MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 17Th Annual Conference 2020 8th – 11th September Programme and Information 1 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 17th Annual Conference 2020 8th - 11th September Programme and Information 2 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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 3 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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” 4 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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” 5 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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” 6 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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” 7 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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” 8 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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 9 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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 10 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 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 11 MANCEPT Workshops (online) 2020 Disability and Political Theory: From Status and Distributive Justice to Citizenship Convenors