Antoinette Scherz
Centre for Advanced Studies „Justitia Amplificata”
Goethe University Frankfurt
Theodor-W. Adorno Platz 6, PF 12
60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
[email protected] +49(0) 69-798-36528
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EMPLOYMENT
Goethe University Frankfurt
Permanent Research Fellow, Justitia Amplificata
03/2015 present
Goethe University Frankfurt
Postdoctoral Fellow, Justitia Amplificata
Project: “The Concept and Standards of International Legitimacy: An Institutional
Approach to Global Justice“
09/2014 02/2015
University of Zurich
Research Fellow, Swiss National Competence Centre for Excellence in Research
“Challenges to Democracy in the 21th Century”
09/2009 04/2014
EDUCATION
PhD in Political Philosophy, University of Zurich
Thesis: “The Contribution of Normative Theory to the Institutional Design of
Multilateral Democracy: An Evaluative Framework for the European Union”
Supervisor: Francis Cheneval, Committee members: Allen Buchanan (Duke
University), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)
09/2009 04/2014
Master of Arts, University of Zurich
Major subject: Philosophy, Minor: Social Psychology and International Law
Master’s thesis: “Die Rolle der Menschenrechte in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit” [The Function of Human Rights in Development Cooperation].
2003 2009
EXTENDED RESEARCH VISITS
Princeton University
Guest of the Department, University Center for Human Values,
Host: Robert Keohane
02/2014 05/2014
McGill University, Montreal
Visiting Student, Department of Political Science, Host: Arash Abizadeh
09/2012 04/2013
University of Geneva
Exchange Semester
2006 2007
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Articles
2014
“Union Citizenship Revisited: Multilateral Democracy as Normative Standard for
European Citizenship.” (with Rebecca Welge), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2014.969202.
2013
“The Legitimacy of the Demos: Who Should Be Included in the Demos and on What
Grounds?” Living Reviews in Democracy 4 (0) (May 24).
http://democracy.livingreviews.org/index.php/lrd/article/view/25.
Working Papers
2014
“Multilateral Democracy as Democratic Federalism beyond the State: Institutional
Design in a Multilevel System.” NCCR Democracy Working Papers (78).
http://www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch/publications/workingpaper/pdf/wp_78.pdf
Edited Collections
forthcoming
Ethik des Politischen [Ethics of Politics], with Francis Cheneval, Daniel Messelken &
Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, volume of the German series „Grundlagentexte zur
Angewandten Ethik“ (Springer VS, forthcoming 2017).
GRANTS & AWARDS
2014
Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant for the academic year 2014/2015
from the Centre for Advanced Studies “Justitia Amplificata: Rethinking Justice – Applied
and Global”
2013
NCCR Living Reviews in Democracy Publication Award
for “The Legitimacy of the Demos: Who Should Be Included in the Demos and on What
Grounds?”
2012
Graduate Campus Grant
for a workshop series on: “Researching, Networking, Thinking Ahead: Democracy &
Citizenship in Europe”
2012
Fellowship for prospective researchers
from the Swiss National Science Foundation
2009
Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
at the University of Zurich
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INVITED TALKS
2015
Autonomy and Sovereignty Referendums: the Catalan Case from a Swiss Perspective.
Public Roundtable Discussion, University of Zurich, 5th March 2015.
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
2015
“Global Institutional Pluralism and Reasons to Support the International Judiciary.“
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2015, Edinburgh, 3rd - 5th June
2015.
2014
“Political Autonomy: Collective Self-determination or Individual Right?” Fourth
DemocracyNet Workshop, Zurich, 19th-20th September 2014.
2013
“Standards of International Legitimacy and Multilateral Democracy.“ 7th ECPR
General Conference, Bordeaux, 4th-7th September 2013.
2013
“The Value of Federal Theory for Multilateral Democracy.“ Society for Applied
Philosophy Annual Conference 2013, Zurich, 28th-30th June 2013.
2012
“Citizenship in Multilevel Systems: How Rights and Access Can (Dis)Balance
Multilateral Democracy”(Co-authored paper with Rebecca). Demoi-cracy: The
Government of the Peoples, Zurich, 22nd-23rd March 2012.
2011
“Normative Theory of Multilateral Democracy: Principles and Challenges.” 6th ECPR
General Conference, Reykjavik, 25th-27th August 2011.
2011
“The concept of democracy beyond the nation state and the normative function of the
demos.” Quatrième Congrès international du réseau francophone des Associations de
Science politique, Bruxelles, 20th-22th April 2011.
2011
“Demos and Demoi: Definition and Function of the People on the National and
Multilateral Level.” 3-Länder-Tagung, Basel, 13th-14th January 2011.
2010
“Demos and Demoi: Definition and Function of the Demos.” I Congress on Democracy
Today - Political Philosophy and Theory, Braga, 3th- 6th November 2010.
COFERENCE/WORKSHOP COMMENTS
2015
Comments on Andrea Sangiovanni’s book Humanity, Reciprocity, and Solidarity:
Three Essays on International Justice, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 25-26th June
2015.
2014
Comments on Philippe Van Parijs’s paper “Demos-cracy for the European Union:
why and how”, Workshop Demos-cracy for a Fragmented Polity: Considerations from
Europe and Switzerland, University of St.Gallen, 13-14th February 2014.
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WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
2015
Conference “The Challenges of Global Pluralism“ (with Maeve McKeown and Luke
Ulas), Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt, 16th -17th July 2015.
2015
Panel on “Democracy and Law-making Below and Beyond the State”, SAP Annual
Conference, Edinburgh, 3rd - 5th June 2015.
2012 2013
Workshop series: “Researching, Networking, Thinking Ahead: Democracy &
Citizenship in Europe” (with Karima Bousbah and Rebecca Welge) University of
Zurich, August 2012 - September 2013.
2012
“Demoi-cracy: The Government of the Peoples” (with Francis Cheneval), University
of Zurich, 22nd - 23rd March.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Zurich - Assistant Lecturer
Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics Program (ASAE)
Module “Political Ethics”: Sessions on humanitarian intervention, ethics of governing, legitimacy
and solidarity, secession, and migration (2011-2013, 2013-2015).
University of Zurich - Tutor
Introduction to Philosophical Aesthetics (Autumn Semester 2008), The Concept of the Political
(Spring Semester 2008), Exercises in Formal Logic II (Summer Semester 2007).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Refereeing
Papers:
European Journal of Political Theory
Ethics and Global Politics
Social Theory and Practice
Grants:
Research Foundation - Flanders
LANGUAGES
German:
English:
native
fluent
French:
Spanish:
conversational
good
REFERENCES
Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University.
Francis Cheneval, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Zurich. Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford.
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