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Conference Announcement Theme: Global Economic Justice Type: Justitia Amplificata Conference Institution: Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg Location: Bad Homburg (Germany) Date: 10.–11.7.2014 __________________________________________________ The global and transnational justice debate has started to move beyond theoretical ground clearing and toward evaluating specific transnational institutions, international agreements and global practices. This conference seeks to contribute to this difficult task by considering practical questions of global and trans-national economic justice. The conference will concentrate on normative assessments of global, transnational and international practices that impact production, consumption, the division of labour, productivity and the distribution of income and wealth, as well as control over these factors. We will structure the conference around three panels. The panels are listed below along with examples of possible topics. The examples are non-exhaustive: we are keen to receive papers on any aspect of the three central themes. Global Finance: - Questions of justice and fairness in international debt repayment, cancelation and conditionality, including issues concerning foreign funded bail-outs and the justice of relations between those bailed out and those financing the bail-out. - The significance of the free movement of capital and its effect on the abilities of states to determine social policy. Trade Justice: - Questions about transnational trade, including normative assessments of Free Trade Agreements, investor protection and the enforcement of such agreements. - Normative assessments of the use of economic sanctions and embargoes, including the conditions in which such measures may legitimately be used. Labour and Economic Rights: - Should basic economic rights and freedom be considered Human rights? - Do labour conditions in poorer states violate basic rights? - Who is responsible for the injustice of poor and dangerous working conditions? Confirmed speakers: Mathias Risse, Robert Howse, Miriam Ronzoni, Seumas Miller, Catherine Lu, Nicole Hassoun, Jiewuh Song, Bas van der Vossen, Peter Dietsch, Elizabeth Kahn and Gabriel Wollner. Justitia Amplificata ("Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global") is a Centre for Advanced Studies (Kolleg-Forschergruppe) at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Conference Organisers: Elizabeth Kahn, Jahel Queralt Lange, Jiewuh Song Directors: Stefan Gosepath and Rainer Forst To register contact: Valérie Bignon: big...@em.uni-frankfurt.de Contact: Valérie Bignon Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften Campus Westend – PEG Gebäude Hauspostfach 12 Grüneburgplatz 1 D-60323 Frankfurt am Main Germany Email: big...@em.uni-frankfurt.de __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________