Brave New World 2008 Programme

University of Manchester

Tuesday 1st – Wednesday 2nd July

Arthur Lewis Building

All sessions take place in 2 floor boardroom. Lunch and registration on 4th floor.
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Tuesday 1st
11.30-12.30: Registration and lunch

12.30-2.00: Plenary session 1: Chair: Professor Hillel Steiner

Professor Cecile Fabre – ‘Legitimate Authority and the Just War’

2.00-2.15: Coffee break

2.15-4.00: Panel 1 Panel 2
Session A Chair: Tom Goodwin Chair:
Rights and Bodies Legitimacy & Justification

1. David Rhys Birks (Manchester) – 1. Christine Bratu (Munich) – Liberalism as the

Wellbeing, schizophrenia and experience right to be irrational? How contextualism might
machines. help liberalism avoid a serious personality
disorder.
2.Fiona Ennis (Cork) – Justification for a
right to bodily integrity. 2. Cord Schmelzle (Berlin) – Legitimacy in
non-state polities.
3. Jeremy Williams (LSE) – Wrongful life and
abortion. 3. Marco Verschoor (Nijmegen) – Why do all
social contract theories evaluate political
structures in terms of the classic model of the
nation-state?
4.00-4.30: Coffee break
4.30-6.15: Panel 3 Panel 4
Session B Chair: Dr Steve de Wijze Chair: Richard Child
Democracy Global Justice I: Site & Scope

1. Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Manchester) – The 1. Adam Daniel Etinson (Oxford) –

force of the better argument: appeals to
emotion in democratic deliberation.
2. James Gledhill (LSE) – The
democracy/contractualism analogy
reconsidered: rejecting ‘Rawlbermas’ and
rescuing proceduralism.
Cosmopolitanism and ethnocentrism.
2. Gabriel Wollner (UCL) – On the grounds of
justice: do obligations of egalitarian justice arise
only between and solely in virtue of individuals
sharing a common institution?

3. Joshua Forstenzer (Sheffield) – Deweyan

democracy and the fact of reasonable
pluralism.

7pm onwards: Conference dinner at East Z East restaurant

 Wednesday 2nd
9.30-11.15: Panel 5
Session C Chair:
Theories of Distributive Justice
1. Arabella Millett (Edinburgh) – Left-
libertarianism and land-rent as taxation.
2. Robert Jubb (Oxford) – The basic structure
and luck egalitarianism.
11.15-11.45: Coffee break
11.45-1.30: Panel 7
Session D Chair: Dr Zofia Stemplowska
Global Justice II: Form & Content
1. John Pearson (LSE) – Against
cosmopolitan democracy: equality and
inclusion in global politics.
2. Ambrose Lee (Stirling) – Special
obligations and cosmopolitanism.
3. Mario Solis (Essex) – The demands of
global justice: the sufficiency threshold.
1.30-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.15: Panel 9
Session E Chair: Dr Jonathan Quong
Constructivism
1. Michele Bocchiola (Rome) –
Constructivism between realism and anti-
realism.
2. Tamara Jugov (Berlin) – Rawlsian
constructivism and non-ideal global problems.
3. Katy Dineen (LSE) – Is Onora O’Neill’s
cosmopolitanism normatively substantive?
4.15-4.30: Coffee break
4.30-6.00: Plenary Session 2: Chair: Professor Alan Hamlin
Professor Jerry Gaus - TBA
6pm Conference close
Panel 6
Chair: Dr Kimberley Brownlee
Conceptions of the Self and the Family
1. Irene Pronk (Nijmegen) – Justice and gender
within the family reconsidered.
2. Raymond Glenn Critch (Edinburgh) – After
the self: what’s left of the communitarian
critique?
3. Michele Loi (Rome) – Can justice as fairness
be fair towards the deaf?
Panel 8
Chair:
Autonomy & Responsibility
1. Milla Vaha (Florence) – Victims or
perpetrators? Child soldiers and the vacuum of
responsibility.
2. Piero Moraro (Stirling) – Autonomy and the
duty to promote it.
3. Francois Hudon (Louvain) – Can a
preference-based conception of freedom make
sense?
Panel 10
Chair:
Sex, Autonomy & Human Nature
1. Kathy Butterworth (Kent) – The possibility
of a decentred autonomous subject.
2. Nat Coleman (Michigan) – The political
power of sexual preference.
3. Chris Hughes (Manchester) – Politics in the
absence of a universal human nature.