[SustainableTompkins] Cornell Conference on the Ethics of Globalization and Developmment

[Daniel Roth]

Cornell Conference on the Ethics of Globalization and Developmment -

On Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, September 29 and 30, the Cornell
Conference on the Ethics of Globalization and Development will be a site for
mutual learning among people studying the moral, economic, social,
environmental, political, technological, and legal aspects of global
economic change. The sessions, described in detail below, will start with
talks by a diverse and international array of leading figures, followed by
extensive discussion. We very much hope that faculty and graduate students
from the many fields shedding light on conference topics will come and take
part. See below for agenda:

1:15-3:15pm
Opening Remarks
Session I: International Justice and Global Climate Change
Session Chair: Sidney Leibovich, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University

Henry Shue, International Relations, Oxford University and Philosophy,
Cornell University
On equity in the control of global climate change

Richard Miller, Philosophy, Cornell University
"Rising Temperatures and Declining Empire: The Morality and Politics of
Greenhouse Gases"

Break

3:30-5:30pm
Session II: Globalization, Democracy and Domination
Session Chair: Nicolas van de Walle, Government, Cornell University

Barbara Lynch, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
"International Institutions and the Chixoy Dam Project: Erasing People in
Place"

Patrick Bond, Development Studies, University of KwaZulu/Natal
"Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous
Prescriptions"

5:30-6:30pm
Reception: A.D. White House

Saturday, September 30, 2006
8:45am
Breakfast

9:15-11:00am
Session III: Beyond Growth: Human Needs and Economic Development
Session Chair: TBA

Lourdes Beneria, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
"Household Labor, the Capabilities Approach, and Public Policy: Balancing
Paid and Unpaid Work"

Rodrigo Pizarro, Terram Foundation, Santiago, Chile
"The Ethics Behind Global Food Production: The Case of Salmon-Farming"

Break

11:15-1:00pm
Session IV: Global Economic Inequality
Session Chair: Timothy Smeeding, Economics, Syracuse University

Branko Milanovic, World Bank
"Ethical and Economic Case for Global Transfers"

Ravi Kanbur, Applied Economics and Management and Economics, Cornell
University
"Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Some Hard Questions"

1:00-2:15pm
Lunch

2:15-4:00
Session V: Justice and the Structure of Global Power
Session Chair: TBA

Charles Beitz, Politics, Princeton University
"The Problem of Global Political Justice"

Stephen Gill, Political Science, York University
"The Global Felicific Calculus? Political Economy, Social Reproduction &
Public Health as Ethical Dimensions of The Globalization Question"

Break

4:15-6:00
Session VI: Toward Fairness in the Governance of Globalization
Session Chair: Lowell Turner, International and Comparative Labor Relations,
Cornell University

Kaushik Basu, Economics, Cornell University
"Globalization, Democracy, and the Rights of the Worker"

Thomas Pogge, Philosophy, Columbia University University
"Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines"
No registration is required for the conference. For more information, please
contact Mary Ahl at the Society for the Humanities (mea4 at cornell.edu or
607-255-4086) or visit http://www.economyandsociety.org where updated
information and papers (.pdf format) will be made available.


Sincerely,

Daniel Roth
(518) 727-6723

Executive Committee
US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org

Graduate Student
Adult and Extension Education
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14850