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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 __________________________________________________ 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. A campus map can be found at: http://web.wits.ac.za/ContactWits/Maps/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
