SPCW Annual Conference 2007 Program Schedule

 

Thursday, July 19

 

12:30-1:00              Registration

 

1:00-2:00               Lunch & Opening Reception

 

2:00-3:30               Session 1:  Welcome to Morelia and Universidad Latina de America Jose-Antonio Orosco, Karen Bardsley, & Trudy Conway, Opening Remarks Victor Vargas, “The Democratic Deficit in Mexico’s Political System.”

 

3:30-3:45               Break

 

3:45-5:15               Session 2:  Technology & Tradition George A. Teschner, “Globalization and the Technological Paradigm.” Janet Donohoe, “Virtual Memorials/Global Places?”

 

 

Friday, July 20th 9:00-9:30       Coffee & Conversation

 

9:30-11:00              Session 3:  Just War Theory David Chan, “The Importance of Jus In Bello” Lani Roberts, “Last Resort, Moral Imagination and War.”

 

11:00-11:15             Break

 

11:15-12:45             Session 4: Globalization and Terrorism J. Jeremy Wisnewski, “Violence, Terrorism, and Corporate Colonialism.”

 

12:45-2:00              Lunch

 

2:00-3:30               Session 5:  Economic Globalization & International justice Sandy Reiter & Paul L. Glezen, “Moral Loopholes in the Global Economic Environment.” David Willhoite, “Ercel and the Anti-sweat shop movement.”

 

3:30-3:45               Break

 

3:45-5:15               Session 6:  Culture & Selfhood Kim Diaz, “Cosmopolitan Identity and Human Rights.” Roberto Mantilla Sahagun, “Los Retos de la Justica Frente a la Identidad Global/ The Challenges of Justice for Global Identity.”

 

 

Saturday, July 21st 9:00-9:30       Coffee & Conversation

 

9:30-11:00              Session 7:  The Global Community & Supranational Institutions David I. Gandolfo, “The Ethical Threshold:  Minimum Requirements for a Non-Neocolonial Globalization.” Mark Sanders, “Royce and Dewey on Conflict Resolution and Community.”

 

11:00-10:15             Break

 

11:15-12:45             Session 8: Immanuel Kant on Nations, Respect and Race Monica Greenwell Janzen, “Civic Virtue in a Kantian Federation of Nations.” Joris van Gorkom,  “Immanuel Kant on Racial Identity.”

 

12:45-2:00              Lunch

 

2:00-3:30               Session 9:  President & Co-chair’s Presentations Trudy Conway, “Reflections on the Executing of an Executioner” Jose-Antonio Orosco, "Upholding the Law of all the Greeks:  Lessons on Humanitarian Intervention from Euripides."

 

3:30-3:45               Break

 

3:45-5:00               Business Meeting

 

Sunday  22nd , July 2   9:00-6:00               Organized Tour of Patzcuaro, Tzintzuntzan, Santa Clara

 

Monday, July 23rd 9:00-9:30               Coffee & Conversation

 

9:30-11:00              Session 10:  Aiding Others Mandy Bosma, “Aiding the Poor in a Globalising World: Duties and Demandingness” Stan van Hooft, “Subsistence Rights and Moral Realism.”

 

11:00-11:15             Break

 

11:15-12:45             Session 11:  Human and Non-human Rights James Irving, “Self determination, Human Rights & The Basis of International Law” Jack Weir, “Rights, Moral Rights and Animal Rights.”

 

12:15-2:00              Lunch

 

2:00-3:30               Session 12: Globalization & Religion Paul S. Penner and Patricia Diaz Herrera, “Globalization, Protestant Conservatism and the Mexican Case.” Robert Metcalf, “Examining Religion Globally”

 

3:30-3:45               Break

 

3:45-5:00               Session 13: Group Discussion “Is there, and/or should there be, a sense of shared identity amongst all citizens of the “Americas?”  Facilitator:  Karen Bardsley