2015 Graduate Conference Program
Thu. 19 March, 2015
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
Arrival and Welcome
1.30pm
Panel 1: Voting (Chair: Mollie Gerver)
Udit Bhatia (Oxford), “Education as (Dis)Qualification: Democracy and the Illiterate”
Matthew Baxendale (CEU, Budapest), “Citizenship and prisoner voting rights”
2pm
3.15pm
Break
Panel 2: Punishment (Chair: Fabio Wolkenstein)
Gulzaar Barn (Oxford), “On the forced imposition of medical interventions on prisoners”
Signy Gutnick Allen (Queen Mary, London), “‘Author of his Own Punishment’: The Hobbesian Citizenship of Punished Individuals”
3.30pm
Keynote (Chair: Mark Hill)
David Armitage (Harvard), "Cosmopolitanism and Civil War"
5pm
Drinks and Dinner*
6.30pm
* The conference dinner is for presenters and the keynote speaker
Fr. 20 March, 2015
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
10am
Arrival and Coffee
10.30am
Panel 3: The People (Chair: Paola Romero)
Attila Mráz (NYU), “Does Vertical Political Equality Require Political Participation?”
David Ragazzoni (UPenn), “Visions of 'the people'. Schmitt and Kelsen on the democratic sovereign"
11.15am
Break
11.30am
Panel 4: Exemption (Chair: Diana Popescu)
Adam Kern (Oxford), “A Simple Theory of Conscientious Accommodation”
Omri Ben-Zvi (HU, Jerusalem), “The Unavailability of Religious Arguments”
Paul Billingham (Oxford), “How Should Claims For Religious Exemptions Be Weighed?
1.15pm
Lunch
2.30pm
Keynote (Chair: Sarah Goff)
Simon Caney (Oxford), “Justice in the Transition to a Better World: on the Relationship between Means and Ends”
4pm
Break
4.30pm
Panel 5: Global (In-)Justice (Chair: Simon Beard)
Siba Harb (KU Leuven), “Can global egalitarians defend egalitarian justice for the EU?”
Pierre Cloarec (Sherbrooke/Paris-Sorbonne), “Calamity and Injustice”
Johannes Schulz (Frankfurt), “Global injustice and the enduring legacy of colonialism”