2016 Program

Friday, October 21

01:45 p.m. Coffee and Registration

02:15 p.m. Opening Remarks

02:30 p.m. Panel 1 – CGIS South 153

  • “The Particularity Requirement in Territorial Justice”
    Ben Mueser, Columbia University (Respondent: Joshua Simons)
  • “The Problem of the ‘Monological’ basis of T.M. Scanlon’s Contractualism”
    Suzie Kim, Princeton University (Respondent: Jacob Abolafia)

04:30 p.m. Coffee Break

05:00 p.m. Keynote Address – CGIS South Tsai Auditorium 

  • “What Respect is Owed to Illusions about Immigration and Culture?”
    Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, NYU (Respondent: Zeynep Pamuk)

07:00 p.m. Reception   

Saturday, October 22

10:30 a.m. Breakfast and Coffee

11:00 a.m. Panel 2 – CGIS South 050 

  • “Identifying Exploitation and Providing Care: Unifying the Capabilities Approach and Feminist Contractarianism”
    Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer, Ohio State University (Respondent: Evelyn Flashner)
  • “Is Electronic Disobedience Civil? On the Problem of Incivility By Design”
    Christopher Kennedy, Duke University (Respondent: Brian Palmiter)

01:00 p.m. Lunch

01:30 p.m. Panel 3 – CGIS South 050 

  • “Declaration as Disavowal: Race and Empire in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
    Emma Mackinnon, University of Chicago (Respondent: Jonathan Bruno)
  • “Can I Have Four Strikes? On Eunomics and Classical Liberal Social Justice”
    Åsbjørn Melkevik, Queens University, Canada (Respondent: Leah Downey)

03:30 p.m. Coffee Break

04:00 p.m. Closing Remarks