A new generation of scholars is developing the field of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory. Please join us in celebrating the launch of the new Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory.
On June 22 and 23, authors from this 46-chapter volume come together to share their contributions to the handbook and to celebrate the directions for the field that they see on the horizon.
One challenge occasionally leveled at Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory is that the normative lessons gleaned from empirical work with one group of people, on one issue, or in one place cannot be the basis for a normative theory that applies beyond the context of study.
Participants
- Brooke Ackerly – HIAS Alumna 2024/2025, Vanderbilt University
- Mujibul Anam – Griffith University
- Paul Apostolidis – The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Hans Asenbaum – University of Canberra
- Natasha Behl – Arizona State University
- Matteo Bonotti – Monash University
- Heidi Brooks – Yale University
- Monique Deveaux – University of Guelph
- Fonna Forman – University of California, San Diego
- Richard Foster -University of Oxford
- Aidan McGarry – Loughborough University London
- Farah Godrej – University of California, Riverside
- Lisa Herzog – University of Groningen
- Maren Hofius – University of Potsdam
- Cricket Keating – University of Washington
- Sungmoon Kim – City University of Hong Kong
- Peggy Kohn – University of Toronto
- Raquel Madrigal – Hunter College, New York
- John Parkinson – Maastricht University
- Katerina Traut – Gettysburg College
- Sarah Marie Wiebe – University of Victoria
- Antje Wiener – University of Hamburg
- Jan Wilkens – University of Hamburg
- Steven Zech – Monash University
Program
Monday, June 22
Session 1
09.15 – 10.15
Challenging Norms
Chair: Antje Wiener
Paul Apostolidis
Fonna Forman
Maren Hofius
Sungmoon Kim
Session 2
10.30 – 11.30
Deliberation and Participation
Chair: Monique Deveaux
Richard Foster
John Parkinson
Jan Wilkens
Session 3
17.00 – 18.15
Decoloniality and Transgression
Chair: Brooke Ackerly
Natasha Behl
Farah Godrej
Cricket Keating
Raquel Madrigal
Katerina Traut
Session 4
18.30 – 19.30
Regrounding theory
Chair: Fonna Forman
Lisa Herzog
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Peggy Kohn
Brooke Ackerly
Tuesday, June 23
Session 5
09.00 – 10.15
Rethinking our world(s)
Chair: Luis Cabrera
Hans Asenbaum
Matteo Bonotti
Heidi Brooks
Aidan McGarry
Steven Zech
Registration
To participate online, please register here. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants shortly before the workshop.
All sessions will be held in a hybrid format and in English.

Funding Justice: a human rights theory of climate justice and injustice itself.
One challenge occasionally leveled at Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory is that the normative lessons gleaned from empirical work with one group of people, on one issue, or in one place cannot be the basis for a normative theory that applies beyond the context of study.
The Handbook launch will be followed by a day and a half workshop on the manuscript of Brooke Ackerly and Mujibul Anam.
This is an intimate workshop. Upon request, the authors are happy to open it up to scholars interested in thinking about the methods of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory and the challenges of theorizing about climate change and justice in a way that takes on the epistemic politics of climate justice.
During this workshop, we will discuss the manuscript Funding Justice: a human rights theory of climate justice and injustice itself which Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University, US) and Mujibul Anam (University of Griffith, Australia) are currently completing.
To register please email to event@hias-hamburg.de.
The workshops are co-sponsored by
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Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197766927.001.0001
John Nay, ISEE Bangladesh Interdisciplinary Research Team

