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"Justice, Culture and Tradition" Conference Agenda
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, June 2-4, 2008

 
     
  All sessions take place at Wolfensohn Hall, IAS, Princeton New Jersey. All sessions are free of charge and open to the public. Please RSVP for each session by contacting Danielle Candy at dcandy@cceia.org, or 212-838-4120, ext. 259.

MONDAY, JUNE 2ND

9:45AM - 10:00AM Greeting Session
IAS Director Peter Goddard and Conference Organizer Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University)

10:00AM - 12:15PM "Distributive Justice"
Speakers
Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University)
Michael J. Sandel (Harvard University)
Commentator
Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania)
Chair
Joan W.Scott (IAS) 

2:00PM - 3:00PM "The Interpretive View of Ethics"
Speaker
Georgia Warnke (University of California)
Commentator
Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum)
Chair
Harry Frankfurt (Princeton University) 

3:30PM - 6:00PM Round Table: "The Practice of Social Criticism"
Speakers
Mitchell Cohen (CUNY Baruch College)
Martin Peretz (The New Republic)
Menachem Lorberbaum (Tel Aviv University)
Axel Honneth (Institut fur Sozialforschung)
Chair f
Ian Shapiro (Yale University)

TUESDAY, JUNE 3RD

10:00AM - 12:15PM "Multiculturalism, Civil Society, and the Politics of Recognition"
Speakers
Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)
Will Kymlicka (Queen's University)
Commentator
Charles Taylor (McGill University)

2:00PM - 5:00PM Round Table: "The Just War Theory - Moral and Legal Perspectives"
Speakers
Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University)
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University)
Brian Orend (University of Waterloo)
Commentator
Noam J. Zohar (Bar-Ilan University)
 

Speakers
Michael Doyle (Columbia University)
Haim Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)
Chair

Joel Rosenthal (Carnegie Council)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4TH

10:00AM - 12:15PM "Tradition, Radicalism and Solidarity"
Speakers
Avishai Margalit (Institute for Advanced Study)
George Kateb (Princeton University)
Commentator
Moshe Halbertal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Chair
Yaffa Zilbershats (Bar-Ilan University)

2:00PM - 4:00PM "The Moral Standing of States"
Speaker
Ruth Gavison (The Hebrew University)
Charles R. Beitz (Princeton University)
Commentator
Nancy L. Rosenblum (Harvard University)
Chair
Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)


4:30PM - 6:30PM Round Table: "The Jewish Political Tradition"
Speakers
Leon Wieseltier (The New Republic)
David Novak (University of Toronto)
Pierre Birnbaum (Columbia University Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies) 
Chair
Noam J. Zohar (Bar-Ilan University)

 



 
 

Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer has written extensively on a variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy. His most acclaimed work to date, Just and Unjust Wars (1977), is the classic contemporary text on the morality of war. Walzer is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study.

This conference was made possible by the generous support of the following:

Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung


Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs


Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study


Shalom Hartman Institute
Shalom Hartman Institute


YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research


Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law


Heinrich Boell Foundation
Heinrich Boell Foundation


 



 
 

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