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Call for Papers Theme: Humanitarian Ethics and Action Type: 3rd Annual Conference Institution: Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham Location: Birmingham (United Kingdom) Date: 1.–2.6.2017 Deadline: 1.3.2017 __________________________________________________ The Centre for the Study of Global Ethics (CSGE) at Birmingham is pleased to announce its next annual conference, on the theme of humanitarian ethics and action (broadly construed). As in previous years, the conference will feature both invited keynote speakers, speakers selected from a Call For Papers, and a public lecture. Keynote Speakers: Simon Caney (Oxford) Cecile Fabre (Oxford) Hugo Slim (ICRC) Helen Frowe (Stockholm) Public Lecture by: Leif Wenar (KCL) We invite abstracts of 500 words for papers suitable for presentation in 20 minutes. Deadline for submissions is 1st March 2017. All abstracts will be blind reviewed, so please do ensure that all identifying information is removed. To submit your abstract, please send (i) the anonymised abstract in .doc or .pdf format, and (ii) a separate document containing author information (name, paper title, email address, affiliation) to: [email protected] Possible paper topics include, but are certainly not limited to: - The ethics of philanthropy - Humanitarian intervention - Development ethics - The morality of sanctions and coercive measures - Global distributive justice - Partiality and its limits - Poverty alleviation and priority setting - Ethics and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) - Paternalism and respect for agency - War and conflict - The responsibilities of aid workers and NGOs - Public health ethics - Effective altruism and its critics - Responsibilities towards refugees If you have any questions about the conference, please get in touch at: [email protected] Conference website: http://globalethics2017.weebly.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
