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 Sponsored by the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative Co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, the Provost's Fund, and the Institute for the Social Sciences The Cornell Conference on the Ethics of Globalization will be a site for mutual learning among social scientists and philosophers interested in the moral implications of globalization and the normative presuppositions of current ways of thinking about globalization and development. The globalization of trade, production and finance, the institutions that regulate it, the power structures that shape it and the poverty that accompanies it give rise to heated moral controversies, in which familiar values of democracy, equity, pluralism, autonomy and aid are brought to bear but are extremely hard to interpret and apply. The task of developing an adequate moral framework for responding to globalization and the challenge of global poverty requires a combination of empirically secure social inquiry and imaginative moral theory, which the conference seeks to advance through papers and extensive discussions on leading economic, cultural, political and environmental controversies. Conference Agenda Friday, September 29, 2006 12:00pm Lunch 1:15-3:15pm Opening Remarks: Biddy Martin (German Studies and Provost, Cornell University) Session I: International Justice and Global Climate Change Session Chair: Sidney Leibovich, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University Henry Shue, International Relations, Oxford University and Philosophy, Cornell University "Climate Change: Compounding Injustice and Globalizing Harm?" Download paper (.pdf) Richard Miller, Philosophy, Cornell University "Rising Temperatures and Declining Empire: The Morality and Politics of Greenhouse Gases" Download paper (.pdf) Break 3:30-5:30pm Session II: Globalization, Democracy and Domination Session Chair: Nicolas van de Walle, Government, Cornell University Barbara Lynch, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University "International Institutions and the Chixoy Dam Project: Erasing People in Place" Download draft (.pdf) Patrick Bond, Development Studies, University of KwaZulu/Natal "Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions" Download paper (.pdf) 5:30-6:30pm Reception: A.D. White House Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:45am Breakfast 9:15-11:00am Session III: Beyond Growth: Human Needs and Economic Development Session Chair: Michele Moody-Adams, Philosophy, Cornell University Lourdes Beneria, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University "Balancing Paid and Unpaid Work: North-South Differences" Download draft (.pdf) Rodrigo Pizarro, Terram Foundation, Santiago, Chile "The Ethics Behind Global Food Production: The Case of Salmon-Farming" Break 11:15-1:00pm Session IV: Global Economic Inequality Session Chair: Chair: Timothy Smeeding, Economics, Syracuse University Branko Milanovic, World Bank "Ethical and Economic Case for Global Transfers" Download paper (.pdf) Supplemental background paper Download (.pdf) Ravi Kanbur, Applied Economics and Management and Economics, Cornell University "Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Some Hard Questions" Download paper (.pdf) Lunch 2:15-4:00 Session V: Justice and the Structure of Global Power Session Chair: Matthew Evangelista, Government, Cornell University Charles Beitz, Politics, Princeton University "The Problem of Global Political Justice" Download precis (.pdf) Stephen Gill, Political Science, York University "The Global Felicific Calculus? Political Economy, Social Reproduction & Public Health as Ethical Dimensions of The Globalization Question" Download abstract (.pdf) Supplemental background paper Download background paper (.pdf) Break 4:15-6:00 Session VI: Toward Fairness in the Governance of Globalization Session Chair: Lowell Turner, International and Comparative Labor Relations, Cornell University Kaushik Basu, Economics, Cornell University "Globalization, Democracy, and the Rights of the Worker" Download paper (.pdf) Thomas Pogge, Political Science, Columbia University University "Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines" Supplemental background paper 1 Download (.pdf) Supplemental background paper 2 Download (.pdf) Pre-Conference e-Session: Graduate Students' Comments on Advance Material Jessica Bean (Economics, Cornell University) on Ravi Kanbur and Kaushik Basu Download (.pdf) Nathaniel Jezzi (Philosophy, Cornell University) on Barbara Lynch Download (.pdf) Daniel Koltonski (Philosophy, Cornell University) on Kaushik Basu Download (.pdf) Meena Krishnamurthy (Philosophy, Cornell University) and Vincent Baltazar (Philosophy, Cornell University) on Richard Miller and Henry Shue Download (.pdf) Stephen Nelson (Government, Cornell University) on Branko Milanovic Download (.pdf) Jeff Purcell (Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University) on Thomas Pogge Download (.pdf) Resources: No registration is required for the conference. 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