The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal is sorry to announce that, due to the global pandemic, we will not hold a competition this year for the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award.

The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) invites applications for a limited number of 2020-21 graduate student fellowships. Fellowships are available to graduate students in political philosophy and political theory at Concordia, McGill University, l’Université de Montréal, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal who are supervised by a GRIPP faculty member. McGill and Université de Montréal students must be enrolled in the Ph.D. program; Concordia and UQAM students may be enrolled in the MA or the Ph.D.

Stipends will vary by degree program, by the Fellows’ existing funding, and by the number of successful applicants, but will be up to $7,000 for PhD students who do not have other competitive fellowships, and up to $2,500 for MA students. Those who hold external or endowed fellowships may receive reduced stipends rather than a full amount.

Fellows are also eligible for travel funding to present papers at appropriate academic conferences up to $750 per year. Conferences should be competitive (accepting papers by submission, not by invitation) and should not be graduate student-only events; the intent is to support travel to present at conferences such as APSA, APA, CPA, CPSA, and APT.

Successful applicants are expected to attend and participate in all GRIPP activities, including around 3 seminars per month (held on Fridays at 2-4pm), 1-2 conferences per year, two book manuscript workshops, and one workshop per semester on methods and approaches in political theory and philosophy.  In most cases, papers will be circulated and should always be read in advance.  [**Pandemic note: note that during the pandemic we expect that most sessions will be held via Zoom.]

Fellows will be expected to either

a) present a manuscript in progress at a seminar, which must be circulated at least one week in advance, with an abstract available in both French and English.  These papers, normally dissertation chapters or manuscripts in preparation for submission to conferences and journals, should be 6000-10,000 words in length, i.e. about the length of a journal article;

or

b) lead discussion of a manuscript in progress (which may be written by a Fellow, or a GRIPP-affiliated postdoc or faculty member, or a visiting speaker).  This will involve speaking for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of the session.  A straightforward summary of the paper isn’t called for, since all attendees should have read the paper, but rather an explanation and elaboration of its key arguments and contributions, followed by constructively critical engagement, suggestions for future directions, challenges, and questions.  The aim is to help the author, and to provide a good starting point for useful discussion.

Fellows in their first year with GRIPP will act as discussants; so will those who presented papers last year.  Returning fellows who acted as discussants last year will present papers this year.

If you will be a discussant, you should indicate any broad preferences about the kind of work you are most interested in discussing (these may not be honoured).

If you will be presenting a paper, you should offer a tentative title and abstract of the paper, along with preferences about when in the year you would like to present (these may not be honoured, and you will be expected to present whenever your session is scheduled).

GRIPP is a bilingual research group. Workshops will operate according to the principle of passive bilingualism.

All applications should be sent by email to [email protected] with the subject “CFA GRIPP”. Applications must include:

1. The filled out application form “Application for GRIPP Fellowship”
2. A recent digital photo of the candidate

Deadline: August 19, 2020, 5 pm

The Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) is pleased to announce the 2020 winner of the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award: “Colossus: Constitutional theory in America and France, 1776-1799,” by Adam Lebovitz of University of Cambridge. A workshop on the manuscript will be held in Montreal in May 2020.

Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop

@ Ursa, 5589, avenue du Parc, Montréal, Québec

2020-01-18

The Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) is pleased to announce a one-day workshop dedicated to the 2019 winner of the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, “Morally and Socially Constructed Norms” by Laura Valentini of the London School of Economics.

Format: To maximize the quality of discussion, participants are expected to have read the manuscript beforehand. The workshop comprises four sessions dedicated to the manuscript. Each session will begin with brief critiques of chapters of the manuscript, followed by a brief response by the author and general discussion.

Registration: The workshop is open to all, but attendance is by registration and limited in number. RSVP Arash Abizadeh <[email protected]>

Manuscript: Click here for access to manuscript. Access requires a password, which all participants will receive upon registration.

Programme

9:00 Coffee & croissants / Café et croissants

9:30 Welcome / accueil

9:45 – 11:30 Présidente: Dominique Leydet (philosophie, UQAM)

Ch. 1: “What are socially constructed norms?” Pierre Minn (anthropologie, Université de Montréal)

Ch. 2: “Grounding the moral force of socially constructed norms I: Unsuccessful views” Stephanie Leary (philosophy, McGill)

11:30 – 13:00 Lunch / Dîner

13:00 – 14:45 Chair: Catherine Lu (politics, McGill)

Ch. 3: “Grounding the moral force of socially constructed norms II: The agency-respect view” Natalie Stoljar (philosophy, McGill)

Ch. 4: “Grounding moral rights” Pablo Gilabert (philosophy, Concordia)

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break / pause café

15:00 – 16:45 Chair: Will Roberts (politics, McGill)

Ch. 5: “Grounding political obligation” Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (law & politics, McGill)

Ch. 6: “Explaining the wrong of sovereignty violations” Peter Dietsch (philosophie, Université de Montréal)18:30 Dinner / Souper

In collaboration with Radio-Cré and McGill University, the GRIPP presents a video of the inaugural Charles Taylor Lectures by Philip Pettit of Princeton University in two parts.

Part 1 is entitled “ What marks off persons from other agents? Society, language, and narration, and was recorded on 19 September 2019 at l’Université de Montréal:

Part 2 is entitled “What ties personhood to having values? Autonomy, respect, and freedom,” and was recorded on 20 September 2019 at McGill University:

Camera: Guillaume Soucy and Jean-Philippe Royer (part 1)
Editing: Marc-Antoine Plouffe (part 1)

The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP), in collaboration with Radio-Cré, presents a podcast interview with the philosopher Philip Pettit (Princeton University) about the course of his career.

The interview was conducted by Éliot Litalien on 18 septembre 2019 at the Librairie Olivieri in Montreal and produced by GRIPP in collaboration with Radio-CRÉ.

(The introductions are in French, but the interview itself, which begins at the 3:45 minute mark, is in English.)

We are grateful to the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) for its financial support.

(le français suit)
THE 2020 ANNUAL MONTREAL POLITICAL THEORY MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP AWARD
Call for applications: The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP), spanning the departments of political science and philosophy at McGill University, l’Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal, invites applications for its 2020 manuscript workshop award. The recipient of the award will be invited to Montreal  for a day-long workshop in May 2020 dedicated to his or her book manuscript. This “author meets critics” workshop will comprise four to five sessions dedicated to critical discussion of the manuscript; each session will begin with a critical commentary on a section of the manuscript by a political theorist or philosopher who is part of Montreal’s GRIPP community. The format is designed to maximize feedback for a book-in-progress. The award covers the costs of travel, accommodation, and meals.
Eligibility:
A. Topic: The manuscript topic is open within political theory and political philosophy.
B. Manuscript: Book manuscripts in English or French, not yet in a version accepted for publication, by applicants with PhD in hand by 1 August 2019, are eligible. Applicants must have a complete or nearly complete draft (at least 4/5 of final draft) ready to present at the workshop. In the case of co-authored manuscripts, only one of the co-authors is eligible to apply. (Only works in progress by the workshop date are eligible; authors with a preliminary book contract are eligible only if the deadline for submitting the manuscript’s final, revised version to the publisher is well enough after the workshop date to allow for revisions after the workshop.)
C. Application: Please submit the following materials electronically, compiled as a single PDF file, in the following order: 1) a curriculum vitae; 2) a table of contents; 3) a short abstract of the book project, up to 200 words; 4) a longer book abstract up to 2500 words; and, in the case of applicants with previous book publication(s), (5) three reviews, from established journals in the field, of the applicant’s most recently published monograph. Candidates are not required, but may if they wish, to have two letters of recommendation speaking to the merits of the book project submitted (either separately or appended to the PDF) as well. Please do not send writing samples. The PDF file name should be your last name followed by a space and your first name. Send materials by email, with the subject heading “2020 GRIPP Manuscript Workshop Award” to <[email protected]>. Review of applications begins 15 January 2020. Contact Arash Abizadeh <[email protected]> with questions.
Evaluation Process: The final decision for choosing the winner of the GRIPP manuscript award lies with the GRIPP Jury. The Jury will seek to meet within the first two weeks of the rolling deadline for submissions. All bilingual regular faculty members of GRIPP have the right to participate as members of the Jury. Each regular faculty member of GRIPP has the right to suggest a short-list of up to five proposals for consideration by the Jury, but the final decision rests with the Jury itself. All elements of the Jury’s deliberations are confidential; unfortunately it is not possible for the Jury or its members to provide any feedback to applicants concerning the merits of their proposal. A full list of the regular GRIPP faculty membership is available at grippmontreal.org
Previous GRIPP Manuscript Workshops:
Jan 2020: Laura Valentini (LSE), Morality and Socially Constructed NormsMay 2018: Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne), Not In Their NameApril 2017: William Selinger (Harvard), Philosophers of Parliament: The Promise and Perils of the Legislature and the Origins of LiberalismMay 2016: Katrina Forrester (QMUL), Reinventing Morality: A History of American Political Thought since the 1950sAugust 2015: Lea Ypi (LSE) [with co-author Jonathan White (LSE)], The Meaning of PartisanshipMay 2015: Magali Bessone (Rennes 1), Réparer les injustices coloniales : Perspective transitionnelle sur la justice réparatriceMay 2014: Paul Gowder (Iowa), A Commitment to Equality: The Rule of Law in the Real WorldMay 2013: Alex Gourevitch (McMaster), Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative CommonwealthMay 2012: Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield), The Authority of DemocracyMay 2011: James Ingram (McMaster), Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic UniversalismApril 2010: Hélène Landemore (Yale), Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the ManyApril 2009: Alan Patten (Princeton), Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Cultural RightsMarch 2009: Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley), Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order

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LE PRIX ANNUEL DE L’ATELIER DE MANUSCRIT DE PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE DE MONTRÉAL 2020
Appel à candidature: Le groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP), qui réunit des chercheurs des départements de science politique et de philosophie de l’Université McGill, de l’Université de Montréal, de l’Université Concordia et de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, fait un appel à candidature pour son prix 2020 de l’atelier de manuscrit. Le lauréat sera invité à Montréal en mai 2020 pour un atelier d’une journée complète consacré au manuscrit de son livre. Cet atelier du type « l’auteur rencontre ses critiques » comprendra quatre ou cinq séances de discussions critiques sur le manuscrit ; pour chacune d’entre elles, un spécialiste de théorie politique ou un philosophe membre de la communauté montréalaise du GRIPP lancera la discussion par un commentaire critique d’une des sections du manuscrit.  Ceci a pour but de faciliter les échanges sur un livre en chantier. Le prix couvre les dépenses de voyage, d’hébergement et de repas.
Éligibilité :
A- Sujet : Tout sujet relatif à la philosophie politique ou à la théorie politique.
B- Manuscrit : Sont éligibles tous les manuscrits de livres en français ou en anglais non encore publiés dont l’auteur est détenteur d’un doctorat au 1er août 2019. Les candidats devront avoir une version complète ou presque de leur manuscrit (au moins 4/5e de la version finale) pour présentation à l’atelier. Dans le cas de manuscrits ayant plus d’un auteur, seul l’un des coauteurs est éligible. (Seuls les manuscrits non encore terminés à la date prévue de l’atelier seront considérés ; les auteurs disposant d’un contrat préliminaire de publication ne sont éligibles que si la date limite pour soumettre la version révisée finale du manuscrit à l’éditeur est suffisamment éloigné de la date de l’atelier pour permettre des révisions après l’atelier.)
C- Soumission : Vous voudrez bien fournir les documents suivants, en format électronique, dans un seul fichier PDF, dans l’ordre suivant : 1) un curriculum vitae; 2) une table des matières; 3) un court résumé du projet du livre de moins de 200 mots; 4) un résumé plus long, de moins de 2 500 mots; et, dans le cas de candidats ayant déjà publié, 5) trois recensions parues dans des revues spécialisées et reconnues dans le domaine de la plus récente monographie publiée. Les candidats peuvent, s’ils le souhaitent, nous faire envoyer deux lettres de recommandation présentant l’intérêt de leur projet de livre (soit envoyées séparément, soit jointe à la fin du fichier PDF). Le nom du fichier PDF doit être votre nom suivi d’une espace et de votre prénom. Nous vous prions de ne pas envoyer d’extraits de manuscrit. Envoyez ces documents par courriel, avec le sujet « 2020 GRIPP Prix Atelier Manuscrit » à <[email protected]>. L’examen des candidatures commencera le 15 janvier 2020. Pour toute information supplémentaire, veuillez contacter Dominique Leydet <[email protected]>
Processus d’évaluation : La décision finale pour la sélection du lauréat du prix du manuscrit du GRIPP est prise par le jury du GRIPP. Le jury tentera de se rencontrer dans les premières deux semaines suivant la date limite de soumission des manuscrits. Tous les professeurs qui sont bilingues et membres réguliers du GRIPP ont le droit de participer au processus de sélection à titre de membres du jury. Tout professeur membre régulier du GRIPP a le droit de suggérer une liste courte de cinq titres au maximum pour considération par le jury. La décision finale demeure du seul ressort du jury lui-même. Les délibérations du jury sont confidentielles ; il n’est malheureusement pas possible pour le jury ou ses membres de donner aux candidats des informations concernant l’évaluation qui a été faite de leur proposition. Une liste complète des professeurs membres réguliers du GRIPP est disponible au grippmontreal.org
Ateliers de manuscrit précédents :
Jan 2020: Laura Valentini (LSE), Morality and Socially Constructed NormsMai 2018: Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne), Not In Their NameAvril 2017: William Selinger (Harvard), Philosophers of Parliament: The Promise and Perils of the Legislature and the Origins of LiberalismMai 2016: Katrina Forrester (QMUL), Reinventing Morality: A History of American Political Thought since the 1950sAoût 2015: Lea Ypi (LSE) [avec co-auteur Jonathan White (LSE)], The Meaning of PartisanshipMai 2015: Magali Bessone (Rennes 1), Réparer les injustices coloniales : Perspective transitionnelle sur la justice réparatriceMai 2014: Paul Gowder (Iowa), A Commitment to Equality: The Rule of Law in the Real WorldMai 2013 : Alex Gourevitch (McMaster), Something of Slavery Still Remains : Labor and the Cooperative CommonwealthMai 2012: Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield), The Authority of DemocracyMai 2011: James Ingram (McMaster), Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic UniversalismAvril 2010: Hélène Landemore (Yale), Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the ManyAvril 2009: Alan Patten (Princeton), Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Cultural RightsMars 2009: Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley), Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order

The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) invites applications for a limited number of 2019-20 graduate student fellowships. Fellowships are available to graduate students in political philosophy and political theory at Concordia, McGill University, l’Université de Montréal, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal who are supervised by a GRIPP faculty member. McGill and Université de Montréal students must be enrolled in the Ph.D. program; Concordia and UQAM students may be enrolled in the MA or the Ph.D.

Stipends will vary by degree program, by the Fellows’ existing funding, and by the number of successful applicants, but will be up to $7,000 for PhD students who do not have other competitive fellowships, and up to $2,500 for MA students. Those who hold external or endowed fellowships may receive reduced stipends rather than a full amount.

Fellows are also eligible for travel funding to present papers at appropriate academic conferences up to $750 per year. Conferences should be competitive (accepting papers by submission, not by invitation) and should not be graduate student-only events; the intent is to support travel to present at conferences like APSA, APA, CPA, CPSA, and APT.

Successful applicants are expected to attend and participate in all GRIPP activities, including around 3 seminars per month (held on Fridays at 2-4pm), 1-2 conferences per year, two book manuscript workshops, and one workshop per semester on methods and approaches in political theory and philosophy.  In most cases, papers will be circulated and should always be read in advance. 

Fellows will be expected to either

a) present a manuscript in progress at a seminar, which must be circulated at least one week in advance, with an abstract available in both French and English.  These papers, normally dissertation chapters or manuscripts in preparation for submission to conferences and journals, should be 6000-10,000 words in length, i.e. about the length of a journal article;

or

b) lead discussion of a manuscript in progress (which may be written by a Fellow, or a GRIPP-affiliated postdoc or faculty member, or a visiting speaker).  This will involve speaking for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of the session.  A straightforward summary of the paper isn’t called for, since all attendees should have read the paper, but rather an explanation and elaboration of its key arguments and contributions, followed by constructively critical engagement, suggestions for future directions, challenges, and questions.  The aim is to help the author, and to provide a good starting point for useful discussion.

Fellows in their first year with GRIPP will act as discussants; so will those who presented papers last year.  Returning fellows who acted as discussants last year will present papers this year.

If you will be a discussant, you should indicate any broad preferences about the kind of work you are most interested in discussing (these may not be honoured).

If you will be presenting a paper, you should offer a tentative title and abstract of the paper, along with preferences about when in the year you would like to present (these may not be honoured, and you will be expected to present whenever your session is scheduled).

GRIPP is a bilingual research group. Workshops will operate according to the principle of passive bilingualism.

All applications should be sent by email to [email protected] with the subject “CFA GRIPP”. Applications must include:

1.     The filled out application form “Application for GRIPP Fellowship”

2.     A recent digital photo of the candidate

Deadline: August 22, 2019, 5 pm

The Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) is pleased to announce the 2019 winner of the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award: “Morality and Socially Constructed Norms,” by Laura Valentini of LSE. A workshop on the manuscript will be held in Montreal on January 18, 2020.

Call for applications: The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP), spanning the departments of political science and philosophy at McGill University, l’Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal, invites applications for its 2019 manuscript workshop award. The recipient of the award will be invited to Montreal  for a day-long workshop in May 2019 dedicated to his or her book manuscript. This “author meets critics” workshop will comprise four to five sessions dedicated to critical discussion of the manuscript; each session will begin with a critical commentary on a section of the manuscript by a political theorist or philosopher who is part of Montreal’s GRIPP community. The format is designed to maximize feedback for a book-in-progress. The award covers the costs of travel, accommodation, and meals.

Eligibility:

A. Topic: The manuscript topic is open within political theory and political philosophy.

B. Manuscript: Book manuscripts in English or French, not yet in a version accepted for publication, by applicants with PhD in hand by 1 August 2018, are eligible. Applicants must have a complete or nearly complete draft (at least 4/5 of final draft) ready to present at the workshop. In the case of co-authored manuscripts, only one of the co-authors is eligible to apply. (Only works in progress by the workshop date are eligible; authors with a preliminary book contract are eligible only if the deadline for submitting the manuscript’s final, revised version to the publisher is well enough after the workshop date to allow for revisions after the workshop.)

C. Application: Please submit the following materials electronically, compiled as a single PDF file, in the following order: 1) a curriculum vitae; 2) a table of contents; 3) a short abstract of the book project, up to 200 words; 4) a longer book abstract up to 2500 words; and, in the case of applicants with previous book publication(s), (5) three reviews, from established journals in the field, of the applicant’s most recently published monograph. Candidates are not required, but may if they wish, to have two letters of recommendation speaking to the merits of the book project submitted (either separately or appended to the PDF) as well. Please do not send writing samples. The PDF file name should be your last name followed by a space and your first name. Send materials by email, with the subject heading “2019 GRIPP Manuscript Workshop Award” to <[email protected]>. Review of applications begins 15 January 2019. Contact Arash Abizadeh <[email protected]> with questions.

Evaluation Process: The final decision for choosing the winner of the GRIPP manuscript award lies with the GRIPP Jury. The Jury will seek to meet within the first two weeks of the rolling deadline for submissions. All bilingual regular faculty members of GRIPP have the right to participate as members of the Jury. Each regular faculty member of GRIPP has the right to suggest a short-list of up to five proposals for consideration by the Jury, but the final decision rests with the Jury itself. All elements of the Jury’s deliberations are confidential; unfortunately it is not possible for the Jury or its members to provide any feedback to applicants concerning the merits of their proposal. A full list of the regular GRIPP faculty membership is available at <https://grippmontreal.org>

Previous GRIPP Manuscript Workshops:

May 2018: Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne), Not In Their Name
April 2017: William Selinger (Harvard), Philosophers of Parliament: The Promise and Perils of the Legislature and the Origins of Liberalism
May 2016: Katrina Forrester (QMUL), Reinventing Morality: A History of American Political Thought since the 1950s
August 2015: Lea Ypi (LSE) [with co-author Jonathan White (LSE)], The Meaning of Partisanship
May 2015: Magali Bessone (Rennes 1), Réparer les injustices coloniales : Perspective transitionnelle sur la justice réparatrice
May 2014: Paul Gowder (Iowa), A Commitment to Equality: The Rule of Law in the Real World
May 2013: Alex Gourevitch (McMaster), Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative Commonwealth
May 2012: Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield), The Authority of Democracy
May 2011: James Ingram (McMaster), Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism
April 2010: Hélène Landemore (Yale), Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
April 2009: Alan Patten (Princeton), Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Cultural Rights
March 2009: Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley), Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order