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Thomas Pogge's 11th September Lectures are now available for download from this site
The texts of both the morning introductory lecture, "What is Global Justice?" and the main evening keynote speech, "Global Justice and the First UN Millennium Development Goal" can be downloaded by clicking on the links below. - Morning lecture (updated 1st October 2003) - Evening lecture (updated 6th August 2004) [Abstract, evening lecture] Although the symposium is now over, this site will continue to be updated. Click here for a slideshow from the conference. More photos will be available soon. Background information on the Symposium From 9 to 13 September 2003 the Ethics Programme at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Ethics Network hosted an international symposium on the topic of Global Justice. The symposium consisted of a two-day introductory course (Tuesday 9 September – Wednesday 10 September), with lectures given (in English) by researchers affiliated to the host institutions, followed by an international conference (Thursday 11 September – Saturday 13 September), where guest speakers presented papers for subsequent discussion.The symposium took Thomas Pogge’s recent work in this area as its starting point. Professor Thomas Pogge (Columbia University) is author of World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity Press 2002) and editor of the collaborative volume Global Justice (Blackwell 2001). Among his other books is Realizing Rawls(Cornell 1989). A selection of the papers presented at the conference will later be published in one or more anthologies, with the important issues of global justice central to Pogge’s work as their uniting theme. - Click here to download the full symposium programme (Word doc), last updated 9th September Some unpublished articles by Thomas Pogge can be downloaded from this site. His published work is listed at the following address: http://www.columbia.edu/~tp6/. Two articles in Norwegian on Thomas Pogge (in the Oslo University newspaper Uniforum and the magazine Apollon) can be accessed here and here. International Conference There was an official opening of the conference on Thursday 11th September, at 11am, in Auditorium 2 of the University Library building. Here Norway's International Development Minister, Hilde Frafjord Johnson, gave an opening address, and Thomas Pogge also spoke briefly on the subject of Global Justice. (See the morning lecture available for download above). Hilde Frafjord Johnson's speech can be accessed by clicking here. The conference sessions began on Thursday afternoon, prior to Thomas Pogge's Open Lecture in the evening. The Oslo Lecture in Moral Philosophy Thomas Pogge held a keynote speech on the evening of 11 September. This was the first in a series of annual lectures on burning normative issues to be given at the University of Oslo by leading ethicists. The Lecture was entitled "GLOBAL JUSTICE: The First of the UN Millennium Development Goals", and can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the top of the page. Professor Arild Underdal, Rector of the University of Oslo, gave an opening address. Introductory Course For Research Students The introductory course, tailored primarily for research students, was directed by Anne Julie Semb and Andreas Føllesdal. For students in Norway, following the introductory course (12 hours of teaching), together with active participation in the conference (at least 8 hours) was designed to count as a 3 credit (vekttall) doctoral course. In order gain these points a satisfactory essay of 6000 - 10 000 words must be submitted within 8 weeks of the end of the conference. For more information on the course, click here. See also the programme for the whole symposium. - Click here to download the course reading list (Word file) A compendium containing the course reading (except for the articles which are available on the internet) can be bought from the University bookshop Akademika, at the copy sale desk downstairs (price: 310 kroner). Practical information The registration fee of €75 (approx. 88 USD, 53 GBP or 625 NOK) can be paid directly into the following account at the Norwegian bank DNB: 7694 05 11050. All payments must be marked with the code number 310395-141904, and the words "Global Justice". Payments from outside Norway must in addition be marked with the SWIFT code DNBANOK, the name and address of the bank: (Den norske bank, N-0021 Oslo), and the name and address of the recipient: (The University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1073 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo). For those who attended the conference dinner, the €30 contribution can be paid in together with the registration fee (total amount €105 / 115 USD / 73 GBP / 866 NOK). |
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