We are pleased to announce that the 2nd IVR (Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) Japan International Conference on “East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics” will be held at Chiba University near Tokyo from the 16th to 18th of September 2023. The conference will consist of plenary lectures and general sessions. Confirmed lecturers are Prof. Daniel A. Bell at the University of Hong Kong and Prof. Hirohide Takikawa at the University of Tokyo. Prof. Bell will deliver the 13th Kobe Lecture, which will be open to the public. The conference’s official language is English.
We invite researchers and graduate students to submit paper proposals for general sessions. Papers on any topics in the areas of legal philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and applied ethics in a broad sense are welcome, but papers on topics related to the conference’s theme are particularly considered. Panel proposals on any topics in these areas are also invited.
We have a plan to publish selected papers on the conference’s theme in a special issue of some international journal published by a Western publisher. Call for Papers is to be released in January 2023.