APA Pacific Division Mini-Conference Program

 

eGLOBAL JUSTICE

 

Index

 

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Saturday, March 27

          Session MI–2:30-6:00 p.m.

                   MI-A. Opening Address and Panel Discussion

          Session MII–8:00-10:00 p.m.

                   MII-A. Discussion Panel: Philosophical Issues in Global Health

                   MII-B. War, Criminal Justice, and Military Tribunals

                   MII-C. Poverty, Human Rights, and Nationhood

         

Sunday, March 28

          Session MIII–8:30-10:20 a.m.

                   MIII-A. Feminism and Global Justice

                   MIII-B. Rawls' Law of Peoples

          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

                   MIV-B. The Capabilities Approach and Adaptive Preferences

                   MIV-C. Justice, Institutions, Democracy and Health

          Session MV–1:30-3:45 p.m.

                   MV-A. Globalization and Justice

          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

                   MVI-B. Patriotic Ties and Global Justice

                   MVI-C. Panel Discussion: Rawls’s Law of Peoples

          Session MVII–8:00-10:00 p.m.

                   MVII-A. Exploitation and Liberalism

                   MVII-B. Panel Discussion: Non-violence and Global Justice: Re-Thinking Violence under the Influence of Chavez, Gandhi, and King

 

Monday, March 29

Session MVIII–8:30-10:20 a.m.

                        MVIII-A. Author Meets Critics: J. Angelo Corlett’s Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis

MVIII-B. Panel Discussion: Contemporary Issues, Classic Solutions?  Historical Perspectives on (Global) Justice

Session MIX–10:35-12:30 p. m.

MIX-A. Responsibilities to the Distant Needy: Future Generations and the Developing World

          Session MX–1:30-3:45 p.m.

                   MX-A. Global Egalitarianism and Unfair Advantage

          Session MXI–4:00-6:00 p.m.

                   MXI-A. Author Meets Critics: Kai Nielsen’s Globalization and Justice

                   MXI-B. Human Rights, Human Community, and Global Justice

                   MXI-C. Realizing Cosmopolitanism: Models of Global Justice and Community

          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?

                   MXII-B. Self-Determination and Territory

 

Tuesday, March 30

          Session MXIII–7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

                   MXIII-A. War

                   MXIII-B. Liberalism and Global Justice

          Session MXIV–10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

                   MXIV-A.  The International Rule of Law and Human Rights

 

 

 

 

Saturday, March 27

 

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.

California Ball Room

Chair:          Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego State University)

 

Speaker: Charles Beitz (Princeton University)

"Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice"

 

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.

 

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Saturday Evening, March 27

Session MII–8:00-10:00 p.m.

 

MII-A. Discussion Panel: Philosophical Issues in Global Health

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Pacific A

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"

 

Gopal Sreenivasan (University of Toronto)

"A Philosophical Perspective on the Relative Income Hypothesis Debate"

 

Daniel Weinstock (University of Montreal)

TBA

 

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MII-B. War, Criminal Justice, and Military Tribunals

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Pacific B

Chair: David Adams (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona)

 

Speaker: Brian Orend (University of Waterloo)

"Justice After War"

 

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, Command and General Staff College)

 

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MII-C. Poverty, Human Rights, and Nationhood

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Pacific C

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)


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Sunday, March 28

 

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.

Pacific A

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)

 

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Sunday, March 28

 

MIII-B. Rawls' Law of Peoples

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Pacific C

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)

“Democratization as an Aim of Intervention:  Rawls’s Law of Peoples on Just War, Human Rights, and Toleration”

 

Commentator: Michael Buckley  (Emory University)

 

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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.

Pacific A

Chair: Jocelyne Couture (Université du Québec à Montréal)

 

Speakers: James Bohman (St. Louis University)

 

Eduardao Mendieta (State University of New York-Stony Brook)

 

Maria Herrera (Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México)

 

Respondent: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)

 

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MIV-B. The Capabilities Approach and Adaptive Preferences

10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Pacific B

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)        

 

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MIV-C. Justice, Institutions, Democracy and Health

10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Pacific C

Chair: Lukas Meyer (Universität Bremen/ 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)

 

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Sunday Early Afternoon, March 28

Session MV–1:30-3:45 p.m.

 

MV-A. Globalization and Justice

1:30-3:45 p.m.

Monterey

Chair: Janna Thompson (University of Melbourne)

 

Speakers: Richard W. Miller (Cornell University)

“Globalization Moralized”

 

Brian Barry (Columbia University)

"Justice or Bust"

 

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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.

Pacific A

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)

 

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MVI-B. Patriotic Ties and Global Justice

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Pacific B

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)

 

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MVI-C. Panel Discussion: Rawls’s Law of Peoples

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Pacific C

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”

 

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Sunday Evening, March 28

Session MVII–8:00-10:00 p.m.

 

MVII-A. Exploitation and Liberalism

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Pacific A

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)

 

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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.

Pacific C

Chair: Greg Moses (Marist College)

 

Panel 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"

 

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Monday, March 29

 

 

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.

Pacific A

Chair: Joseph Prabhu (California State University, Los Angeles)

 

Speakers: Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

 

Burleigh Wilkins (University of California-Santa Barbara)

 

Richard Falk (University of California-Santa Barbara/Princeton University)

 

Respondent: J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State University)

 

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MVIII-B. Panel Discussion: Contemporary Issues, Classic Solutions?  Historical Perspectives on (Global) Justice

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Pacific C

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)

"The Scale of Schopenhaur’s Theory of Perfect Justice.”

 

Joseph Tanke (Boston College)

"Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Justice"

 

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Monday Late Morning, March 29

Session MIX–10:35 -12:30 p.m.

 

 

MIX-A. Responsibilities to the Distant Needy: Future Generations and the Developing World

10:35 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Monterey

Chair: Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado-Boulder)

 

Speakers: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

"Global Justice for Humans or for All Living Being and What Difference it Makes"

 

Dale Jamieson (New York University)

“Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World”

 

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Monday Early Afternoon, March 29

Session MX–1:30-3:45 p.m.

 

MX-A. Global Egalitarianism and Global Fascism

1:30-3:45 p.m.

Monterey

Chair:  Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)

 

Speakers: David Miller (University of Oxford)

"Against Global Egalitarianism"

 

Richard Falk (University of California-Santa Barbara/Princeton University)

“Global Fascism”

 

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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.

Pacific A

Chair: Rodney Peffer (University of San Diego)

 

Speakers: Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Jon Mandle (State University of New York-Albany)

 

David Reidy (University of Tennessee)

 

Respondent: Kai Nielsen (Concordia University/University of Calgary)

 

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MXI-B. Human Rights, Human Community, and Global Justice

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Pacific B

Chair: Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves (University of Cape Town)

 

Speaker: James Bohman (St. 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)

 

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MXI-C. Realizing Cosmopolitanism: Models of Global Justice and Community

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Pacific C

Chair: Andrew Williams (University of Reading)

 

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)

 

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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.

Pacific A

Chair:  Mathias Risse (Harvard University)

 

Panel 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)

"What We Owe Distant Others"

 

Thomas Pogge (Columbia University)

“Global Economic Justice”

 

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MXII-B. Self-Determination and Territory

8:00-10:00 p.m.

Pacific C

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)
“Needing Representation:
Mt. Jayawijaya and Land Communities.”

 

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Tuesday, March 30

 

 

Tuesday Early Morning, March 30

Session MXIII–7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

 

Breakfast

7.30-8.15 a.m.

(Hosted by the APA Pacific Division) 

                  

 

MXIII-A. War

8.15-10 a.m.

Pacific A

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 (Seattle University)

"Rawls and War"

 

Commentator: Virginia Warren (Chapman University)

 

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MXIII-B. Liberalism and Global Justice

8.15-10 a.m.

Pacific C

Chair: Aaron James (University of California-Irvine)

 

Speakers: Janna Thompson (The University of Melbourne)

"Reasoning about Justice in Global Society"

 

Steven Scalet (State University of New York-Binghamton)

"Global Justice and Liberalism's Bind"

 

Commentator: Paul Voice (Bennington College)

 

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Tuesday Late Morning, March 30

Session MXIV–10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

 

MXIV-A.  The International Rule of Law and Human Rights

10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Monterey

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 was made possible through the initiative, planning, and organizing work of the conference organizing committee. The members are Harry Brighouse (Univ