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Poverty and the Family
17 & 18 May 2018, University of Salzburg

2017 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty, 1 & 2 June 2017

Invited Speaker: H.P.P. Lötter (Johannesburg)

H.P.P. [Hennie] Lötter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. Hennie’s research interests are in political philosophy and philosophy of science. He is the author of several articles on poverty, and the monograph "Poverty, Ethics and Justice" (University of Wales Press, 2011). This book has also been subject of two recent symposia in Res Publica (with Darrel Moellendorf, Gillian Brock, and Thaddeus Metz) and the International Journal of Applied Philosophy (with Taddheus Metz, Daryl Glaser, and Tristen Taylor).

Program

Thursday
1 June 2017
10:00
​H.P.P. [Hennie] Lötter
(University of Johannesburg)
Poverty and Human Dignity
11:15
​Break
Break
11:30
​Christian Neuhäuser
(Technical University Dortmund
Poverty, dignity and self-respect ​
12:45
Lunch
13:30
​Alfred Archer, Bart Engelen & Alan Thomas
(University of Tilburg)
Shame, Well-Being and Inequality
14:45
Break
15:00
Hanna-Maria Niemi
(University of Eastern Finland)
Right against Poverty: Can the notion of human dignity help us define socio-economic rights?
16:15
Break
16:30
Daniel Putnam
(Princeton University)
Poverty as a Social Relation
17:45
End of Day 1
Friday
2 June 2017
9:30
Rocio Lorca
(University of Chile)​
The meanings of punishing the poor: from injustice to hostility
10:45
Break
Break
11:00
Cristian Dimitriu
(Forschungskolleg Frankfurt)​
The irrelevance of poverty for the morality of the lending system
12:15
Lunch
13:00
Zlata Bozac & Viktor Ivankovic
(Central European University, Budapest)
Should We Nudge Charitable Giving? The Nudge Ethos
14:15
Break
14:30
Anandita Mukherji
(Boston University)​
Depriving Capabilities: Global Poverty Alleviation as a Duty Not to Harms?
15:45
End of Day 2

Abstracts

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