Programme

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9.30-10.00h: Registration and opening remarks

10-11.30h: Roundtable 1 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Jahel QUERALT (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Josep Joan MORESO (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Rawls y el socialismo democrático"
Roberto GARGARELLA (Universidad Torcuato di Tella) "Rawls frente a la desigualdad social de hoy: la 'acción militante' como categoría inexplorada"

11.30-12h: Coffee break

12-13.30h: Panels 1-3

Panel 1 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania): "Relational Egalitarianism, Institutionalism, and Workplace Hierarchy"
Christian Schemmel (University of Manchester): "Rawls and Relational Equality"
Adrián Herranz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Rawls, republicanismo y virtud"

Panel 2 (on-line)

Claudio Santander Martinez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): "Obligaciones con las Futuras Generaciones: Convencionalismo y el principio de Ahorro Justo de Rawls"
José L. Tasset (Universidade da Coruña): "John Rawls y la teoría de la racionali-dad práctica de David Hume"
Johannes Kniess (Newcastle University): "Health Justice and Rawls’s Theory at 50: Taking Stock and Looking Forward"

Panel 3 (on-line)

Krzysztof Kedziora (University of Lodz): "The deontological meaning of justice as fairness"
Andrei Bespalov (University of Warwick): "Civic Friendship vs. Public Reason"

13.30-14:30h: Lunch break

14:30-16.00h: Panels 4-6

Panel 4 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Tuğba Sevinç (Kadir Has University): "The two sources of social unity in Rawls’ Theory"
Micha Gläser (University of Zürich): "A Kantian interpretation of justice as fairness"
Marc Sanjaume i Calvet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "You are stealing our future! The just savings principle and the circumstances of politics facing climate change" (paper not presented due to last minute problems. Here you can see the slides in pdf format)

Panel 5 (on-line)

Stephen McLeod (University of Liverpool) and Attila Tanyi (The Arctic University of Norway): "What Are Basic Liberties?"
Patrick Taylor Smith (University of Twente): "The Wrong Kind of (Public) Reason: Evaluating Centrality Arguments Against Justice as Fairness"
Luke Armstrong (University of Glasgow): "Rawls and the Free Will Problem"

Panel 6 (on-line)

Jessica Fischer (University College London): "Separate Persons, Separate Risks"
Óscar García Jaén (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Should Upbringing Be Perfectionist? Character Virtues and the Limits of Children’s Ethical Independence"
Nicolaï Abramovich (Sorbonne University): "Negative egalitarianism. Rawls & Shklar: Liberalism, justice & cruelty"


16.30h-18h: Roundtable 2 (on-line)

Véronique MUNOZ-DARDÉ (University College of London) “Equality and Justification”
Hugo SELEME (Universi-dad Nacional de Córdoba) “La Legitimidad política como Circunstancia de la Justicia”
Faviola RIVERA (UNAM) "What Rawls got wrong about laicism"

Friday, October 15th

10-11.30h: Roundtable 3 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Teresa BEJAN (University of Oxford) "The Historical Rawls"
Andrew WILLIAMS (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Fair Equality of Opportunity: A Dirty Little Secret?"
Michael CHOLBI (University of Edinburgh) “Rawlsian Neutrality and Pluralism about Prudence”

11.30-12h: Coffee break

12-13.30h: Panels 7-9

Panel 7 (in person, Aula de Música)

Pablo Magaña / Eze Paez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Nonhuman animals in Rawls's political philosophy: conflict and accommodation"
Pau Bossacoma Busquets (UPF and UOC): "A Third Hypo-thetical Contract? Principles of Justice as Multinational Fairness"
Carles José i Mestre (Universitat de Barcelona): "L’ètica rawlsiana"

Panel 8 (on-line)

Lukas Fuchs (UCL): "The Difference Principle and State-led Growth"
Andrew Tsz Wan Hung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "Rawls on Religion and Public Reason from Herme-neutical Perspective"
Takuto Kobayashi (Waseda University): " Justice as Fairness on the Justification of Political Procedure"

Panel 9 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Jimmy Lim (National University of Singapore): "Taking Thrasymachus Seriously: John Rawls’s Political Psychology"
Philipp Hey (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): "Targeting within universalism: a Rawlsian welfare state?"
Katie Ebner Landy (Queen Mary): "Emotions and inequality: Rawls, Nussbaum, Rousseau"

13.30-14:30h: Lunch break

14:30-16.00h: Panels 10-12

Panel 10 (in person, Sala de Graus)

Kristina Lekić Barunčić (University of Rijeka): "The extension of the Rawlsian conception of justice"
Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam): "Rawls on Marx and the Division of Labour"
David Guerrero (Universitat de Barcelona & Rijksuniversi-teit Groningen): “Spotting private power, concealing state interference: republican anxieties and political liberalism"

Panel 11 (on-line)

Tyra Lennie (McMaster University): "Rawlsian Anti-Capitalist Environmental Justice"
Joseph Porter/Adam Gibbons (UNC-Chapel Hill/Rutgers): "Existential risk and equal political liberty"
Giulio Fornaroli (UNAM): "Was Political Liberalism Necessary After All? On the Irrelevance of Public Reason to Political Legitimacy"

Panel 12 (on-line)

Jon Garthoff (University of Tennessee): "Remedying the Empiricist Syndrome: Placing John Rawls in Intellectual History"
Darren Yutang Jin (University of Oxford): "Confucian Role Ethics, Rawlsian Contractualistism, and the Original Position: A New Approach"
Beth Hupfer (High Point University): "Rawls, Statism, and the Justice of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution"

16.30h-18h: Closing Conference (in person, sala de Graus)

“A little thought leads away from Rawls. A lot leads back to him?", by Philippe VAN PARIJS (Université de Louvain)