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Conference Announcement Theme: Territorial Rights Subtitle: New Directions and Challenges Type: 2017 Conference Institution: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Location: Montreal, QC (Canada) Date: 21.–22.4.2017 __________________________________________________ Political philosophy has recently seen an increased interest in the justification of territorial rights. For a long time, political philosophy, which has had a great deal to say about the relationship between state and citizen, largely ignored territory as a distinct normative question. It was assumed that whatever justifies the state’s coercive power also justifies the state’s control over its territory. Recent developments in the literature on territorial rights, however, reveal that the normative issues surrounding territory are numerous and complex and that we lack a coherent and unified theory of territory. Despite much recent talk about trends toward globalization and de-territorialization, the fact remains that the entire face of our planet is divided into distinct, mutually exclusive, territorial and political units, and the process may not be complete, as states continue to attempt to extend their sphere of control beneath the seabed, to the frozen Arctic, and perhaps even beyond the atmosphere. Yet, even as the territorial imperative remains stubbornly in force, territorial rights are under-theorized. Some cosmopolitan theorists challenge the idea that the world should be divided into territorial states: they ask what entitles a state, or the people it represents, to assume monopoly control over a particular piece of the Earth’s surface. Even if one accepts the idea of the territorial state, a number of pressing political and philosophical questions still arise, which the traditional view that any state is entitled to exercise control over its territory leaves unanswered. What if a state’s or a group’s territory was acquired unjustly: are there remedial rights to territory in light of historical injustice? Do rights of jurisdiction or rights of self-determination entail rights to control borders and natural resources? What principles ought to determine who should have territorial rights in the case of unoccupied islands, Antarctica, or disputed boundaries? These normative questions are central to a number of pressing issues facing us today, all of which involve territory and territorial rights: the aftermath of colonialism and decolonization; indigenous land claims; corrective demands rooted in historical injustice; disputes over natural resources; competing claims over the oceans, the Arctic, and Antarctica; questions of secession and annexation; as well as debates about immigration. This conference brings together specialists from political theory, philosophy, law, public affairs, and international relations to address these issues and to explore new directions and challenges in both the conceptual and the applied dimensions of territory and territorial rights. Programme Friday, April 21, 2017 9.00-9.15: Welcome and introductory remarks 9.15-10.55: Panel 1: The Boundary Problem, Expulsion, and Attachment Chair: Avery Kolers - Paulina Ochoa Espejo, “Territorial Grounds of Democracy: Territory, Property, and Jurisdiction in Juan de Solórzano’s Derecho Indiano” - Patti Lenard, “Expulsion from Membership and Territory” - Cara Nine, “Place Attachment: What’s Identity Got to Do with It?” 10.55-11.15: Coffee break 11.15-12.45: Panel 2: Unoccupied Areas, Territorial Expansion, and Resource Rights Chair: Sarah Song - Margaret Moore, “Is Canada Entitled to the Arctic?” - Alejandra Mancilla, “Melting Grounds: The Moral Limits of Territorial Claims in Antarctica” 12.45-13.45: Lunch 13.45-15.15: Panel 3: Ownership, Stewardship, and Territorial Rights Chair: David Miller - Mathias Risse, “Humanity’s Collective Ownership of the Earth and Immigration” - Fabian Schuppert, “Territorial Rights, Control over Natural Resources, and the Specter of Intergenerational Domination: Examining the Prospects and Limits of a Stewardship Account” 15.15-15.45: Coffee break 15.45-17.15: Panel 4: Natural Resource Conservation and Animals’ Right to Place Chair: Fabian Schuppert - Chris Armstrong, “Justice and the Burdens of Natural Resource Conservation” - Avery Kolers, “The Territorial Rights of Animals: Zoopolis and Beyond” – with a reply by Will Kymlicka 17.15-18.15: Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017 9.00-10.30: Panel 5: Roundtable on A. John Simmons’ Boundaries of Authority (OUP 2016) Chair: Mira Bachvarova - Comments by David Miller, Cara Nine, Anna Stilz - Reply by A. John Simmons 10.30-11.00: Coffee break 11.00-12.30: Panel 6: Indigenous Land Claims and Postcolonial Boundary Drawing Chair: Patti Lenard - Kerstin Reibold, “Waldron and Indigenous Land Claims” - Catherine Lu, “Border Disputes: Postcolonial States and the Struggle for Reconciliation” 12.30-13.30: Lunch 13.30-15.00: Panel 7: Secession and Annexation Chair: Chris Armstrong - David Lefkowitz, “International Law, Institutional Reasoning, and Secession” - Amandine Catala, “What’s Really Wrong with Annexation: A Non-Domination Account” 15.00-15.30: Coffee break 15.30-17.00: Panel 8: Territory, Immigration, and Self-Determination Chair: Mathias Risse - Sarah Song, “Collective Self-Determination and Immigration Control” - Anna Stilz, “A Political Autonomy Account of Self-Determination” 17.00-17.15: Closing remarks Venue: Université du Québec à Montréal Building DeSève (DS), Room DS-1950 320 Sainte-Catherine St. East, Montréal, QC H2X 1L7 Access to the DS building on Saturday will be through the R building (ESG-UQAM) at 315 Saint-Catherine St. East, across the street from the DS building. Once in the R building, simply follow the signs for the DS building and for the conference, or ask the staff at the front desk. Access to the DS building on Friday is through the regular DS entrance at 320 Saint-Catherine St. East. Registration: Please register at: [email protected] Organized by: Amandine Catala (UQAM) & Margaret Moore (Queen’s) Conference website: https://territorialrights.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
