[With apologies for cross posting]
NEWPORT SOCIAL ETHICS SEMINAR, 2011-12
All sessions are at 5.30pm in the Graduate Centre, Caerleon Campus, University of Wales, Newport, unless otherwise stated.
All welcome.
10 October (Room RM/G102)
Dr Rebekah Humphreys
(Cardiff University)
'The Argument from Existence, Bloodsports and "Sport Slaves"'
31 October (Room RM/G102)
Dr Jules Holroyd
(University of Nottingham)
'Just Deserts? Desert in Distributive and Punitive Justice'
21 November
Dr Andrew Connell
(UWIC)
'Aspects of the UK Welfare Contract'
5 December
Dr Andrew Shorten
(University of Limerick)
'Institutional Autonomy and the "Rule-and-Exemption" Approach'
9 January
Prof Steve Smith
(University of Wales, Newport)
'Agency and Self-Acceptance: Well-Being, Disability Policy and Liberal Political Philosophy'
30 January
Prof Marc Stears
(University of Oxford)
'Everyday Democracy, or Why Restoring the Democratic Labour Tradition is Neither Nostalgic nor Liberal'
20 February
Francesco Chiesa
(University of Wales, Newport)
'Recognition, Diversity and the Scope for an Egalitarian Multiculturalism'
12 March
Dr Alasdair Cochrane
(London School of Economics)
'What is a Political Theory of Animal Rights, and Is It Necessary?'
23 April
Dr Andrea Sangiovanni
(King's College London)
'Freedom, Rights and Dependence in Recent Kantian Political Philosophy'
7 May
Dr Jonathan Quong
(University of Manchester)
'The Morality of Defensive Harm'
21 May
Dr Stephen Williams
(University of Glamorgan)
'Fatherhood, Politics and the Big Society'
13 June
Dr Ben Colburn
(University of Glasgow)
'Preference Formation and Covert Explanation'
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