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International Workshop: "Human Rights Between Facts and Norms"

16.04.2019

On May 7, 2019 an international workshop held at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and hosted by FGMM-member Regina Kreide is dedicated to questions on "Human Rights Between Facts and Norms".

 

Program:

2:00–2:15 pm

Welcome & Introduction – Regina Kreide (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)

 

2:15–3:15 pm

Overcoming Fear of Metaphysics on the Road to Substantive Realism about Human Rights and Other Normative Truth – William Talbott (University of Washington Seattle)

 

3:15–4:15 pm

Human Rights Beyond Naturalism or why "Equality" is not a right but an Axiom – Arnd Pollmann (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin)

 

                    Chair & Discussant: Jürgen Bast (FGMM-member, JLU Giessen)

 

4:15–4:45 pm

Tea and Coffee Break

 

4:45–5:45 pm

Is Migration a Challenge for Cosmopolitan Political Philosophy? – Andreas Niederberger (Duisburg-Essen University)

 

5:45–6:45 pm

Just War Theory and the Challenge of Changing Techniques and Practices of War – Nadia Mazouz (Philipps University Marburg)

 

6:45–7:45 pm

Humanitarian Intervention and Human Rights: The Case of Venezuela – Francisco Cortés Rodas (University of Antioquia, Medellìn)

 

                    Chair & Discussant: Michaela Hailbronner (FGMM-member, JLU Giessen)

 

8:00 pm

End of Workshop

 

Location: Zeughaus Senckenbergstraße 3, seminar room 3, Giessen