The North
American Society
for Social
Philosophy
24th
INTERNATIONAL
SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
CONFERENCE
Race
and Diversity in the Global Context
Millersville University
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
July 12-14, 2007
Thursday, July 12
Registration & Book Display: 12:00-5:00
p.m.
Session 1: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
1A. Rawls and
the Scope of Justice
Chair: Brian Thomas
Paul Voice, Bennington
College, “Unjust Noise”
Mark Navin, University
of Pennsylvania, “Why
‘Globalizing’ Distributive Justice is not a Rawlsian Project”
1B. Racial and Ethnic Identities
Chair:
Dan Haggerty
Shay Welch, Binghamton University, “Native Americans and Inclusive
Membership”
Michael Barkasi, Kutztown
University, “Thoughts on
Gracian Ethnicity: A Light to a Racist
World?”
1C. Tradition, Conflict, and Reconciliation
Chair: Bongrae Seok
Andrew Volmert, Yale
University, “Gadamer On
The Authority Of Tradition”
Margaret Gilleo, Fontbonne
University, “Unity in
Diversity: The Power of Music”
1D. Pedagogies for Teaching
about Injustice
Chair: Deen Chatterjee
Gail Presbey, University
of Detroit Mercy,
“Teaching about Racism and Sexism in Introduction to Philosophy Classes”
Janet Slagter, CSU Fresno,
“Sneaking Up on Neo-Liberalism: Teaching Social Transformation through
Dislocation”
Session 2: 2:45-4:15 p.m.
2A. Biological Classification, Rationality, Domination, and Agency
Chair: Joan Woolfrey
Crista Lebens, University
of Wisconsin Whitewater, “Aristotelian Concepts of Class, Gender,
“Race” and Rationality, as Precursors to Modern Colonialism: Reading Lugones
into Aristotle”
Wendy Lynne Lee, Bloomsburg
University, “Hetero-Anthropomorphizing/Human-Centeredness/Homo-Dissonance:
Anthropocentrism Reclaimed as a Form of Critique”
2B. Critique of Color Blindness
Chair: Jennifer Faust
Arnold Farr, St. Joseph’s
University, “Diversity, Color Blindness, and Other Contradictory Hegemonic
Discourses”
Ronald Sundstrom, University
of San Francisco, “Color-Blindness
and the Browning of America”
2C. Justice and the
Standpoint of the Oppressed
Chair: Robert Murray
Anne Grenchus, Villanova
University, “Political
Subjectivity, Totalitarianism and Entitlement”
Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca, SUNY Binghamton,
“Temporary Homes”
2D. Politics
of Difference, Recognition, and Shame
Chair: Shay Welch
Johann Klaassen and Mari-Gretta G. Klaassen, “Humiliation and
Discrimination: The Role of Shame in the Politics of Difference among the
Sneetches of Dr Seuss”
Jason Mallory, Estrella Mountain College “Former
Prisoners and the Politics of Difference”
Session 3: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
3A. Freedom, Reason, and Politics
Chair: Storm Heter
Maria Kowalski, Columbia
University, “Free Will
and Political Freedom”
Anna Moltchanova, Carleton
College, “Group
Membership and Morally Risky Epistemic Conditions”
3B. Racial Identities,
Psychology, and Guilt
Chair: Arnold
Farr
Dan Haggerty, University
of Scranton, “White
Shame”
Lydia Moland, Babson College,
“Bodily Betrayals: Race and Practical Identity in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain”
3C. Globalization, Justice and the Perspective of the Oppressed
Chair: Sarah Clark Miller
David Gandolfo, Furman
University, “An Ethical
Evaluation of Globalization? Only from the Perspectives of the Poor and
Oppressed”
Brian Thomas, University
of British Columbia,
“Putting Capabilities to the test: Considering Elizabeth Anderson’s conception
of Equality”
3D. Ethics of Punishment
Chair: Jeffrey Paris
David Wood, University
of Melbourne,
“Punishment: Retributive and Communication Theories”
Jacob Held, University
of Central Arkansas,
“Interpreting ‘Cruel’ in the Eighth Amendment and the Impact of Punishment”
3E. Diversity and the Basis of Tolerance
Chair: Jim Molos
Chris Lowry, Queen’s University, “Kymlicka’s Comprehensive Liberalism:
Autonomy or Well-Being?”
Jacob Affolter, University
of California—Riverside, “Tolerance and
Diversity as Intrinsic Goods”
Dinner (on your own)
First Plenary
Session: 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Chair:
Alistair Macleod, NASSP President
Speaker:
Anthony Appiah, Princeton
University, “The
Diversity of Identity”
Reception: 9:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Announcement of Graduate Student Award by Margaret Crouch, Vice President of NASSP and chair
of the selection committee
Friday, July 13
8:30-5:00 Registration
Session 4: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
4A. Liberalism and Nationalism
Chair: Janet Slagter
Jacob Joshua Ross, Tel-Aviv
University, “Does
Diversity Necessarily Entail National Sovereignty?”
Storm Heter, East
Stroudsburg University,
“A Right to Culture? Liberalism and
Zionism”
4B. Racism, Reason, and Politics
Chair: Chris Lowry
James Boettcher, St. Joseph’s
University, “Race and Ideal Theory”
Robert Murray, Ryerson
University, “Moral
History, Racial Rumours, and Rational Reconstruction”
4C. Global Justice, Diversity, and Structural
Inequality
Chair: Jeff Gauthier
Jean-Marie Makang, Frostburg
State University,
“An Examination of Cultural Globalization in the Light of Teilhardian
Cosmopolitanism”
4D. Nations and the Formation of Group Identities
Chair: Margaret Gilleo
Jim Molos, Queen’s University, “Rethinking The Nature Of Nations”
Sue Campbell, Dalhousie
University, “Memory, Diversity,
and Solidarity”
4E. SPECIAL
SESSION: A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975
(American Liberal Religious Thought), by an NASSP founder, Creighton Peden.
Speakers: William L. McBride, Purdue University
Matthew Silliman, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts
Creighton Peden,
author of A Good Life in a World Made
Good
Session 5: 10:45-12:15 p.m.
5A. Feminism and Historical Identity Formation
Chair: Christine Koggel
Allison
Weir, Wilfrid Laurier University,
“Who are We? Modern Identities Between Taylor and Foucault”
Nathan Placencia, University of California—Riverside, “Revealing
Identities”
5B. Race and Racism in Science and Medicine
Chair: Kevin Graham
Jennifer Faust, California
State University,
“The Ethics of Scientific Research Utilizing Race as a Variable”
Neelam Sethi, Cornell
University, “Race,
Diversity and Health Care in the Global Context”
5C. Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty
Chair: Anna Moltchanova
Jordy Rocheleau, Austin
Peay State University, “Limiting Sovereignty and
War: Between Cosmopolitanism and
International Law”
Jennifer Szende, Queen’s University, “Selective Humanitarian
Intervention: Some Considerations”
5D. Autonomy and Justice for Children
Chair: Johann Klaassen
Bernard Prusak, Villanova
University, “Teaching
Your Children Well: Critical Reflections on How to Formulate the Rights and
Wrongs”
Penny Weiss, Purdue
University, “Political
Children”
5E. Social Implications of the Prison Complex
Chair: David Wood
Fred Struckmeyer, West
Chester University,
“Punishing Crime in America:
One Man’s Critique”
Jeffrey
Paris, University
of San Francisco, “Prisonization
and the Philosophy of Race”
Lunch 12:15-1:45 p.m.
(on your own)
Session 6: 1:45-3:15 p.m.
6A. Universality, Pluralism and Conflict in the
Public Sphere
Chair: Andrew Volmert
Wade Roberts, Duquesne
University, “Re-imagining
Universality as the Site of Contestation: The Play of Universality and
Particularity in the Recent Work of Ernesto LaClau”
Jonathan Keen, Virginia Tech., “Plurality of the Public Sphere:
Habermas & Subaltern Counterpublics”
6B. Racial Formation in the United States
Chair: James Boettcher
Grant Silva, University
of Oregon, “The American
Identity Crisis or “Two Dogmas” of Racialization”
Kevin Graham, Creighton
University, “The Yellow
Peril: Asian American Racial Identity, 1840-2000”
6C. Human Rights and Cultural
Diversity
Chair: Michael Menser
Jeff Gauthier, University
of Portland, “Cultural
Diversity and Human Rights: Toward a Hegelian Reconciliation”
Alistair Macleod, Queen’s University, “Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
[or Is the Diversity of Cultural Beliefs and Practices a Threat to the
Universality of Human Rights?]”
6D. Feminism, Oppression, and Autonomy
Chair: Margaret Crouch
Patricia Marino, University
of Waterloo, “How Do We
Respect Sexual Autonomy?”
Lisa Schwartzman, Michigan
State University,
“Autonomy, Women’s Oppression, and Liberal Methodology”
Book Award 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Chair:
Colleen Stameshkin, Millersville University
and Local Host
Lucas Swaine, The Liberal
Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism. Columbia University Press, N.Y., 2006.
Comments:
Joseph Betz, Villanova
University (Chair of Book
Award Committee)
Deen Chatterjee, University
of Utah
(Thanks also to Kok Chor Tan
who was also a member of the book award committee)
Banquet 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Business Meeting 7:30 - 8:30
p.m.
Saturday, July 14
Session 7: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
7A. Non-ideal Theory, Non-domination, and Conflict
Resolution
Chair: Mark Jensen
Sarah Clark Miller, University
of Memphis, “Global
Diversity, Distance and Oppression: A Nonideal Theory of Obligation”
Bongrae Seok, Alvernia
College, “Non-Taxomic
Reasoning and Conflict Resolution in Chinese Philosophy”
7B. Solidarity
Chair: Sue Campbell
Robert Strikwerda, Purdue
University, “Solidarity
among Four Theorists: Shelby, Durkheim, Rorty, and Hollinger”
Sally Scholz, Villanova
University, “Can the KKK
exhibit Political Solidarity?”
7C. Rape and Sexual Harassment in International Law
Chair: Nancy Snow
Margaret Crouch, Eastern Michigan
University, “Sexual
Harassment in Latin America”
Neda Hadjikhani, Binghamton
University, “Prosecuting
Rape Internationally: Larry May and the
International Criminal Court”
7D. Ethics in
Business and Information Technology
Chair: Paul Voice
Daryl Wennemann, Fontbonne
University, “Free-Market
Capitalism with a Soul: Capitalism and Community in the Information Age”
Ovadia Ezra, Tel-Aviv
University, “Protecting
the Privacy of Individuals in an Invasive Reality”
7E. Group Responsibility and Environmental Concerns
Chair: Wendy Lee
Joan Woolfrey, West
Chester University,
“The Importance of Group Moral Agency on Environmental Responsibility”
Julia Watt, University of
Western Ontario, “Feeling
Responsible: the Problem of Individual Complicity in Collective Harms (or, Why
am I not a vegetarian?)”
Session 8: 10:45 a.m.-12:15
p.m.
8A. Ethical
Theory
Chair: Lisa Schwartzman
Nancy Snow, Marquette
University, “Can the
Wicked Be Happy?”
Helga Varden, University
of Illinois, Champaign Urbana,
“The Priority of Justice to Care”
8B. The Wrongness of Racism
Chair: Lydia Moland
Thomas Donahue, Johns
Hopkins University,
“What Makes Racism Wrong?”
Jan Narveson, University
of Waterloo, “Racism,
“ismism”, and Globalism”
8C. Religion,
Politics, and Terrorism
Chair: Neda Hadjikhani
Mark Jensen, Valparaiso
University, “Found in
Translation? Habermas on Religion Arguments in the Public Sphere”
Doug Knapp, Inver
Hills Community
College, “Lessons Concerning What Has Been Called
‘The First Modern Suicide Bombing’”
8D. Medical Ethics and Individual Responsibility
Chair: Aaron Lercher
Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo
College of New Jersey, “Leave an
Organ, Take an Organ: A Plan for Adopted Children and Their Biological
Families”
Julie Ponesse and Carolyn McLeod, University
of Western Ontario,
“Infertility And Moral Luck”
8E. From
Ideal Theory to Political Practice
Chair: Julia Watt
Christine Koggel, Bryn
Mawr College,
“Power in Theory/Empowerment in Practice: Feminist Postcolonial Insights in the
Global Context”
Monica Mueller, Binghamton
University,
“Supplementing the Politics of Administration”
Lunch 12:15-1:45 p.m.
(on your own)
Session 9: 1:45-3:15
9A. Morality,
Authority, and Legitimacy
Chair: Mark Navin
Azzurra Crispino, Texas A & M, “Fuller on Drugs: A Case Study
Regarding Fuller’s Natural Law Theory”
Ronda Lee Roberts, Michigan
State University,
“Willing the General Will towards an Eternal Peace: A Look at the General Will
in Kantian Politics”
9B.
Postcolonialism, Embodiment, and Agency
Chair: David Gandolfo
Drina Bosnjak, York University,
“Knowing and Seeing: An Embodied Account
of Visual Agency”
Emily Lee, California
State University,
“Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Metropolitan Subject”
9C.
Participatory Democracy
Chair: Wade Roberts
Michael Menser, Brooklyn College/CUNY, “The Global Justice Movement and
the Reinvention of Participatory Democracy”
Fuat Gürsözlü, Binghamton
University, “Two Models
of Democracy and the Problem of Peaceful Political Action”
9D. Justice in Health Care Distribution
Chair: Lisa Cassidy
Barry DeCoster, Vassar
College, “Just Rationing
Decisions in the Face of Possible Global Pandemics”
Aaron Lercher, University
of Buffalo, “Two Problems
of Health Care Justice”
Second Plenary Session 3:30-5:00
Chair: Carol
Gould, Temple University
Speaker:
Tommie Shelby, Harvard
University, “Racism,
Morality, and Social Criticism”
Special
Thanks to
Colleen Stameshkin, Local Host
Jordy Rocheleau & Sally Scholz,
Program Chairs
NASSP
Executive Committee
Alistair Macleod, President
William McBride, Past President
Margaret Crouch, Vice President
Matt Silliman, Archivist
Kevin Graham, Treasurer