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From September 3rd to 8th, 2024, at the residence of Ilia State University Alpine Ecology Institute, the second Georgian PhD Summer School in Ethics and Political Philosophy took place. Alongside the students of Ilia State University, the participants included international doctoral, postdoctoral, and master's students, as well as young researchers from England, Sweden, Ireland, Czechia, and Poland.

The school lecturers were:

• Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po, Paris)
• Espen Gamlund (University of Bergen)
• Matthew Lindauer (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center)
• Axel Gosseries (UCLouvain, Hoover Chair, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Who taught classes on:

• Experimental political philosophy;
• Environmental and animal ethics;
• What is the point of democratic theory?
• The meaning and limits of the concept of harm.

Host of the school - Ilia State University's Center for Advanced Studies.

Co-organizer of the school - Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain).

The school was held with the financial support of the Civil Society Foundation.