Agenda

Reset DOC Venice Seminars & Summer School
Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity?

Venice Summer School – May 23-28, 2022 // Applications now closed

Venice Seminars – May 26-28, 2022 // Sign up here to attend

The 2022 Summer School “Between State and Civil Society: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity” is organized by Reset DOC in collaboration with the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the University of Ca’ Foscari. Through its lectures, workshops, and the Seminars, the Summer School will aim to address the challenges faced by civil society in the current post-pandemic context with rising costs and inequality. What are different actors’ responsibilities towards their citizens, and do they have obligations to guarantee and maintain their protections.

The Venice Seminars will focus upon the space between state and society – a free and ample public sphere – which is an indispensable ingredient of civil liberties. But these need protection not only from state authority. Other forms of domination in civil society are also at the root of social inequities in society, be they related to oppressive traditions, patriarchal legacies, sexism, racism, classism, and ethnic hatred but also to formal caste systems such as that in India and informal ones like that of the United States. Many concerned liberals prefer the notion of positive freedom – in the republican tradition – according to which the state plays a central role in guaranteeing and protecting individual autonomy and dignity. In this perspective, the state’s guarantee of the rule of law protects against domination in civil society and liberates civil life from oppressive traditions and inequalities so as to bring about actual, real individual freedom.

2022 Speakers and Faculty *
Giuliano Amato, Lisa Anderson, Stefano Beggiora, Akeel Bilgrami, Giancarlo Bosetti, Daniele Brombal, Marina Calloni, Silvio Cristiano, Alessandro Ferrara, Beatrice Gallelli, Seán Golden, Amel Grami, Mona Harb, Volker Kaul, Jonathan Laurence, Tiziana Lippiello, Stephen Macedo, Walter Mignolo, Subrata Mitra, Toshio Miyake, Philip Pettit, Maria Cristina Paciello, Runya Qiaoan, David Rasmussen, Marcella Simoni, Nandini Sundar, Yael Tamir, Francesca Tarocco, Richard Quang-Anh Tran, Ananya Vajpeyi.

For further information and programme check Reset DOC webpage