Conference on Global Justice and the Global South
April 25-27, 2014
University of Delhi
Draft Programme
Day 1: April 25
Noon-4 p.m.: Registration / Poster Session by Students
4:00-4:20 pm: Welcome and Introductory Note: Ashok Acharya, University of Delhi
4:20-4:30 pm: Prof. Ujjwal Singh, Head, Department of Political Science
4:30-4:45 pm: University Officials
4:45-5:15 pm: Inaugural Address by Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International
Affairs, Yale University
5:15-5:45 pm: Keynote by P. Sainath, Journalist
5:45-6:15 pm: Keynote by Brooke Ackerley “Blind abstraction: Overlooking everyday injustice with “global
poverty”
6-15-6:25 pm: Vote of Thanks: Luis Cabrera, University of Birmingham
6:30 pm: Conference Centre Dining
Day 2: April 26
9 a.m.: Registration and Tea
9:30-11 am: Panel 1
Theorizing Global Justice
• Christine Keating “Plurinationalism and Global Justice”
• Jay Drydyk “Inclusion and Exclusion, Social and Global”
• Jayati Srivastava “Global Justice: Theory, Silence and Voices”
• Matthew Lindauer “The Moral Significance of External Relationships”
9:30-11 am: Panel 2
Global Distributive Justice
• Christine Hobden “Global Inequality and State Duties: A Relational Lens”
• Michelle Hawkins “Distributive Justice at the Border”
• Prasenjit Biswas “Global Resource Dividend (GRD) as ‘Transpositional Alternative’ in the
South”
• Daniel Putnam “Global Poverty, Luck Egalitarianism and Collective Responsibility”
11-11:20 am: Tea break
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 3
Theorizing Global Justice
• Michael Dusche “A Dilemma of Republican Theories of Justice and an Emergentic Reinterpretation”
• Stephen Minister “The Relational Foundation of Global Justice”
• Sridhar Venkatpuram “Contingency of Reasoning in Global Justice”
• Srijit Mishra “A Possible Defence of Rawls: A Note”
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 4
Perspectives on Development
• Mitu Sengupta “Inequality and Global Justice: Rethinking Sustainability Beyond 2015”
• Mai Hamed “Islamic Finance as a Site of Distributive Justice”
• Gyanaranjan Swain “Happiness, Welfare & Measurement: Critique of the HDI and
Comparative Experience in South Asia”
1-2 pm: Lunch in Conference Centre Dining Hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 5
Poverty in the Global South
• Araceli Damián-González “Time: the missing variable in measuring poverty”
• Julio Boltvinik “Can the Global South Measure its Own Poverty with its Own Methods? The
Latin American and Mexican Stories”
• Srilakshmi Vajrakarur “The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Poverty Reduction in
India”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 6
Theory and Practice of Rights
• Adina Preda “Are there any positive rights?”
• Scott Wisor “From Sticks & Carrots to Rights Diagnostics: A New Approach to Human Rights
Violations”
• Ayesha Khan ““Let Them Burn”: A Study Of The Plight Of Distraught Riot Victims in India And
Why The Higher Judiciary Should Step In”
• Ujjwal K Singh “‘Hunger Fast,’ Resistance and Justice”
3:40-4 pm: Tea Break
4-5:30 pm: Panel 7
Democracy and Global Institutions
• Julian Culp “Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World”
• Anindya Sarkar “Making ‘Cosmoplitan Justice’ Work: Democracy and Social Justice”
• Santosh Kumar “New Institutions for Global Justice”
4-5:30 pm: Panel 8
State and Justice
• Ram Tiwari “The Retreat of a Just State: Social Notions and Access to Justice in Nepal”
• Reecha Das “Protecting Indian Local Communities and Traditional Knowledge: The need for
Stringent Domestic Policies and International dialogue on Access and Benefit Sharing”
• Rajesh Dev “Translating Justice and Institutionalising Democracy: An Analytic Exploration”
5:30-7 pm: Keynote
Prof. V. Sitaramam: “Who Needs the Poverty Line Anyway? A New Index for Deprivation sans Poverty
Line”
Day 3: April 27
9:30-11am: Panel 9
Climate Change and Justice
• Tim Hayward “Principles for just institutions on a crowded planet: ecological and socialist”
• Omar Dahbour “ECOSOVEREIGNTY: Reconciling Global Justice with Local Autonomy”
• Braja Sahoo “Rawls’ General Conceptions of Justice & Environmental Justice Struggles in
Odisha: A Study of Anti- POSCO Movement”
9:30-11am: Panel 10
Critique of the Global Political Economy
• Mursed Alam “Imperial Capital, Comprador Democracy and Subaltern Justice”
• Roopinder Oberoi “Escaping the Regulatory Grille – Understanding the Taxonomy of ‘Power’
and ‘Politics’ of Global Conglomerate”
• Qingxiu Bu “The Anatomy of Chinese Multinationals' Overseas Behavior: Human Rights
Perspectives”
11-11:20: Tea break
11:20-1 pm: Panel 11
Rights and Entitlements: Local and Global
• Rozy Kumari “Securing Right To Food along with Food Sovereignty: An Approach towards a
Hunger-Free World”
• Xie Si “Urban Direct Cash Transfer: A Comparative Study of India and China”
• Dillip Mallik “Ragpickers as Destiny’s Children: Understanding their Rights from a Capability
Perspective”
11:20-1 pm: Panel 12
Gender and Inequality
• Nidhi Sabharwal “Dalit Women Rights and Citizenship: At the Cross-Roads of Gender &
Caste”
• Lisa L. Fuller “Is Gender Oppression the Root of Global Economic Inequality?”
• Bijayalaxmi Nanda “Sex-selective Abortion and Gender Justice: A Global Perspective”
• Sarah-Louise Johnson “Commercial Surrogacy: Comparing Indian and American Practices”
1-2 pm: Lunch in conference dining hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 13
Cosmopolitan Interrogations
• Chandrachur Singh “Green Cosmopolitanism: Bringing Gandhi In”
• P K Datta “Cosmopolitanising Rural Margins: The Practices of Viswa Bharati’s Sriniketan”
• Fonna Forman & Teddy Cruz “Medellin is the Future: The Architecture of Civic Freedom”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 14
Illicit Financial Flows & Corruption
• Cristian Dimitriu “What is wrong with the current international financial system?”
• Tsepho H Mongalo “Possible Contribution of Corporate Law Remedies to Curbing Illicit
Outflows of Capital from Africa”
• Pawan Kumar “Challenges of Corruption and Indian Democracy”
3:40-4 pm: Tea break
4-5:30 pm: Valedictory address and closing comments from organizers
The Department of Political Science in partnership with the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi, the Macmillan Global Justice Program, Yale University & Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham will host the conference. The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Council’s UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership Programme, which made international travel for this conference possible.
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