Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs
Eleventh Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Saturday 14th February 2009
Social Studies Building: Rooms S0.11, S0.19, S0.20
Programme
9.40 – 10.00
Welcome Coffee
10.00 – 11.15
Plenary Session. Room: SO.19.
Dr. Mathew Humphrey (University of
Nottingham):
‘Ideal Democratic Theory and Citizen Behaviour’
Chair: Andrew Reeve
11.20 – 12.30
Graduate Session One: Panels A, B, C
12.30 – 1.10
Lunch
1.10 – 2:20
Graduate Session Two: Panels D, E, F
2:25 – 3:35
Graduate Session Three: Panels G, H
3.35 – 3.50
Tea
3.50 – 5.00
Graduate Session Three: Panels I, J
5.00 – 6.15
Plenary Session. Room: SO.19.
Prof. Leif Wenar (King’s College London):
‘Property Rights and the Resource Curse’
Chair: Fabienne Peter
6.15 –
Wine Reception
GRADUATE PANELS
Presenters are requested to keep their presentations to a maximum of
20 minutes.
Session One: 11.20-12.30
A
Rm: SO.20
Chair: Goran Duus-Otterstrom
‘Modifying Modern Character: Identity in a Multidimensional
Public Sphere’
James Carter, University of Oxford
‘The Instrumental Use of Autonomy in Political Liberalism and
Value Pluralism’
Matt Jones, Canterbury Christ Church University
B
Rm: SO.19
Chair: John Cunliffe
‘International Aid Organisations and the Question of ‘Mission
Drift’
Alice Obrecht, LSE
‘Anatomy of a Dis-Organisation’
Eloise Harding, University of Nottingham
C
Rm: SO.11
Chair: Andrew Williams
‘A Kantian Argument for Revolution’
Alison Mallard, LSE
‘Morality and Right in Kant’s Political Thought’
Aaron James Wendland, University of Oxford
Session Two: 1:10-2:20
D
Rm: SO.20
Chair: Kai Spiekermann
‘A Role-Based Justification of Childrearing Rights’
Sarah Hannan, University of Oxford
‘Moving Undercurrents: Political Vocabularies, Concepts and
Verbal and Non- Verbal Layers of Meaning’
Dana Mills, University of Oxford
E
Rm: SO.19
Chair: Fabienne Peter
‘Cognitive Dissonance and the Epistemic Limitation of
Aggregative Democracy’
James Wong, LSE
‘The WTO, Democracy, and the Fair Value of Political Liberty’
Andrew Walton, University of Warwick
F
Rm: SO.11
Chair: Goran Duus-Otterstrom
‘Some Problems for Consensual Theories of Punishment’
Miroslav Imbrisevic, Heythrop College, University of London
‘Civil Disobedience on Trial: Guilty or Not Guilty?’
Piero Moraro, University of Stirling
Session Three: 2.25-3.35
G
Rm: SO.20
Chair: John Cunliffe
‘Luck and the Market: A Reply to Seligman’
Hugh Lazenby, University of Oxford
‘Why political philosophy should also be concerned with
inequality in living standards’
Stijn Rottiers, University of Antwerp
H
Rm: SO.19
Chair: Kai Spiekermann
‘The conception of the reasonable in Rawls’
Louise Costelloe-Ward, University of Liverpool
‘Treating Citizens as Equals in the Context of Pluralism’
Alexa Zellentin, University of Oxford
Session Four: 3.50-5.00
I
Rm: SO.20
Chair: Andrew Williams
‘Is Rawls a Constructivist of Principles of Justice?’
Moises Vaca Paniagua, UCL
‘Political Normativity, Reason and Objectivity’
Sebastian Stein, University of Oxford
J
Rm: SO.19
Chair: Andrew Reeve
‘The Pursuit of Happiness: Razian Wellbeing and the Problem of
Passive Pleasure’
David Rhys Birks, University of Manchester
‘Wrongful Life and Abortion’
Jeremy S. Williams, LSE