Pavia
Graduate Conference
in Political Philosophy
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Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
24th edition
The Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy has been held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia since 2003. Since 2009, it has received the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philsophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy and, since 2014, it is part of the activities of the North-West Italy Ph.D. Philosophy Consortium (FINO).
Thursday 17 September 2026
Venue: Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia
13.00-13.45: Registration
14.00-15.30: Keynote Opening Session (Aula Grande)
Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)
What’s for dinner? Oppressive complicity and the gendered division of cooking
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.15: Graduate Session 1
a – (Aula Grande)
Kaja Kröger (Goethe University Frankfurt)
What Is Non-Liberal Feminism? Reading Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety Against Contemporary Reactionary Feminism
Annemijn Kwikkers (University of Amsterdam)
Right-wing ideology disguised as entertainment in the digital space: digital propaganda and the case of the tradwives
b – (Aula Casip)
Giacomo Sbrozi (University of Antwerp)
Is Mass Democracy Societally Wasteful? Rethinking the Epistemic Case for Large Electorates
Mathis Nicole Desmau (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University)
The Democratic Legitimacy of Economic Expertise: A Fairness-Based Account
17.15-18.30: Graduate Session 2
a – (Aula Grande)
Nia Large (University College London)
Domination and Close Relationships
Paul Pumsenberger (University of Groningen)
Democratic precarity: Why republicans should care about an expansive notion of precarious work
b – (Aula Casip)
Cheng-Chia Tung (King’s College London)
Freedom of Association of the State
Edoardo Vignocchi (University of Pavia, FINO PhD Program)
Constituting the State: Taxation, Enabling Conditions, and the Limits of Instrumentalism
20.00: Social Dinner at Locanda del Carmine, Piazza del Carmine 7/a
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Friday 18 September 2026
Venue: Collegio F.lli Cairoli
9.30-10.45: Graduate Session 3
a – (Aula Magna)
Shamiso Musarurwa (University of Groningen)
Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Migrant Workers’ Vulnerability in Democratic Societies
Kiyoharu Sakakibara (University of Tokyo)
Reconstructing Capability as Freedom: Substantiality, Trivalence, and the Ideal Distribution Criterion
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Cristiano Leone (Sapienza University of Rome)
Sidgwick’s Liberal Utilitarianism? A Revision of the Rawlsian Debate
Dulyaphab Chaturongkul (King’s College London)
Emancipatory compromise: Why compromise requires emancipation and vice versa
10.45-12.00: Graduate Session 4
a – (Aula Magna)
Deborah Biging (CEU)
Defending a pro tanto duty not to reproduce the white wedding ritual
Bassam Nasser (University of Konstanz)
Symbolic Religious Establishment and the Politics of Belonging: Political Project, Expressive Harm, and the Bavarian Kreuzerlass
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Lukas Joosten (University of Oxford)
Navigating From the Mast: A Diachronic Sovereignty Account (DSA) of Irrevocable Consent
Tam Winter (University of Utrecht)
Political freedom, metaphysical freedom and the empirical-authentic self distinction
12.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.20: Graduate Session 5
a – (Aula Magna)
Giovanni Battista Soda (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Freedom or Security? On the Normative Goal of Identity Politics
Paula Bruder (University of Konstanz)
The Permission Account – Cultural Appropriation and Contestation
Leo Rogers (University of Oxford)
Social equality without moral equality
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Caterina Donelli (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Limiting wealth to address the climate crisis: A green case for limitarianism
Spencer Jeice Ambrose (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Dialectics of the Self and Economy: A Critique of Meritocracy through Taylor and Gramsci
José Andrés Cano Rodrìgues (Pompeu Fabra University)
When Is Automation Objectionable? Beyond Post-Work and Economic Accounts
15.20-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Keynote Closing Session (Aula Magna)
Francesco Guala (University of Milan)
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Steering Committee
Melania Acciai, Alessandro Albrici, Camilla Barbieri, Giulia Cantamessi, Ian Carter, Alessandra Civani, Giovanna Di Cicco, Angelo Gulina, Ilkin Huseynli, Federica Liveriero, Ben Pohlmann, Luca Quinto, Davide Versari, Edoardo Vignocchi, Auro Viola.