PIPRPublic Issues and Public Reason

A Conference of Applied Ethicsand Critical Social Sciences.

CARLETON UNIVERSITY OTTAWANOV 9-10, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Charles W. MillsCity University of New York "Racial Justice"November 9, 2017102 Azrieli Theatre. 7:30 p.m.

The Public Issues and Public Reason conference (PIPR) is a multidisciplinary conference at which graduate students from a variety of programs and disciplines will present papersanalyzing current social and global challenges through the lenses of political theory,applied ethics, and critical social sciences.

Sponsored by Carleton University's Department of Ethics and Public Affairs (EPAF)

What When Where

Registration 12:00 – 1:00 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Opening Remarks 1:00 – 1:10 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Heather Poechman

“Paid Volunteers: An Examination of Bioethical Harms in Clinical Trial Participation” 1:10 – 1:50 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Matthew Palynchuk

“Disability and the Site of Justice” 1:50 – 2:30 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Refreshment Break 2:30 – 3:00 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Tiffany Gordon

“The Philosophical Implications of the Jian Ghomeshi Case” 3:00 – 3:40 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Brandon Wooldridge

“Applying Virtue Ethics to the Debate on Interrogational Torture” 3:40 – 4: 20 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Dinner 5:00 – 7:00 East India Company

210 Somerset Street West

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Charles Mills

“Racial Justice” 7:30 – 9:00 Azrieli Theatre 102

Reception 9:00 Azrieli Theatre 102

PIPR CONFERENCE SCHEDULEThursday, November 9, 2017

What When Where

Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Teddy Harrison

“Indigeneity, Impartiality, and Criminal Justice in Canada” 9:00 – 9:40 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Daniel Sherwin

“Responding to the Theoretical Challenge of Indigenous Resurgence: A Case for

Comparative Political Theory?”9:40 – 10:20 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Refreshment Break 10:20 – 10:40 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Anthony Miller

“The Rise of the Extreme Right: A Civic Republican Diagnosis and Solution” 10:40 – 11:20

Robert Holley

“Human Rights and Public Reason: Problems with Rawls’ Terms of International Cooperation”

Michael Luoma

“Exploring Public Order, National Identity, and National Public Culture in the Ethics of

Immigration” 11:20 – 12:00

Jared Houston

“Liberalism, Governmentality, and the ‘Primacy of Practice’”

LUNCH 12:00 – 1:00 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Bari Miller

“Is It Time to Rethink Charity? Developing Evidence-Based Policies for the Canadian Context” 1:10 – 1:50

Itai Bavli

“OxyContin Abuse: Ethical Issues Regarding Post-Market Regulation by Health Canada”

Danielle Talarico

“The Deliberative Ethical Dilemma” 1:50 – 2:30

Md Mujahedul Islam

“The Effects of Social Capital on the Individual’s Party Positioning”

Refreshment Break 2:30 – 2:50 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Dominic Pizzolitto

“Critical Theory of Society: Exploring the Methodology of the Frankfurt School” 2:50 – 3:30 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Janet Jones

“Acquiring New Epistemic Resources Through Imaginative Exercise: What Will it Take to Move

You Epistemically (If Not Socially)?”

3:30 – 4:10 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Safiyya Ahmad

“Ethical Concerns and Suggestions for International Adoptions” 4:10 – 4:50 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

Concluding Remarks 4:50 – 5:00 MacOdrum Library Rm. 482

PIPR CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday, November 10, 2017

Paterson Hall Rm. 246

Paterson Hall Rm 2A46

Paterson Hall Rm. 246

Paterson Hall Rm. 2A46

Paterson Hall Rm. 3A36

Paterson Hall Rm. 3A36

Paterson Hall Rm 2A46

Paterson Hall Rm. 2A46

Thursday, Nov 9102 Azrieli Theatre

7:30 p.m.Keynote SpeakerDr. Charles Mills

Thursday & Friday482 Discovery CentreMacOdrum Library 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

PIPR CONFERENCE LOCATIONS

Friday, Nov 10Paterson Hall

parallel sessions