The Center for Ethics and Human Values presents a COMPAS Conference on Global Inequality
The spring COMPAS conference will focus on understanding global inequality. It will begin by considering two basic questions facing proponents of global justice: how to measure well-being as a way of assessing global inequalities and whether rich nations have a duty to alleviate poverty around the globe. We will then consider the significance of global inequality in a variety of domains that raise serious moral concerns, including global governance, trade, migration, and LGBTQ rights. Because one of our aims is to explore how the causes and effects of different kinds of inequality interact with one another, the conference will bring together leading political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, economists, legal scholars, public health experts, and policy advocates who can effectively engage each other.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
1:30p - 3:00p: Session 1: Metrics of Well-being
- Speakers: Jacob Hacker (Political Science, Yale), Dan Haybron (Philosophy, St. Louis)
- Moderator: Michael Neblo (CEHV and Political Science, Ohio State)
3:30p - 5:00p: Session 2: Material Inequality and Poverty
- Speakers: Monique Deveaux (Philosophy, Guelph), Mathias Risse (Philosophy and Public Policy, Harvard)
- Moderator: Steven Brown (CEHV, Ohio State)
5:00p - 6:00p: Reception
Friday, March 31, 2017
8:45a - 9:00a: Welcoming Remarks
9:00a - 10:30a: Session 3: Global Governance
- Speakers: Catherine Lu (Political Science, McGill), Joseph Grieco (Political Science, Duke)
- Moderator: Cinnamon Carlarne (Law, Ohio State)
11:00a - 12:30p: Session 4: Migration
- Speakers: Ines Valdez (Political Science, Ohio State), Adam Hosein (Philosophy, Colorado)
- Moderator: Joyce Chen (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State)
2:15p - 3:45p: Session 5: Trade and Labor
- Speakers: Ian Sheldon (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State), Kate Bronfenbrenner (Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell)
- Moderator: Sarah Brooks (Political Science, Ohio State)
4:15p - 5:45p: Session 6: LGBTQ Rights
- Speakers: Jennifer Suchland (WGSS and Slavic Studies, Ohio State), Debanuj DasGupta (Geography, UConn)
- Moderator: Marc Spindelman (Law, Ohio State)