politique et marché : entre critique, acceptation et célébration s’est tenu hier à ESPOL dans le cadre de mon cours Éthique économique, sociale et politique (L2). Échanges riches, et participation étudiante remarquable : belle preuve de la qualité de notre formation PPE !

[Workshop Call for Abstract] if you are interested in the political and legal status of the city, feel free to apply! Please share if you know some people who could be interested :)

Call for Abstracts: "Exploring the Autonomy of Cities: Philosophical, Legal, and Policy Dimensions". Workshop: June 12-13, 2025. Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2025. Info: tinyurl.com/CCDSCities Contact @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social for more details.

Fantastic presentation and commentary at @pyneron.bsky.social's book launch, "Seeing Like a Firm" (OUP, 2024): on the political theory of the firm, conservatism and TNCs, workplace democracy, and the (innate?) inequality in corporate structures. Organized by @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social and Peter Hägel

Lovely start of term 2 with this thoughtful 📕 🎁 courtesy of @profgbarrett.bsky.social

Join us this Thursday, at 17:30 for the 3rd session of the Care & Democracy seminar with Barbara Formis (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) on⁩ “Repair, Redo, Maintain: Performance Art and the Practice of Care”. Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSFormis Organized by @zonazaric.bsky.social and Sandra Laugier

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) @ccds-aup.bsky.social of the The American University of Paris is organizing a workshop on my book Seeing Like a Firm (OUP). Discussants will be P. Hägel (AUP), S. Blanc (INSEEC) and M. Delorme (U. de Montréal/U. de Nantes). On Jan 20, from 5pm-7pm.

Join us on January 20 (in person or online) for a conversation with Pierre-Yves Néron (@espol-lab.bsky.social) about his latest book: "Seeing Like a Firm" (@oxunipress.bsky.social, 2024). Organized by Peter Hägel (AUP) & (@jaeger-bombe.bsky.social). Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSPYNeron

What role does the organization of labor relations play in the health of a democratic society? Join the CGCC at Northwestern for a session on Axel Honneth's "The Working Sovereign" (Polity, 2024), w/Stephen W. Sawyer (AUP) *online, Jan 24, 10am* Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/j/96476648256

Many thanks to the @ccds-aup.bsky.social for a fantastic conference on “Renewing the Social Contract”, and for the opportunity to present my paper titled: “Is solidarity necessary for democracy? (and if so, what should constitutional law do about it?)”, part of my ongoing project on solidarity

The “Renewing the Social Contract” conference has ended, with more than 70 participants, 11 panels, and two stellar keynotes by @albertpweale.bsky.social (@uclspp.bsky.social) and Myriam Hunter-Henin (@ucllaws.bsky.social). Thank you everyone!

It exists! It's pink! It's beautiful. Read it! Seeing Like a Firm, just published this fall at Oxford University Press. By focusing on the contemporary business corporation, it offers fresh perspectives on the recent history of social justice, neoliberalism, and conservatism.

The CO3 consortium convenes at The American University of Paris to present its members’ findings and plan for the next steps in the development of the “Continuous Social Contract”. The meeting also kicks off the first day of the “Renewing the Social Contract” Conference.

Join us on Dec 18-19 for an international conference on “Renewing the Social Contract: The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory”. Conference website: aup.edu/news-events/... Guest registration: forms.gle/Fk6Tav8PbWrh...

Thank you, @reedbrody.bsky.social, for speaking with our IHRL and IL students at AUP, about the (grim) prospects of human rights advocacy, future strategies of @hrw.org, the ICC’s impact on the war in Gaza, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social’s critique of human rights, and your 2022 book, “To Catch a Dictator”

❗🥷Job announcement: IR Assistant Professor. Deadline for applications: Dec 1. Come work with us

❗🌴Job announcement 2: Poli Sci/IR (Environmental Politics) Assistant Professor. Deadline for applications: Dec 1. Come work with us!

Absolutely superb inaugural lecture by @janinadill.bsky.social Congrats Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00 youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...