News & Events
“Hier Kenne ich dich nicht” Geschichten der Migration
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
Ruhr-University Bochum (Euroeck), 2-4 February 2024
Program
Friday, 2.02.2024
14.15 Welcome
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
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
9.30 Garrath Williams: "Free markets" – A Kantian Perspective
11.00 Martin Sticker: Does The Formula of Humanity Prohibit (Some Forms of) Strike Action?
12.15 Concluding remarks
Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys
Bonn, 6-7 September 2024
Just before the 14th International Kant Congress in Bonn, 8-13 September.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
2nd October 2023
Oliver Sensen: On Dignity
To be published in: Cambridge Elements
COMMENTATORS:
Luke Davies
Melissa Fahmy
Martin Sticker
Author Meets Critics Session on ZOOM
11th September 2023
Jordan Pascoe: Kant's Theory of Labour
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
FULL PROGRAMME
Kant and Migration – Inclusion and Exclusion
Department of Philosophy, COTHAM HOUSE G2, BS66JL, Bristol
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
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
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
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
We invite you to attend the project conference this summer! The full program will follow in the next weeks.
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
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
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
Corporate Shareholding as the Capture of State Power. Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, Antwerp, 30 June-2 July 2023
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
We held our launch workshop at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum on 6 February 2023.
