Costanza Porro
Editorial work
I am the book review editor at Res Publica. For questions/proposals for book reviews and book symposia, please feel free to email me.
I am also of the editors of the Beyond the Ivory Tower series at Justice Everywhere, a blog about philosophy in public affairs, as a contributing author (http://justice-everywhere.org/.). The series seeks to explore the relationship between academic political theory and ‘real politics’, by talking to thinkers who have managed to bridge that divide.
Public Philosophy
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Workshops entitled: “What are prisons for?”, Ethics, Philosophy and Religion Conference, June 2025 and 2026, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form
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Participation in two public debates of the Pavia Debating Society (Pro e Contro) at the University of Pavia: in April 2019 on basic income and in May 2024 on sexual consent.
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I wrote a piece for the ENA, a think tank based in Athens, on the situation of prisons during the first wave of the pandemic, and how it should stimulate a radical rethinking of prison itself.
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(https://www.enainstitute.org/en/publication/covid-19-prison-uncovered/.). The piece has been published in print in the bilingual (English and Greek) collective volume Contemporary Political Thought & Alternative Policies edited by Nikos Erinakis and Yiannis Kouris.
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In March 2021, I taught two seminars on criminal punishment to a class of high school students in Brescia in Northern Italy.
SWIP Hamburg
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While at Hamburg, I was active in the local branch of SWIP – the Society for Women in Philosophy -, including in the organisation of the first SWIP-Hamburg Workshop in Feminist Philosophy in January 2021 and the SWIP Germany Annual Conference in November 2021.