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New Papers by Our Project Head Martin Sticker
New Papers by Our Project Head Martin Sticker
Here you find direct links to fresh project publications:
Upcoming project workshop:
Upcoming project workshop:
Kant on Hope and politics
Kant on Hope and politics
University of Bristol, 30 August 2025
University of Bristol, 30 August 2025
9.30 – 10.30 Patrick Capps: “Rational Hope and the Ontology of Law”
10.45 – 11.45 María López Ríos: “Reflecting on Mental Disabilities: Kant, Species Membership and Human Empowerment”
12.00 – 1.00 Kristi Sweet: “The politics of lies”
2.30 – 3.30 Poppy Mankowitz: “Can Anything be Better than the Highest Good?”
3.45 – 4.45 Laura Papish: “Kant’s rival visions of politics”
5.00 – 6.00 Corinna Mieth and Martin Sticker: “Kant on Gratitude to Migrants”
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONAL PROJECT CONFERENCE
Migration, work, Climate. Towards the realm of Ends and Means
Migration, work, Climate. Towards the realm of Ends and Means
Ruhr-University Bochum, 28th till 31st of March 2025
Ruhr-University Bochum, 28th till 31st of March 2025
Conference program
Conference program
9.03.2025 Saturday
9.03.2025 Saturday
9.30 Maike Albertzart, Means as ends? A Kantian approach to group rights
9.30 Maike Albertzart, Means as ends? A Kantian approach to group rights
10.30 Nuria Sanchez Madrid, Kant and Wollstonecraft on the pitfalls of domestic work and erotic capital in 18th century
10.30 Nuria Sanchez Madrid, Kant and Wollstonecraft on the pitfalls of domestic work and erotic capital in 18th century
12.00 David Baumeister, "In the migration and transplanting of animals and plants": Tracking Race, Migration, and the Non-Human in the Kanthropocene
12.00 David Baumeister, "In the migration and transplanting of animals and plants": Tracking Race, Migration, and the Non-Human in the Kanthropocene
14.30 Reza Mosayebi, Gradated Racism: Moving between “Ends in Themselves” and “Mere Means”
14.30 Reza Mosayebi, Gradated Racism: Moving between “Ends in Themselves” and “Mere Means”
15.30 Tom Bailey, A Kantian Argument for the Balance of Power
15.30 Tom Bailey, A Kantian Argument for the Balance of Power
17.00 Corinna Mieth, Martin Sticker, Usefulness, Self-Love and Respectful Interaction with Migrants
17.00 Corinna Mieth, Martin Sticker, Usefulness, Self-Love and Respectful Interaction with Migrants
18.00 Diana Piroli, The Mistreatment of Climate Migrants from A Recognitional Justice Perspective
18.00 Diana Piroli, The Mistreatment of Climate Migrants from A Recognitional Justice Perspective
30.03.2025 Sunday
30.03.2025 Sunday
10.00 Garrath Williams, The Groundwork lays the ground for right
10.00 Garrath Williams, The Groundwork lays the ground for right
11.00 Angela Breitenbach, Kant and Climate Change
11.00 Angela Breitenbach, Kant and Climate Change
13.30 Howard Williams, Kant and the role of intellectuals in dark times
13.30 Howard Williams, Kant and the role of intellectuals in dark times
14.30 Matthew King, Can BDSM be respectful?
14.30 Matthew King, Can BDSM be respectful?
16.00 Ewa Wyrebska, Kant and the information overload
16.00 Ewa Wyrebska, Kant and the information overload
17.00 Nunzio Ali, The Climate Transition and the Super-Rich: What About Jobs and Inequality?
17.00 Nunzio Ali, The Climate Transition and the Super-Rich: What About Jobs and Inequality?
31.03.2025 Monday
31.03.2025 Monday
10.00 Andre Grahle, Turning people into rivals
10.00 Andre Grahle, Turning people into rivals
11.00 Sofie Moeller, Kant on women’s citizenship
11.00 Sofie Moeller, Kant on women’s citizenship
12.00 Juliette Monvoisin, Disappearing Island Nations, between Nature and Culture: Rethinking the Right to Relocation in the Light of Environmental Pluralism
12.00 Juliette Monvoisin, Disappearing Island Nations, between Nature and Culture: Rethinking the Right to Relocation in the Light of Environmental Pluralism
Identität
Identität
Film/Lesung
Film/Lesung
Bochum, Euroeck, 28. März 2025
Bochum, Euroeck, 28. März 2025
Zwei Künstler mit Migrationshintergrund zeigen ihre Arbeiten zu Fragen der Identität.
Maan Mousli ist ein Filmemacher aus Syrien, der u.a. für seine Filme Newcomers und Shakespeare in Zataari bekannt ist. Die Identität ist sein neues Projekt, von dem er den zweiten Teil vorstellen wird. Wer bin ich? Die Antworten werden von Kindern gegeben.
Slavica Te Kaat Markocevic kam in den 90er Jahren auf der Flucht aus dem kriegsgeschüttelten Bosnien nach Deutschland. Sie lebt in Köln und schreibt Kurzgeschichten. Bekannt durch ihr Debüt Omnibus Blues und ihr aktuelles Werk Warten auf Walter, wird sie uns die Welt durch ihren liebevollen und zugleich kritischen Blick zeigen.
Public Event on Identity
Public Event on Identity
28th of March 2025 in Bochum, Euroeck
28th of March 2025 in Bochum, Euroeck
We cordially invite you to come to our event, where Maan Mousli will show the newest part of his film with children answers to the question of identity and Slavica Te Kaat-Markocevic will read from her newest stories collection Warten auf Walter. We are awaiting an exciting afternoon with lively discussion! The language of the event will be German.
Maan Mousli is a film maker from Syria, known u.a. for his films Newcomers and Shakespeare in Zataari. The identity is his new project, from which he will present its second part. Who am I? The answers are given by children.
Slavica Te Kaat Markocevic came to Germany in the 90s fleeing from the war-ridden Bosnia. She lives in Cologne and writes short stories. Known for her debut Omnibus Blues and the more recent Warten auf Walter, she will show us the world through her kind and sharp gaze.
November 2024
November 2024
Can Kant help us understand modern employment?
Can Kant help us understand modern employment?
Just out in Con-Textos Kantianos – an exchange between Garrath Williams and Jordan Pascoe, on employment contracts and their relation to Kant's category of "status" or "domestic right"
Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys
Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys
Bonn, 6-7 September 2024
Bonn, 6-7 September 2024
Just before the 14th International Kant Congress in Bonn, 8-13 September
Friday 6th – Means & Ends
Friday 6th – Means & Ends
Melissa Fahmy: Exploitation and Mere Means Use
Laura Papish: Our Shared Humanity and Exit from the
State of Nature
Corinna Mieth & Martin Sticker: Beyond Non-Instrumentalization: Negative Ends, Mere Things and Mere Enemies
Garrath Williams: Using People as Not-Mere-Means:
The Importance of Equity
Saturday 7th – Trolleys
Saturday 7th – Trolleys
Samuel Kahn: Kantian Trolleyology
Samuel Kerstein: Out of the Loop
Pauline Kleingeld: Was Kant on the Right Track?
Elke E. Schmidt: Kant’s Argument Not to Turn the Trolley
Kant Incorporated
Kant Incorporated
Amsterdam, 25 July 2024
Amsterdam, 25 July 2024
We recently held a workshop to discuss the manuscript of Garrath Williams's planned Cambridge Element on a Kantian approach to corporations.
Across the world, most organisations are corporations: political parties, churches, businesses, charities, universities, trade unions. Kant Incorporated argues that Kant’s thought provides a systematic basis for understanding these bodies.
Corporations mediate the central distinctions of Kant's practical philosophy: ethics versus right, public versus private right. The power to incorporate can be understood in Kantian terms as: part of a rightful condition, a valuable extension of freedom, a structuring of moral activity, and a basis for progress toward more rightful conditions.
At the same time, Kant Incorporated argues that a Kantian framing highlights the dangers of the corporate form. If badly structured or carelessly run, corporations can threaten everything that they should mediate: ethics, private right, and public right.
“Hier Kenne ich dich nicht” Geschichten der Migration
“Hier Kenne ich dich nicht” Geschichten der Migration
Cologne, 5 February 2024
Cologne, 5 February 2024
We recently held this public event on experiences of migration, in German.
17.30 Ma’an Mousli presents his recent project: Identität, a documentary film, with testimonies from young people living in Germany with migration background.
18.30 Slavica Te Kaat-Markocevic reads from her collection of stories Omnibus Blues, which presents lives of people affected by wars and migration and searching for their place in the world.
19.30 André Grahle (University of Cologne) gives a philosophical account of the ethics of listening.
Kantian Perspectives: Borders/Exploitation/Degradation
Kantian Perspectives: Borders/Exploitation/Degradation
Ruhr-University Bochum (Euroeck), 2-4 February 2024
Ruhr-University Bochum (Euroeck), 2-4 February 2024
Program
Program
Friday, 2.02.2024
Friday, 2.02.2024
14.30 Ewa Wyrebska: On Structural Injustice: Lessons from Kant’s Doctrine of Right
16.00 Nuria Sanchez Madrid: Kant on the Rights of Domestic Servants. Reproductive Labor as a Blind Spot of Classical Republicanism
17.30 Reza Mosayebi: White Varieties, Culture, and True Carriers of Progress
Saturday, 3.02.2024
Saturday, 3.02.2024
9.30 Sylvie Loriaux: Dehumanisation as Juridical Depersonification. Another Kantian Look at the Refugee Condition
11.15 Angela Taraborrelli: Are Kant's Boundaries of the Demos Porous? Migrants and Citizenship
14.00 Marie Göbel: European Values: What Are They and What Do They Normatively Imply?
15.30 Corinna Mieth: Kant and Uber Drivers
17.00 Julia O’Connell Davidson: Means and Ends: Are Exploited Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the UK Victims of "Modern Slavery" or of Immigration Policies That Deny Them the Right to Work?
Sunday, 4.02.2024
Sunday, 4.02.2024
9.30 Garrath Williams: "Free markets" – A Kantian Perspective
11.00 Martin Sticker: Does The Formula of Humanity Prohibit (Some Forms of) Strike Action?
Co-organised with the Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW. To attend, please email Larissa Berger.
Two new project publications
Corinna Mieth and Sophie Bernard in The Conversation
Corinna Mieth and Sophie Bernard in The Conversation
We are delighted to announce the piece Two faces of dignity: a Kantian perspective on Uber drivers’ fight for decent working conditions by Corinna Mieth in cooperation with Sophie Bernard. Here is the link:
Martin Sticker: Kant on the normativity of Obligatory ends
Martin Sticker: Kant on the normativity of Obligatory ends
We invite you to read the new paper by Martin Sticker Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory Ends, published in The Journal of Ethics: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-023-09463-4
Project workshop
Project workshop
KANT: POLITICS/MARKETS
KANT: POLITICS/MARKETS
We held our second project workshop in Lancaster in November 2023, with a mixture of presentations and pre-read papers.
Screenings of 'Newcomers' by Ma'an Mousli in Lodz and Warsaw
Screenings of 'Newcomers' by Ma'an Mousli in Lodz and Warsaw
In October 2023, as part of our project outreach, Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović will be showing the Polish version of the film 'Newcomers'. The film was created by Ma'an Mousli with the aim of giving refugees the voice to tell their own stories. They share with the viewers their experience of tragedy - persecution, war and the conditions their escape, but also of beauty and hope - their dreams, childhood memories and the constant struggle for freedom and dignity.
In October 2023, as part of our project outreach, Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović will be showing the Polish version of the film 'Newcomers'. The film was created by Ma'an Mousli with the aim of giving refugees the voice to tell their own stories. They share with the viewers their experience of tragedy - persecution, war and the conditions their escape, but also of beauty and hope - their dreams, childhood memories and the constant struggle for freedom and dignity.
More information on the film:
More information on the film:
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
2nd October 2023
Oliver Sensen: On Dignity
Oliver Sensen: On Dignity
To be published in: Cambridge Elements
To be published in: Cambridge Elements
COMMENTATORS:
Luke Davies
Melissa Fahmy
Martin Sticker
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
11th September 2023
Jordan Pascoe: Kant's Theory of Labour
Jordan Pascoe: Kant's Theory of Labour
Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press 2022
Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press 2022
COMMENTATORS:
Elvira Basevich
Martin Brecher
Martin Sticker
Helga Varden
Garrath Williams
Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović
International conference in Bristol, 24th - 26th July
International conference in Bristol, 24th - 26th July
FULL PROGRAMME
FULL PROGRAMME
Kant and Migration – Inclusion and Exclusion
Kant and Migration – Inclusion and Exclusion
Department of Philosophy, COTHAM HOUSE G2, BS66JL, Bristol
Department of Philosophy, COTHAM HOUSE G2, BS66JL, Bristol
Monday 24th July 2023
Monday 24th July 2023
2-2.55 pm Rebecca Buxton
“Respect and asylum”
3-3.55 pm Seiriol Morgan
“Domination, entitlement and the second-personal stance”
4.20-5.15 pm Chris Bertram
“Kant did not have a view about justice and migration”
5.30–6.30 pm David Miller
“Kant, the nation-state, and immigration”
Tuesday 25th July 2023
Tuesday 25th July 2023
9.30-10.25 am Garrath Williams
“ ‘Charities for the wealthy classes’: corporate shareholding as the capture of state power”
10.30-11.25 am Luke Davies
“Inalienable rights”
11.50-12.45 pm Reza Mosayebi
“’Do not make yourself a mere means for others...’ A kantian anti-racist account”
2-2.55 pm Ewa Wyrębska-Ɖermanović
“A Kantian approach to migration”
3-3.55 pm Matthew King
“Consent, teleology, and the Formula of Humanity”
4.15-5.10 pm Dagmar Wilhelm
“Right-wing women, false universalism and failures of reason"
5.15-6.10 pm Oliver Sensen
“Consent and treating people well”
Wednesday 26th July 2023
Wednesday 26th July 2023
9.30-10.25 am Marie Newhouse
“Kantian Equality as a Hohfeldian Immunity”
10.30-11.25 am Andre Grahle
“Refugees as witnesses and our duty to listen”
11.50-12.45 pm Martin Sticker, Corinna Mieth
“The Formula of Humanity and migration”
Kant & Global Poverty:
Special issue of Ethical Theory & Moral Practice
Kant & Global Poverty:
Special issue of Ethical Theory & Moral Practice
We're delighted that this special issue has now been published as Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, vol. 26, issue 2. As well as Corinna, Martin and Garrath's editorial introduction, the issue includes nine articles (listed here in the order we use in the introduction):
Oliver Sensen. Universal Law and Poverty Relief
Martin Sticker. Poverty, Exploitation, Mere Things and Mere Means
Corinna Mieth & Garrath Williams. Beyond (Non)-Instrumentalization: Migration and Dignity within a Kantian Framework
Alessandro Pinzani. Towards a Kantian Argument for a Universal Basic Income
Reza Mosayebi. Juridical Empowerment
Violetta Igneski. A Kantian Moral Response to Poverty
Karen Stohr. Kant, Vice, and Global Poverty
Claudia Blöser. Global Poverty and Kantian Hope
Ariel Zylberman. The Relational Wrong of Poverty
International conference in Bristol, 24th - 26th July
International conference in Bristol, 24th - 26th July
We invite you to attend the project conference this summer! The full program will follow in the next weeks.
Upcoming Talks of The Team
Upcoming Talks of The Team
In addition, we'll all be presenting at our first project conference in Bristol, 24-26 July 2023 – details above
Corinna Mieth
Corinna Mieth
Kant, Migration and the Right not to be Treated with Hostility. Keynote Lecture, 10th Multilateral Kant Colloquium "The Space of Feelings: Kant and His Legacy," University of Parma, 28-31 August 2023
Martin Sticker
Martin Sticker
Means, Mere Things and Mere Enemies: Kant on the Mistreatment of Migrants. 10th Multilateral Kant Colloquium "The Space of Feelings: Kant and His Legacy," University of Parma, 28-31 August 2023
Garrath Williams
Garrath Williams
Corporate Shareholding as the Capture of State Power. Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, Antwerp, 30 June-2 July 2023
Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović
Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović
The Rightful Condition and the Realm of Ends. Kant For and Against Structural Injustice, KanDem conference on Progressivism and Conservatism in Kantian Political Philosophy, Oslo, 31 August - 1 September 2023
Bochum Launch Workshop
Bochum Launch Workshop
We held our launch workshop at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum on 6 February 2023.
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