2nd Bucharest Conference in Analytical Political Theory
The 2nd edition of the Bucharest Conference in Analytical Political Theory, jointly organised by BCEPT and ICUB-SSS (Research Institute of the University of Bucharest – Social Sciences Division) was held between 9-10 June 2022. The topic of this year’s edition was Age, Ethics, and Public Policies, with Anca Gheaus (Central European University) and Axel Gosseries (Université catholique de Louvain) joining us as keynote speakers. The conference took place in a hybrid format, being held in-person at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work (Sos. Panduri 90-92), Room 103 and online via Zoom.
PROGRAM
DAY 1
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:20 Opening Address
Ioan Stanomir, ICUB Director
Alexandru Volacu, BCEPT Director
10:20 – 11:20 Keynote Address
Age Mobility
Axel Gosseries, UC Louvain
11:20 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel Session 1
Who should spend time with the elderly?
Charlie Richards, University of Oxford
Mill’s underexplored liberty limiting principle: age and maturity of faculties
Don Habibi, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Get Old or Die Trying: The Case for Freetirement
Manuel Valente, UC Louvain
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel Session 2
Age and Electoral Participation. A Proposal for the Expressive Enfranchisement of Children
Alexandru Volacu, University of Bucharest
Children Reshaping Democracy
Silene Gambino, University of Milan
Minimal voting age and the principle of universal suffrage
Sergei Sazonov, University of Tartu
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Panel Session 3
Surrogacy and Commodification
Willa Saadat, King’s College London
More Asymmetries for the Asymmetry Argument
Katerina Psaroudaki, University of Cyprus
Is creating saviour siblings permissible?
Elizabeth Finneron-Burns & Caleb Althorpe, Western University (Canada)
DAY 2
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote Address
Inheritance in unjust circumstances
Anca Gheaus, Central European University
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel session 4
Historical Redress and the Subsequent Wrong Argument
Lukas op de Beke, Helsinki University
Inheritance ethics and refugees
Adelin Dumitru, University of Bucharest
Death and Taxes: Social Inheritance and the Occupancy of Wealth
Ryan Born, University of Texas at Austin
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel session 5
Parents as Voters
Attila Mraz, Sciences Po & ELTE Institute of Philosophy
Voting Age, Epistocracy and the Demographic Objection
William Chan, University of Manchester
The right to candidacy and age-based restrictions
Vlad Terteleac, SNSPA Bucharest
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Panel session 6
Nepotism, Equal Opportunity and Impartial Partiality
Pascal Mowla, University of Oxford
The limits of the right of parents to educational choice
Fernando de los Santos Menéndez, Autonomous University of Madrid
The Best Available Parent and The Optimific Search Clinic
Jordan Walters, McGill University
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PREVIOUS EDITIONS
The first edition of the Bucharest Conference in Analytical Political Theory took place at the University of Bucharest between 13-15 June 2019 on the topic “Thresholds in Justice. Sufficientarianism and Limitarianism Revisited”. The two keynote speakers were Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University) & Liam Shields (University of Manchester). The full program is available here: BCAPT 2019 Program.