Brave New World 2023
This year’s Brave New World is the 27th annual postgraduate conference organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). The conference will take place on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th of June 2023 at the University of Manchester. All talks will be in the Hanson Room of the Humanities Bridgeford Street building.
The full conference programme (including abstracts) is available here.
For the schedule of talks, see below.
For any questions, feel free to contact Dennis Pirdzuns at
→ bnw@manchester.ac.uk.
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11:00-12:00 |
Welcome & Lunch |
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12:00-13:00 |
Opening Keynote Marit Hammond |
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13:00-13:15 |
Break |
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13:15-15:15 |
Panel 1: Democracy and Dimensions of Discourse Suzanne Bloks: Diversity and Respect in Parliamentary Debate Will Siegmund: The Psychological Preconditions of Epistemic Democracy Scott Arthurson: “The Wrong Kind of People”: Theorizing Anti-Populism, Populism, and Elite Conceptions of the Popular
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15:15-15:30 |
Break |
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15:30-17:30 |
Panel 2: Sustainability and the Politics of Place Thomas Moore: The Value of Place and Climate Change: A Conservative Argument for Greater Climate Action Virginia De Biasio: Not Just “Sinking Islands”: Natural Resources and Climate Adaption in Kiribati Erika Brandl: Intergenerational distributive justice and the adequacy of dwellings: re-qualifying housing resources
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17:30-18:30 |
Drinks Reception |
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19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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10:00-11:30 |
Panel 3: Challenges of Modern Technology Joe Place: Can AI Concerns Be Acceptable To All? A Political Liberal Position on AI and Work. (online) Nina de Groot: For-Fun DNA Tests, Investigative Genetic Genealogy, and its Impact on Social Privacy (online)
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11:30-13:00 |
Panel 4: Positional Goods in Questions of Justice Julian Omar Payne: Inequality and Moral Incentives (online) Oriol Alegría: “For whoever has will be given more”: the issue of accumulation for equality of opportunity. (online)
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30-16:00 |
Panel 5: War and Inevitable Wrong-doing Gianni Sarra: Dirty Hands and the Just War Tradition: Who is Fair Game in Political Mudslinging?
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16:00-16:15 |
Break |
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16:15-17:15 |
Closing Keynote Carl Knight |
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17:15-17:30 |
Closing Remarks |
