2016 Graduate Conference Program
Thu. 17 March, 2016
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
1pm
Arrival and Welcome
Panel 1: Justice in Transition (Chair: Anahi Wiedenbrug)
Jelena Belic (CEU, Budapest): Toward a Transitional Theory of Justice
Linda Eggert (Oxford): Remedial Responsibility and post bellum Reparative Obligations in Revisionist Just War Theory
1.30pm
3pm
Break
3.20pm
Panel 2: Justification and Intervention (Chair: Kaveh Pourvand)
Kevin Pham (UC Riverside): The Normative Intervention of a Montaignean Political Philosopher
Giului Fornaroli (UCL): Avoiding truth to secure consensus: a justifiable move?
4.50
5.10pm
Break
Keynote (Chair: Prof Chandran Kukathas)
Prof Hillel Steiner (Manchester): Levels of Non-Ideality
Drinks and Dinner*
6.50pm
* The conference dinner is complementary for presenters.
Fr. 18 March, 2016
Graham Wallas Room, Old Building, 5th Floor
Panel 3: Global Justice (Chair: David Axelsen)
Fausto Corvino (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies): A minimum decommodification of labour power as a bulwark against global systemic domination
Christopher Boom (Tulane): Beyond Persecution: In Defense of Expanding Refugee Status
9.30-11am
11am
Break
Panel 4: Arendtian Politics (Chair: Paola Romero)
Stavroula Soukara (Kent): Love as a Political Concept? Hannah Arendt’s Amor Mundi and Hegel’s Theory of Recognition
Liesbeth Schoonheim (Leuven): Among friends: politics and personhood in Hannah Arendt
11.15am
12.45 pm
Lunch
2.30pm
Panel 5: Autonomy and Vulnerability (Chair: Marta Wojciechowska)
Emily Cousens (Oxford Brookes): Vulnerability as a basis for Political Community: The Limits
Ji-Young Lee (Bristol): The problem of oppression for procedural accounts of autonomy
Nico Brando (Leuven): A Childish View of Justice: Rawls, Nussbaum and the Problem of Assumed Agency
4.40pm
Break
5pm
Keynote (Chair: Prof Anne Phillips)
Prof Onora O’Neill (Cambridge):
Positivism, Pluralism and the Justification of Human Rights