Seminar Series at YSU: "Political Philosophy of Digital Rights"

On September 22, 2026, at 16:00, the YSU Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology will launch the lecture series "Political Philosophy of Digital Rights". 

Professor Axel Gosseries, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at UCLouvain (Belgium), and Levon Babajanyan, Associate Professor at the YSU Chair of Social Philosophy, Ethics and Aesthetics, will deliver seven hours of lectures as part of the Erasmus+ program. The series aims to introduce participants to the main methods of political philosophy and their application to analyzing issues of rights, freedoms and responsibility in the digital environment.

The sessions will take place:

• September 22, 16:00-19:00;

• September 23, 17:00-19:00;

• September 24, 17:00-19:00.

The three-day program will cover four topics:

• methodological foundations of political philosophy;

• the justification for banning social media access for those under 15;

• the responsibility of members of parliament for lying in parliament or on social media;

• the moral and political issues surrounding spam and ways to address them.