The Third International Global Ethics Association (IGEA) Conference (www.igea.ugent.be)

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

30 June - 2 July 2010

Global Ethics: 10 years into the millennium

Programme

Wednesday, 30 June
13:00-14:00 / Registration (B Block Foyer)
14:00 – 3:30
Panels / The WTO and Global Justice (2B026) / Pacifism and the law of war (2B028) / Global Justice, Migration and Slavery (2B065)
Chair: Sylvie Loriaux
Sylvie Loriaux & Alexia Hermig
Trade in Services and Labour: How to Make Opportunities Equal? / Chair: Ed Lock
Christopher Finlay
Citizenship and discrimination in war / Chair: Christien van den Anker
Wim Vandekerckhove
Justifying slave labour: then and now
Eri Park
European representation of severe poverty in Africa and/or the notion of justice / Ibrahim Shaw
Humanitarian intervention and military humanitarian intervention: Towards a pacifist Kantian cosmopolitan approach / Jane Rasbash & Anjalee Janchum
Death truck case: Migration, Labour Exploitation and People Trafficking in Southern Thailand
John Pearson
Compensation, exploitation and the WTO: the possibility of using theories of exploitation to determine compensation in cases of violation of WTO rules / Nigel Dower
Cosmopolitan pacifism as a contribution to a feasible global ethic / Jaakko Kuosmanen
The right to asylum and duties of states
Wednesday, 30 June (cont.)
16:00 – 17:30
Panels / Business Ethics (2B026) / Global Ethics: the book series (2B028) / Individual Duties and Injustice (2B065)
Chair: Wim Vandekerckhove
Kate MacDonald
Beyond individual corporate liability: re-thinking business responsibility for indirect human rights harms / Chair: Nigel Dower
Christien van den Anker
Shahram Khosravi's ‘Illegal’ traveler'. An autoethnography of borders / Chair: Gillian Brock
Luis Cabrera
Is There a Duty to Support Unjust Institutions Above the State?
Eric Brown
Morally substantial fiduciary duties as the basis of business ethics: vulnerabilities and the financial crisis / Anna Grear
Redirecting Human Rights. Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity / Jan de Vos
Psychologisation in times of Globalisation The case of psycho-social humanitarian aid
Ayse Kaya & Andrej Keba
Derivative global egalitarianism: prospects and challenges / Ivan Manokha
The political economy of humanitarian intervention / Mandy Bosma
The heterogeneous nature of the moral duty
to assist the poor
Sirkku Hellsten
The quest for a better world
Carlos Cordourier
Transnational social justice
18.00 – 19.30 / Plenary Lecture (2B020) / Darrel Moellendorf / Chair: Heather Widdows
19.30 – 21:00 / Book Launch and Reception (Felixstowe Court)
Trafficking Day Thursday, 1 July
08:30-09:30 / Registration (B Block Foyer)
09:30-11:00
Panels / Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights (2B026) / Human Trafficking and Gender (2B065) / Universalism and Identities (2B028) / Arguments for Social and Transitional Justice (2B066)
Chair: Kate Macdonald
Katerina Weilert
Transnational Corporations and Human Rights / Chair: Ann Singleton
Cezara Nanu
Approaches to prevention of trafficking in human beings / Chair: Heather Widdows
Tom Angier
Cosmopolitanism: rooted or rootless? / Chair: Stan van Hooft
Cristian Dimitru
Global Justice and the Odious Debt doctrine
Julian Topol
Corporate responsibilities and poverty: What to make of investors’ rights and investment practices / Lorrena Arrocha
The implementation of the Council of Europe Convention: a commentary / Hsin-Wen Lee
The Identity Argument for National Self-Government / Sirkku Hellsten
Constitutionalism, Ethnicity, Identity and Gender in Transnational Justice in Eastern Africa
Flor Gonzalez
Human Rights Ltd.: Transnational Corporations' Negative Duties Regarding Human Rights / Michal Nahman
'Making Interferences: the politics of transnational ova 'donation' / Allison Jaggar
The Feminization of Global Poverty: How can Philosophy Help? / Kerri Woods
Caring about justice: reason, virtue and distant others
11.30 -13.00
Panels / Global Justice and Labour Migration (2B66) / Human Trafficking and Human Rights (2B65) / Approaches to Global Justice (2B26) / Environmental Ethics & Resource Ownership (2B28)
Chair: Christien van den Anker
Hanna Lerner, Yossi Dahan & Faina Milman-Sivan
Global Justice, Responsibility and Labor / Chair: Anna Petkovic
Patrick Burland
A Critique of Current Approaches to Trafficked Persons: Making the Case for a True Human Rights Approach / Chair: Eri Park
Chris Lowry
Transcendental and comparative approaches in Sen's idea of justice: a false antithesis? / Chair: Anna Grear
Dong-il Kim
Global Climate Change and the Principle of Fairness: Which Responsibility? Whose Responsibility?
Maria Teresa Herrera Fernandez
Becoming rights-claiming subjects: Latin American Domestic Workers’ Self-Organisation in Germany / Paul Whitehouse
Raising Standards for Agency Workers / Eduard Jordaan
A Levinasian Supplement to Pogge’s Cosmopolitanism / Chris Armstrong
National resource ownership
Eszter Kollar
Locating Injustice in Transnational Health-worker Migration / Don Flynn
Migrant Rights: barriers and burdens / Justin Frewen
Economic injustice and the 'banality of evil' / Jan Deckers
Negative GHIs and the consumption of animal products
Thursday, 1 July – Trafficking Day (cont.)
Jeroen Doomernik
In search of Control / Steve Meili
Update on the Human Rights of Trafficked-Persons
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 / Simon Caney
Chair: Sirkku Hellsten / Equality in the Greenhouse? / (2B20)
15:30-17:00
Panels / Regulation of Labour Exploitation (2B066) / Global and Regional Democracy (2B065) / Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (2B061) / Global Ethics and The Media (2B026)
Chair: Cezara Nanu
Sam Scott
State regulation: Gangmaster Licensing / Chair: Luis Cabrera
Zoltan Miklosi
Global democracy or global regulation / Chair: Ramon Das
Gillian Brock
The decent life standard / Chair: Ibrahim Shaw
Forward Maisokwadzo
Ann Singleton
Migrant Worker Protection: EU policy overview / Henning Hahn
Political Cosmopolitanism: For and Against / David Alvarez Garcia
Can national democracies represent cosmopolitan duties? International legitimacy, citizenship and global institutions / Everette Ndlovu
How representative is the UK media?
David Nix and Almut Gadow de Mayor
Gangmasters in practice / Benjamin Herscovitch
Democratic Accountability & The Federal System Of Government: Federalism & Effective Global Governance / Stan van Hooft
Humanity or justice? / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Reporting diversity and Human Rights Journalism: Exploring the links in the context of Asylum Seekers and Refugees Myth-Busting booklet in Bristol
Martijn Roessingh
Human trafficking: the role of the media
18:00-19:30 / Public Lecture by Dr. Shirin Ebadi (2B025)
Chair: Christien van den Anker
19.30-21.30 / Conference Dinner (S Block - Street Café)
Friday, 2 July
0930-1100
Panels / Human Rights and the financial crisis (2B066) / Moral theory and practice (2B028) / Human rights and Health (2B065)
Chair: Ivan Manokha
Ivan Manokha
Human Rights as a framework for contestation and action in the late-modern Global Political Economy: a Critical Assessment with reference to the Financial Crisis / Chair: Alison Jaggar
Janyne Sattler
Global Ethics: Am I part of the Globe? / Chair: Sirkku Hellsten
Philip Cole
Theory, Practice and the Human Right to Health’
Owen Fellows
Human Rights and the Financial Crisis: An Idealist Rawlsian Assessment / Randi Gunhilstad
Empirical research vs theoretical living / Cristina Fernandez Garcia
Genetic enhancement
Margot Solomon
Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Values, Principles and Sites of Disconnection / Ramon Das
Ideal and non-ideal theory / Tom Claes
Global sexualities – some methodological & ethical reflections
Mona Chalabi
Rights, the Financial Crisis and the Media
1130-1300
Panels / The Global Challenge of Dual-Use Bioethics (2B066) / Muslim gendered identities and Human Rights (2B065) / Approaches to Human Rights
(2B028)
Chair: Alexander Kelle
Alexander Kelle
Towards the Precautionary Governance of Synthetic Biology / Chair: June Burrough
Shelagh Hetreed
Moving beyond ‘dualistic polarities’ to respect complexity in the identities of young Muslim women, growing up in the UK. A practitioners view of plural identities. / Chair: Nick Buttle
Laura Valentini
Human rights practice from a Kantian perspective
Brian Rappert
Promoting 'Ethics Talk' on the Global Stage: Lessons from Engagements with Bioscientists / Anira Khokar
Amina Hursi
Suad Abdullahi / Johan Karlsson
Realism, moralism and the design of human rights instruments
Friday, 2 July (cont.)
Panels (cont) / Malcolm Dando
Neuroethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma
Masamichi Minehata
Incorporating “dual-use” in the ethics education of life scientists – challenges and lessons learned
1.30-15:30
Special Panel / How can Academics have more Impact on Reducing Global Poverty? 2B066
Chair : Andy Williams
Thomas Pogge / Paula Casal / Sabine Alkire
19.00-late / Party in Café Halo with Beau Monde DJs and dance instruction
Food and drink purchased individually; entrance fee £5