Title: Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice

Date: 1922 June 2013

Venue: University of Troms
Universitetsveien 29
Breivika
NO - 9037
Norway
TEO-H6 6.303/Auditorium 3
From the airport:
Taxi: 15 min/NOK 160,00
Bus: Number 42 to UNN/UiT
30 min/ NOK 28,00
From the city center:
Taxi: 15 min/ NOK 160,00
Bus: Numbers 20,21
30 min/ NOK 28,00
Map: www.maps.google.com
Campus map: en.uit.no/inenglish/map

Official language: English

Conference Website: www.uit.no/pdj/rgj
Host: University of Troms
Organizers: Associate Professor Kjersti Fjrtoft
Assistant Professor Tor Ivar Hanstad
PhD Candidate Melina Duarte
Contact: pdjconferences@hsl.uit.no

The Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice (PDJ) research group of the Department
of Philosophy of the University of Troms invites you to participate in the
conference Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice to be held on 1922
June 2013 at the University of Troms, Norway.
The conference is intended as a meeting place for friendly discussions and
conjoint learning among students, young researchers and internationally
renowned researchers such as Professor Philippe Van Parijs (Catholic University
of Louvain), Professor Thomas Pogge (Yale University), Professor Gerard
Delanty (University of Sussex), Professor Tove Pettersen (University of Oslo),
and Associate Professor Eva Erman (Uppsala University).
The University of Troms, the northernmost university in the world, was included
among the worlds top universities by the Academic Ranking of World
Universities in 2010. Moreover, the university was pleased and honored to have
Noam Chomsky as a guest lecturer at a meeting held in September 2012
demonstrating our engagement in an open and meaningful debate on global
justice issues.
The conference will also be a great opportunity to explore the capital city of the
Arctic, a place full of culture and history, surrounded by incredibly beautiful fjords
and mountains. At the time of the conference, it will be possible to enjoy the
midnight sun.
During the conference days, you are also invited to admire the photography
exhibition The Claims of Justice, by the Brazilian photographer, Rodolfo Gil. A
very inspiring experience, indeed!

Velkommen til Troms!

The Organizers.

More details about the University: www.uit.no

More details about Troms: www.visittromso.no

Recently, purely theoretical approaches on global justice have been challenged by

philosophers and political theorists who defend a more practical or realistic
approach to this issue. Nevertheless, the debate has been regarded either as
excessively abstract with no implications on current life or as excessively restricted
to the discussion about policies and institutions. In principle, both positions may be
understood not as opposed to each other, but, rather, as complementary ones.
However, making them compatible with one another is not an easy task, especially
when moral and legal issues are taken into account simultaneously.
The Brazilian photographer, Rodolfo Gil, has managed to capture this ambiguity in
his picture called The bench, this brochures cover photo. Beside the beggar,
there is a vacant place. The beggar is claiming for justice right here and right now.
His claim for justice is then based on the experiences of injustice. In the vacant
spot, however, we have a place of sheer contemplation where the claim for justice
is based on the ideal of the virtue. Let us then try to imagine our arguments
considering both sides of the picture: with and without the beggar. Whichever side
we choose, this exercise will undoubtedly contribute to the discussion.
Thus, we expect to promote a fruitful debate on the convergence between the
theoretical and the practical approaches on global justice.
We encourage papers:
* Arguing for or against the theoretical approach.
* Arguing for or against the practical approach.
* Exploring or rejecting the possibility of convergence between them.

Submission Process
Abstracts must be submitted 1.5 spaced and should contain between 300-500 words.
They must be submitted by 15 May 2013. Due to place limitations, qualified abstracts
sent in before deadline will have higher chances of acceptance.
In order to favor the organization of the sessions, participants are requested to
highlight the main topic of their contribution and the contribution type (paper or poster
presentation). The main topics are: distributive justice, transactional justice, corrective
justice, gender justice, citizenship, cosmopolitanism, Human Rights, multiculturalism
and plurality, and climate justice. This information should be indicated at the top of the
page.
In order to facilitate blind review at the selection process, all personal information
should be removed from the text. A separate file, sent along with the abstract
submission registration, should contain a short biography of the author: name, title,
current affiliation, research interest, and the most relevant publication in the field.
The two files (abstract and short biography) must be sent to:
pdjconferences@hsl.uit.no
The abstracts will be reviewed by two referees within one month after submission.
We wish you good work and hope to meet you in Troms soon!

Preparing the Presentations

Oral presentation cannot exceed fifteen minutes. After all the
presentations in the session, a debate will be opened for one hour.
Poster presentations will take place during the Cocktail Reception,
and authors are requested to stay beside their posters.

Registration
Registrations are automatic for those presenting a paper or a poster, but
compulsory for listeners. Registrations are free of charge and subject to availability
of places. Listeners are not allowed to apply for financial support for trip and
accommodation.
Register online at: www.uit.no/pdj/rgj

All keynote speakers and chairs of sessions will have all their
expenses covered by PDJ and the University of Troms. If your
paper is accepted, but you have no other financial support for your
trip and/or accommodation, you may apply for that through PDJ. To
apply, please, fill in the form in appendixes I and/or II, and send
it/them to pdjconferences@hsl.uit.no
PDJ will book hotel rooms for those who have their expenses
covered. However, each participant is responsible for buying his or
her own travel tickets. Please save both your boarding pass and
receipt in order to have your trip expenses covered.
NB: Due to economic limitations, a very few number of applications
for financial support will be accepted.

Accommodation
Without financial support from PDJ, you may choose the best
accommodation for you at:
http://www.visittromso.no/en/Accommodation/
Please, note that all of the main hotels are located in the city center.
Therefore, bus or taxi services will be needed.

Travel Tickets
www.norwegian.com
http://www.flysas.com/en/uk/

Certificate of attendance will be issued by the University of Troms to

all participants who attend more than 75% of the conference sessions.
Those presenting papers or posters will additionally receive a
certificate of participation.
ECTS: students who would like to get ECTS points for this conference
may use the certificate of attendance which will contain information
about the conference length to apply for points at their home
universities (please, check out your home university regulation before
applying for ECTS).
The certificates will be sent by mail or e-mail within two months after
the conference.

Van Parijs, Philippe, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, Oxford & New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Delanty, Gerard, The Cosmopolitan Imagination: A Social Critic Theory, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Pettersen, Tove, Comprehending Care. Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of
Care, Rowman& Littlefield, 2008.
Erman, Eva & Bekman, Ludvig, Territories of Citizenship, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012.
Pogge, Thomas, Politics as Usual: What lies behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric, Cambridge
& Malden: Polity Press, 2010.

Day 1: 19 June 2013

10h: Arrival and Welcome from the head of the PDJ
11h-12h30: Associate Prof. Eva Erman (University of Uppsala)
12h30-13h30: Lunch
13h30-15h30: 1st Session: Distributive Justice
15h30-16h: Coffee break
16h-18h30: 2nd Session: Transactional Justice
18h30: Cocktail Reception at the University of Troms
Day 2: 20 June 2013
9h30-11h: 3rd Session: Cosmopolitanism
11h-12h30: Prof. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex)
12h30-13h30: Lunch
13h30-15h30: 4th Session: Citizenship
15h30-16h: Coffee break
16h-18h: 5th Session: Multiculturalism and Plurality
19h Conference Dinner at Fiskekompaniet (www.fiskekompani.no)
Day 3: 21 June 2013
9h30-11h: 6th Session: Gender Justice
11h-12h30: Prof. Tove Pettersen (University of Oslo)
12h30-13h30: Lunch
13h30-15h30: 7th Session: Human Rights
15h30-16h: Coffee break
16h-17h30: 8th Session: Climate Change Justice

Day 4: 22 June 2013

9h30-11h: 8th Session: Linguistic Justice
11h-11h30: Coffee break
11h30-13h: Keynote speaker: Prof. Philippe Van Parijs (Catholic University
of Louvain)
13h-15h30: Keynote speaker: Professor Thomas Pogge (Yale University)
* The sessions are still going to be relocated.

Philippe Van Parijs studied philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and linguistics at
the Facults Universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain, Oxford,
Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain,
1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980). He is professor at the Faculty of economic, social
and political sciences of the University of Louvain (UCL), where he has directed the Hoover
Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He has also been a special
guest professor at the KuLeuvens Higher Institute for Philosophy since 2006. From 2004
onwards he was for several years a Regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Harvard
University. And from 2011 onwards, he will be a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College
and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.
He also held visiting positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Manchester, Siena, Qubec
(Montral), Wisconsin (Madison), Maine (Orono), Uruguay (Montevideo) and Aix-Marseille,
the European University Institute (Florence), the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow),
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(Beijing), the Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa (Congo), All Souls College (Oxford), Yale
University, Sciences Po (Paris), the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the cole
normale suprieure (Paris). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Laval University
(Qubec).
His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (London & Totowa NJ
1981), Le Modle conomique et ses rivaux (Genve 1990), Quest-ce quune socit juste?
(Paris 1991), Arguing for Basic Income (London 1992, ed.), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge
1993), Real Freedom for All (Oxford 1995), Sauver la solidarit (Paris 1995), Refonder la
solidarit (Paris 1996), Solidariteit voor de XXIste eeuw (Leuven 1997), Ethique conomique
et sociale (Paris 2000, with C. Arnsperger), Whats Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Boston
2001), Hacia una concepcion de la justicia global (Medelln 2002), Cultural Diversity versus
Economic Solidarity (Brussels 2004, ed.), LAllocation universelle (Paris 2005, with Y.
Vanderborght), Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme (Colchester, 2011) and
Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford, 2011).
Source: www.uclouvain.be

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the
University of Sussex, UK. He is currently the head of the Department of
Sociology at this University and director of the Centre of Social and Political
Thought. He defines himself as an interdisciplinary sociologist with an interest
in social theory and the cultural analysis of social and political questions. Most of
his work concerns, in one way or another, the implications of globalization for
the analysis of the social world. Professor Delanty has written eleven books,
many of which have been translated into several languages, and edited seven.
He has published over 100 papers on various issues in social and political
theory, European identities, globalization, nationalism and the cultural and
historical sociology of modernity. He went to Sussex University in September
2007, having been previously a Professor of Sociology at the University of
Liverpool, where he was since 1996. Professor Delanty has lectured extensively
throughout the world and held visiting professorships at Deakin University,
Melbourne in 2006, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2000, and York
University, Toronto in 1998. He studied sociology and philosophy at University
College Cork, Ireland graduating with the B.A. in 1982, M.A. in 1984 and PhD in
1987. In 1985/6, he was a DAAD Fellow at Frankfurt University.
Source: www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles

Tove Pettersen is professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities,

University of Oslo, Norway. She specializes in feminist philosophy, moral
philosophy and ethics, particularly in the ethics of care and the existential ethics
of Simone de Beauvoir. She is also working with the history of philosophy,
political philosophy, phenomenology, existential philosophy and postmodern
philosophy.
She received her Dr. Art. in philosophy at the University of Oslo in 2004 with a
Ph.D. dissertation on the ethics of care. She completed her M.A. in the History
of Ideas on postmodern philosophy, and she has also studied Political Science
and Economics at the University Oslo. In 2004-2006 she was granted a
Postdoctoral Fellowship in order to work with Simone de Beauvoirs ethics, and
she was also the Director of Research at the Ethics Program, University of
Oslo. Pettersen has been teaching philosophy at the University of Oslo since
1990.
Source: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/personer

Eva Erman is Associate Professor at Uppsala University and Chief Editor of Ethics &
Global Politics Journal. Ermans research interest focuses on political philosophy;
metaethics; democratic theory; discourse theory and discourse ethics; global
democracy and global governance; and human rights.
In 2012 Erman was a visiting research fellow at the School of Social and Political
Sciences at the University of Melbourne, invited by head of school professor Adrian
Little, collaborating with Terry Macdonald (Feb-March). In 2010 she was a visiting
research fellow at LSE Global Governance, at London School of Economics and
Political Science, invited by the director of the centre, Professor David Held (FebMay).
Erman has recently published several articles and books on the field. The books
include Political Equality in Transnational Democracy co-edited by Sofia Nstrom
(2013) and Territories of Citizenship, co-edited by Ludvig Beckman (2012) by
Palgrave Macmilian.
She is currently working on the following projects: (1) Democracy Beyond the Nation
State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance (www. transdemos.se) and (2)
Cosmopolitan Citizenship.

Source: www.statsvet.uu.se/PersonalInfo

Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale,

Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University, Research Director at the Oslo
University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) and a member of the Norwegian
Academy of Science.
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge has published widely
on Kant and in moral and political philosophy His recent publications include Politics as
Usual (2010); Kant, Rawls, and Global Justice (Chinese, 2010); Hacer justicia a la
humanidad(2009); World Poverty and Human Rights (2008); Global Justice and Global
Ethics co-edited (2008); The Health Impact Fund co-authored with Aidan Hollis (2008);
John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (2007); and Freedom from Poverty as a
Human Right edited (2007).
Supported by the Australian Research Council, the BUPA Foundation and the European
Commission, Pogges current work is focused on a team effort toward developing a
complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced
medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org).
Source: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2012/professor_thomas_pogge.shtml

Appendix I
Financial Support
Application Form for
Travel Costs
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Title:
Nationality:
Current affiliation:
Abstract approved in:
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If yes, have you got any funding? How much in NOK?
Are you also applying for financial support for accommodation?
Why are you applying for financial support?

Appendix II
Financial Support Application
Form for Travel Costs
Surname, Name:
Title:
Nationality:
Current affiliation:
Abstract approved in:
Have you applied for other funding sources?
If yes, have you got any funding? How much in NOK?
Are you also applying for financial support for travel
expenses?
How much is the total cost for accommodation?
Why are you applying for financial support?

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The Pluralism, Democracy and Justice

Research Group was founded in 2010 and
consists of both scientific staff and PhD
Candidates at the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Troms.
The group members work on issues
concerning deliberative democracy,
pluralism, cosmopolitanism and
multiculturalism, redistributive justice and
global justice, the use of public reason,
and human rights. The research group is
running the project Justice in Conflict
funded by the Norwegian Research
Council (2012-2015) and promotes several
workshops and conferences focusing on
justice in global contexts.
PDJ wishes to thank all keynote speakers,
chairs of sessions, collaborators and all
participants in the conference. We hope to
meet you again in 2014 at the next
conference which will be on free speech,
public deliberation, and democracy.
Confirmed keynote speakers for 2014 are
Prof. Carol Gould, Prof. David Held and,
the PDJ member, Prof. Andreas Fllesdal.
www.uit.no/pdj

Espen Gamlund and Trygve Lavik (University of Bergen)

May Thorseth (NTNU)
Tove Pettersen and Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo)
Andrew Walton (University of St. Gallen)
Manuel Toscano (University of Mlaga)
urea Motta (University of Barcelona)
Lige Frainer Barbosa (English Editor)