Refugees and Minority Rights
Program June 14
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08:00 |
Group transport from the hotel where you are staying |
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8:30-9:00 |
SVHUM E0101 |
Arrival, registration and coffee |
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9:00-9:30 |
SVHUM E0101
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Welcome address from the Head of the Department of Philosophy Tor Ivar Hanstad Introduction of the GMR project by Annamari Vitikainen and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen |
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9:30-11:00 |
Session IA SVHUM E0101 Chair: Jonas Jakobsen |
Session IB SVHUM E0103 Chair: Magnus Skytterholm Egan |
Session IC: SVHUM E0104 Chair: Kjersti Fjørtoft |
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Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and Sune Lægaard: Refugees and minorities: Some conceptual issues |
Max Gabriel Cherem: Background conditions of acceptability for prioritizing refugees |
Benedetta Romano: Are immigrants a threat to national identity? |
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Alec Ross: Rethinking Acceptable Criteria for Accepting/Rejecting Refugees in a Non-Ideal World |
Annamari Vitikainen: LGBT rights and refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admission |
Eilidh Beaton: Should ability to integrate influence refugee admissions policy? |
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Zsolt Kristof Kapelner: Minority rights and democratic legitimacy in regulating refugee admission |
Bouke De Vries: Admitting refugees: Is it permissible for states to prioritise liberal-minded refugees? |
Constanza Vera-Larrucea: Who should protect and who should be protected? The European puzzle |
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11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-12:30 |
Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 Chair: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch next to Akademika in the UB building |
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13:30-15:00 |
Session IIA SVHUM E0101 Chair: Sune Lægaard |
Session IIB SVHUM E0103 Chair: Frank Abumere |
Session IIC SVHUM E0104 Political and economic refugees Chair: Vegard Stensen |
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Felix Bender: Just and unjust citeria for determining refugee status: The case for shifting from individual persecution to political oppression |
Rami Gudovitch: Refugees- Why Prioritizing is Wrong |
Udith Bhatia: The Global South and its Hermeneutical Duty to Asylum Seekers |
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Tom Syring: Refugee and Minority Protection between Legal and Moral Obligations |
Gary Slater: From Sacer to Sanctus: Against Prioritizing Among Refugees |
Fumio Iida: Can liberal states treat political and economic refugees alike? |
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Dario Mazzola: Towards a Refugee-Centered Approach to Distribution |
Daniil Aronson: “A Right to Have Rights”: Political Measures to Make the Refugee Crisis Ethically Relevant |
Andreas Bengtson: Closing Borders ‘Hypocritically’: Brain Drain, Speaker Position and Hypocrisy |
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15:00-15:15 |
Break |
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15:15-16:30 |
Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh): Refugee Discrimination – The Good, the Bad and the Political Expedient Chair: Kerstin Reibold |
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16:30-16:45 |
Break |
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16:45-18:00 |
Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 Sarah Fine (KCL): Refugees and the Limits of Political Philosophy Chair: Annamari Vitikainen |
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18:15 |
Group transport from UiT The Arctic University of Norway to the Tromsø Cable Car |
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19:00 |
Dinner at Fjellstua located at the destination of the Cable Car |
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Program June 15
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08:30 |
Group transport from the hotel where you are staying |
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9:00-10:30 |
Session IIIA SVHUM Room E0101 Refugee crisis: A critique of attributed causes and solutions Chair: Melina Duarte |
Session IIIB SVHUM E0103 Distribution mechanisms and admission criteria Chair: Patti Lenard |
Session IIIC SVHUM E0104 On duties towards displaced children Chair: Frank Abumere |
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Mladjo Ivanovic: Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking. |
Christian Barry and Nicholas Southwood: Feasibility and the Problem of Resettlement |
Gottfried Schweiger: Should we prioritize child refugees? |
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Erna Bodström: Are we doing enough? Asylum assessment as symbolic gate-keeping |
Johannes Servan: ‘What justice requires’ – state-centric and cosmopolitan perspectives on priority criteria in resettlement policies. |
Odin Lysaker: Childhoods Put on Hold: A Waiting Guarantee for Vulnerable Unaccompanied Minors’ Prolonged Displacement |
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Viki Mladenova: Non-ideal human rights |
Mollie Gerver: QALYs and Selecting Refugees |
Arianne Shahvisi: Existence precedes nascence: an argument for accepting greater numbers of refugees |
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10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-12:00 |
Keynote lecture SVHUME0101 Serena Parekh (Northeastern): The Refugee Crisis Needs a New Frame: We are Not Rescuers Chair: Jonas Jakobsen |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch next to Akademika in the UB building |
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13:00-14:30 |
Session IVA SVHUM E0101 Structure of selective procedures Chair: Magnus Skytterholm Egan |
Session IVB SVHUM E0103 Distribution mechanisms and admission criteria: Climate and would-be displacees Chair: Trine Antonsen |
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Patti Lenard: Private sponsorship of refugees: The pros and cons of permitting citizens to select refugees for admission and resettlement |
Benedikt Buechel: From the value of a territory to two principles for a fairer distribution of would-be immigrants in need |
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Amanda Cawston: Who Decides? An Argument for Democratic Selection Criteria for Refugees |
Melina Duarte: Should high greenhouse gases emitting countries be required to resettle more climate displaced than low greenhouse gases emitting countries? |
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Matthew Lindauer: Domestic Justice and Refugee Prioritization |
Bradley Hillier-Smith: Is it morally justifiable to give priority to refugees who are suffering as a result of severe human rights violations? |
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14:30-14:45 |
Break |
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14:45-16:00 |
Keynote lecture SVHUM E0101 Lea Ypi (LSE): Irregular migration, adverse possession and the justification of the right to exclude Chair: Christopher Thompson |
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16:00-16:15 |
Break |
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16:15-17:30 |
Keynote lecture SVHUM E0101 Phillip Cole (UWE): Climate Change and Global Displacement: Towards an Ethical Response? Chair: Melina Duarte |
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