22nd Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
24-25 September 2024
Venue: University of Pavia and Collegio Cairoli, Pavia
Programme
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Venue: Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia
9.15-10.00: Registration
10.00-11.30: Keynote Opening Session (Aula Grande)
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford)
Human Extinction and The Morality of Procreation
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00-13.15: Graduate Session 1
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Davide Versari (FINO PhD Program – University of Eastern Piedmont)
Sara Marina Kok (Universität Bern)
Blameworthiness, Cultural Ignorance and Epistemic Advantage
Davide Saracino (NASP Graduate School, University of Milan)
Sorry for Being Right. A Case Against Grounding Political Apologies on Moral Wrongness
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Matteo Boccacci (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
Danielle Ravitzki (Columbia University)
Form, Function, And Self-Identification in the Definition of the Family
Marie Perez Gallega (University of Barcelona)
Citizenship and Inclusive Language: What if the Masculine Form Was Not Universal?
13.15-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.45: Graduate Session 2
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Camilla Barbieri (FINO PhD Program – University of Eastern Piedmont)
Leo Rogers (University of Sidney)
Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Rabbits: the Multiplication of Values in G.A.Cohen’s Rescuing Justice and Equality
Marijn Nohlmans (University of Cambridge)
Philip Pettit Is a Liberal
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Edoardo Vignocchi (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
Pedro Pereira De Morais Pacheco (LSE)
The Role of Empirical and Moral Facts and The Consequences of Uncertainty In Proportionality-Based Rights Adjudication
Davide Versari (FINO PhD Program – University of Eastern Piedmont)
Against Political Cognitivism as a Ground of Political Legitimacy
15.45-16.15: Coffee Break
16.15-17.30: Graduate Session 3
a – (Aula Grande)
Chair: Ilkin Huseynli (University of Pavia)
Federica Imbriale (Northeastern University London)
“Democracy Dies in Darkness”: Fact-Checking as a Tool for Democratic Decision-Making
Emma Obermair (LSE)
Robust Democracy, Value-Laden Science and Capitalism
b – (Aula 5)
Chair: Valérie Topf (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
Ryan McLaughlin (Boston College)
Individual Rights vs. Group Protections: Revisiting Leoni in the Context of Modern Liberal Democracies
Sanjar Akayev (CEU)
Civic Friendship for Liberal Citizens
19.30: Social Dinner, Pizzeria Regisole, Piazza del Duomo 4
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Venue: Collegio Cairoli
9.30-10.45: Graduate Session 4
a – (Aula Magna)
Chair: Matteo Boccacci (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
Sonia Cruz Davila (King’s College London)
Arbitrariness v the Rule of Law: the Legal Basis of Concealed Domination?
Clemens Joseph Loidl (CEU)
Agency, Social Roles, and the Grounds of Claims against Inferiority
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Chair: Roberta Samele (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
Pavel Skigin (EUI)
Aggregation of Harms in Just War Theory
Leandro Dias (University of Buenos Aires)
Lesser-Evil Justifications and the Welfare State. Against the “Public Law Account” of the Necessity Defense
10.45-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-13.00: Graduate Session 5
a – (Aula Magna)
Chair: Riccardo Spotorno (University of Hamburg)
Natalia Brigagao (University of Oxford)
The Epistemology of Human Rights
Valérie Topf (FINO PhD Program – University of Pavia)
The Essentialist Fallacy: Capacities and Instincts
Matteo Romani (NASP Graduate School, University of Milan)
When Rights Are Unpopular: Militant Constitutionalism or Illiberal Democracy
b – (Aula Didattica 1)
Chair: Camilla Barbieri (FINO PhD Program – University of Eastern Piedmont)
Kangyu Wang (LSE)
Relational Levelling-Down
Dmitry Sereda (CEU)
Luck Egalitarianism as Ethics of Externalization and Internalization
Juan Antonio Olano Azpiroz (UCLouvain)
Who Should Be Employed? Distributive Justice and Fruitful Work
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Keynote Closing Session (Aula Magna)
Chair: Federica Liveriero (University of Pavia)
Laura Valentini (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München)
Personal Sovereignty, Institutional Norms, and Social Critique
Steering Committee: Camilla Barbieri, Matteo Boccacci, Giulia Cantamessi, Ian Carter, Ilkin Huseynli, Federica Liveriero, Claudia Manzione, Manuel Marsico, Giulia Milli, Ben Pohlmann, Luca Quinto, Roberta Samele, Riccardo Spotorno, Edoardo Vignocchi, Davide Versari.