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Conference Announcement

"Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives"
International Conference
University of Oxford
Oxford (United Kingdom)
1-2 October 2010

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Registration for the forthcoming conference "Kant and Colonialism" is
now open at: http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk

The draft programme is set out below. The registration fee for
students is £15 for students and £25 for salaried participants.
Places are limited and early registration is advised.

For further information please contact:
Lea Ypi ([email protected]) or
Katrin Flikschuh ([email protected])

 
Programme: 

1st October 

10.00-10.30 Welcome and Introductions 

10.30-11.30 Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago:
"World Citizenship and global connections in Enlightenment political
thought" 

11.30-12.00 Coffee 

12.00-13.00 Johannes Thumfart, Freie Universität, Berlin:
"Kant's Conceptions of Colonialism, Free Trade and Cosmo-political
Providence and their Origins in Libanius, Francisco de Vitoria and
Hugo Grotius" 

13.00-14.15 Lunch 

14.15.-15.15 Howard Williams, University of Aberystwyth:
"Tensions in Kant's theory of colonialism" 

15.15-15.45 Coffee 

15.45-16.45 Alice Walla, University of St Andrews:
"Provisional Acquisition as 'true acquisition': Kant's argument
against colonialism" 

Drinks and Dinner
 

2nd October 

9.30-10.30 Pauline Kleingeld, University of Leiden:
"Kant on race and ec onomic globalization: On just trade and free
trade" 

10.30-10.45 Coffee 

10.45-11.45 Liesbet Vanhaute, University of Antwerp:
"World trade as the guarantee for perpetual peace? On the value and
consistency of Kant's theory of 'fair trade'" 

11.45-12.45 Lunch 

12.45-13.45 Anna Stilz, Princeton University:
"Provisional Rights and Past Injustice" 

13.45-14.00 Coffee 

14.00-15.00 Peter Niesen, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt:
"Restitutive justice in international and cosmopolitan law" 

15.00 Conclusion and Future Plans
 
 
 
 
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