Seminars and one day conferences
Seminars & Events
MANCEPT Seminars and Events 2011-12
Semester 1
(All seminars begin at 4pm in room G.035/36 in the Arthur Lewis Building except for the seminar
on 7 November, which takes place in G.030/31)
29 September, 2011: ‘Cosmopolitanism, Background Justice, and Equality’ - Thomas Porter (University of Manchester)
6 October, 2011: ‘Aggregation and Justification’ - Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
13 October, 2011: ‘Ethics of Private Actors’ - James Pattison (University of Manchester)
20 October, 2011: ‘Ought-to-be, ought-to-do (life goes on)’ - Thomas Smith (University of Manchester)
27 October, 2011: ‘Autonomy as Self Authorship: A Critique of the Razian Ideal’ - Christopher Mills (University of Manchester)
7 November, 2011: ‘Coercion and Public Justification’ - Colin Bird (University of Virginia)
10 November, 2011: ‘The Collective Moral Responsibility of Peoples’ - Robert Munro (University of Manchester)
17 November, 2011: ‘Are Human Rights Conditional?’ - David Miller (University of Oxford)
24 November, 2011: ‘Anarchy, Lawyers and Utopia’ - Garvan Walshe (University of Manchester)
1 December, 2011: ‘Trade Union Rights and the Courts: Two Early Cases’ - Harry Lesser (University of Manchester)
8 December, 2011: ‘Intentional Benefits from Injustice’ - Avia Pasternak (University of Essex)
15 December, 2011: ‘Staying Home: G.A. Cohen and the Motivational Basis for Socialism’ - Norman Geras (University of Manchester)
Semester 2
One Day Conference On Fabre's Cosmopolitan War
17 May, 2012
Participants:
Cécile Fabre (University of Oxford)
David Rodin (University of Oxford)
Daniel Statman (University of Haifa)
Anna Stilz (Princeton University)
Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
Registration for the conference is now open and places are limited so please book early. For details regarding registration please visit us at:
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/events/cosmopolitanwar/
MANCEPT Seminars and Events 2010-11
Semester 2
3rd February Christopher Mills (Manchester): ‘Perfectionism and Respect’
10th February John Derbyshire (Manchester): ‘Taurek and the Lottery: A Novel Defence of the Proportional Chances Solution to the Number Problem’
7th February Andrew Wilshere (Manchester): ‘The Rabbit in Hillel Steiner's Hat: The Role of Moral and Linguistic Intuitions in An Essay on Rights’
24th February Simon Hailwood (Liverpool): ‘Bewildering Nussbaum: Capability Justice and Predation’
3rd March Christopher Hughes (Manchester): ‘Attempting a Reconciliation of Liberal and Postmodern Conceptions of the Self’
10th March Zsuzsanna Chappell (Manchester): ‘Deliberation beyond Talk: The role of visual communication in theories of deliberative democracy’
17th March Garvan Walshe (Manchester): ‘Would Rawls have allowed the industrial revolution to happen? ’
24th March Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL): ‘Not Getting your Prioroties in a Twist: distribution, values and urgency’
31st March Ben Colburn (Glasgow): ‘Dworkin’s Continuity Test’
7th April Rob Jubb (UCL): ‘No Country for Honest Men: Political Philosophers and Real Politics’
5th May Georgia Testa (Leeds): ‘The Twilight of Autonomy: Killing out of Respect’
12th May Peter Balint (Frankfurt): ‘Liberal Toleration as a Political Practice’
Semester 1
7th October, 2010 Ben Saunders (Stirling) 'Animals and World Ownership'
14th October, 2010 Kimberley Brownlee (Manchester) 'Thought Experiments in Normative Theory' (co-authored with Zofia Stemplowska)
21st October, 2010 Andrew Lister (Queen's University) 'Justice and Reciprocity'
28th October, 2010 Stephen Cooke (Manchester) 'Predators and Prey'
18th November, 2010 Andrew Williams (ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University) 'Responsibility, Demography, and Climate Change'
25th November, 2010 Daniel Elstein (Leeds) 'Luck, Need, and Justice: The Case of Pensions'
9th December, 2010 Dean Redfearn (Manchester) 'Justice as Fairness and Children: An Analysis'
One day conferences
Since 1990, MANCEPT has held a series of one-day conferences which reflect the wide range of its members' interests and which have attracted participants from around Britain and also abroad.
The themes of these conferences have been: Freedom of Expression and Information (1990), Modernity and Post-Modernity in European Thought (1991), Children: Their Rights, Our Obligations (1991), Truth and Rationality (1992), Studying Politics (1992), The Public and the Private (1993), Subsidiarity and Democracy (1993), Future Directions of Socialist Thought (1994), Habermas: A Symposium (1994), Morality and Politics (1995), Education and Politics (1995), Rawls at 25 (1996), Political Theory and International Affairs (1997), New Perspectives on Utopia (1997), Nietzsche and Foucault: Modernity and the Political (1998), Multiculturalism and Citizenship (1998), New Directions in Democratic Theory (1999), Justice, Equality and Disability (1999), Group Rights (2000), Transitions in Political Theory: A Millennial Conference (2000) Republicanism (2002), Freedom (2003), 'Feminism, Citizenship, & the Enlightenment: Themes from Ursula Vogel' (2005), Responsibility in a Non-Ideal World (2006). Normative aspects of Rational Actor Political Theory (2006), The Ethics of Killing and Saving (2007), Democracy, Theory and Practice (2007), Value, Respect and Wellbeing - themes from the work of Joseph Raz (2008), The Anatomy of Justice: A Conference in Honour of Hillel Steiner (2009), Terrorism and Dirty Hands (2010), Problems with Priority? (2010), Conscience (2011).Graduate Conferences
The Brave New World series began in 1996 when MANCEPT sponsored a graduate conference which was attended by over 100 students from Britain, the Continent and North America. Pre-circulated papers were presented by more than 30 graduate students, drawn from many different universities and countries.
Organised entirely by Manchester graduate students, this conference series has become the leading international forum for the presentation of postgraduate research in political theory.
Brave New World 2011 will take place in late June and will feature plenary speakers Joseph Raz (Columbia) and Andrea Sangiovanni (King's, London).
Guest plenary speakers at previous conferences have included: G A Cohen, Quentin Skinner, Onora O’Neill, Carole Pateman, Christopher Norris, Anne Phillips, Bhikhu Parekh, Adam Swift, Catriona McKinnon, David Miller, Henry Shue, Susan Mendus, Simon Caney, Peter Jones, Jerry Gaus, Cecile Fabre, Roger Crisp, and Leif Wenar.
Special Conferences and Workshops
MANCEPT encourages and supports its members in holding special gatherings on subjects related to their current research projects. In 1996 a special one-day conference, on Forms of Libertarianism, attracted 35 participants from Britain and abroad. It featured opening presentations - by Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo), Peter Vallentyne (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester) - representing a broad spectrum of libertarian viewpoints, and lively discussion.
The Centre, in conjunction with the Centre for International Politics, hosted a seminar on 'Fairness in Trade' - speaker Mathias Risse from the Kennedy School at Harvard.
More recently, a workshop seminar series on the Holocaust, initiated by Norman Geras and involving participants from eight other universities, held a number of meetings supported by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
In May 2007 Kimberley Brownlee organised a Two Day Workshop on Disability and Disadvantage Speakers included: Dan Brock (Harvard) Leslie Francis ( Utah ) John Harris ( Manchester ) Guy Kahane ( Oxford ) Douglas MacLean ( North Carolina ) Jeff McMahan ( Rutgers ) Julian Savulescu ( Oxford ) Lorella Terzi (Roehampton) Jonathan Wolff (UCL), and the papers will form the basis of a book to be published by Oxford University Press. This project is supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
In 2008, MANCEPT combined with the Philosophy group to organise both a one-off event on The Principle of Fairness and States’ Duty to Obey International Law’ featuring David Lefkowitz (North Carolina), and a a one day workshop on the theme of Sharing Ends featuring Angelika Krebs (Basel), Hans Bernhard-Schmid (Basel/CIPP), Anita Konzelmann Ziv (Basel/CIPP).