ARC Workshop - April 25-26, 2013.
Workshop: Procreative Responsibility and Population Size
ARC-Sustainability Workshop
Hoover Chair for economic and social ethics, University of Louvain
This workshop is partially funded by the FNRS
25-26th of April 2013
This workshop is open to all interested. Registration required via therese.davio@uclouvain.be.
Please mention ' registration workshop procreative responsibility' in the subject.
Axel GOSSERIES and Tim MEIJERS conveners
Thursday 25th of April 2013
09:30 welcome and coffee
Morning session. Chair: Adam Swift (Warwick)
09.45 Individual Rights and Global Responsibilities: The Case of “Procreative Rights''
DANIEL WEINSTOCK, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
joint paper with JURGEN DE WISPELAERE (McGill University, Montreal)
respondent: Philippe van Parijs (UCL)
11.15 Do Procreators have Special Duties?
AXEL GOSSERIES, UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
joint paper with NICHOLAS VROUSALIS, University of Cambridge (UK) and SPERANTA DUMITRU
respondent: Inigo Gonzales (UCL)
12.45 Lunch
Afternoon session. Chair: Hilary Greaves (Oxford)
13.45 Inequality and Population Change
GUSTAF ARRHENIUS, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)
respondent: Tim Meijers (UCL)
15.15 short coffee break
16.30 The right to parent and duties to future generations
ANCA GHEAUS, University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
respondent: Jurgen de Wispelaere
17.00 The limits of a Right to Reproduce
INGRID ROBEYNS, Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
respondent: Amandine Catala (UCL)
Friday 26th of April 2013
Morning session. Chair: Guillaume Wunsch (UCL)
09.30 Intergenerational Justice in Practice: Measuring the Burden of the Old on the Young
PIETER VANHUYSSE, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy (Vienna, Austria)
respondent: Wim Van Lancker (UA)
11.00 Raising Children, Contributing to the Pension System and the German Constitutional Court
ANNE LENZE, Law, Hochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)
respondent: Geoffrey Willems (UCL)
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Chair: Mylene Botbol-Baum (UCL)
13.30 Argentina`s Universal Child Allowance from the perspective of procreative responsibility.
CHRISTIAN FATAUROS, National University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Argentina)
respondent: Paula Gobbi (UCL)
15:00 short coffee break
15.15 Utilitarian Population Ethics and Births Timing
GREGORY PONTHIERE, Ecole Normale Supérieure & Paris School of Economics (Paris, France)
respondent: David de la Croix (UCL)
16.45 Distributing the Cost of Demographic Change
ANDREW WILLIAMS, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
respondent: Nicholas Vrousalis (Cambridge)