The Grammar of Justice
International Conference of "Transnational Justice", Leibniz Research Group at Goethe-University FrankfurtGoethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Lübeckerstraße/Ecke Hansaallee
Building "Normative Ordnungen"
Programme:
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
12.00h Reception and Lunch
12.45h Welcoming Remarks
Rainer Forst (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
13.00h Justifying Justice
Soumaya Mestiri (University of Tunis)
Some Remarks on Miskawayh’s Treatise “On Justice”
Luiz Bernardo Araújo (Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro)
The Good of Justice: Revisiting a Central Problem in Moral and Political Philosophy
14.45h Coffee Break
15.00h Justice and Harmony
Peter Osimiri (University of Lagos)
Restoring the Balance: an African Perspective on Justice
Wen Haiming (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
A Confucian Grammar of Justice
16.45h Coffee Break
17.00h Justice as the First Virtue?
Chow Po-chung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The Right to Demand Justice
Martin Ajei (University of Ghana, Legon, Accra)
Self-Retrievism and Justice
Thursday, 11 September 2014
9.30h Theorizing of Justice Across Cultures
Joseph Agbakoba (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
On the Notion and Possibility of Cross-Cultural and Transnational Justice in a World of Diversities and Conflicting Interests
Katrin Flikschuh (London School of Economics)
What is Orientation in Global Thinking?
11.15h Coffee Break
11.30h Justice and Consensus
Bernard Matolino (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg)
Justice in African Consensus
Ciro Alegría (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima)
Mutual Reasons, Informal Institutions and Justice
13.15h Lunch Break
15.00h Transitional Justice
Neera Chandhoke (University of Delhi)
Competing Routes to Justice
Jau-Hwa Chen (Soochow University, Taipei)
Justice in Transition and Transitional Justice
Juan Espíndola (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Ciudad de Mexico)
Transitional Justice, Shame, and Respect
17.30h Coffee Break
17.45h Justice and Agency
Heba Raouf Ezzat (University of Cairo)
Justice as Agency: the Individual and the Systematic in Islamic Notions of Justice
María Pía Lara (Universidad Nactional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico)
Justice and the Question of Political Agency
Friday, 12 September 2014
9.30h Justice in Public Discourse
João Feres Júnior (Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro)
The Notions of Justice in Brasil’s Current Public Debate
Azaveli Feza Lwaitama (University of Dar es Salaam)
Conceptions of Justice Among the Urban and Rural Poverty Stricken in a Globalized World
11.15h Coffee Break
11.30h Justice and the Law
Marcos Nobre (Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo)
“Judicialization of Politics” and Democracy in Brasil
Helen Lauer (University of Ghana, Legon, Accra)
Justice as Restoration and Preservation of Harmony
13.15 Lunch Break
15.00h Justice and Progress
Lea Ypi (London School of Economics)
Moral Progress and the Function of Justice
Ci Jiwei (University of Hong Kong)
Transnational Justice and Its Dependence on Ethics and Exemplification
16.45h Coffee Break
17.00h Justice and Intercultural Philosophy
Mogobe Ramose (University of South Africa, Pretoria)
Poverty as a Problem in Intercultural Philosophy
Melissa Williams (University of Toronto)
Sharing the River: The Two-Row Wampum as a Model of Transnational Justice
Programme (pdf): click here...
Presented by:
Leibniz Research Group "Transnational Justice" at Goethe-University Frankfurt in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders"
