Cosmopolitan Rights and Responsibilities
All conference general sessions in CMU 202. See below for keynote locations.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, May 11, 2012
9:00 am (CMU 202): Welcome
9:15-11:45 am (CMU 202): Session I. Cosmopolitan Encounters
Chair: Amy Reed-Sandoval, Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, UW-Seattle
All three presentations are 20-30 minutes. At the end of the third presentation, there will be a short break and then open discussion of all three presentations.
Stefan Schweighöfer, Research Associate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
“Indigenous People’s Rights and Women’s Rights in Brazil: The Role of the laïcité of the State and Education”
Roseli Fischmann, Professor of Education and Director of Human Rights Program, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
“Appiah’s ‘Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience’ and Its Limits (Universalism vs. Regionalism in Museum Debates: How Far Should Cosmopolitanism Go?)”
Elizabeth Scarbrough, Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, UW-Seattle
11:45 am – 1 pm: Lunch.
1 pm – 3:30 pm (CMU 202): Session II. Are There Cosmopolitan Responsibilities?
Chair: Jennifer Driscoll, Graduate Student, Political Science, UW-Tacoma
All three presentations are 20-30 minutes. At the end of the third presentation, there will be a short break and then open discussion of all three presentations.
"Pogge, Institutional Generation, and the (Global?) Difference Principle"
Brad McHose, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Values in Society, UW-Seattle
“Democratic Cosmopolitanism”
Michael Blake, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Director, Program on Values in Society, UW-Seattle
“Democratic Solidarity – Should Democracies Help Other Democracies?”
Andreas Niederberger, Professor of Philosophy, Department of History & Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
4 – 5:30 pm (CMU 120): Keynote I
“Global Governance and Human Rights”
Prof. Dr. Cristina Lafont, Wender-Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
5:30 – 6:30: Reception: UW Club
Saturday, May 12
9:15-11:45 am (CMU 202): Session III. How Should We Understand Cosmopolitan Responsibility?
Chair: Adam Goch, Graduate Student, UW Department of Political Science
All three presentations are 20-30 minutes. At the end of the third presentation, there will be a short break and then open discussion of all three presentations.
“Which Responsibility for What? Social Freedom and Cosmopolitan Solidarity”
Philipp Schink, Research Associate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
“Cosmopolitan Right and Intersubjectivity”
Gregg Daniel Miller, Lecturer, Political Science, UW-Tacoma
“Cosmopolitan Responsibility: A Global Answer to Global Problems”
Amos Nascimento, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW-Tacoma
11:45 am – 1 pm: Lunch
1 – 3:30 pm (CMU 202): Session IV. Cosmopolitan Norms and Laws
Chair: Filiz Kahraman, Graduate Student, UW Department of Political Science
All three presentations are 20-30 minutes. At the end of the third presentation, there will be a short break and then open discussion of all three presentations.
“Opinio juris and Theorizing Law”
Andreas Wagner, Research Associate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
“The Limits of Corporate Responsibility: Norms and Levels of Corporate Moral Judgment”
Margaret Griesse, Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, UW Jackson School of International Affairs, UW-Seattle
“Transnational Corporations and the Incongruity of Their Rights and Responsibilities under International Law”
Anita Ramasastry, D. Wayne & Anne Gittinger Professor of Law, School of Law, UW-Seattle
4 – 5:30 pm (CMU 226): Keynote II
“Cosmopolitan Responsibility - Reflections on a New Paradigm of Political Ethics”
Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Vice President for the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
The conference is co-sponsored by the tri-campus Human Interactions and Normative Innovation Research Cluster; Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW-Tacoma; the Program on Values in Society; the UW Office of Global Affairs; the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; the Department of Philosophy; the Department of Political Science; the Department of Germanics; the Law, Societies, and Justice Program; and the UW Center for Human Rights.
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