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SUMMARY:Departmental Seminar: Constitution and Contestation of Norms in Gl
 obal Governance - Professor Antje Wiener\, University of Hamburg
DTSTART:20170208T170000Z
DTEND:20170208T190000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Williams
DESCRIPTION:*Professor Wiener will speak about research in progress on her
  new book titled _Constitution and Contestation of Norms in Global Governa
 nce_\, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. The talk w
 ill address the main argument developed by the book.*\n\nOnce norms lose n
 ormative clout\, they are likely to turn into political hazards. This is i
 n part due to the uneven perseverance of norms in time and space. Due to t
 he social quality of norms\, it follows that in order to understand how no
 rms work\, human perception is key. Human agency is therefore a central fa
 ctor for norms research. This agentic aspect is enhanced by diverse effect
 s of globalisation which are gaining in impact notwithstanding the formal 
 validation of treaty norms and their social recognition by selected social
  groups. Despite formal agreement on treaties and taken-for-grantedness of
  certain fundamental norms\, a legitimacy gap remains at the meso-level be
 tween fundamental norms and standardised rules. As recent results of elect
 ions and referendums demonstrate quite dramatically\, this gap widens with
  the parallel development of globalised interaction (whether practised loc
 ally or globally) and individual political estrangement (whether due to so
 cial mobility or cultural diversity). As such the gap therefore represents
  a threat to the normative pull of international norms. This threat is not
 able in moments where meanings of norms are contested. The potential for n
 ormative conflict therefore grows in time\, unless steps are undertaken to
  counter this development. To assess the role of global governance institu
 tions as mechanisms to enhance normative legitimacy\, the talk addresses t
 he interplay between diversity and normativity as two central premises of 
 global governance\, and scrutinises the terms of engagement from the persp
 ective of agency at sites of contestation where citizens and learned schol
 ars intersect. The talk draws on international relations theory and James 
 Tully's _Public Philosophy in a New Key_. It proposes a novel focus on age
 ncy based on three practices of norm validation which distinguish between 
 formal\, habitual and cultural validation.\n\n*About Professor Wiener*\n\n
 Antje Wiener was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) i
 n the United Kingdom in 2011. She received her PhD in Political Science fr
 om Carleton University\, Canada in 1996 and her MA (DiplPol) in Political 
 Science at the Free University of Berlin in 1989. Prior to coming to Germa
 ny in 2009 she taught in Canada\, the US and the UK\, where she held Chair
 s of Political Science and International Relations at the Queen’s Univer
 sity Belfast and the University of Bath.\n\nHer research and teaching inte
 rests are in international relations theories (IR)\, especially norms rese
 arch\, contestation research\, global governance and global constitutional
 ism. She has served as Managing Director of the Centre for Globalisation a
 nd Governance "CGG":https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/forschung
 szentren/cgg.html) in Hamburg in 2009-10 and 2011-12\, currently leads the
  CGG’s Research Area 4 on Global Constitutionalism\, Governance and Worl
 d Society\, and is founding editor of Global Constitutionalism: Democracy\
 , Human Rights and the Rule of Law (Cambridge since "2012":https://www.cam
 bridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism).
LOCATION:Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, University of 
 Cambridge\, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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