Project Activities

Standing Seminar on Intercultural Justice
Centre for Human and Social Sciences
Spanish National Research Council

Past Sessions:

- 17 October, 2008:

Michael Lee Ross (Peter Grant & Associates, Vancouver. Canadá): Reflections on the Reconciliation of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in Light of Aristotle’s Account of Friendship

- 20/21 October, 2008: International Workshop: Intercultural justice. Minority groups and normative conflicts in pluralist societies. Saragosse, Ajafería Palace, Giménez Abad Foundation.

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- 27 January, 2009:

Jeannette Campos (Univ. of Costa Rica): Arguing the Abortion issue

- 20 February, 2009:

Ángel Rivero (Autonomous University of Madrid): Religion and Politics in XVII century Europe. From the Apology of Obedience to the Acceptance of Charisma.

- 10 March, 2009:

Kamal Mejahdi (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid): The Idea of Tolerance in Islam.

- 17 April, 2009:

Valeriano Esteban (University of La Laguna) – Ana López Sala (CCHS-CSIC): Religious pluralism, politics and society. The crisis of “reasonable accommodations” in Québec.

- 12 June, 2009:

Susan Hodgett (Social and Policy Research Institute. University of Ulster, UK): On the Use of Narratives for Assessing Development Policy.

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- 4 February, 2010:

José Murilo de Carvalho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): Monarchy and the Birth of Brazil.

Carlos A. Patiño Villa (National University of Colombia): The Latin American Exception in the Process of State-building: a view from Colombia.

- 24 February, 2010:

Asier Martínez de Bringas (Universidad de Girona): Human Rights and Cultural Diversity

Jesús Casquete (University of the Basque Country): The Politics of Death in Basque Radical Nationalism

- 24 March, 2010:

Ángel Rivero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): The Return of Religion to the Political Arena in Europe

- 6-7 May, 2010. International Seminar: The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World. Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London:

Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto, Canada): Three Versions of the Politics of Conscience: Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke.

Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto, Canada): Liberty in Rousseau's Plan for a Constitution for Corsica

Michel Ducharme (University of British Columbia, Canada): The Concept of Freedom in Canada in the Age of Revolutions (1791-1837)

Ambrosio Velasco (UNAM, México): Ibero-American Humanism and the Mexican Independence

José María Hernández Losada (National University of Distance Learning, Spain): Decorum and Barbarism in the Dissolution of the Spanish Empire in America

Ángel Rivero (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain): The Revolution of 1820 and the Advent of Liberalism in Portugal

Francisco Colom (National Research Council, Spain): Politics as Culture: the Social and Theoretical Features of Hispanic Liberalism

Rubem Barboza Filho (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil): Political Languages and Rights: the Brazilian Experience

- 21 May, 2010:

Philip Resnick (University of British Columbia, Canada): New Worlds, New Jerusalems. Reflections on North American Identity

- 14 June, 2010:

Lasse Thomassen (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid): (Not) Just a Piece of Cloth: Begum, Recognition and the Politics of Representation

- 8 October, 2010:

Juan Ignacio Hernández Mora (Universidad de Quintana Roo, México):The influence of the Cadiz Constitution in the formation of the Mexican Nation-state

Tomás Pérez Vejo (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia - INAH, México): A Creole Elegy. Reinterpeting the Spanish-American Wars of Independence

- 28-29 October, 2010: International seminar: Migration and religious diversity. Saragosse, Aljafería Palace, Giménez Abad Foundation.

- 12 November, 2010:

Derya Bayir (Istanbul Bar Association): Lynching and Ethnic Violence in Turkey. A critical analysis of Turkish Jurisprudence

Prakash Shah (Queen Mary. University of London): Inconvenient Marriages, or what happens when ethnic Minorities marry trans-jurisdictionally according to their self-chosen Norms

- 19 November, 2010:

Elisabetta di Castro (UNAM,Mexico):Diversity, Identities and Justice

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-21 January, 2011:

Gianni D'Amato (Université de Neufchâtel, Switzerland): Pluralism and Integration under Stress: European convergences

-15 March, 2011:

Astrid Wagner (CCHS-CSIC): Can we speak of an intercultural rationallity?

- 15 April, 20 Apri, 2011: Religious pluralism and secularism in Europe and North America. University of Genoa (Italy)

- 18 May, 2011:

Luciano Patruno (University of Bari, Italy): The governmental Nomos in the European public space