Seminar talk
Monday, March 17, 2014
4:00 – 6:00 pm

Larkin Building, Room 200
15 Devonshire Place

Patchen Markell
Associate Professor of Political Science
The University of Chicago
http://home.uchicago.edu/~pmarkell/

Thursday, March 13, 2014
2:00 – 6:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Program:

Chair: Arthur Ripstein (Toronto)
14:00 – 15:10: Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers): ‘Illuminating Egalitarianism’

15:10 -15:30 – Break

Chair: Kerah Gordon-Solomon (Queens)
15:30 – 16:40: Cynthia Stark (Utah): ‘Rescuing the Pareto Argument’
16:40 – 17:50: Thomas Christiano (Arizona): ‘Rationality, Equal Status, and Egalitarianism’

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Friday, March 14, 2014
8:50 am – 5:30 pm
Combination Room
Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue

Program:

Chair: Lauren Bialystok (Toronto)
8:50 – 10:00: Deborah Hellman (Virginia): ‘Two Faces of Equality’
10:00 – 11:10: Sophia Moreau (Toronto): ‘Equality in the Law: What Kind of Value does Non-Discrimination Have?’

11:10 – 11:25: Break

Chair: Jennifer Gibson (Toronto)
11:25 – 12:35 Nir Eyal (Harvard): ‘Inequality in Political Philosophy and in Epidemiology: A Re-Marriage’

12:35 – 13:30 – Lunch Break

Chair: Louis Philippe-Hodgson (York)
13:30 – 14:40: Daniel M. Hausman (Madison, Wisconsin): ‘Could Equality (or Priority) Be Intrinsically Valuable?’
14:40-15:50: Peter Vallentyne (Columbia, Missouri) (with Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics): ‘Paretian Egalitarianism and Transitivity’

15:50 – 16:10 Break

Chair: Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
16:10 – 17:20: Richard J. Arneson (UC San Diego): ‘Basic Equality, Substantive Equality, Consequentialism, and Priority’

“The Right to Mobility: Mass Urban Transit and Socio-Spatial Justice”

Theresa Enright
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto

Wednesday, February 26th
12 noon – 2:00 pm

Room LA200
Larkin Building, 2nd Floor
15 Devonshire Place

Political Theory Research Workshop

Friday, February 7, 2014

March 13 – 14, 2014
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

To register:

EqualityProgram

Mon, Jan 20, 2014
Seminar Talk
On Valuing Moral Disagreement

David Wong 
Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy
Duke University

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Ethics, Society and Law Students’ Association Academic Seminar
Thursday, November 28
1 – 3 pm
End-of-Life Care: Ethics and the Law
Guest lecturer: Wayne Sumner

Political Theory Research Workshop
Friday, November 29
12 noon – 1:30 pm
The Democratic Continuum: Edified Beasts and Political Animals
Presenter: Emma Planinc

Manuscript Workshop
Friday, November 29
2 – 5 pm
A Political Theory of Territory
by Margaret Moore (Queens University)
Chair: Simone Chambers, Department of Political Science, U of T
Panelists:
Margaret (Peggy) Kohn, Department of Political Science, U of T
Loren King, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
Daniel Weinstock, McGill University

There’s no Bathing in the River Styx: The problem of Rule-Manipulation in Adversarial and Non-Adversarial Schemes

Dominic Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics

November 27, 2013
12 noon – 2 pm

Seminar Talk, Ethics and the Public Interest
The Canadian One Percent

Stephen Gordon
Department of Economics, Université Laval

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

The For-Profit Misnomer in Canadian Corporate Law

Carol Liao
SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Law
and PhD Student, UBC Law (Joint Program)

Abstract:

Banning Religious Clothing? The Quebec Charter of Secular Values: What’s It All About?

5:30 pm – 7 pm
Wednesday, November 6

U of T Multi-Faith Centre
596 Spadina Avenue, Room KP 113 (1st Floor)

Join Prof. Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Law School, Prof. Ruth Marshall, Study of Religion, U of T, Prof. Simone Chambers, Pol. Sci., U of T, Ayesha Valliani, Grad Student, Study of Religion, U of T, in a moderated discussion of the Quebec Charter of Values with Prof. Pamela Klassen, Director, Religion in the Public Sphere programme, U of T.

Explore issues of state neutrality and religious accommodation vis a vis the proposed legislation of the Quebec’s Charter of Values. The proposed Charter includes banning public sector workers, including teachers and all civil servants from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols. This includes: hijabs, turbans, and large crosses.

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