Tuesday 15 June, 4 pm

In the framework of the seminar “Dialogues autour d’Alexandre Kojève”, Dr Tristan Storme will give a presentation entitled “Kojève à Plettenberg. En dialogue avec Carl Schmitt, autour de la dialectique hégélienne et de l’ordre mondial après 1945”.

In 2011/2012 Dr Storme was granted a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a year of research at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He now teaches Political Sciences at the Université de Nantes and is a member of the Centre for Political Theory of the ULB.

Registration is required via this page. More information on the seminar is available here.

 

Tuesday 15 June, 5 pm

In the final presentation of the seminar “Cosmopolitisme et justice globale”, Dr Martin Deleixhe will address the question “Should EU asylum law be democratic or cosmopolitan?”.

Abstract

While designing its migration policy, the European Union must carefully weigh two conflicting considerations. On the one hand, the Union has set some normative standards for itself in its Charter of Fundamental Rights. On the other hand, since 2015, several member states signalled their inability or reluctance to host newcomers. This communication presents various solutions to reconcile the Union’s normative commitments with its migration practices. It starts by a diagnostic of the current situation of the Union’s migration policies, taking a critical look at the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Next, it presents three possible scenarios for the future of the Union’s migration policies. In the first scenario, it suggests that the current status quo is unsustainable. In the second scenario, the Union takes a step back in the management of its external borders, hands over the operational responsibilities to its member states and limits itself to a supervisory function. In the third scenario, the European Union doubles down on the idea that what makes it stand out as a transnational polity is the fact that it is driven by a political cosmopolitanism. Consequently, it adopts a more proactive stance in the management of migrations, emphasizing the need for European solidarity and asserting its authority over the issue.

Martin Deleixhe was twice a Fellow of the Foundation. In 2009/2010 he spent a year at the University of Oxford in the framework of his doctoral research. He returned there in 2013/2014 as a postdoctoral Fellow, to carry out a research project entitled “Irregular Migrants Political Mobilizations in Contemporary Democratic Theories” under the supervision of Dr David Leopold (Department of Politics and International Relations). He is currently a part-time lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. You can visit his personal page for more information about his work.

To register please contact benjamin.bourcier@univ-catholille.fr
The programme of the seminar is available here.