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Conference Announcement Theme: Topics in global justice Subtitle: Agency, power and policy Type: 2nd Annual Conference Institution: Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham Location: Birmingham (United Kingdom) Date: 26.7.5.2016 __________________________________________________ The conference is interested in the ethics and politics of public policies that aim to enhance individual agency by shaping personal decision making and changing individual behaviours. Recent years have seen a proliferation of academic research and public programming aimed at improving individual and social outcomes through overt and covert efforts to change the decisions and behaviors of individual agents. These policies raise deep ethical questions about the proper role of government, the circumstances of justice, the nature and importance of individual agency, and the role of social norms in shaping preferences and actions. Programme Thursday, 26 May 2016 9:00-10:15 First Invited Keynote: TBD 10:30-12:00 Grad Panel 1: - Jorge Fabra Zamora (McMaster) - Making Justice Real: The Challenges of Global Law - Blair Peruniak (Oxford) - Displacement, Responsibility, and Massively Shared Agency - Andrew Molas (York) - Defending the CRPD: Dignity, Flourishing, and the Universal Right to Mental Health 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-14:00 Serena Parekh (Northeastern) - Taking Seriously the Agency of Refugees 14:00-15:00 Jennifer Morton (City College of NY) - Can Education Undermine Representation? 15:30-16:30 Alison Jaggar (Colorado/Birmingham) and Corwin Aragon (Concordia) - Agency, Complicity, and Global Ethics: Social Power and the Responsibility to Remedy Structural Injustice 16:45-18:15 Public Lecture: Carl Hart (Columbia) How Pot (and other recreational drugs) Can Cure Racism 19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner Friday, 27 May 2016 9:00-10:15 Invited Keynote: Clare Chambers (Cambridge) - Regulating Religious Marriage 10:30-12:00 Grad Panel 2: - Stephanie Sheintul (Wisconsin) - Moral Status and Paternalism; - Ji Young Lee (Bristol) - A Millian Perspective on Paternalism; - Nicolas Brando (KU Leuven) - Cultivating the Potential Self: Children and Agency in the Contractarian and Capability Theory 12:00-13:15 Lunch 13:15-14:15 Steve Weidmer (Arkansas State) - Adaptive Preferences and Respect for Agency 14:15-15:15 Heather Widdows (Birmingham) - The Demands of Beauty: Choice, Coercion, and Exploitation 15:45-16:45 Serene Khader (Brooklyn College) - Do Muslim Women Really Need Freedom? Speakers - Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University - Serene Khader, Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture, Brooklyn College - Clare Chambers, University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University Transportation and accommodation The University of Birmingham is easily accessible by train, with the University stop on campus, about a 5 minute walk from the conference venue: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/undergraduate/visit/getting-here.aspx Accommodation on the University of Birmingham campus is available through Venue Birmingham: http://www.venuebirmingham.com/?q=sleep/about-our-accommodation Further accommodation nearby in the city of Birmingham is available: http://www.booking.com/landmark/gb/university-of-birmingham.html Accessibility Arrangements are still being made with regards to accessibility of the conference. We aim to make the conference as accessible as possible and are working with the University to ensure an inclusive conference. Further information will be forthcoming shortly. Registration To register for the conference, please click here: http://shop.bham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=63&prodid=1137 Conference website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/globalethics/events/2016/global-justice.aspx __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
