{"id":10777,"date":"2019-06-12T13:56:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:56:38","slug":"brussels-global-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/06\/12\/brussels-global-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Kanterian on ‘Cosmopolitanism in an age of global challenges’ in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cosmopolitanism in an age of global challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Kent\u2019s Brussels School of International Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

20 June 2019 10.00-14.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some have claimed that a citizen of the world is a citizen from nowhere. Apart from other problems with this claim, humanity faces a number of challenges today that do not stop at any one\u2019s nation borders. These include the rise of artificial intelligence, global economic crises, and, as the most terrible threat of all, climate change. To develop appropriate responses, we need new political concepts, which go beyond the nation-centric ones still (or again) in fashion, concepts that help us understand these threats from a wider and deeper point of view. Kant\u2019s cosmopolitan idea of a \u2018citizenship of the earth\u2019 is such a concept, based on what he viewed as our common human morality. Similar cosmopolitan views have been developed by other thinkers as well, e.g. by Hannah Arendt and Hans Kelsen.<\/p>\n

To explore their and related ideas, this workshop aims to bring together philosophers, policy makers and any concerned citizens (be they from nowhere or from somewhere), to discuss novel ways of responding to globalised challenges.<\/p>\n

Roundtable participants:<\/p>\n