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Call for Papers Theme: Injustice, Resistance, and Progress Type: International Conference Institution: Department of Government, London School of Economics Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 4.–5.6.2018 Deadline: 12.1.2018 __________________________________________________ We live in a non-ideal world, in which injustices abound, including political corruption, racial and gender discrimination, systemic poverty, and wars of aggression. How may or should individuals and corporate agents respond to these injustices? How should the quest for moral progress be pursued and what ethical considerations constrain this pursuit? This conference will be a forum for presenting original recent scholarship on how ethics applies to agents, marginalized subgroups, and institutions acting within unjust frameworks. We welcome submissions from scholars working in these areas, from both normative and critical traditions, addressing different aspects of the relationship among injustice, resistance, and progress. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Gender and racial injustice - Civil disobedience and other forms of illegal political action - The morality of armed revolution - Political corruption - Public reason and moral repair - Domestic and global economic injustice - Secession and resistance - Commemoration and dissent Confirmed featured speakers: - Simon Caney, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK - Emanuela Ceva, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy, and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA - Derrick Darby, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, USA - Candice Delmas, Department of Philosophy and Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, USA - Clarissa Hayward, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis; Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard, USA Submitting a proposal: 1. Prepare an extended abstract as an attachment in MS Word or a .pdf (500-1000 words, including select bibliography). The abstract should be suitable for blind review. 2. Include in the body of the email relevant contact information: the author(s), department(s) and affiliation(s), mailing address(es), email address(es); and phone number(s). 3. Email the abstract and contact information to: Lauren Michelle Cooper at eth...@gsu.edu by 5 PM UTC on Friday 12 January 2018. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by mid-February 2018. The CFA can also be found here: http://ethics.gsu.edu/files/2017/11/Call-for-abstracts-LSE-and-GSU-conference-on-injustice.pdf Organizers Andrew I. Cohen, Director Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics Department of Philosophy Georgia State University P. O. Box 3994 Atlanta, GA 30302-3994 USA Email: aico...@gsu.edu Laura Valentini Department of Government London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom Email: l.m.valent...@lse.ac.uk __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
