- Date(s)
- May 31, 2018 - June 1, 2018
- Location
- Newark Room, Queen's University Belfast
- Time
- 09:30 - 18:00
International Workshop
Aims of the Workshop
This conference is motivated by the following thought: that much of the presumptively progressive, and undoubtedly well-meaning, contemporary academic work on global justice is characterised by a crippling failure to make the critical connections between theory and practice that are required if such work is to contribute to the struggle for human freedom. In this research agenda it will be explored with a view to replacing the abstract, disengaged analyses that have dominated academic debates on global justice within political theory, with a vibrant, critically engaged set of interdisciplinary inquiries that dig under the surface of contemporary social and global orders to expose the pervasiveness of (neo-)colonialism. We want to imagine an alternative, truly decolonized world in which freedom for all can best be realised.
Programme
Thursday, 31 May 2018 |
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| 2.00pm - 2.45pm | Refreshments & Welcome |
| 2.45pm - 4.15pm | Shane O’Neill – ‘Global Justice as Decolonization’ (Keele University, England / Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 4.15pm - 4.30pm | Coffee / Tea |
| 4.30pm - 6.00pm | Catherine Lu – ‘Decolonizing Borders, Self-Determination, and Global Justice’ (McGill University, Canada) |
| 6.15pm | Reception in Common Room – Mitchell Institute |
| 7.30pm | Conference Dinner @ Barking Dog Restaurant (invited guests only) |
Friday, 1 June 2018 |
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| 9.30am – 11.00am | Franziska Duebgen – ‘Paradoxes of Justice. Normativity in a Postcolonial World’(University of Koblenz, Germany) |
| 11.00am – 11.20am | Coffee / Tea |
| 11.20am – 12.50pm | Gary Wilder – Title TBC (City University of New York, USA) |
| 12.50pm – 1.50pm | Lunch |
| 1.50pm – 3.20pm | Nicholas Smith - ‘Global Injustice and Basic Income’ (Macquarie University, Australia / Keele University, England) |
| 3.30pm – 4.00pm | Concluding Discussion |
RSVP: Dr Fabian Schuppert - f.schuppert@qub.ac.uk or Suzanne Whitten (swhitten01@qub.ac.uk)