23rd Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
18-19 September 2025
Venue: University of Pavia and Collegio Cairoli, Pavia
Programme
Thursday 18 September 2025
Venue: Collegio Cairoli
14.00-15.30: Keynote Opening Session (Aula Magna)
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Maria Paola Ferretti (University of Mainz)
Respect for future people: a framework for responsible risk
16.00-17.15: Graduate Session 1
a – (Aula Magna)
Chair: Ben Pohlmann (FINO, University of Eastern Piedmont)
Zsuzsanna Velez-Sogor (University of Pécs)
Corporate Distributive Justice
Francesca Pennacchini (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
Generalized Access to Credit in the Age of AI
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Chair: Camilla Barbieri (FINO, University of Eastern Piedmont)
Robin Lockyer (University College London)
The Puzzle of Migration for Reparative Debates
Marco Bravo Gatica (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Climate Crisis as a Limit to Procreative Rights
17.15-18.30: Graduate Session 2
a – (Aula Magna)
Chair: Alessandra Civani (FINO, University of Pavia)
Jacopo Morelli (University of Modena)
Universality In the Human Rights Debate: A Kantian Constructivist Approach
Ciara Luxton (Sciences Po Paris)
A Thin Universalism: Sufficiency, Moral Status, and the Grounds of Human Rights
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Chair: Davide Versari (FINO, University of Eastern Piedmont)
Marcin Nowicki (Jagiellonian University)
Liberal Neutrality Towards Free Will – And Why It’s Not That Scary
Joana Pinto (University of Minho)
Political Parties and Public Reason: Legitimacy and Deliberation in Rawlsian Political Liberalism
Friday 19 September 2025
Venue: Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia
9.30-10.45: Graduate Session 3
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Luca Quinto (FINO, University of Pavia)
Robin Waldenburg (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Popular Sovereignty as a Practice of Justification
Aaron Bao (CEU)
Rousseau’s Liberalism? Constant, Rousseau and the Problem of Modern Freedom
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Alessandro Albrici (FINO, University of Pavia)
Tarun Gidwani (King’s College London)
Competition and Fairness in International Trade Relations
Gergana Boncheva (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
On the Feasibility of Pro-Union Liberalism
10.45-12.00: Graduate Session 4
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Edoardo Vignocchi (FINO, University of Pavia)
Benjamin Newman (Tel Aviv University)
Coercive Offers and Responding to the Wrong Kind of Reasons
Igor Wysocki (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Are Blackmail Exchanges Permissible by Libertarian Standards Economically Efficient or Not?
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Giulia Cantamessi (FINO, University of Pavia)
Xiyue Yang (CEU)
A Progressive Approach to Sharing Necessary Bad Work
Oriol Alegria (Complutense University of Madrid)
Anti-Positionality: What Is It and Why Is It Important for Debates on Equality of Opportunity?
13.30-15.20: Graduate Session 5
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Ilkin Huseynli (University of Pavia)
Edoardo Vignocchi (University of Pavia)
Taxation as a Structural Condition of Political Organization
Alexandro Berrotaran (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
No Taxes, No Property: Why Private Property Rights Require Redistribution
Alexandre Aloy (University of California – Santa Barbara)
Revising the Liberal Tradition? Re-assessing Hayek’s Liberalism Through his Engagement with Ancient Greece
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Davide Versari (FINO, University of Eastern Piedmont)
Peter Verpoorten (CEU)
A Substantive Account of Liberal Democracy
Shiying Li (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Reexamining the Site of Justice and Legitimacy
15.50-17.20: Keynote Closing Session (Aula Grande)
Chair: Federica Liveriero (University of Pavia)
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (University of Aarhus)
Age-Related Health Inequalities:
Why Relational Egalitarians Should Embrace the Possibility of Natural Injustice
Steering Committee: Alessandro Albrici, Camilla Barbieri, Matteo Boccacci, Giulia Cantamessi, Ian Carter, Alessandra Civani, Giovanna Di Cicco, Ilkin Huseynli, Federica Liveriero, Manuel Marsico, Ben Pohlmann, Luca Quinto, Davide Versari, Edoardo Vignocchi.