Comentário: David Alvarez (Universidade de Vigo) e João Cardoso Rosas (CEHUM)

Resumo
'The Political Philosophy Week' brings together researchers from inside and outside CES in a productive dialogue over the normative foundations of a democratic society. Through a partnership with the Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade de Minho and the PhD Programe "Democracia no Século XXI" of the Universidade de Coimbra, we bring to the interested public two seminars and a book workshop in political philosophy, to be held in CES Coimbra and CES Lisboa. 'The Political Philosophy Week' features as key-note speakers Alessandro Ferrara from the Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy and Serdar Tekin from the Ege University in Izmir, Turkey.


Notas biográficas

Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and currently serving as President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy, has graduated in Philosophy in Italy (1975) and later, as a Harkness Fellow, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1984). He has conducted post-doctoral research in Munich and Frankfurt with Jürgen Habermas as a Von Humboldt Fellow and later at Berkeley again, leading to the publication of his first book Modernity and Authenticity (1993).
He has been an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" between 1984 and 1998, then an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Parma between 1998 and 2002, and since 2002 is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Since 2007 he also teaches "Multiculturalism and Theories of Justice" at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan.

Since 1991 he has been a Diretor of the Yearly Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, initially part of the regular activities of the Interuniversity Centre of Dubrovnik, but since 1993 relocated in Prague, under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science and later of Charles University. Since 1990 he has been a founder and a Co-Director of the Seminario di Teoria Critica, which meets yearly in Gallarate, Italy. And since 2007 he is on the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Seminars on religion and politics, held at Bilgi University in Istanbul under the auspices of the Association Reset - Dialogues of Civilizations.
He serves as editorial consultant on the board of a number of journals including Constellations, Philosophy and Social Criticism and The European Journal of Philosophy, and on the Advisory Board of the series New Directions in Critical Theory at Columbia University Press.
He has taught and lectured in various capacities in a number of universities and institutions, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Rice University, Cardozo Law School, The New School for Social Research and the Universities of Berkeley, Madrid, Chicago, Potsdam, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Exeter, Manchester.

Selected publications:
• The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, New York, Columbia University Press, 2008.
• The Uses of Judgment, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 34, 1-2, 2008.
• "'Political' Cosmopolitanism and Judgment", in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 10, n. 1, 2007, pp. 491-504.
• "Europe as a special area for human hope", in Constellations, 14:3, 2007, pp. 315-331.
• "Religion und postsäkulare Vernünftigkeit", in Transit, vol. 31, 2006, pp. 5-25.

David Álvarez García received his PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Yale (2007-2009) where he worked with Seyla Benhabib on cosmopolitan citizenship, and with Thomas Pogge as a Fellow of the Yale Global Justice Program (2009-2010) where he keeps a Corresponding Fellow status. He currently holds a permanent position at the University of Vigo. His main research interests are: Global Justice, Cosmopolitan Citizenship, Global Health Justice and Regimes of Toleration. He has recently published in Isegoría, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought and Springer Encyclopedia of Global Justice. He also actively supports the Health Impact Fund (HIF) and ASAP.org.

João Cardoso Rosas (BA and MA, University of Porto; Ph.D. European University Institute - Florence) is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy in the University of Minho and Visiting Professor in the Institute of Political Studies and in ISCTE. He also has been Michael Teague Visiting Professor at Brown University and Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Social Justice - University of Oxford. His research interests include contemporary theories of justice, doctrinal pluralism, political truth and human rights. His most recent books are Concepções da Justiça[Conceptions of Justice], Edições 70, 2011 and, with Roberto Merrill (eds.), Ética, Democracia e Tecnologia [Ethics, Democracy and Technology], Edições Húmus, 2010. He belongs to the scientific council of the Portuguese Philosophical Society and he is a member of the board of directors of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy. Currently, he is President of the Portuguese Political Science Association.
 

Nota: Atividades no âmbito do Núcleo de Estudos sobre Humanidades, Migrações e Estudos para a Paz (NHUMEP) e do Núcleo de Estudos sobre Democracia, Cidadania e Direito (DECIDe)