PROGRAM
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Thursday 29th of October
Chair : João Luís Lisboa (New University of Lisbon)
8h45-9h00 : João Cardoso Rosas (University of Minho) Introduction to the Conference
9h00-9h40 : Peter Vallentyne (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Equality in Its Place
9h40-10h20 : Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego)
Formal and Substantive Equality of Opportunity : Derivative Not Fundamental
10h20-10h50 : Questions
10h50-11h10 : Coffee-break
11h10-11h50 : Jeremy Moss (Social Justice Initiative, University of Melbourne)
Functionings and Equal Opportunity
11h50-12h30 : Matthew Clayton (University of Warwick)
Equality of Opportunity and Self-Realisation
12h30-13h00 : Questions
Afternoon : Two workshops in parallel sessions
Workshop 1 : Freedom and Responsibility
Chair : Richard Arneson
14h30-14h50 : François Hudon (Catholic University of Louvain) Equal Freedom Against Equal Opportunity
14h50-15h10 : Marc-Antoine Dilhac (Sorbonne University-Paris1) More Than a Possibility, Less Than a Guarantee
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Roberto Merrill (CEHUM, University of Minho) Bearing the costs of choice in desperate situations : too harsh ?
16h20-16h40 : Fabian Schuppert (Queen’s University, Belfast) Finding the Basis for Prolonged Equality of Opportunity : Freedom, Recognition and Sustainability
16h40-17h10 : Questions
Workshop 2 : Family and Education
Chair : Adam Swift
14h30-14h50 : Vincent Baltazar (Cornell University) The Value of the Family : Love and Biological Ties
14h50-15h10 : Anca Gheaus (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Care in Public Institutions as a Matter of Equal Opportunities
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Ben Colburn (University of Cambridge) Autonomy and Equal Opportunities in Education
16h20-16h40 : Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (CRÉUM, University of Montreal and Sorbonne University-Paris 1) The cases of “sciences Po Paris” and the ESSEC for two normative approaches of affirmative action in higher education in France : Where is the ideal of equality republican ?
16h40-17h00 : Ivo Wallimann (Zurich University Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich) Educational Objectives : Liberty, Equal Opportunity and Autonomy
17h00-17h45 : Questions
Friday 30th October
Chair : Roberto Merrill (University of Minho)
9h00-9h40 : Adam Swift (Centre for Social Justice, University of Oxford)
Legitimate Parental Partiality
9h40-10h20 : Daniel Weinstock (CRÉUM, University of Montreal)
Can Thinking about Justice in Health Help us in Thinking about Justice in Education ?
10h20-10h50 : Questions
10h50-11h10 : Coffee-break
11h10-11h50 : Patrick Savidan (Poitiers University)
Is Equality of Opportunity a Sustainable Principle of Social Justice ?
11h50-12h30 : Geert Demuijnck (Edhec Business School)
The Effectiveness of Anti Discrimination Law for Substantive Equality of Opportunity in the Labour Market
12h30-13h00 : Questions
Afternoon : Two workshops
Workshop 3 : Discriminations
Chair : Axel Gosseries
14h30-14h50 : Annamari Vitikainen (University of Helsinki) Group membership, Self-identification, and Need : Why we should be pluralists about the allocation of differentiated rights
14h50-15h10 : Orsolya Reich (Central European University) Luck, Justice and Immigration
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Nathaniel Coleman (University of Michigan) The Political Power of Sexual Preference
16h20-16h40 : Covadonga Aldamiz-echevarría González de Durana, Idigoras Gamboa and Azucena Vicente Molina (University of the Basque Country) Influence on the Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses
16h40-17h10 : Questions
Workshop 4 : Theories of Equality
Chair : Peter Vallentyne
14h30-14h50 : Henry Milner (University of Montreal and Umea University)
The Virtuous Circle of Non-Material Redistribution
14h50-15h10 : Peter Dietsch (University of Montreal)
Systemic Justice and Equality of Opportunity
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Zoltan Miklosi (Central European University)
Does the Difference Principle Make a Difference ?
16h20-16h40 : Rasmus Sommer Hansen (University of Aarhus)
Equality of Opportunity, Equal Rules, and Social Norms
16h40-17h00 : Roland Pierik (Radboud University)
Equality of Opportunity From Ideal Theory to Political Practice
17h00-17h45 : Questions
Saturday 31st October
Chair : Mathias Thaler (CES, University of Coimbra)
9h00-9h40 : Ingvild Almås (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Measuring Unfair (In)equality
9h40-10h20 : Axel Gosseries (Hoover Chair, University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Luck Egalitarianism and Anti-Discrimination Law
10h20-10h 50 : Questions
10h50-11h10 : Coffee-break
11h10-11h50 : Martin O’Neill (MANCEPT, University of Manchester)
Equality of Opportunity, Value and Time
11h50-12h30 : Jonathan Wolff (University College London)
Should Egalitarians Care About Equality of Opportunity ?
12h30-13h00 : Questions
Afternoon : Two workshops
Workshop 5 : Health Care
Chair : Jonathan Wolff
14h30-14h50 : Michele Loi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) Equality of opportunity and genetic enhancement
14h50-15h10 : Andrew Williams (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Warwick) Equality, Priority, and Risk
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Ville Päivänsalo (University of Helsinki) Flexible Opportunities for Health Protection : Results through Corporate Altruism
16h20-16h55 : Questions
Workshop 6 : Market and Labour
Chair : Ingvild Almås
14h30-14h50 : Hugh Lazenby (University of Oxford) Luck and the Market : A Reply to Seligman
14h50-15h10 : Sylvie Loriaux (University of Antwerp / Radboud University Nijmegen) Global Equality of Opportunity
15h10-15h40 : Questions
15h40-16h00 : Coffee-break
16h00-16h20 : Enrico Biale (University of Milan-Bicocca) Democratic Equality and Economic Inequalities
16h20-16h40 : Fabien Tarrit (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne) Inequalities in labour market and self-ownership
16h40-17h10 : Questions
19h30-20h30 (Palácio Fronteira) In memory of Jerry Cohen, with Jonathan Wolff, Daniel Weinstock and Andrew Williams
20h45 Dinner at Palácio Fronteira
