On The Scope of Distributive Justice: Relational and Non-relational Views

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Open to the Public
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 9:00am
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 9:00am to Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 5:00pm

On the Scope of Distributive Justice 

July 5-7, Central European University, Budapest

Organized by the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the Global Justice Network

Venue: Central European University, Nador utca 13, Room 001

THURSDAY

10.30-11.15: Registration

11.15-11.30: Welcome

11.30-13.00: Keynote Address 

  • Samuel Scheffler (New York University): The Practice of Equality 
  • Janos Kis (Central European University): Response 

LUNCH

14.00-15.30: 

  • Shlomi Segall (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Problem with Inequality 
  • Christian Seidel (University of Erlangen): Vindicating Distributive Equality 

COFFEE

15.45-17.15 

  • Paul Kelleher (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Distributive Justice is Associative, Relational, Egalitarian, and Prioritarian 
  • Emily Crookston (Coastal Carolina University): Refusing to Take Up the Slack or Just Slacking? 

COFFEE

17.30-18.15 

  • Sem de Maagt (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Social Ontology, Practice Dependency, and Normative Political Theory  

 

FRIDAY

9.30-11.00 

  • Saladin Meckled-Garcia (University College London): Agency and the Scope of Distributive Justice: Restricting the Scope Without Practice Dependence 
  • Attila Mraz (Central European University): Practice-dependence: The Irrelevant Methodology of the Scope of Justice Debate 

COFFEE

11.15-12.45 

  • Elisabeth Kahn (University of York): Global Justice –  A Structural Approach 
  • Kristina Meshelski (California State University, Northridge): Structures Not Institutions

LUNCH

14.00-15.30 

  • Helena de Bres (Wellesley/Stanford): Disaggregating Global Justice 
  • Tom Porter (University of Manchester): The Limits of Background Justice

COFFEE

15.45-17.15 

  • Haye Hazenberg(K.U. Leuven): Global Democratic Equality? 
  • Eszter Kollar (John Cabot University): Constructing Global Fairness - In Search of Public Ideals

COFFEE

17.30-19.00 

  • Juri Viehoff (Oxford University): Justice or Democracy – Relational and Distributional Egalitarianism and the Shape of Supranational Institutions 
  • Verena Risse (Goethe University Frankfurt): International Legal Coercion in the Debate on Global Justice

20.00    Conference Dinner at Oliva

 

SATURDAY

9.30-11.00 

  • Miriam Ronzoni (Goethe University Frankfurt): Different Conceptions of State Sovereignty, and their Implications for Global Justice 
  • Eric Brown (Central European University): Cosmopolitanism - A Relational, Institutional Approach with Special Reference to Corruption

COFFEE

11.15-12.45 

  • Jon Garthoff (University of Tennessee): Moral Coordination Problems and the Global Reach of Distributive Justice 
  • Andras Miklos (University of Rochester): Justice and Equal Claims to Natural Resources

LUNCH

14.00-15.30: Keynote Address 

  • Simon Caney (Oxford University): Justice, Equality and Humanity 
  • Zoltan Miklosi (Central European University): Response


Conference convenors: Eszter Kollar, Zoltan Miklosi, Andres Moles, Orsi Reich

Information: ekollar@johncabot.edu, miklosiz@ceu.hu

Registration (free and open to all): ceuglobaljustice@gmail.com