MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020
MANCEPT Workshops (online) 17Th Annual Conference 2020 8th – 11th September
Programme and Information
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MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020
17th Annual Conference 2020
8th - 11th September
Programme and Information
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Contents
Agency, Domination and Resistance: Animal Rights in an Unjust World 4
Alternative Forms of Government 6
Basic Equality 7
Constituencies Revised 9
Democracy and Intergenerational Justice 10
Disability and Political Theory: From Status and Distributive Justice to Citizenship 12
The Ethics and Politics of Risk (Mis)Communication 14
Human Rights: Grounds, Substance, Protection 16
Individual Responsibility and Climate Change 18
Just Wars in an Unjust World 19
Law, Agency and Collective Lives 20
Neorepublicanism and Liberal Egalitarianism 22
Political Legitimation in Times of Transformation 23
The Politics of Romantic Life 24
Positional Goods 26
Procreation, Environment and Rights 28
Public Interest 29
Remembrance, Forgiveness, Time 32
Reparations: Past, Present, and Future 34
What is Gender and What Do We Want it To Be? 35
Mancept Workshops Organising Team 37
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Agency, Domination and Resistance: Animal Rights in an Unjust World
Convenors: Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton) Eva Meijer (Wageningen University & Research) Josh Milburn (University of Sheffield): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
Session 1: Power and freedom
14.00 – 15.00 Welcome and Introduction
15.00 – 16.00 Chiara Stefanoni – “Conceptualising Animal Resistance: Questions and Approaches”
16.30 – 17.30 Eva Meijer – “Wise Elk: Power and Animal Agency”
17.30- 18.30 Alok Hisarwala Gupta - “Captive Elephant Exception: Animal Rights in India”
Thursday 10th September
Session 2: Activism and Law
9.30 – 10.30 Charlotte Blattner – “Animal Agency and the Law”
10.30 – 11.30 Katharina Braun – “Tierbefreier e.V. v. Germany: A Legal Perspective on Animal Activism and Deliberative Democracy”
12.00 – 13.00 Alasdair Cochrane and Mara Daria-Cojacaru – “Veganism as Political Solidarity”
Session 3: Wild Animal Agency and Human Intervention
14.30 – 15.30 Bernice Bovenkerk – “Enabling Wild Animal Agency through Technology”
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15.30 – 16.30 Eze Paez – “Wild Animal Suffering: The Freedom-based Approach”
17.00 – 18.00 Julius Kapembwa – “Who is dominating who? The problem of Predation by Tribal Peoples”
Friday 11th September
Session 4: Animal Agency in Community
9.30 – 10.30 Angie Pepper – “Political Animals: Community, Resistance, and Deliberation”
10.30 – 11.30 Josh Milburn – “Animal Agricultural Workers: The Case of (in Vitro) Meat”
12.00 – 13.00 Zipporah Weisberg – “Interspecies Friendship Online: Lessons and Dangers” Session 5: Animal Agency in Community II
14.00 – 15.00 Diego Rosello – “The Animal Condition in the Human Condition: Rethinking Arendt’s Political Theory Beyond the Human Species”
15.30 – 16.30 Jasmine Gunkel – “Do I really Have to Say 'Feed Two Birds with One Scone?’"
16.30 – 17.30 Andy Lamey – “Equal Consideration of Animal Resources”
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Alternative Forms of Government
Convenors: Finlay Malcolm (University of Hertfordshire): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
Session 1
14.00 – 15.00 Paul Gunn (Goldsmiths): Keynote Talk
15.00 – 16.00 Agnes Tam (Concordia): “Rethinking Democracy in the Populist
Age”
16.00 – 17.00 Vincent Harting (LSE): “An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions”
Thursday 10th September
Session 2
09.00 – 10.00 Lachlan Umbers (Western Australia): Keynote Talk: “The Democratic Disvalue of Declining Turnout”
10.00 – 11.00 Deven Burks (Luxembourg): “Deliberative Constitutionalism and Alternative Forms of Government”
11.00 – 12.00 Paolo Bodini (Milan/Cologne): “Players Driven Democracy. Outlining a Mild Epistocratic Approach” Session 3
14.00 – 15.00 Pierre-Étienne Vandamme (Bruxelles): “What makes citizen assemblies legitimate?”
15.00 – 16.00 Sergei Sazonov (Tartu): “Polyarchy Revisited: Dividing Power in Liberal Democracy”
16.00 – 17.00 Olga Lenczewska (Stanford): “Electoral Competence, Epistocracy, and Standpoint Epistemologies. A Reply to Brennan”
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Basic Equality
Convenors Ian Carter (University of Pavia): [email protected] Giacomo Floris (University of Manchester): [email protected]
ALL TIMES ARE UK TIMES
Tuesday 8th September
16.30 – 17.30 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: “What Is It for Us to Be Moral Equals? And Does It Matter (Much), If We’re Not?”
17.45 – 18.45 Andrea Sangiovanni: “Are We of Equal Moral Worth?”
19.15 – 20.15 George Sher: “Why We Are Moral Equals”
Wednesday 9th September
16.30 – 17.30 Sara Amighetti: “Equality as Anti-Subordination”
17.45 – 18.45 Andrew Williams: “The Basis of Equality and its Implications”
19.15 – 20.15 Ian Carter: “In Defence of Opacity Respect”
Thursday 10th September
16.30 – 17.30 Costanza Porro: “Moral Equality and Vulnerability: Towards a Relational Approach”
17.45 – 18.45 Thomas Christiano: “Rationality and Fundamental Equal Moral Status”
19.15 – 20.15 Nikolas Kirby: “Equality in Judgement: Basic Equality as Liability to Judgment”
Friday 11th September
16.30 – 17.30 Richard Arneson: “Basic Equality, Rational Agency Capacity, and Potentiality”
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17.45 – 18.45 Federico Zuolo: “Egalitarian Range Properties for Inegalitarians. A Pragmatic Account”
19.15 – 20.15 Giacomo Floris: “When Respect Requires Moral Inequality”
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Constituencies Revisited
Convenors: Michael James (Bucknell University) : [email protected] Marcus Häggrot (Goethe Universität-Frankfurt ) : [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
Session I Time by location: Phoenix: 09:00-11:00 Chicago: 11:00-13:00 Montréal/Toronto/ Lewisburg/Ann Arbor: 12:00-14:00 Manchester: 17:00-19:00 Frankfurt: 18:00-20:00
Suzanne Dovi (University of Arizona): “Toxic Constituencies”
James Wilson (University of Chicago): “Political Equality and Geographic Constituency”
Panel Chair: TBC
Thursday 10th September
Session II Time by location: Phoenix: 09:00-11:00 Chicago: 11:00-13:00 Montréal/Toronto/ Lewisburg/Ann Arbor: 12:00-14:00 Manchester: 17:00-19:00 Frankfurt: 18:00-20:00
Lisa Disch (University of Michigan): “Can the Realist Remain A Democrat?: The Politics of Constituency Effects”
Marcus Häggrot (Goethe University Frankfurt): “Parliamentary Expatriate Representation: A Conditional, Democratic Defence of Overseas Constituencies”
Panel Chair: TBC
Friday 11th September
Session III Time by location: Phoenix: 08:00-11:00 Chicago: 10:00-13:00 Montréal/Toronto/ Lewisburg/Ann Arbor: 11:00-14:00 Manchester: 16:00-19:00 Frankfurt: 17:00-20:00
Benjamin Forest (McGill): “Contiguity, Constituencies, and the Political Representation of Minorities”
Michael James (Bucknell University): “Constituencies and the Democratic Boundary Problem”
Sarah Birch (King’s College London): “Un-binding the Vote: Electoral Boundaries and Citizen Mobility”
Panel Chair: TBC
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Democracy and Intergenerational Justice
Convenors: Jonathan Matthias Hoffmann (University of Warwick): [email protected] Gah-Kai Leung (University of Warwick): [email protected] Dr. Michael Rose (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): [email protected]
ALL TIMES ARE UTC+1 (LONDON/BRITISH SUMMER TIME)
Tuesday 8th September
Theory
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome
09.30 – 10.15 Simo Kyllönen (Helsinki): “Wedding Democracy with Intergenerational Justice: Democratic Sufficientarianism”
10.15 – 11.00 Patrick Taylor Smith (Twente): “Guardianship, F-Institutions, and Domination: Intergenerational Justice as Intergenerational Non- Domination”
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee/Tea Break
11.30 – 12.30 Keynote Axel Gosseries: “On Why We Should Not Expect Too Much from Intergenerational Legitimacy”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.45 Fritz Gillerke (Bayreuth): “Including the Future: Two Paths of Democratic Legitimacy and the All Affected Principle”
14.45 – 15.30 Masakazu Ogami (Zurich): “When Political Authority Loses: Democracy and Injustice to Future Generations”
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee/Tea Break
16.00 – 16.45 Charlotte Unruh (Southampton): “Against (strong) Chronopolitanism”
16.45 – 17.30 Tyler John (Rutgers): “Intergenerational Legitimacy”
17.30 – 18.00 Closing Discussion
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Wednesday 9th September
Institutions
09.00 – 09.45 Nicky van Dijk (Tasmania): “Designing Fair and Inclusive Institutions for Future Generations: Lessons from the Capability Approach”
09.45 – 10.30 Livia E. Luzzatto (Reading): “Intergenerational Actions as a Justification for Future-Oriented Institutions”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea Break
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote Simon Caney: “The Challenges of Governing for the Long- Term: Why the Problem is Deep”
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.15 Michael Reder (Munich): “Proxy Representation and Democratic Theory Potentials and Limits from the Perspective of Political Philosophy”
14.15 – 15.00 Dominic Roser (Fribourg): “A Joint Institution for the Voiceless”
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee/Tea Break
15.15 – 16.00 William Chan (Warwick): “Meritocratic Sortition as an Engine for Intergenerational Justice”
16.00 – 16.45 Kian Mintz-Woo (Princeton): “Incentives for the Long-Term(ists)”
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee/Tea Break
17.15 – 18.00 Karri Heikkinen (UCL): “The Committee for the Future: Lessons from Finland”
18.00 – 18.30 Closing Discussion
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Disability and Political Theory: From Status and Distributive Justice to Citizenship
Convenors Domenico Melidoro (Luiss University of Rome): [email protected]
Tuesday 8th September
1st Session - 2.30 – 5.30 (London Time)
Eva F. Kittay (Stony Brook University): TBC
Nynke van Uffelen (University Center Saint Ignatius Antwerp): “Honneth’s Theory of Recognition and Intellectual Disabilities: An Emancipatory Potential”
Domenico Melidoro (Ethos Luiss Business School): “Liberalism, Diversity, and Disability”
Wednesday 9th September
2nd Session - 2.30 – 5.30 (London Time)
Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry (McGill University): “Disability and Contractual Expectations”
Luke Beesley (University of Brighton): “Citizenship as Critique and the Critique of Citizenship: The Disabled People’s Movement and the Civil Rights Strategy”
Kevin T. Mintz (US National Institutes of Health): “Paying Attention to the Mouse Behind the Curtain: Dilemmas of Disability Justice in a Lawsuit Against Disney”
Tessa-May Zirnsak (La Trobe University): "Political Engagement of the Intellectual Disability Community: A Case for Intellectual Disability as a Political Group"
Thursday 10th September
3rd Session - 2.30 – 5.30 (London Time)
Asha Bhandary (University of Iowa): “Legitimate Needs and Racialized Expectations”
Emma Wynne Bannister (King’s College London): “The Capability to Live in the Community with Equal Standing”
Attila Mráz (Harvard University): “Giving Effect to Someone Else’s Electoral Judgments: Hard Cases in the Ethics of Supported Decision-Making for Voters”
Sofia Righetti (Università di Bologna): “Disability Rights and Social Justice”
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Friday 11th September
3rd Session - 2.30 – 5.30 (London Time)
Nicola Martin (London South Bank University): “The Participatory Autism Research Collective”
Kasin Khorasanee (UCL) and Matilda Carter (UCL): “Supported Voting: A User’s Guide”
Chiara Montalti (University of Florence): “Identity and/or Affinity: Mapping Disability Advocacy through Cyborg Politics”
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The Ethics and Politics of Risk (Mis)Communication
Convenors Kritika Maheshwari (University of Groningen): [email protected]
(Please bear in mind that all times are British time, BST)
Wednesday 9th September
11.30 – 12.00 Set up, welcome, introduction
12.00 – 13.30 Keynote by Prof. Sabine Roeser (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) – "Risk, Moral Emotions and the COVID Crisis"
13.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University, Poland): “The Ethics of Risk Assessment and Communication: the Case of Race/Ethnicity in Healthcare and Biomedical Research”
15.00 – 15.15 Short Break
15.15 – 16.15 Alexandra Valadas (Michigan State University): “A Continuum for Risk Conceptions – An Outlook on the Standard Approach and a Feminist Analysis of Risk”
16.15 – 16.30 Short Break
16.30 – 17.30 Davide Vecchi (University of Lisbon) and Giorgio Airoldi (UNED, Spain): “Ethical Framing and Democratisation of Science Policy Benefit Governmental Risk Communication and Management”
17.30 – 18.30 Social (Virtual) Drinks!
Thursday 10th September
11.30 – 12.00 Set up, welcome to Day 2
12.00 – 13.30 Keynote by Prof. Anne Ruth Mackor (University of Groningen, Netherlands): “Risks of Miscommunication about Probabilities in Court”
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13.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 Francesca Cavallo (University of Kent) – “The Aesthetics of Risk Communication”
15.00 – 15.15 Short Break
15.15 – 16.15 Gah-Kai Leung (University of Warwick) – “The Legitimacy of Mandatory Emergency Preparedness Measures: The Case of Compulsory Earthquake Insurance in Cascadia”
16.15 – 16.30 Short Break
16.30 – 17.30 Friedemann Bieber (University of Zurich): “The Case for Ignorance in the Context of Unbalanced Risks”
17.30 – 18.00 Conclude workshop
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Human Rights: Grounds, Substance, Protection
Convenors Ruxandra Ivanescu (University of Manchester) Davide Pala (University of Manchester): [email protected]
(ALL TIMES ARE UK TIMES)
Tuesday 8TH September
The Present and the Future of Human Rights
15.00 – 15.50 Adam Etinson: “The Philosophy of Human Rights (in the 20th Century)”
16.00 – 16.50 Cristina Lafont: “Neoliberal Globalization and Human Rights: Why Are Human Rights Powerless in an Unequal World?”
17.00 – 17.50 Davide Pala: “Toward an Appropriate Republican Regime of Human Rights”
18.00 – 18.50 Anandita Mukherj: “Negligence and the Duty of Care in International Institutions”
Wednesday 9th September
Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Right-holders
15.00 – 15.50 Andrea Sangiovanni: “On Rainer Forst’s Approach to Human Rights”
16.00 – 16.50 Ariel Zylberman: “The Distribution of Personhood”
17.00 – 17.50 Matthew Perry: “Human Dignity Beyond the Human”
18.00 – 18.50 Alexander Arridge: “Small Humans: The Rights of Infants and Young Children”
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Thursday 10th September
Natural and/or Political? And What Human Rights?
14.00 – 14.50 Lena Halldenius, “Human Rights and Socioeconomic Inequality”
15.00 – 15.50 Charlie Richards: “The Right to Personal Relationships”
17.00 – 17.50 Laura Valentini: “On the Explanatory Dispensability of Natural Rights”
18.00 – 18.50 Annabelle Lever: “Democracy and Human Rights”
Friday 11th September
Courts & Adjudication; Hard Cases and Emergencies
15.00 – 15.50 Andreas Føllesdal: “Add International Courts to The Idea of Human Rights and Stir… Reconstructing Human Rights Practices: Risks, Roles and Repercussions”
16.00 – 16.50 Attila Mraz: “The Challenge of Justificatory Pluralism in Human Rights Adjudication”
17.00 – 17.50 Giulio Fornaroli: Cristian Rettig, “Human Rights Under Emergency”
18.00 – 18.50 Dennis Lunt: “The Right to Not Kill as a Ground for Conscientious Objection”
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Individual Responsibility and Climate Change
Convenors: Pierce Randall (University of Pennsylvania): [email protected]
Both sessions will take place from 5.00pm to 8.00pm (1700 – 2000) British Summer Time (BST). All times below are for BST
Wednesday 9th September
17.00 – 18.00 Adriana Placani (University of Graz) and Stearns Broadhead (University of Graz): “What We Owe Ourselves”
18.00 – 19.00 Pierce Randall (United States Naval Academy): “Carbon Footprints and Individual Responsibility for Emissions”
19.00 – 20.00 Arthur Obst (University of Washington): “Individual Responsibility and the Ethics of Hoping for a More Just Climate Future”
Thursday 10th September
17.00 – 18.00 Kathrin von Allmen (University of Zurich): “How to Justify Remedial Responsibilities for Climate Harms”
18.00 – 19.00 Kalle Grill (Umea University): “Procreation and Consumption: Six Moral Differences”
19.00 – 20.00 Justin Bernstein (Florida Atlantic University): “In Defense of Conscious Consumption: Why You Can’t Have Your Steak and Call for Political Action Too”
Time zone conversion:
PDT(/PST) EDT(/EST) BST(/GMT) CEST(/CET) 09.00 12.00 17.00 18.00 (start) 10.00 13.00 18.00 19.00 11.00 14.00 19.00 20.00 12.00 15.00 20.00 21.00 (end)
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Just Wars in an Unjust World
Convenors Sara Van Goozen (University of York): sara.vangoozenATyork.ac.uk
Wednesday 9th September
10.00 – 11.00 Anh Le (Manchester): “Making a Case for the Retributive Uses of Force Short of War"
11.00 – 12.00 Pavel Skigin (EUI): “Justifying resource sanctions: a property rights framework”
16.00 – 17.00 Patrick Taylor Smith (Twente): “LAWS and just counterinsurgency operations”
17.00 – 18.00 Hunter Cantrell (West Point): “AWS and the claim rights of innocents”
Thursday 10th September
10.00 – 11.00 Anat Shapira (Tel Aviv): “How should we fight against those who don’t play by the rules?”
11.00 – 12.00 Temi Ogunye (LSE): “The ethics of radical political activism: authority, obligation. and restraint”
16.00 – 17.00 Lonneke Peperkamp (Radboud Nijmegen): “Redistributive Wars”
17.00 – 18.00 Conway Waddington: “How cogently does Just War Theory apply to conflict driven by water security or scarcity?”
Friday 11th September
16.00 – 17.00 Crystal Allen-Gunasekera (Principia College): “The justice of unconventional causes for war”
17.00 – 18.00 Talia Shoval (Edinburgh): “The nature of war: Incorporating environmental ethics in the ethics of war”
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Law, Agency and Collective Lives
Convenors Säde Hormio (UC Berkeley & University of Helsinki): [email protected] Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
14.00 – 14.30 Introductions
14.30 – 15.30 Amy J. Sepinwall (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania): “Corporate Manhood”
15.30 – 16.30 Mihailis E. Diamantis (University of Iowa): “The Corporate Insanity Defence”
16.30 – 17.30 Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki): “Corporate Liars”
17.30 - Mix & Mingle
Thursday 10th September
14.00 – 15.00 Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora (University of Toronto): “Groups, Communities and Legal Theory: A Practice-Based, Hartian Account”
15.00 – 16.00 Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki) “Group Agents as Corporations”
16.00 – 17.00 Franz Altner (University of Vienna): “Constitutive arguments and group agency”
Friday 11th September
14.00 – 15.00 Ludovica Adamo (University of Leeds): “Plans, law and reasons. How political authorities enter and shape individual practical reasoning”
15.00 – 16.00 Alex Horne (University of Cambridge): “Identity, Community, Legality”
16.00 – 17.00 Temi Ogunye (LSE): “Changing the rules we live by”
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17.00 – 18.00 Jukka Ruokanen (University of Jyväskylä): “Ontological and judicial dimensions of right and law in the political theory of Jean Bodin and Johannes Althusius”
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Neorepublicanism and Liberal Egalitarianism
Convenors Dr. Jürgen Sirsch (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg): [email protected] Dr. Doris Unger (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
09.30 – 10.00 Welcoming and Introduction – Jürgen Sirsch, Postdoc, University of Bamberg / Doris Unger, Postdoc, University of Mainz Session 1: Central Concepts in Neorepublican and Liberal-Egalitarian Thought 10.00 – 11.00 Lars J. K. Moen (Ph.D Candidate, Australian National University): “Eliminating Terms of Confusion: Resolving the Liberal- Republican Dispute”
11.00 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 – 12.10 Alexander Bryan (Postdoc, King’s College London): “Property and Freedom as Non-Domination”
Thursday 10th September
Session 2: Freedom as Non-Domination and Theories of Justice 10.00 – 11.00 Hannah McHugh (Ph.D Candidate, University College London): “Is Non-Domination All That Is Needed to Achieve Social Justice?”
11.00 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 – 12.10 Jürgen Sirsch (Postdoc, University of Bamberg) Doris Unger (Postdoc, University of Mainz): “Competing Conceptions of Freedom for a Public Philosophy” Session 3: Applying Liberal-Egalitarian and Neorepublican Ideas 14.00 – 15.00 Suzanne Whitten (Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast): “Why Protest?”
11.00 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 – 12.10 João Ribeiro (MA Student, Universidade do Minho): “Neorepublicanism and Liberal Egalitarianism: Practical Implications for Free Movement under European Union Law”
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Political Legitimation in Times of Transformation
Convenors: Daniel Hausknost (Vienna University of Economics and Business): [email protected] Marit Hammond (Keele University): [email protected]
Time (BST) (Buenos Aires -3; Europe +1)
Thursday 10th September
11.30 – 12.00 Welcome and Introductions
12.00 – 13.30 Daniel Hausknost (WU Vienna): “Opacity and Transparency: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Political Legitimacy” Discussant: Alejandro Pelfini
14.00 – 15.30 Ugur Aytac (Amsterdam) & Paul Raekstad (Edinburgh): “Shifting the Focus: A Transformative Conception of Political Legitimacy”, Discussant: Eric Fabri
16.00 – 17.30 Eric Fabri (Brussels/Oxford): “What does radical democracy imply for property rights?” Discussant: Adrián Beling
Friday 11th September
11.00 – 12.30 Adrián Beling (FLACSO Argentina): “Circular politics. Politicizing the cultural performativity of politics” Discussant: Marit Hammond
13.00 – 14.30 Marit Hammond (Keele): “A Culture of Deliberation: Experiments in Performance and a New Sustainability Politics” Discussant: Ugur Aytac
15.00 – 16.30 Alejandro Pelfini (FLACSO Argentina): “Locked into the patterns of extractivism: new legitimation strategies of the extractivist- informational capitalism in South America” Discussant: Daniel Hausknost
16.30 – 17.00 Concluding Discussion; Closing
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The Politics of Romantic Life
Convenors: Luke Brunning (University of Birmingham): [email protected] Natasha McKeever (University of Leeds): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
12.00 – 13.00 Meet and greet
13.00 – 14.00 Alison Toop: “Romantic Love in a Political Liberal Society”
14.00 – 14.30 Break
14.30 – 15.30 Gulzaar Barn: “Polyamory, Consent, and Power”
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Jeroen Rijnders: “Discrimination in the Bedroom: The Psychology and Morality of Sexual Preferences”
Thursday 10th September
13.00 – 14.00 Jakob Green Werkmäster and Marta Johansson: “Collective Harm: A Tinderella Story”
14.00 – 14.30 Break
14.30 – 15.30 Lauren Ware and Alison Duncan Kerr: “Erotic Precarity”
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Sophie Goddard: “Love, Vulnerability and Anti-love Drugs”
17.00 – 19.00 Drinks
Friday 11th September
13.00 – 14.00 Ugur Bulgan: “De-recognizing the Misrecognizer: An Alternative Defence for the Marriage-Free State”
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14.00 – 14.30 Break
14.30 – 15.30 Luke Brunning: "Polyamory: The Future of Love?"
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Jorge Oseguera Gamba: “The Ethical Superiority of Polyamory”
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Positional Goods
Convenors Tammy Harel Ben Shahar (University of Haifa): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
(California 05:00-08:40; CET 14:00-17:40; 15:00-18:40 Israel, 22:00-01:40 Australia) Session 2 (HBS G.34)
13.00 – 13.50 Jens Jørund Tyssedal (Aarhus University): “Does the Existence of Positional Goods Provide a Reason for Intrinsic Limitarianism?”
13.50 – 14.40 Chris Neuhäuser (Dortmund University): “Self-respect, Positional Goods, and Limitarianism”
14.40 – 15.00 Break
15.00 – 15.50 Dick Timmer (Utrecht University): “The Positional Goods Challenge to Orthodox Limitarianism”
15.50 – 16.40 David Axelsen (University of Essex): “Mo Money, Mo Taxes”
Thursday 10th September
(California 10:00-13:40, CET 19:00-22:40, Israel 20:00-23:40, Australia 03:00-06:40)
18.00 – 18.50 Anca Gheaus (UCE): “Raising Effective Egalitarians”
18.50 – 19.40 Keith Hankins (Chapman University): “Role Models and the Positional Character of Opportunity”
19.40 – 20.00 Break
20.00 – 20.50 Benjamin Davies (Oxford University): “Responsibility and Positional Goods in Healthcare”
20.50 – 21.40 Jonathan Seglow, Royal Holloway (University of London): “Role Self-Respect: Institutions, Positionality, Equality”
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Friday 11th September
(California 01:00-04:40, CET 10:00-13:40, Israel 11:00-14:40, Australia 18:00-21:40) Session 5 (HBS G.34)
09.00 – 09.50 Daniel Halliday (Melbourne University): “On the Diachronic Tendencies of Positional Competition”
09.50 – 10.40 Yvette Drissen (Tilburg University): “Competition for Power and Status: Why the Zero-Sum Terminology is Wrong”
10.40 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.50 Tammy Harel Ben Shahar (University of Haifa): “Slowing positional competition”
11.50 – 12.40 Chair: Adam Swift (UCL): Concluding Discussion
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Procreation, Environment and Rights
Convenors Malik Bozzo-Rey (Lille Catholic University): [email protected] Blandine Mallevaey (Lille Catholic University)
Thursday 10 September
14.00 – 16.00 Mehdi Ebrahimpour (University of Saskatchewan): “A Kantian Analysis of Procreation”
Benoît Basse (Lille Catholic University): “Is There a Right to Choose Our Children?”
Malik Bozzo-Rey (Lille Catholic University): “One Child or Does Utilitarianism Provide a Legitimate Justification for State Paternalism?”
Vincent Aubert (Lille Catholic University): “Taking Conly Seriously: What if We Want More?”
Clich here for abstracts
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Public Interest
Convenors Daniele Santoro (Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society – University of Minho): [email protected] Eric R. Boot (Department of Law, Tilburg University): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
Session 1 9:30am –11:30am BST (British Summer Time); 10.30am – 12.30pm CEST (Central European Summer Time); 4.30am –6:30am EST (Eastern Standard Time) 09.30 – 10.30 Oliver Milne (National University of Ireland, Galway, Philosophy) – “The Public Interest as Ideal Compromise”
10.30 – 11.30 Hans Radder (VU Amsterdam, Philosophy) – “Technology and the Critical Theory of the Common Good”
11:30am – 11:45am BST; 12:30pm – 12:45pm CEST; 6:30am –6:45am EST – Short Break
Session 1 (Continued)
11:45am – 12:45pm BST; 12:45pm – 1:45pm CEST; 6:45am – 7:45am EST – Rachelle Bascara (Birkbeck College London, Philosophy) – “Against the ‘Public Interest’ and the ‘Common Good’”
12:45pm – 2:00pm BST; 1:45pm – 3:00pm CEST; 7:45am – 9:00am EST – Lunch
Session 2 2:00pm – 4:00pm BST; 3:00pm –5:00pm CEST; 9:00am – 11:00am EST 02.00 – 03.00 Jonny Thakkar (Swarthmore College, Political Science) – “Working for the Common Good”
03.00 – 04.00 Eric Beerbohm (Harvard University, Government) – TBA
4:00pm – 4:15pm BST; 5:00pm – 5.15pm CEST; 11:00am – 11:15am EST – Short Break
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Session 2 (Continued)
4:15pm – 5:15pm BST; 5:15pm – 6:15pm CEST; 11:15am – 12:15pm EST – Waheed Hussain (University of Toronto, Philosophy) – “Pandemic and the Common Good”
Thursday 10th September
Session 3 9:30am – 11:30am BST; 10.30am – 12.30pm CEST; 4.30am – 6:30am EST 09.30 – 10.30 Nikolas Kirby (University of Oxford, Government) – “Pursuit of the Public Interest: A Fiduciary Model”
10.30 – 11.30 Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen, Philosophy) – “Democratic Professionalism as a Public Interest Regime for Knowledge”
11:30am – 11:45am BST; 12:30pm – 12:45pm CEST; 6:30am – 6:45am EST – Short Break
Session 3 (Continued) 11:45am – 12:45pm BST; 12:45pm – 1:45pm CEST; 6:45am – 7:45am EST – Eric Boot (Tilburg University, Law) – “What is the Public Interest Good For?”
12:45pm – 2:00pm BST; 1:45pm – 3:00pm CEST; 7:45am – 9:00am EST – Lunch
Session 4 2:00pm – 4:00pm BST; 3:00pm – 5:00pm CEST; 9:00am – 11:00am EST
02.00 – 03.00 Jane Mansbridge (Harvard Kennedy School) – “The Role of Private Interests and the Public Interest in Democracies”
03.00 – 04.00 Philip Schofield (University College London, Faculty of Laws) – “Jeremy Bentham on the Identification of Private and Public Interest.”
Friday 11th September
Session 5
01:00pm – 02:00pm BST; 2:00pm – 3:00pm CEST; 8:00am – 9:00 EST: Marcel Verweij (Wageningen University, Social Sciences) – “The Peculiar Public Good of Herd Immunity and the Fairness of Vaccination Free Riding”
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2:00pm – 2:15pm BST; 3:00pm – 3:15pm CEST; 9:00am – 9:15am EST - Short Break
Session 5 (continued)
2.15pm – 4.45pm BST; 3.15pm – 5.45pm CEST; 9.15am – 11.45am EST
02.15 – 03.30 Daniele Santoro (University of Minho, Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society) – “The Adversarial Nature of Public Interest Claims” – Comments by Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi, Politics)
03.30 – 04.45 Nomi Claire Lazar (Yale NUS, Politics) – “What Is the Public Good in the State of Emergency?” – Comments by Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi, Politics)
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Remembrance, Forgiveness, Time
Convenors Prof. Dr Oliver Hallich (University of Duisburg- Essen): [email protected] Dr Paula Satne (University of Wolverhampton): [email protected]
Wednesday 9th September
Format: 25 minutes presentation followed by 25 minutes discussion
First Session: 9.30 to 13.20 (UK time) 09.30 – 10.00 Introduction to the Workshop: Prof Oliver Hallich
10.00 – 10.50 Dr Johannes Müller-Salo: “The Victim’s Claim and the Wrongdoer’s Constitution. Connecting Forgiveness to Political Change”
11.00 – 11.50 Dr Paula Satne (The University of Wolverhampton): “Forgiveness, Adversariality and Memory”
12.10 – 13.20 Dr Siobhan Marie Doyle (St Nicholas Montessori College of Ireland): “Kierkegaard: The Temporal and Eternal Structure of the Process of Forgiveness”
Second Session: 15.00 to 17.00 (UK time) 15.00 – 15.50 Dr Stuart Jesson (York St John University): “Resenting and Forgiving Time”
16.00 – 16.50 Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra (UC Riverside): “State Apologies and Moral (Il)Legitimacy”
Thursday 10th September
Third Session: 10.00 to 13.20 (UK time) 10.00 – 10.50 Richard J. Elliott (Birkbeck College) and Rhys Woodwards (King’s College London): “Forgetting, Forgiving, Remembrance and Ressentiment: the Political Significance of Shifts in Values in Nietzsche and Beyond Nietzsche”
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11.00 – 11.50 Nathália de Ávila (Universität zu Köln): “What Kind of Forgiveness is Possible in Collective Trauma?”
12.10 – 13.20 Daniil Koloskov (Charles University in Prague and Catholic University in Louvain): “Temporality of Forgiveness. A Merleau-Pontian Perspective”
Fourth Session: 15.00 to 17.00 (UK time) 15.00 – 15.50 Dr Daniel Telech (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute): “Forgiveness and Moral Luck”
16.00 – 16.50 Michael Bruckner (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “The Reason to be Angry Proportionally”
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Reparations: Past, Present, and Future
Convenors Cholbi Michael (The University of Edinburgh): [email protected]
Tuesday 8th September
17.00 – 19.00 GMT Victor Abundez-Guerra: “Collective state apologies and moral (il)legitimacy”
Christina Nick: “No Stone Unturned: Official Apologies as Reparations for Dirty Hands”
Jennfer Page: “The Politics of Reparations: H.R. 40 and the Interest Convergence Paradox”
Wednesday 9th September
17.00 – 19.30 GMT Sonny Kim: ‘What’s the point of reparations?’
Luke Moffett: “Reparations as Balance”
Thursday 10th September
17.00 – 19.30 GMT Laura Santi Amantini: “Reparative Responsibility for the Harms of Forced Migration”
Rufaida Al Hashmi: “Historical injustice in immigration selection policy”
Lukas Meyer and Timothy Waligore: “Supersession and Compensation”
Friday 11th September
17.00 – 19.00 GMT Susan Stark: “Covid 19, Reparations, and White Supremacy”
Michael Cholbi: “Basic Income as Reparations?”
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What is Gender and What Do We Want it to Be?
Convenors Jaana Virta (Tampere University): [email protected]
***ALL TIMES ARE UTC TIMES (ECT -4 hours, BST +1 hour, etc.)***
Tuesday 8th September
Metaphysics of Gender 13.00 – 14.00 Jaana Virta: Welcome to the Workshop
14.00 – 15.00 Keynote: Ásta: “Descriptivism about Gender”
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.30 Phillip Yoon: “A Step Towards Achieving Gender Justice: The Consideration of Gender Self-Identification”
16.45 – 17.45 Jade Fletcher: “Defending the Nonseparability Argument for Gender Nominalism”
18.00 – 19.00 Gabrielle Bussell: “Feminist Theory, Gender Identity, and Liberation from Patriarchal Power: An Argument for an Ascriptive Account of Gender”
Wednesday 9th September
Conceptual Approaches to Metaphysics of Gender 13.00 – 14.00 Keynote: Esa Diaz-Leon: “A contextualist response to gender-critical views”
14.15 – 15.15 Matthew Cull: “For an Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism”
15.15 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 16.45 Madhavi Mohan: “Descriptive and Normative Grounds for Understanding Genders as Essentially Contested”
17.00 – 18.00 Claudia Mazzuca and Matteo Santarelli: “Politicized concepts as abstract concepts: the case of gender”
18.15 – 19.00 Chatting about the themes of the first two days with coffee/tea/drink
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Thursday 10th September
Metaphysics of Gender Identity / Metaphysics of Gender II 13.00 – 14.00 Keynote: Katharine Jenkins: “Gender Pluralism and the Constraints and Enablements Framework”
14.15 – 15.15 Matthew Turyn: “The need for epistemic first-person authority”
15.15 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Joshua Petersen: “Who (gets to be) a lesbian? Identity gatekeeping and the relevance of metaphysics to political praxis”
17.15 – 18.00 Chatting about the themes of the first two days with coffee/tea/drink
Friday 11th September
Future of Gender 13.00 – 14.00 Keynote: Robin Dembroff: “Problems with Patriarchy”
14.15 – 15.15 Danny Weltman: “Gender Abolitionism: Not Now, But Late”
15.15 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Giuseppe Vicinanza: “The trans-gender society. Thoughts for a future manifesto”
17.15 – 18.00 Conclusion + Planning how to smash the patriarchy asap
WARNING: The keynote talks focus around the theme of their day only by change.
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MANCEPT Workshops Organising Team
Jeannine Bringmann
Giacomo Floris
Vittorio Gerosa
Molly Powell
Noemie Rouault
Christian Schemmel
Steve de Wijze
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