Contemporary European Thought Research Group
The Contemporary European Thought Research Group is an inter-disciplinary cluster based in the Department of French at the University of Cambridge. The group’s current project is to provide a focus for research excellence and publications on the notion of equality, within the framework of contemporary European thought.
In 2010 and 2011 the group will organize a series of seven occasional seminars dedicated to critically engaging with the notion of equality in its philosophical and political dimensions, putting philosophical articulations of equality in political perspective and philosophically interrogating political equality. It is expected that papers drawn from these occasional seminars will be published in a special edition of a leading peer-reviewed journal.
Key areas of investigation for the group include, but are not limited to: equality and universality, the basis or bases of equality, equality and complementarity, and the question of mutually exclusive or contradictory equalities. The group will maintain an open and interactive web presence with written, audio and video contributions at both academic and popular levels, intended to encourage broad-based and unrestricted two-way public debate spinning out of the Group's core seminar series.
The Contemporary European Thought Research Group has three overall interlocking goals: 1) to draw together and cross-pollinate work being undertaken on contemporary European thought across faculties in the University of Cambridge, 2) to produce a robust critique of notions of equality in European thought, and 3) to involve the wider community (including school pupils) in a philosophically informed debate about the contested, important and timely notion of equality.
If you are interested in receiving periodic email information about the Group, or in contributing to its research project on equality, please contact Dr Christopher Watkin, cmw36[at]cam.ac.uk.
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