May 31 – The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa is the only Italian university to participate in the “Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought,” thanks to their PhD student, David Ragazzoni. The Graduate Conference is an international event dedicated to students of political philosophy and history of political thought, open to 14 speakers from around the world, held in London on June 3-4 in “Senate House”. The speakers come in large part from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia University, and the New School in New York. David Ragazzoni will participate with another Harvard graduate in a panel of two on Carl Schmitt as a philosopher and jurist. Ragazzoni, a doctoral student in political philosophy at the Dirpolis Institute (Law, Politics, Development) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, will present a paper entitled “New political geographies, new geographies of ‘the political’: Carl Schmitt and global (dis) order at the dawn of jus publicum Europaeum.” The conference, dedicated to “Global order and disorder in the history of political thought,” will be presided by some of the world’s leading scholars of the history of political thought, such as Quentin Skinner and James Tully. David Ragazzoni is one of the seven speakers chosen (and only Italian) for the ‘”Oxford History of Political Thought Early Career Seminar” at Trinity College, Oxford. The series of seven meetings, which will conclude at the end of June, is dedicated to promising scholar in the field of political philosophy and the history of political thought, who are invited to present and defend their work. The Oxford jury selected six scholars and related works from UK universities, with Ragazzoni’s being the sole proposal coming from outside the Kingdom. His paper is entitled “Leviathans Within the Leviathan? Political parties in the thought of Carl Schmitt and Gerhard Leibholz,” born from the draft of two chapters of his thesis dedicated to “Political Representation and democracy: theories of modern politics and its conceptual categories, in Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Gerhard Leibholz.” Ragazzoni’s PhD theses is conducted under the supervision of Barbara Henry, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Sant’Anna and Nadia Urbinati (from Columbia University) as external advisor.
