Contemporary Aristotelian Studies specialist Group Launched

A proposal to set up a new specialist Subject Group devoted to Contemporary Aristotelian Studies has been accepted by the Executive Committee of the Political Studies Association of Great Britain (PSA).

The bid was a joint one put in by Tony Burns, Co-Director of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice and Kelvin Knight, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University. It continues the collaboration between the two Centres initiated by a jointly organised conference devoted to the work of Martha Nussbaum, held at the University of Nottingham in May 2010.

The new group will be having a launch conference in 2011. It will also be organising a panel at the annual conference of the PSA, to be held at the Novotel London West, 19th-21st April 2011.

The group is also involved in a proposal to launch a new academic journal with the title Contemporary Aristotelian Studies.