Conference Announcement
"Global Justice in the 21st Century"
Interdisciplinary Conference
Program on Values in Society and the Walter Chapin Simpson
Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Seattle, WA (USA)
17-18 April 2009
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The Program on Values in Society and the Walter Chapin
Simpson Center for the Humanities invite you to a conference
on "Global Justice in the 21st Century".
In the twenty-first century, the world will continue to
become more inter-connected. Health care, environmental
degradation, political violence, human rights, and world
poverty are global issues requiring global solutions. These
issues will be addressed at a conference on "Global Justice
in the 21st Century" to be held at the University of
Washington on April 17-18, 2009.
The conference will bring together scholars at the forefront
of research on these issues to consider such questions as:
What kind of international legal order should we work for in
the 21st century? How should human rights be understood in
the 21st century? How should intellectual property rights be
balanced against the need for life-saving drugs? What rights
should poorer countries have against wealthier ones? How
should the international community address global warming?
What rights should the world's poor have to be protected
from the effects of global warming? How should medical
research be done to protect the world's poor from
exploitation? The conference is free and open to the public.
Conference Schedule
Keynote Address: 7 pm, Friday, April 17, 2009, Kane Hall,
Room 210 (Reception to follow in Kane 245)
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and
International Affairs, with a joint appointment as Professor
in the Department of Philosophy and in the Center for
International and Area Studies at Yale University
"The Health Impact Fund: Boosting Innovation Without
Obstructing Free Access"
Abstract: Pricing advanced medicines beyond the reach of the
poor and encouraging neglect of diseases concentrated among
them, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) is responsible for
avoidable death and disease on a massive scale. This
injustice can be remedied through the Health Impact Fund
which would give the patentee of any new medicine the option
to sell it everywhere at the lowest feasible cost of
production and distribution in exchange for annual reward
payments based on this medicine's global health impact.
Daily Schedule (all in Kane Hall, Room 245)
Friday, April 17, 2009:
8:45 am: Nicole Hassoun, Assistant Professor in Philosophy
and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University
"Libertarian Welfare Rights?"
10:30 am: Dan Wikler, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of
Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population
Health at Harvard University
"Single vs. Multiple Standards in Health Care and Research:
An Issue of Global Justice"
1:30 pm: Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of
Philosophy and James B. Duke Professor of Public Policy
Studies at Duke University "Innovation and Inequality"
3:15 pm: Angelina Godoy, Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human
Rights and Associate Professor in the Law, Societies &
Justice Program and in the Jackson School of International
Studies at the University of Washington
"Intellectual Property, Medicines, and the Right to Health:
A View from Central America"
Saturday, April 18, 2009:
8:45 am: Brad R. Roth, Associate Professor in the Department
of Political Science and the Law School at Wayne State
University
"Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: Premises of a
Pluralist International Legal Order"
10:30 am: Joel Ngugi, Associate Professor of Law and Chair
of the African Studies Program at the University of
Washington
"The Corrosive Effects of Neoliberal Legal Thought on Global
Human Rights Discourse"
1:30 pm: Mathias Risse, Associate Professor of Public Policy
and Philosophy at the John F. Kennedy School of Justice,
Harvard University
"Who Should Shoulder the Burden? Global Climate Change and
Common Ownership of the Earth"
3:15 pm: Stephen Gardiner, Associate Professor of Philosophy
and Associate Professor in the Program on Values in Society
at the University of Washington
"Geoengineering the Climate in a Perfect Moral Storm"
The University of Washington is committed to providing
access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in
its services, programs, activities, education and employment
for individuals with disabilities. To request disability
accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at
least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V,
206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at:
dso@u.washington.edu
The conference is co-sponsored by the Graduate School and
College of Arts & Sciences; the Law, Societies, and Justice
Program; the Law School; the Treuman Katz Center for
Pediatric Bioethics; the Center for Global Studies; the
Department of Bioethics & Humanities; the Department of
Philosophy; the Department of Political Science; and the
Program on the Environment.
More information is available on the conference Web site:
http://www.simpsoncenter.org/globaljustice/
Contact:
Prof. Bill Talbott
Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
511 Condon Hall
1100 NE Campus Parkway
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
Phone: +1 206 543-5095
Fax: +1 206 685-8740
Email: wtalbott@u.washington.edu
Web: http://www.simpsoncenter.org/globaljustice/
