XVII Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
17th and 18th September 2019
On the 17th and 18th of September 2019, the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the 17th edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. The conference is held within the framework of the PhD Program in Philosophy of the North-west Italy Philosophy Consortium (FINO) with the sponsorship of the Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino. This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller, Alessandro Ferrara, Valeria Ottonelli, Adam Swift, Gerald Gaus, Serena Olsaretti, Thomas M. Scanlon, Philip Pettit, Carla Bagnoli, Thomas Christiano, Furio Cerutti, Fabienne Peter, Antonella Besussi, Andrea Sangiovanni, Mario De Caro, Cécile Laborde, Luigi Caranti and Margaret Moore. This year’s keynote speakers are:
Cécile Fabre (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Alessandro Ferrara (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
PROGRAMME
All plenary and parallel sessions will take place at the Collegio F.ll Cairoli, Piazza Collegio Cairoli 1, 27100, Pavia
17 September 2019
09.30-10.00 Registration, Collegio Cairoli
10.00-11.30 Plenary Session, Aula Magna Collegio Cairoli
Welcome address: Ian Carter, University of Pavia
Chair: Michele Bocchiola, University of Pavia
Keynote Speaker: Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata
What is a People, and Who Represents It?
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break, Collegio Cairoli
11.45-13.00 Graduate Session 1
Aula A. Reasonableness and the burdens of judgment
Chair: Carlo Burelli (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Gozde Hussain (Royal Holloway, University of London) The problems with the burdens of judgment
Deven Burks (University of Luxembourg and University of Louvain) The real problem with Rawlsian reasonableness
Aula B Civic duties and power
Chair: Enrico Biale (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Michele Giavazzi (University of Warwick) Epistemic responsibility as the civic duty of voters
Nan Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University) Civic education and Hobbesian conceptualization of power
13.00-14.30 Lunch, Collegio Cairoli
14.30-15.45 Graduate Session 2
Aula A. Political representation in time of crisis
Chair: Francesco Chiesa (University of Trento)
Stefano Merlo (John Stuart Mill College -VU Amsterdam) Freedom as non-domination in the Eurozone: a republican assessment of the Eurozone sudden-stop crisis.
Giacomo Marossi (Università del Piemonte Orientale) Populism as Political Representation: a New Theoretical Approach
Aula B. Rights and Justice 1
Chair: Giulia Bistagnino (University of Milan)
Lars Jorgen Kristiansen Moen (Australian National University) Escaping Consequentialism
Pavel Skigin (European University Institute) Resource rights and climate justice enforcement
15.45-16.15 Coffee Break, Collegio Cairoli
16.15-17.30 Graduate Session 3
Aula A. Rights and Justice 2
Chair: Greta Favara (University of Milan)
Ali Ekmekci (Istanbul Technical University) Regulation of Hate Speech and the Academy
Gloria Zuccarelli (University of Milan) Justice and Injustice: A Problem of Feasibility and Desirability
Aula B. Justice in theory and practice
Chair: Michele Bocchiola (University of Pavia)
Hallvard Sandven (University of Oxford) The legitimacy of border control: on the applicability of the option set argument
Romy Eskens (Stockholm University) Thanks for Nothing: Gratitude and Partiality in the Context of Unsuccessful Rescues
19.30 Social Dinner
18 September 2019
09.30-10.45 Graduate Session 4
Aula Magna. Morality in buisness and contracts
chair: Federica Liveriero (University of Caserta)
Maria J Pietrini Sanchez (University of Sheffield) Surrogacy contracts, how should a good regulatory framework look like?
Silvia Donzelli (Humboldt University) Business complicity in human rights violations
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break, Collegio Cairoli
11.00-12.45 Graduate Session 5
Aula Magna. Rights and political theory
Chair: Francesco Chiesa (University of Trento)
Uğur Bulgan (University of Milan) Justice after terrorism: re-inclusion and de-radicalization
Jakob Moggia (Technical University of Munich) Making sense of economic insecurity: stabilising living condition over time as a requirement of justice
María Carolina Jiménez García (University of Geneva) Contemporary Democratic Theory and the Political Effects of Algorithmic Systems behind Digital “Filter Bubbles”
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Plenary Session, Aula Magna Collegio Cairoli
Chair: Ian Carter, University of Pavia
Keynote speaker: Cecile Fabre, Oxford University
On the Morality of Treason?