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Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and ActivismDate: 24. 6. 2025, 2 pm – 4 pm CET (1 pm – 3 pm GMT) Online: organized by Centre for Theoretical Study (Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) [School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University].
Environmental law is a field that communicates more with non-legal experts compared to other fields of law. Moreover, it also communicates with experts from the natural sciences, whose approach to truth, facticity, and normativity differs from the approaches in politics and law. Natural sciences are typical for their vigilant approach and careful confirmation of hypotheses. Law and politics, however, are social subsystems in which there is a need to decide; and decisions sometimes cannot wait for the vigilance of the natural sciences. In the case of environmental issues, there are also pressing questions around climate change that provide a space for various political narratives. Thus, environmental law and politics are situated between the millstones of skepticism and activism. However, such an in-between location of law and politics can inform both skepticism and activism that they have substantial limits.
What are the problems which lawmakers face while listening to both sceptic and activist discourses? What are the limits of skepticism and activism considering both the character of environmental law and environmental reality? Is there a simple equation of science with skepticism and politics with activism, or is there something like scientific activism and political skepticism? These questions will be posed during an interdisciplinary roundtable in cooperation with academic centers from Charles University and Cardiff University.
Confirmed discussants: Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová, Anna Tószögyová.
Link to the event: Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 310 602 959 811 3 Passcode: XF9s9eK3
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CTS organizes already 7th Prague Summer School on Mathematical Statistical Mechanics which will take place on 19th - 30th August, 2013. More information can be found here
(created 31. 7. 2013)Jan Patocka's Archive organizes international philosophical conference Questioning Subjectivity. The conference will take place on 16th - 17th September 2013 in the Lanna Villa, Prague 6. More information can be found here
(created 2. 7. 2013)Rector of Charles University in Prague announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position:
Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the diciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. Especially welcome are researchers interested in economic aspects of the interaction between nature and society. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st November 2013.
Applications for the position may be delivered to the address Centrum pro teoretická studia, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, or via e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz until 30th September 2013. For detailed information call 420-222 220 671, or send the email .
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