Proceedings
And Addresses
January, 2004 (Volume 77, Issue 3)
Mini-Conference on Global Justice Program
Saturday Afternoon, March 27
Session MI - 2:30 - 6:00 p.m.
MI-A. Opening Address and Panel Discussion
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)
Speaker: Charles Beitz (Princeton University)
"Problems about Cosmopolitanism"
Discussants: Leif Wenar (University of Sheffield)
Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
Kristen Hessler (Iowa State University)
Jon Mandle (State University of New York-Albany)
Michael Blake (Harvard University)
Opening Reception
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Saturday Evening, March 27
Session M2 - 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
MII-A. Discussion Panel: Philosophical Issues in Global Health
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Daniel Weinstock (University of Montreal)
Speakers: Ryoa Chung (University of Montreal)
"Health, Justice, and Global Governance"
Caroline Allard (University of Montreal)
"The Moral Responsibility of Nations Facing
Epidemics:
A Question of Organization"
Mira Johri (University of Montreal and McGill University)
"Caring for HIV/AIDS in Resource-Limited Settings: Social Justice and International Responsibilities"
Gopal Sreenivasan (University of Toronto)
"International Justice and Health: A Proposal"
Daniel Wikler (Harvard University)
TBA
Daniel Weinstock (University of Montreal)
TBA
MII-B. War, Criminal Justice, and Military Tribunals
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: David Adams (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)
Speaker: Soran Reader (University of Durham)
"Cosmopolitanism, War, and Criminal Justice"
Commentator: Larry May (Washington University)
Speaker: Lisa Portmess (Gettysburg College)
"Military Tribunals: Procedural Justice and the Problem of Evidence"
Commentator: Tim Challans (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College)
MII-C. Poverty, Human Rights, and Nationhood
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Deen K. Chatterjee (University of Utah)
Speaker: Elizabeth Ashford (University of St. Andrews)
"Poverty, Human Rights, and Obligations"
Commentator: Ramon Das (Victoria University-Wellington)
Speaker: Anna Moltchanova (Carleton College)
"A Pragmatic Definition of Nationhood"
Commentator: Simon Cushing (University of Michigan-Flint)
Sunday Early Morning, March 28
Session MIII - 8:30 - 10:20 a.m.
MIII-A. Feminism and Global Justice
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Chair: Laurie Shrage (California State Polytechnic University- Pomona)
Speakers: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Western Feminism and Global Responsibility"
Hye-Ryoung Kang (University of Colorado-Boulder)
"Women's Transnational Collectivities as Agents of Global Justice Claims in a Transnational Feminist Justice Paradigm"
Commentator: Sarah Clark Miller (University of Memphis)
MIII-B. Rawls' Law of Peoples
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Chair: Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania)
Speakers: Walter Riker (University of Tennessee)
"Rawls's Decent Peoples and the Democratic Peace Thesis"
Alyssa Bernstein (Ohio University)
"Rawls's Law of Peoples on Human Rights, Toleration, and Just War"
Commentator: Michael Buckley (Emory University)
Sunday Late Morning, March 28
Session MIV - 10:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
MIV-A. Author Meets Critics: Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era
10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Chair: Jocelyne Couture (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Speakers: James Bohman (Saint Louis University)
Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)
Maria Herrera (Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México)
Respondent: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)
MIV-B. The Capabilities Approach and Adaptive Preferences
10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Chair: Michael Ferejohn (Duke University)
Speaker: Charles Jones (University of Western Ontario)
"Developing Sen on Development"
Commentator: Jeremy Moss (University of Melbourne)
Speaker: Harriet Baber (University of San Diego)
"Adaptive Preference"
Commentator: Tim Hall (Oberlin College)
MIV-C. Justice, Institutions, Democracy, and Health
10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Chair: Lukas Meyer (Universität Bremen and Institut für Theologie und Frieden)
Speaker: Andras Miklos (Central European University, Budapest)
"Egalitarian Duties and the Justice of Institutions"
Commentator: Andrew Williams (University of Reading)
Speaker: Gopal Sreenivasan (University of Toronto)
"Does GATS Undermine Democratic Control over Health?"
Commentator: Margaret P. Battin (University of Utah)
Sunday Early Afternoon, March 28
Session MV - 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
MV-A. Globalization and Justice
1:30-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Speakers: Richard W. Miller (Cornell University)
"Globalization Moralized"
Brian Barry (Columbia University)
"Justice or Bust"
Sunday Late Afternoon, March 28
Session MVI - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
MVI-A. Author Meets Critics: Daniel Little, The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Development
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Paul Hughes (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
Speakers: David McCabe (Colgate University)
David Crocker (University of Maryland)
Judith Lichtenberg (University of Maryland)
Respondent: Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
MVI-B. Patriotic Ties and Global Justice
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Catherine Wilson (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Richard Arneson (University of California-San Diego)
"Do Patriotic Ties Limit Global Justice Duties?"
Commentator: Richard Miller (Cornell University)
Speaker: Dan Steel (Michigan State University)
"Favoring One's Compatriots: Associative Duties and Global Justice"
Commentator: Michael Blake (Harvard University)
MVI-C. Panel Discussion: Rawls's Law of Peoples
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Rex Martin (University of Kansas)
Speakers: James W. Nickel (Arizona State University)
"Human Rights and the Limits of Toleration in Rawls's Law of Peoples"
Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania)
"Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Rawls's Law of Peoples"
David Reidy (University of Tennessee)
"Rawls on Global Economic Justice"
Rex Martin (University of Kansas)
"Just War Theory and Humanitarian Intervention: Walzer and Rawls"
Sunday Evening, March 28
Session MVII - 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
MVII-A. Exploitation and Liberalism
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Edward Maine (California State University-Fullerton)
Speaker: Denis Arnold (University of Tennessee)
"Exploitation, Human Rights, and Global Sweatshops"
Commentator: Anita Ho (College of St. Catherine)
Speaker: John Berteaux (San Diego State University)
"What are the Limits of Liberal Democratic Ideals in Relation to Overcoming Global Inequality and Injustice?"
Commentator: Ted Stolze (California State University-Hayward)
MVII-B. Panel Discussion: Non-violence and Global Justice: Re- Thinking Violence under the Influence of Chavez, Gandhi, and King
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Greg Moses (Marist College)
Discussants: Jose-Antonio Orosco (Oregon State University)
"Cesar Chavez on Violence and Property Destruction in the Struggle for Global Justice"
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit-Mercy)
"The Successes of Political Action in South Africa: Credit to Gandhi or Not?"
Greg Moses (Marist College)
"On the Question of Riot and Excess: King and the Legacy of Pacifism in Old Europe"
Monday Early Morning, March 29
Session MVIII - 8:30 - 10:20 a.m.
MVIII-A. Author Meets Critics: J. Angelo Corlett's Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Chair: Soran Reader (University of Durham)
Speakers: Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)
Burleigh Wilkins (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Richard Falk (University of California-Santa Barbara and Princeton University)
Respondent: J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State University)
MVIII-B. Panel Discussion: Contemporary Issues, Classic Solutions? Historical Perspectives on (Global) Justice
8:30-10:20 a.m.
Chair: Joshua Mills-Knutsen (University of Kentucky)
Speakers: Joshua Mills-Knutsen (University of Kentucky)
"The Platonic Ideal Globalized: Plato's Theory of Justice and International Hegemony"
David Snyder (Rice University)
"A Transformative Application of Augustine's Just War Theory to the War on Terrorism"
Brett Smith (University of Kentucky)
"Thinking Global Justice Negatively: A Schopenhaurian Account of Justice"
Joseph Tanke (Boston College)
"Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Justice"
Monday Late Morning, March 29
Session MIX - 10:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
MIX-A. Future Generations and the Developing World
10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Chair: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Speakers: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
"Global Justice and Future Generations"
Dale Jamieson (New York University)
"Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World"
Monday Early Afternoon, March 29
Session MX - 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
MX-A. Global Egalitarianism and Unfair Advantage
1:30-3:45 p.m.
Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)
Speakers: David Miller (Oxford University)
"Against Global Egalitarianism"
Henry Shue (Oxford University)
"Compound Injustice: Exploiting Unfair Advantage"
Monday Late Afternoon, March 29
Session MXI - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
MXI-A. Author Meets Critics: Kai Nielsen's Globalization and Justice
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)
Speakers: Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania)
Jon Mandle (State University of New York-Albany)
Alan Gilbert (University of Denver)
Respondent: Kai Nielsen (Concordia University and University of Calgary)
MXI-B. Human Rights, Human Community, and Global Justice
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves (University of Cape Town)
Speaker: James Bohman (Saint Louis University)
"Constituting the Human Community: Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Justice"
Commentator: Colleen Murphy (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Speaker: Victoria Costa (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
"Human Rights in Rawls's Law of Peoples"
Commentator: Walter E. Schaller (Texas Tech University)
MXI-C. Realizing Cosmopolitanism: Models of Global Justice and Community
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Chair: John O'Neill (Lancaster University)
Speaker: Luis Cabrera (Arizona State University West)
"The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Global Justice through Accountable Integration"
Commentator: Catriona McKinnon (University of York)
Speaker: Omar Dahbour (Hunter College, City University of New York)
"Three Models of Global Community"
Commentator: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
Monday Evening, March 29
Session MXII - 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
MXII-A. Panel Discussion: Political Philosophy and Development Economics: Can Normative Theories about Global Justice Benefit from Empirical Theories?
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Discussants: Sanjay Reddy (Columbia University)
"The Role of Constraints in Normative Reasoning: A Theory, with Application to International Distributive Justice"
Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
"What Do We Know about What Makes Societies Rich or Poor, and Does it Matter for Global Justice?"
Leif Wenar (Sheffield University)
"Severe Poverty and Aid Effectiveness"
Thomas Pogge (Columbia University)
"Global Economic Justice"
MXII-B. Self-Determination and Territory
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Chair: Steven M. Gardiner (University of Utah)
Speakers: Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
"Self-Determination as a Basic Human Right"
Avery Kolers (University of Louisville)
"Territory as Deep Diversity in Global Justice"
Commentator: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College)
Tuesday Early Morning, March 30
Session MXIII - 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Hosted Breakfast Reception
7:30-8:15 a.m.
MXIII-A. War
8:15-10 a.m.
Chair: Larry May (Washington University)
Speakers: John Lango (Hunter College, City University of New York)
"Preventive Wars, Just War Principles, and the United Nations"
Dan Dombrowski (Michigan State University)
"Rawls and War"
Commentator: Virginia Warren (Chapman University)
MXIII-B. Liberalism and Global Justice
8:15-10 a.m.
Chair: Bruce Landesman (University of Utah)
Speakers: Janna Thompson (Latrobe University and University of Melbourne)
"Reasoning about Justice in Global Society"
Steven Scalet (Binghamton University)
"Global Justice and Liberalism's Bind"
Commentator: Paul Voice (Bennington College)
Tuesday Late Morning, March 30
Session MXIV - 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
MXIV-A. International Rule of Law and Human Rights
10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Chair: Gillian Brock (University of Auckland)
Speakers: Robert Goodin (Australian National University)
"Toward an International Rule of Law"
Thomas Pogge (Columbia University)
"Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation"
[The Mini-Conference on Global Justice has been made possible through the initiative, planning, and work of the conference organizing committee. The members are Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Gillian Brock (University of Auckland), Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University), and Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego).]