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You find all information you need on The Global Justice Website.
From 9 to 13 September 2003 the Ethics Programme at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Ethics Network will host an international symposium on the topic of Global Justice. The symposium will consist of a two-day introductory course (Tuesday 9 September – Wednesday 10 September), with lectures given (in English) by researchers affiliated to the host institutions (see below for further details and course programme), followed by an international conference (Thursday 11 September – Saturday 13 September). Here, guest speakers will present papers for subsequent discussion. The symposium will take Thomas Pogge’s recent work in this area as its starting point. For further information on the symposium and lecturers, please visit the Global Justice website.
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).
Introductory Course For Research Students
The introductory course is tailored primarily for research students, but other participants are welcome. It is not required that one attends the introductory course in order to participate in the conference. The course is 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) counts as a 3 credit (vekttall) doctoral course. In order to pass the course, it is a condition that students submit a satisfactory essay of 6000 - 10 000 words within 8 weeks of the end of the conference. The programme for the course is given below.
The Oslo Lecture in Moral Philosophy
Thomas Pogge will hold a keynote speech on the evening of 11 September. This will be the first in a series of annual lectures on burning normative issues to be given at the University of Oslo by leading ethicists.
The symposium is still open to external participants, who will be asked to pay a standard registration fee of €75 (approx. $88 USD, £53 GBP, or 625 NOK). Please note that it will not be possible to cover delegates’ travel or living expenses. Further papers are not required at this stage.
The registration fee 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).
Programme for the research course
NB: Reading lists for the course are now available (see below).
NB: A compendium containing the course reading will be available for participants before the start of the course. This can be bought directly from the University bookshop Akademika (a stone's throw from where the lectures will be held).
Place for all lectures: Teaching Room 1 (undervisningsrom 1), Georg Sverdrups Hus (the main library building, Blindern Campus, Oslo University)
Tuesday 9th September:
09:15-11:00: Tore Lindholm, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights: Universal justifications of human rights?
12:15-14:00: Andreas Føllesdal, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights / Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo: Citizenship and Justice - Global and European
14:15-16:00: Anne Julie Semb, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo: Humanitarian interventions
Evening: Get-together with simple food at Andreas Føllesdal's home.
Wednesday 10th September:
09:15-11:00: Alexander Cappelen, Department of Economics, University of Oslo: National resources and international distributive justice: How should the Norwegian Oil Fund be spent?
12:15-14:00: Dan Banik, Centre for Development and the Environment: World Hunger and Morality
14:15-16:00: Dan Banik: Democracy and Poverty Reduction
To gain credit points for the course, students must also participate actively in the conference and submit an essay.
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Doctoral Course on Global Justice
Reading list for Dan Banik's lectures
WORLD HUNGER AND MORALITY
Balakrishnan, Radhika & Narayan, Uma (1996): “Combining Justice with Development: Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities in the Context of World Hunger and Poverty”, in William Aiken & Hugh LaFollette (eds.) (1996), World Hunger and Morality, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 17 p
Dower, Nigel (1998): “A World without Hunger: An Ethical Imperative”, chapter 2 in Helen O’Neill & John Toye (eds.), A World without Famine? New Approaches to Aid and Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 23 p
Hardin, Garrett (1974) “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”, Psychology Today Magazine (Reprinted in William Aiken & Hugh LaFollette (eds.) (1996), World Hunger and Morality. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.) 11 p
Hardin, Garrett (1976): “Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept”, in George R. Lucas, Jr. & Thomas W. Ogletree (eds.), Lifeboat Ethics: The Moral Dilemmas of World Hunger. New York: Harper & Row. 18 p
Pogge, Thomas (2001): “Priorities of Global Justice”, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 32, Nos.1/2.
19 p
Singer, Peter (1972): “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” (Reprinted in William Aiken & Hugh LaFollette (eds.) (1996), World Hunger and Morality. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.) 13 p
DEMOCRACY AND POVERTY REDUCTION
Banik, Dan (1998): “India’s Freedom from Famine: The Case of Kalahandi”, Contemporary South Asia, 7: 265-281. 17 p
de Waal, Alex (1996): “Social Contract and Deterring Famine: First Thoughts”, Disasters 20: 194-205. 11 p
Moore, Mick & Putzel, James (1999): “Politics and Poverty: A Background Paper for the World Development Report 2000/1”. Click here for the article. 30 p
Sen, Amartya (1994): “Freedom and Needs: An Argument for the Primacy of Political Rights”, The New Republic 210: 31-38. 8 p
Sen, Amartya (1999): “Democracy as a Universal Value”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 9: 3-17. Click here for the article. 15 p
Varshney, Ashutosh (1999): “Democracy and Poverty”. Paper for the Conference on World Development Report 2000. The World Bank. Click here for the article. 30 p
TOTAL READING 212 p
Reading list for Anne Julie Semb's lecture
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS
Luban, David, 1980. “Just Wars and Human Rights”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 9, no
2, ss. 160-181. 21 p.
Walzer, Michael, 2000. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. 3rd. edition. Kap. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 og 9. 110 p.
Reading list for Andreas Føllesdal's lecture
CITIZENSHIP AND JUSTICE - GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN
Føllesdal 2002 "Citizenship: European and Global." Global Citizenship. Nigel Dower and John Williams, editors . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Click here.
Føllesdal 2001 "Federal Inequality among Equals: A Contractualist defense." Global Justice. Thomas Pogge, editor . Oxford: Blackwell. Click here.
Føllesdal 2000 "Justice: Global and European." Global Society 14. Click here.
Føllesdal 1998 "Internasjonale forpliktelser og demokrati." Demokrati - vilkår og virkninger. Knut Midgaard og Bjørn Erik Rasch, red. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. ARENA Reprint 98/6. Click here.
Reading list for Tore Lindholm's lecture:
(1) Cahn, Joseph, "A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China", in Bauer, Joanne R. and Daniel A. Bell, eds., The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 212-237
(2) Lindholm, Tore, "Ethical Justification of Universal Rights Across Normative Divides", Bexell, Göran and Dan-Erik Andersson, Universal Ethics. Perspectives and Proposals from Scandinavian Scholars, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, 63-84
(3) Nickel, James W., Making Sense of Human Rights, University of California Press, 1987, 82-119 (= chapters 5 and 6 of Nickel's book)
(4) Pogge, Thomas, "How Should Human Rights be Conceived?" Jahrbuch für Rechtswissenshaft, 3, 1995, 103-120
(5) Pogge, Thomas, "Human Flourishing and Universal Justice", Social Philosophy and Policy, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1999, 333-361
(6) Michael Freeman, Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Polity, 2002, 55-75 (= chapter 4 of Freeman's book)
Reading for Alexander Cappelen's lecture:
Report by a special committee, with suggestions for ethical guidelines for using the Norwegian state's petroleum fund. Currently available in Norwegian only - click here.
An English translation of the report should be available by the beginning of September. Watch this space!
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