Territory and Justice: a research network
You have reached the home page of the Territory and Justice Network, a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The network is led by Professor Christopher Bertram (University of Bristol) and Dr Cara Nine (University College, Cork) as principal investigators, with the collaboration of Professor Leif Wenar (King's College, London) and Dr Graham Finlay (University College, Dublin).
Territory is at the center of the most important contemporary issues - war, poverty, climate change, immigration, human rights, secession, and border disputes. Territory determines citizenship, opportunities, rights, obligations, political power, and resource privilege. And yet there are very few philosophical investigations of territorial rights. The omission of theories of territory from current philosophical, political, and legal theoretical discourse is unfortuante, especially given the topic's immense importance to local and global events. We propose to develop a bi-lateral network of Irish and UK researchers on the topic, "Theories of Territory: Resource Rights, Global Justice, and Self-Determination". Our objective is to establish Ireland and the UK as the global centre of excellence in research on this substantial and timely topic. Through initial networking opportunities for philosophers, including political, legal and social theorists, we aim to establish an innovative, state-of-the-art research program on theories of territory.
Territory and Justice Conference - Dublin 2010
A selection of papers for the conference can be downloaded from our pre-publication repository
Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen's Green
MONDAY July 12
9.00-10.45 Attachment to Land: Property, Territory and Secession
- Avery Kolers, University of Louisville, USA, "Attachment to Territory: Status or Achievement?"
- Andrew Shorten, University of Limerick, Ireland, "Secession Rights and Democratic Citizenship""
- Chris Bertram, University of Bristol, UK, "Property and territory: against the Kantian two-step"
10.45-11.00 break
11.00-12.45 Territorial Rights and a Global Order
- Adina Preda, UCD, Ireland, "What are territorial rights?"
- Nenad Miscevic, University of Maribor, Slovenia, "Cosmopolitanism & Territory: Multipolar vs. Cosmopolitan Orders"
- Ayelet Banai, Goethe University, Germany, "Why do Cosmopolitans Need Borders? On Political Self-Determination and the Normative Significance of Territorial Boundaries"
- Lea Ypi, Oxford, UK, "A Permissive Theory of Territorial Rights"
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2-3.45 Nationalism, Self-Determination and Territorial Rights
- Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University, Israel, TBA
- Kim Angell, University of Oslo, Norway, "Needs and Desert in David Miller's Theory of Territorial Rights"
- Zoran Oklopcic, Carleton University, Canada, "Achieving Choice: Self-Determination, Theories of Secession, and Independence of Kosovo"
3.45-5.30 Resource Rights and Global Justice
- Hillel Steiner, University of Manchester, UK, "Sharing Mother Nature’s Gifts: A Reply to Quong and Miller"
- Margaret Moore, Queen's University, Canada, "Resource rights and global justice"
- Chris Armstrong, University of Southampton, UK "Global justice and the convention of national control over resources"
5.30 Wine Reception
7.00 Dinner
TUESDAY July 13
9.00-10.45 Sovereignty and Resource Rights
- Peter Dietsch, University of Montreal, Canada, "Promoting justice in international tax governance"
- Fabbian Schuppert, Queen"s University Belfast, Northern Ireland 'Administering Scarce Natural Resources: Time to De-Territorialize and Re-Territorialize Sovereignty"
- Oliviero Angeli, TU Dresden, Germany, 'From Proximity to Territoriality: A Kantian Genealogy of the State' .
10.45-11.00 break
11.00-12.45 Territory and Citizenship
- Iseult Honohan, UCD, Ireland, "The territorial basis of citizenship acquisition"
- Patti Lenard, University of Ottawa, Canada, "When are citizenship rights territorially based?"
- Megan Kime, University of Sheffield, UK, "Environmental Refugees and Global Justice"
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2-3.45 Immigration and Justice
- Loren Lomasky, University of Virginia, USA, "Migration and Global Justice"
- Daniel Kofman, University of Ottawa, Canada, "Immigration and Global Justice"
- Alex Sager, Portland State University, USA, "Immigration and Equality"
3.45-5.30 Immigration, Emigration, and the Space Between
- Jaakko Kuosmanen, University of Edinburgh, UK, "Moral asymmetry between emigration and immigration"
- Caleb Yong, Oxford University, UK, "Rights to immigrate and exclude: the need for institutional moral reasoning"
- Aviezer Tucker, CEVRO Institute (Prague), Czech Republic, "Sovereignty without Territory, Emigration without Movement: The Panarchist Solution"
Workshop of Justice, Territory and Migration: Novi Vinodolski City Hall, Croatia (October 2009)
A selection of papers for the conference can be downloaded from our pre-publication repository
Thursday, October 8
7.30 pm Dinner and Presentation
Friday, October 9
10-11 Nenad Miscevic (CEU) "Territory, Proximity, and Culture"
11.-11.20 break
11.20-12.20 Cara Nine (Cork) "Resource Rights and Global Distributive Justice"
12.20-2.00 lunch
2-3 Leif Wenar (King's College London) "Popular Sovereignty and Territorial Rights"
3-4 Daniel Kofman (Ottawa) "Territorial Justice"
4-4.30 break
4.30-5.30 Frank Dietrich (Bielefeld) "Plebiscites and the justification of territorial claims"
Saturday, October 10
10-11 Chris Bertram (Bristol) "A Natural Right to Migration"
11-11.20 break
11.20-12.20 Sune Laegaard (Copenhagen) "Types of Theories of Territory and the Right to Exclude Immigrants"
12.20-2.00 lunch
2-3 Eszter Kollar (Louvain) "Justice in International Health-Worker Migration"
3-3.30 break
3.30-5.00 Arash Abizadeh (McGill) "Border Coercion and Democratic Legitimacy: Freedom of Association, Territorial Dominion, and Self-Defence"
Workshop on Territory and Justice: London (February 2009)
A selection of papers for the conference can be downloaded from our pre-publication repository
Saturday, Feb 21
10.45 Welcome and Coffee
11.00-1.00 Panel On Theories of territory and group rights:
David Miller (Oxford)
Adina Preda (UCDublin)
Anna Stilz (Princeton)
Bas van der Vossen (Arizona)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-4.00 Panel On Resource Rights:
Cara Nine (UCCork)
Paul Segal (Oxford)
Leif Wenar (Kings College London)
4.00-4.30 Coffee
4.30-6.30 Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Waldron (NYU Law)
Respondent: Nenad Miscevic (Central European University)
Respondent: Tamar Meisels (Tel Aviv)
6.30 Wine Reception
Sunday, Feb. 22
9.00-11.00 Panel On Justice and Territory:
Frank Dietrich (University of Bielefeld)
Bart Edgerton (Tufts)
Loren King (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Margaret Moore (Queen's, CA)
11.00-1.00 Panel On Immigration:
Sune Laegaard (Copenhagen)
Gianfranco Pellegrino (Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome)
Jonathan Seglow (U London)
