Following another  successful sixth annual  Workshops held in Manchester, September 2009, at which  a hundred and fifty papers were given by participants from over twenty countries, we are pleased to announce the details of  this year’s conference.  These workshops reflect the wide diversity of interests and idioms within the discipline and give delegates plenty of time to discuss their papers in a relaxed setting as well as to attend other panels. There will be a conference web-sit e (www.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/politicaltheory) where papers and conference details will be posted. If you are interested in giving a paper, please contact the appropriate workshop convenor as indicated  below. Download the booking form here: Rich Text Format (RTF), 96.2KB Download the programme here: Portable Document Format (PDF), 182KB The workshops and convenors are as follows:

• The Legitimacy of International Law (Dean Machin, University of Warwick, D.J.Machin@warwick.ac.uk)

• Democratic Public Reason In Practice (Enrico Biale, UCL and University of Louvain, enrico.biale@uclouvain.be and Valeria Ottonelli, University of Genoa, vottonel@nous.unige.it.

• Green Political theory (Corey MacIver, Nuffield College, Oxford,corey.maciver@nuffield.ox.a c.uk)

• Radical Democracy (Clare Woodford, University of Southampton, cmw202@soton.ac.uk)

• Marxism (Mark Cowling, University of Teesside,C.M.Cowling@tees.ac.uk)

• Toleration and Respect: Concepts, Justifications and Applications (Emanuela Ceva, University of Pavia,emanuela.ceva@unipv.it , Sune Laegaard, University of Copenhagen, laegaard@hum.ku.dk and Federico Zuolo, University of Pavia, federico.zuolo@unipv.it

• Global Justice and Collective Responsibility (Avia Pasternak, University College, London, avia.pasternak@ucl.ac.uk)

• British Idealism (David Boucher, University of Cardiff,BoucherDE@cardiff.ac.uk)

• Anarchism (Alex Prichard University of Bristol,alprich@gmail.com)

• Bacon and Hobbes (Noel Boulting, nobossneb@clara.co.uk and Brendan O’Byrne, Trinity College, Dublin, )

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• Just War Theory: Contemporary Failings and Challenges(Peter Sutch, University of Cardiff,ilto:SutchP@cardiff.ac.uk”>SutchP@cardiff.ac.uk and Graham Long, University of Newcastle, g.m.long@ncl.ac.uk)

• The Idea of Friendship in Political Theory (Derek Edyvane, University of Leeds, D.J.Edyvane@leeds.ac.uk and Kerri Woods, University of York, kaw507@york.ac.uk.

• The Political Thought of Antonio Gramsci: New Developments in Theory and Practice (Mark Mcnally, University of Leeds,M.A.Mcnally@leeds.ac.uk)

• Feminist Theory (Becca Lawrence, University of Durham,0becca.lawrence0@googlemail.com )

• Political Theory and Animal Rights (Rob Garner, University of Leicester, rwg2@leicester.ac.uk)

• Fictional Accounts of Domination and Resistance (Ian Fraser, Loughborough University, I.Fraser@lboro.ac.uk and Larry Wilde, Nottingham Trent University, )

• ‘Dirty Hands’ (Michael Neu, University of Sheffield, M.N...@sheffield.ac.uk)

• Classical and Modern Elite Theory (Körösényi András, Eotvos University of Budapest, korosen@t-online.hu and John Higley, University of Texas, jhigley@austin.utexas.edu)

• The Historian and the Shaping of Political Ideology (Aude Attuel-Hallade, University of Paris III-Sorbonne-NouvelleUniversity,audeattuel@yahoo.fr)

The Conference fee is £180, this includes dinner on the evening of  the 1st. September and lunches on arrival and 2nd of  September. There will also be a wine reception. Should you require accommodation, the total fee is £240 for two nights B&B in Halls of Residence, and £345 B&B ensuite in a  local hotel. The Post Graduate fee is £130 (£190   B&B in Hall of Residence). The organisers are: Professor Joe Femia (School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool, femia@liv.ac.uk ) and Professor Jules Townshend (Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, j.townshend@mmu.ac.uk ) Conference Registration: Lesley Nixon Chatham Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR Email: l.nixon@mmu.ac.uk Tel: 0161 247 1100 Fax: 0161 247 6393 The deadline for registration is 30th July 2010. Delegates registering after this date will be subject to a £10 late registration fee. Registration will not take place after 13th August 2010.

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