Articulations of Justice Pt. 1: Justice and Liberty

IPSA RC31 (Research Committee on Political Philosophy)
 Interim Conference
 June 26-27, 2010, Jena, Germany

Saturday, 26 June 2010:
10.00-10.20 Welcome Address by the Conference Hosts

Klaus Dicke, Rector of the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena

Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Research Center ‘Laboratory of the Enlightenment’ and Member of the Jena Center for interdisciplinary Social Research (JenZiG)

Preston King, IPSA RC31 Chair

10.20-11.40 Justice and Liberty in the History of Ideas I
Chair: Preston King

Mikhail Ilyin, MGIMO & INION, Honorary President of the Russian Political Science, Association (RAPN), Moscow, Russia

Who to Judge? Alternative Justifications of Freedom (svoboda), Liberty (volia) and Free Will (svobodnaia volia) in the Russian Political Tradition

Michael Dreyer, University of Jena, Germany Liberty and Justice: Revolution, Constitution, Jurisdiction and the Early United States

11.40-11.50 Coffee

11.50-13.10 Justice and Liberty in the History of Ideas II

Chair: Mikhail Ilyin
David Strecker, University of Jena, Germany

Freedom’s Other? The Notion of Freedom in the Justification of Slavery and in Abolitionism

Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena, Germany Justice, Freedom and Social Acceleration: Enlightenment’s Promise and the Dynamics of Modernity

13.10-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.30 Justice and Liberty in the History of Ideas III

Chair: John Medearis
Lino Klevesath, University of Göttingen, Germany The Relationship between Liberty and Justice in the Intellectual Debates of 17th Century Revolutionary England

Lisa Herzog, New College, Oxford, UK Liberty and Justice in Adam Smith and Hegel

Attila K. Molnar, Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary The Limits of Knowledge, Violence and Good Order

16.30-16.40 Coffee
16.40-18.00 Justice and Liberty in Contemporary Political Philosophy I Chair: David Strecker Gavin Kerr, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland Rawls, Fundamental Interests, and the Priority of Liberty

Manuel Knoll, University of Munich, Germany Michael Walzer on the Relation of Justice to Liberty

after 18.00 Dinner
Sunday, 27 June 2010:
09.00-10.20 Justice and Liberty in Contemporary Political Philosophy II

Chair: John Medearis
Preston King, Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA
Revisiting Justice as Liberty

Felix Koch, Columbia University, New York, USA
Reflective Freedom and the Concept of Justice

10.20-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.30 Challenges in Theorizing Justice and Liberty I: The State, the Family and Alienation
Chair: Mikhail Ilyin

Fabian Wendt, University of Hamburg, Germany The Right to Liberty and the Just State

Sandra Seubert, University of Frankfurt/M., Germany Justice and the Value of the Family

John Medearis, University of California, Riverside, USA Justice, Freedom and Alienation

12.30-13.40 Lunch

13.40-15.00 Challenges in Theorizing Justice and Liberty II: Pluralism and Diversity

Chair: David Strecker

Franziska Martinsen, University of Hannover, Germany, and Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, University of Hannover, Germany

Two Faces of a Politics of Difference. Reflections on the Relationship between Justice and Liberty in Pluralistic Societies

Benjamin Herscovitch, University of Sydney Freedom & Justice Reconciled: A Meta-Normative Account of Political Justice

15.00-15.10 Coffee

15.10-16.30 Challenges in Theorizing Justice and Liberty III: Freedom of Movement and Minority Representation

Chair: TBA

Oliviero Angeli, University of Dresden, Germany

Freedom of Movement and Global Justice

Hima Bindu M., University of Hyderabad, India Social Justice and the Problem of Equal Distribution

16.30-16.40 Coffee

16.40-18.00 Justice and Liberty in Sociological Research
Chair: Preston King

Alexandra Krause, University of Jena, Germany Liberty and Justice: Current Issues in Empirical Research
Holger Zapf, University of Göttingen, Germany
Liberty and Justice in Theories of Social Evolution: Can Individual Liberties Stabilize a Macro-System and Supersede a Strong Concept of Justice?

after 18.00 Dinner