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The Politeia Conference has been established to bring to a wider audience some of the innovative ideas driving discussions about the future of our society.
This conference is a bi-annual event where creative and stimulating views about social an political events.
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| Living in Global Cities and Suburbs |
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 Living in Global Cities and Suburbs: On the Illusion of the Achievement of Equality
On Tuesday May 11the the Politeia Conference 2010 took place, with Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen as guest lecturers. Saskia Sassen discussed what has happened to large cities in the past decades and what we can learn from these developments, while Richard Sennett analysed the negative consequences of meritocracy in its current form.
For an impression, visit the photo galery.
A Dutch translation of both lecture will appear in Ethische Perspectieven in the course of 2010.
(Photo: Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett at the Politeia Conference, © Rob Stevens)
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| 2008 - Social Justice & Religion in Public Spaces |
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The lectures of the first day will be published in a book on Nussbaum and economy by Cambridge University Press in 2009.
Most of the second day lectures will be published as more elaborate articles in Ethical Perspectives (in English) and Ethische Perspectieven (in Dutch) later in 2008. After publication the pdf-files will be made available.
The powerpoint-presentations by Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert and Afshin Ellian are already available on www.kuleuven.be/oce/
The Politeia-Conference is organised by the Centre for Ethics to acquaint a broad public with innovating insights that can stimulate the dialogue on the future of our society. The Politeia-Conference is a biennial event to which internationally known guests or researchers with an inspiring vision to social and political developments are invited.
The Politeia-Conference is organised, on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March, by the Centre for Ethics in cooperation with the Centre for Economics and Ethics of the K.U.Leuven, celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
On Thursday March 13, the Centre for Economics and Ethics organises a conference on : "Justice and Capabilities" by Martha Nussbaum. In this conference, Martha Nussbaum’s ideas on these questions will be scrutinised by four leading economists: David Ellerman, Marc Fleurbaey, Martin van Hees and Erik Schokkaert.
On Friday 14 March the central theme of the conference is Religion in Public Spaces. Speakers are: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago, U.S.), Marianne Moyaert (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), Herman De Dijn (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), Marie-Claire Foblets (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), Afshin Ellian (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands).
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| 2002 - The Rise of Lifestyle Politics |
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Until recently, political ideology provided a broad context of meaning and united a large group of people who strived for the same social ideals. The communication between the leadership of a political party and the grass-roots members went by way of local party representatives, and the voter's ballot was a sign of trust in the ability of the party leadership to translate their ideas into concrete political decisions.
Now it seems that the traditional ideology-based political movements are a thing of the past. Their role and influence is in decline, while the importance of communication through the mass media has increased dramatically. Politicians are finding it necessary to show their faces on television.
The guestspeakers for this conference were: Christina Holtz-Bacha (Gütenberg Universität Münster), Pippa Norris (Harvard) en John Gray (London School of Economics).
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| 2000 - Modern media & social dialogue |
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Politicians attach great importance to the way in which they are portrayed in the media. Word choice and timing are carefully weighed. Corporations, social institutions and public services often appeal to communications experts. Under the motto `better communication', advertising agencies promote not only consumer goods but also ideas, lifestyles, beliefs and even blunders.
At precisely the same moment, social scientists and philosophers are reaching an agreement that moral beliefs and social objectives are purified and legitimated when they are the object of a wide-ranging dialogue. Views and ideals cannot simply be derived from individual reflections, abstract theories or tradition. Whoever wants to discover which social principles are legitimate and respectable must take part in the discussion about concrete social choices with all parties concerned.
Major speakers were: Zygmunt Bauman, Elihu Katz, Johan Galtung, Serge Moscovici, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Stephen K. White, Harry Kunneman, Gilles Lipovetsky, and Clifford Christians. The central question dealt with by this conference was how the media can make a contribution, in the present context, to a high-quality social dialogue.
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| 1998 - Courageaous or indifferent individualism |
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Individualism can be seen as a gift or a curse, depending on the context in witch it occurs. Alongside ideals such as maturity, autonomy and emancipation, 'individualism' appears one of modern culture's most cherished acquisitions.
The guestspeaker for this conference was Robert Bellah, who, within his later work, has reacted to the drastic consequences which ensue from the process of individualism: growing social inequality and the breakdown of public facilities.
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