Disobey!

Understanding the Politics and Ethics of Disobedience

 

IPSA / SciencesPo Joint Conference, September 27-29, 2015

CEVIPOF, 98, rue de l’Université, Paris (New Venue)

 

Panel 1: Sorting Out Disobedience: Concepts and Types (1)

Moderator: Maurits De Jongh (SciencesPo, Paris)

Why Prometheus could not have disobeyed, Andrew Knox (UCL)

Fighting back: rejection of punishment in civil disobedience, Jeanne Provencher (Keble College, Oxford)

 

Panel 2: Constitutional Disobedience

Moderator: Tom Theuns (SciencesPo, Paris)

Constitutionalizing civil disobedience? The case for universal legal exemptions on the grounds of conscience, Andrea Baumeister, University of Stirling

Disobedience as constitutional driver: why disobedience is constitutional (and constitutionally necessary) in well-ordered societies,  Anirudh Mathur (LSE)

 

Panel 3: Sorting Out Disobedience: Concepts and Types (2)

Moderator: David Copello (Sciences Po, Paris)

Civil disobedience and the varieties of resistance, Robert Jubb (University of Leicester)

Désobéir: une posture éthique. Une typologie des « éveilleurs de conscience », Virginie Beaudin-Houle, Dany Rondeau (Université du Québec à Rimouski)

Théoriser l’extra-légalité. Désobéissance, anti-obéissance, alter-obéissance, Manuel Cervera-Marzal (Université Paris Diderot 7)

 

Keynote: Disobedience: The Rarest and Most Courageous of the Virtues?

Kimberley Brownlee (University of Warwick)

 

Panel 4: Institutional Disobedience

Moderator: John Medearis (University of California, Riverside)

The state’s obligation not to enforce the law, Will Thomas (University of Michigan)

Disobedience as a practice of re-politicization: The case of jury nullification, Marianne Fougère, (SciencesPo, Paris)

 

Panel 5: Uncivil Disobedience

Moderator: Andrei Poama (SciencesPo, Paris)

The ethics of hacktivisim, Candice Delmas (Northeastern University)

De Tiqqun à « l’affaire Tarnac »: Eh bien la guerre! Aliénor Ballangé (SciencesPo, Paris)

 

Panel 6: Disobedience: Justification and Critique

Moderator: Astrid von Busekist (SciencesPo, Paris)

Disobedience as the second best, Ten Herng-Lai (Australian National University)

 “Voluntary insubordination” as law-making, Nofar Sheffi (SciencesPo)

Republican disobedience, Guy Aitchinson (EUI, Florence)

 

Keynote: La désobéissance comme droit et comme devoir

 Frédéric Gros (Sciences Po, Paris)