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Dr Dario Castiglione

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At present, I am working on a book on European democracy, and on various articles on poltiical representation.

Conferences and WorkshopsAs part of my research activities, I have organized numerous conferences and workshops. This is a list of the main events which I have promoted:

� Workshop on ‘”We the People” A new object of democratic analysis’ (co-organized with Sofia Näsström), ECPR Joint Sessions, St. Gallen, April 2011

 

� Symposium on Michael Saward, The Representative Claim, University of Exeter, October 2010

 

� Panel at the ECPR conference, Potsdam 2009

 

� APSA Roundtable on ‘Social Capital and Inequality’, Boston, August 2008

� (Co-organiser of) the Conference on �Democratic Representation� at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver May 2006

� Panel on �Changing ideas of accountability, responsibility and representation in democratic governance�, 3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, September 2005

� Panel on �Representation and participation in democratic theory�, at the MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2005

� Research Workshop on �The transformation of Representation�, CDATS, Georgetown University, Washington DC, June 2004

 

 

� The public discourse of law and politics in multilingual societies (IILS, O�ati, 6-8 June, 2001)

� EURESCO Conference on �Social Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives� (Exeter, September 2001)

� Colloquium on �Constitutionalism, democracy and citizenship� (University of Exeter, November 2000)

 

 

 

� �The Culture of Toleration�, Conference of the Association of Social and Legal Philosophy (University of Exeter, April 2000)

� 1999 Conference of Political Thought (St. Catherine College, Oxford), January 1999

� �The Constitution in Transformation�, Workshop in preparation of the Political Studies Special Issue (UEA, September 1995)

� �History and Theory in National Contexts� (University of Exeter, November 1994)

� �The Constitution of Europe� (University of Exeter, June 1993)

� �Public and Private Spheres in the Eighteenth Century� (University of Exeter, May 1992 and March 1993)

� �The Greening of Politics� (University of Exeter, March 1991)

� �Open Forum on Easter Europe� (University of Exeter, February 1990)

� �La Trasformazione della Sinistra Italiana� (University of Palermo, November 1989).

Awards and Visiting Positions

1983-85: Three one-year Research Awards from Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino

1988: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australia National University, Canberra

1995: Visiting Scholar, Zentrum f�r Europ�ische Rechtspolitik, University of Bremen

1996: Guest Editor of Political Studies Special Issue

1999: �Gaetano Mosca Lecture� February 1999, Dipartimento di Politica, Stato e Diritto, University of Palermo

2000 (July): Course on �Supranational and International Democracy� as part of the 8th IWM International Summer School in Political Philosophy (Cortona) organized by the Institut f�r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna).

2000 (October): Course on �Cosmopolitismo ed Istituzioni Sovranazionali� as part of the Global Governance Programme at Scuola Superiore St. Anna (Pisa).

2001 (July): Plenary Lecture for the 28th Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Victoria, BC

2001 (September): Chair of the Organizing Committee for the EURESCO Conference on �Social Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives� (jointly funded by the European Science Foundation and the European Commission).

2003-2004: Forum Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre and European University Institute, Florence, for the Forum on �European Constitutionalism�

2003-04: Member of the High-Level Group, commissioned by the Council of Europe to write a Green Paper on the �Future of European Democracy�

2003-2005: Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, Georgetown University, Washington DC

2004-2005: Visiting Professor at the New School University, New York

2006-07: Member of the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Referee Panel

2007: Member of Evaluation Panel of >node< (New Orientations for Democracy in Europe), a research programme of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development (RFT).

2008: Gaetano Mosca Chair, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, University of Turin

External Examiner

1999-202: MSc in Social and Political Theory, Birkbeck College, London

2001-2003: BA in Politics, UEA (Norwich).

2005-2008: BA in Politics, University of Edinburgh

2005-2008: BA in Politics, UWE (Bristol)

2009-2012: MA in Intellectual History (Sussex)

 

 

Current research and activities