Conference Programme
1st June
09.25 - 09.30 Welcome, notices and introductions
09.30 - 10.45 First keynote (ERI G51)
Hugo Slim (ICRC): 'Local, Long and Personal: Three Issues in Humanitarian Ethics'
Chair: Jeremy Williams
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 12.15 Panel Session A (see below)
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.30 Panel Session B (see below)
14.30 - 14.45 Coffee
14.45 - 16.30 Second keynote (ERI G51)
Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford): ‘Economic Sanctions and Humanitarian Ethics’
Chair: Jonathan Parry
17.00 - 18.20 Public Lecture (Aston Webb Lecture Theatre WG5)
Leif Wenar (Kings College London): ‘Blood Oil’
Chair: Jeremy Williams
19.00 - Dinner and drinks at 'The Plough' in Harborne. We have reserved an area at the back of the pub for conference
delegates. To keep things simple, food and drinks can be ordered individually at the bar (the pizzas are
recommended!). The pub is a 15/20 min walk or short taxi ride from the conference venue.
2nd June
09.30 - 10.45 Third keynote (ERI G51)
Helen Frowe (Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace): 'Protecting Cultural Property'
Chair: Jonathan Parry
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Panel Session C (see below)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Panel Session D (see below)
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee
16.15 - 17.30 Final keynote (ERI G51)
Simon Caney (University of Oxford): 'Justice, Ecological Sustainability and Demographic Change'
Chair: Heather Widdows
Panel Details
Panel Session A (1st June, 11.00-12.15)
Effective Altruism 1 (ERI G51)
Chair: Wouter Peeters
Migration and the Refugee Crisis 1 (ERI 149)
Chair: Heather Widdows
Panel Session B (1st June, 13.15-14.30)
Effective Altruism 2 (ERI G51)
Chair: Merten Reglitz
Ethics for Consumers and Corporations (ERI 149)
Chair: Herjeet Marway
Panel Session C (2nd June, 11.00-13.00)
War and Intervention 1 (ERI G51)
Chair: Merten Reglitz
Migration and the Refugee Crisis 2 (ERI 149)
Chair: Heather Widdows
Panel Session D (2nd June, 14.00-16.00)
The Human Rights of Refugees and Others (ERI G51)
Chair: Wouter Peeters
War and Intervention 2 (ERI 149)
Chair: Jeremy Williams
1st June
09.25 - 09.30 Welcome, notices and introductions
09.30 - 10.45 First keynote (ERI G51)
Hugo Slim (ICRC): 'Local, Long and Personal: Three Issues in Humanitarian Ethics'
Chair: Jeremy Williams
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 12.15 Panel Session A (see below)
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.30 Panel Session B (see below)
14.30 - 14.45 Coffee
14.45 - 16.30 Second keynote (ERI G51)
Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford): ‘Economic Sanctions and Humanitarian Ethics’
Chair: Jonathan Parry
17.00 - 18.20 Public Lecture (Aston Webb Lecture Theatre WG5)
Leif Wenar (Kings College London): ‘Blood Oil’
Chair: Jeremy Williams
19.00 - Dinner and drinks at 'The Plough' in Harborne. We have reserved an area at the back of the pub for conference
delegates. To keep things simple, food and drinks can be ordered individually at the bar (the pizzas are
recommended!). The pub is a 15/20 min walk or short taxi ride from the conference venue.
2nd June
09.30 - 10.45 Third keynote (ERI G51)
Helen Frowe (Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace): 'Protecting Cultural Property'
Chair: Jonathan Parry
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Panel Session C (see below)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Panel Session D (see below)
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee
16.15 - 17.30 Final keynote (ERI G51)
Simon Caney (University of Oxford): 'Justice, Ecological Sustainability and Demographic Change'
Chair: Heather Widdows
Panel Details
Panel Session A (1st June, 11.00-12.15)
Effective Altruism 1 (ERI G51)
Chair: Wouter Peeters
- Joshua Hobbs (Leeds): ‘Nudging Charitable Giving’
- Rhys Southan (Oxford): ‘Effective Altruism and the Contradiction in Willing’
Migration and the Refugee Crisis 1 (ERI 149)
Chair: Heather Widdows
- Javier Hidalgo (Richmond): ‘Reparations for Immigration Restrictions’
- Susanne Mantel (Saarland): ‘The Admission Analogy’
Panel Session B (1st June, 13.15-14.30)
Effective Altruism 2 (ERI G51)
Chair: Merten Reglitz
- Brian Berkey (Pennsylvania): ‘The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism’
- Joshua Kissel (Northwestern): ‘A Defense of Anti-Capitalist Effective Altruism’
Ethics for Consumers and Corporations (ERI 149)
Chair: Herjeet Marway
- Ilari Aula (LSE): ‘Consumer Duties: Uncertainty, Diversity and Citizenship’
- Sudeshna Bhattacharya (Aston): ‘Left Behind By Labour Flexibility? The Ethics of Offshoring’
Panel Session C (2nd June, 11.00-13.00)
War and Intervention 1 (ERI G51)
Chair: Merten Reglitz
- Linda Eggert (Oxford): ‘The Moral Costs of “Costless” Warfare: Distributing Harms and Risks in Armed Humanitarian Intervention’
- Sara Van Goozen (Manchester): ‘Beneficiaries of Humanitarian Intervention and the Requirement to Minimise Foreseen Harm’
- Joseph Bowen (St. Andrews): ‘Humanitarian Intervention and Consent’
Migration and the Refugee Crisis 2 (ERI 149)
Chair: Heather Widdows
- Jan-Christoph Heilinger (LMU Munich): ‘Individual Responsibility and Global Structural Injustice. The Case of Refugee Integration’
- Ali Emre Benli (Durham): ‘Refugees Traversing Borders: An Act of Civil Disobedience’
- Verina Wild (LMU Munich): ‘Mapping the Ethics of Migrant and Refugee Health: A Journey’
Panel Session D (2nd June, 14.00-16.00)
The Human Rights of Refugees and Others (ERI G51)
Chair: Wouter Peeters
- Isaac Taylor (Goethe): ‘Refugees and a Right to Place’
- Ayesha Ahmed (UCL) and Verina Wild (LMU Munich): ‘“Vulnerable Populations”: Investigating Ethical Implications for Policies and Practices of International Humanitarian Organisations’
- Merten Reglitz (Birmingham): 'A Human Right to (Free) Internet Access'
War and Intervention 2 (ERI 149)
Chair: Jeremy Williams
- Jovana Davidovic (Iowa): ‘Refugees from Armed Conflicts as Significant Collateral Harm’
- Eamon Aloyo (Hague Institute for Global Justice): ‘Are Violent Revolutions Almost Never Practically Morally Permissible?’
- Jonathan Parry (Birmingham), 'Intervention and Consent'