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Conference Announcement

"Poverty, Charity, Justice"
Interdisciplinary Conference
Wits Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy Department,
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg (South Africa)
12-14 March 2010

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The Wits Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy Department invite you to
an interdisciplinary conference:
Poverty, Charity, Justice

Program

Friday March 12; Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering
Building

12:00-12:10 welcome

12:10-13:20 Thad Metz (UJ) Duties of Beneficence in the light of an
African Moral Theory

13:20-14:20 lunch

14:20-15:30 Gerald Lang (Leeds) Justice and National Boundaries

15:30-16:00 tea and coffee

16:00-17:30 Tommie Shelby (Harvard) Justice, Self-Respect and the
Culture of Poverty
 

Saturday March 13; Central Block 08

09:00-10:10 Lucy Allais (Wits) Should I give to beggars?

10:20-11:30 Pedro Tabensky (Rhodes) The Oppressor's Pathology 

11:30-12:00 tea and coffee

12:00-13:10 Lawrence Hamilton (UJ) Freedom, Power and Poverty

13:10-14:10 lunch

14:10-15:20 Daryl Glaser (Wits) Class as a Normative Category:
Egalitarian Reasons to take it seriously (with a South African case
study)

15:20-15:50 tea and coffee

15:50-17:00 Hennie Lotter (UJ) Justice as Poverty Prevention
 

Sunday March 14 Central Block 08

09:00-10:10 David Bilchitz (Saifac) Defining the Positive Obligations
of Corporations in relation to fundamental rights: A question of
charity or justice?

10:20-11:30 Ward Jones (Rhodes) TBA

11:30-12:00 tea and coffee

12:00-13:10 Helga Varden (Illinois) A Kantian Conception of Domestic
Economic Justice

13:10-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:10 Luigi Caranti (Catania) Pogge's Causal Analysis of Global
Poverty. Some Critical Remarks

15:10-15:40 tea and coffee

15:40-17:00 Thomas Pogge (Yale, Oslo, ANU) Poverty and Justice
 

Please inform <[email protected]> if you intend to attend.
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