Presentations and major conference participation
2011
MAJOR CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION
Don Carrick
'Creating Good Soldiers', Euro-ISME Inaugural conference
(Co-sponsors French Military Academy, St-Cyr; UK defence Adacemy
Shrivenham; MEEN, University of Hull), Ecole Militaire, Paris,
16-17 June 2011
James Connelly
'MacIntyre as Critic and Educator' (Invited plenary speaker),
Virtues in Context: Military Virtues and Environmental
Virtues, International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, 5th
Annual Conference, Providence College, 28 - 31 July 2011
'Teaching Military Ethics: Themes, Theory and Practice',
Euro-ISME Inaugural conference (Co-sponsors French Military
Academy, St-Cyr; UK defence Adacemy Shrivenham; MEEN, University of
Hull), Ecole Militaire, Paris, 16-17 June 2011
'EU Environmental NGOs and Leadership on Climate Change',
European Climate Foundation, Brussells, 27 May 2011 (with Rudi
Wurzel)
'On the Notion of Collective Virtue', CASEP Conference, London,
3 June 2011
'History, Metaphysics and Theology: R.G. Collingwood and C.N.
Cochrane on ideas and civilization', IHR, London March 2011; PSA,
April 2011
Suzanne Uniacke
'The Ethics of Retaliation' (invited plenary lecture), National
Swedish Philosophy Conference, Gothenburg, 11 June
2011
PRESENTATIONS
2010
MAJOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Phil Bielby
'Ulysses Arrangements in Psychiatric Treatment: competence,
capacity and supported autonomy'. Given as an invited member of the
Autonomy and Mental Health Panel (other speakers included Dr
Lubomira Radiolska (Philosophy, Cambridge) and Dr Elizabeth Fistein
(Psychiatry, Cambridge)), Concepts of Health and Illness
Interdisciplinary Conference, UWE Bristol, 3 September
2010
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
'Moral Responsibility and Social Networking: The Megan Meier
Tragedy', Virtual Communication, Collaboration and
Conflict, University of Hull, 19-20 March 2010
'Hate on the Internet', Hate Versus Democracy on the
Internet, Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy, New
York, 25-26 March 2010
'Repairing Online Reputation', Third Annual Berkeley-GW
Privacy Law Scholars Conference, GWU, Washington DC, 2-4 June
2010
'Hate on the Internet', Internet, Politics, Policy, St
Anne's College and the Oxford Internet Institute, 16-17 September
2010
Joel Quirk
'Defining Slavery in All its Forms: Historical Inquiry as
Contemporary Instruction' Symposium: Considering the Parameters
of Slavery, Bellagio Conference Centre,
Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, 2010
'The State and Mobility in Africa', Theorising the State and
Mobility in Africa, Maputo (with Darshan Vigneswaran),
Mozambique, 2010
PRESENTATIONS
Phil Bielby and Tony Ward
'Experts and Rights' (paper co-authored and presented),
Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Hull, 13 April 2010
Phil Bielby
'"Self-Paternalism" and "Shared" Legal Capacity in Episodic
Mental Disorder', invited presentation at Vulnerability, Mental
Disorder and Paternalism seminar. (Other speakers included Dr
Lubomira Radiolska (Philosophy, Cambridge), Dr Elizabeth Fistein
(Psychiatry, Cambridge) and Dr Michael Dunn (ETHOX, Oxford)),
Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Cambridge, 10 June
2010
James Connelly
'Briefing in Military Ethics', Royal Marines, Portsmouth, 9 - 10
December 2010
'Issues in Military Ethics Training', French Air Force Academy,
9 November 2010
2009
MAJOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Phil Bielby
'Rethinking Ulysses Arrangements in Psychiatric Treatment',
Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2009 (mental
Health and Mental Capacity stream), De Montfort University,
Leicester, 7-9 April 2009
Also at the Society for Applied Philosophy Annual conference
2009, University of Leeds, 26-28 June 2009
Don Carrick
Paper on military medical ethics, Wellcome Trust, series of events
on the theme of War and Medicine, Wellcome Collection,
London, 15 January 2009
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
'Terrorism on the Internet', 'War on Terror' and Restrictions
on Free Speech, Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, 17-20
February 2009
'Multiculturalism in Liberal Democracies: The Bounds of
Intervention in Practices of Minority Cultures',
Europeanization, Welfare and Democracy, Copenhagen, 15-17
April 2009
'Responsibility and Ethics on the Internet', Second Annual
Berkeley-GW Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, 4-6
June 2009
'Net Responsibility in Democracies', Sixth Annual Conference
in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2-4
September 2009
'In Internet's Way: How terrorists use the internet, and what
can be done to counter their activities', Terror and the
Challenges to the Nation-State, Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais
e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 28-30 October 2009
Keynote Lecture: 'Moral Responsibility and Social Responsibility
on the Internet', Fourth International Conference on Applied
Ethics, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Japan, 12-16 November 2009
'Hateful Speech on the Internet', The Third Global Forum for
Combatting Anti-Semitism, Jerusalem, 16-18 December 2009
PRESENTATIONS
Phil Bielby and Tony Ward
'Experts and Rights' (paper co-authored and presented),
Experts, Authority and Law conference, University of Hull,
15 September 2009
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
'In Internet's Way: Terrorism, hate, child pornography and
crime-facilitating speech on the free highway', University of Hull,
19 October 2009
Paul Gilbert
'Aspects of National Identity', University of Rijeka, March
2009
Tom Kane and Xiudian Dai
'New Players, New Rules', 'Inside/Outside 60 Years of Chinese
Politics', a conference organised by the Hong Kong Political
Studies Association, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, 20-21 August 2009
John McMillan
'Legislating reproductive technologies and making sense of child
welfare', James Martin Seminar, University of Oxford, February
2009
'The neglect of political philosophy in the philosophy of
psychiatry', Rijeka Philosophy Seminar, University of Rijeka,
January 2009
Joel Quirk
'Ending Slavery in the Name of Civilization: The Lessons and
Legacies of Slavery and Abolition during eh Age of High
Imperialism', School of International Relations, University of St
Andrews, Scotland, 2009
'Rethinking Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery', Department of
Public Law, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2009
'Uncomfortable Silences and Imperial Horizons: Contemporary
Representations of the History and Legacies of Slavery', Department
of Political Science and International Studies, University of
Birmingham, UK, 2009
Suzanne Uniacke
'Proportionality and Self-Defence', presented at the
following:
IAE symposium (with Victor Tadros of Warwick University), 20 April
2009
Workshop on Proportionality in Morality and Law, (with John
Gardner, university of Oxford, and others), University of
Sheffield, 25 April, 2009
Workshop on Self-Defence (with Jeff McMahan, University of
Rutgers, and others), Stirling, July 2009.
Paper on Self-Defence and War, Leverhulme project, University of
Sheffield, June 2009.
Paper on Respect in Bioethics at a special conference in honour of
the work of Onora O'Neill, PBA, British Academy 25 - 27
September 2009
2008
INAUGURAL LECTURE Professor James Connelly
presented his Inaugural lecture on ‘A Tragic Sense of Politics’, at
the University of Hull , on 18 February 2008. The lecture was
held in the Middleton Hall and was followed by a wine
reception in the Artcafe in the Middleton Hall.
BRITISH ACADEMY SPECIALIST WORKSHOP ON PHILOSOPHY AND
PUBLIC POLICY
Members of the IAE participated in this important specialist
workshop, co-convened by Prof. Susan Mendus FBA ( York ), Prof.
David Archard ( Lancaster ) and Dr Suzanne Uniacke ( Hull ).
The workshop addressed critical questions about the appropriate
role of philosophy in the formulation and implementation of public
policy in areas such as health, law and politics.
Speakers included: Baroness Onora O'Neill PBA; Prof. Henry Shue (
Oxford ); Prof. Allen Buchanan (Duke); Prof. R.A. Duff FBA (
Stirling ); Prof. James Connelly ( Hull ); and Dr John Tasioulas (
Oxford ).
Date: Saturday 8 March 2008
British Academy ,
10 Carlton House
Terrace, London SW1Y
5AH
MAJOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Don Carrick
Paper on military ethics education, Moral Strength, St Cyr
Military Academy, 18-20 June 2008
Co-organised and contributed to workshop/conference, To whom
does a military officer owe a moral responsibility?, UK
Defence Academy, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, 10-12 December 2008
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
'In Internet's Way', Ethics and Evil in the Public Sphere,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 27 April - 1 May 2008
Tom Kane
'Lying Down With Dogs: The inadequacy of Machiavellianism as a
basis for US foreign policy', Second Glogal Conference on Evil,
Law and the State, Salzburg, 6 - 9 March 2008.
'Go Tell the Spartans', Reconsidering conflict, Terror and
Resolution, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 11-12
September 2008.
Suzanne Uniacke
Participation, as Editor of the Journal of Applied
Philosophy, in two special symposia on applied ethics.
American Philosophical Association (Eastern) Conference,
December 2008.
PRESENTATIONS
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
'Media Coverage of Terror', Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University, 15 April 2008.
Colin Tyler
'Tragedy and the Construction of International Society', University
of Genoa, Italy, 8 July 2008.
2007
MAJOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Phil Bielby
'Emotions, Decisional Competence and Legal Capacity',
Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2007 (Mental
Health and Mental Capacity stream), University of Kent, 3
April 2007
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
'Ethics and Combatting Climate Change', 4th Annual
Conference on War, Virtual War and Human Security,
Budapest, 2 - 5 May 2007.
James Connelly
‘Knowing the Difference: Collingwood’s refutation of
realism.’ Collingwood and Twentieth Century
Philosophy, Université de Montreal, 18 - 21
October 2007. Applied Philosophy as Common
Ground, Princeton, 13 and 14 October 2007.
Applied Philosophy as Common Ground,
Rapahel Cohen-Almagor
‘Liberalism, Culture and Diversity’, Opening address,
Conference on Ethical Liberalism in Contemporary Society,
Slubice, Poland, July 2007.
‘The Media, the Internet and Terrorism’, Herzliya, 2007
Tom Kane
‘The Madness of Coalitions’, 4th Annual Conference on War,
Virtual War and Human Security, Budapest, 2 - 5 May, 2007.
John McMillan
'Character Development, Responsibility and Psychopathy', XXXth
International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Padova,
Italy, June 2007.
Luca Malatesti
'Psychiatric Classifications, Levels of Explanation and
Psychopathy', XXXth International Congress on Law and Mental
Health, Padova, Italy, June 2007
Colin Tyler
'Peaking behind "the Wider Screen": Locating Galbraith's
presuppositions regarding history and critical political economy',
British International Studies Conference, University of
Cambridge, 18 December 2007.
Suzanne Uniacke
Applied Philosophy as Common Ground, Princeton, 13 and 14
October 2007.
Applied Philosophy as Common Ground,
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL In August 2007
Professor James Connelly travelled to a location just outside
Moscow to take part in a two week summer school on environmental
ethics arranged by the State University of Mordovia. This was
arranged as part of the developing links between the State
University of Moscow, the Russian Academy of Science and the
Institute of Applied Ethics at Hull . James was lecturing and
discussing the teaching of environmental ethics with university
teachers. The summer school was a great success, with a number of
international guest speakers and an intellectually lively group of
participants. Follow up meetings, workshops and conferences between
Hull are currently being planned.
PRESENTATIONS
Don Carrick
Co-organiser of, and commentator on, Ethics Training and
Development in the Military, Workshop 2, University of Hull,
24 and 25 May 2007.
Don Carrick chaired a debate on the question 'What is "the
good"?' at the 'Force for Good?' defence ethics conference, Joint
Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United
Kingdom, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, 29 and 30 November 2007.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
‘In Internet’s way’, Lancaster Law School, 2007.
‘Exploring Boundaries: Hate, Violence and Porno on the Internet’,
University of Hull, 2007.
'Euthanasia in the Netherlands and in Belgium: Law, Practice,
Pitfalls and Lessons', University of Pennsylvania Center for
Bioethics, 20 November 2007.
James Connelly
'"A Tricky Thing to Get to Know": The Politics of Tradition’,
Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association,
University of Bath, April 2007.
Paul Gilbert
'Humanitarian Intervention: International Morality or Global
Ideal?, The Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
conference on ALIENS AND NATIONS: Citizenship, Sovereignty and
Global Politics in the 21st Century,University of Keele,
19 and 21 April 2007.
Luca Malatesti
'Psychopathy and Moral Understanding', Institute of
Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Maudsley
Philosophy Group, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College,
London, April 2007.
Colin Tyler
‘Power and the Need to Censor One’s Self’, Morrell Centre for
Toleration Conference on Censorship and Self-Censorship,
University of York, 20 September 2007.
‘Contextualism and the logic of one’s commitments’, Annual
Conference of the Political Studies Association, University of
Bath, April 2007.
‘The limitations of Brian Barry’s social democratic critique of
multiculturalism’, Workshop: Multiculturalism and Moral
Conflict, Centre for the History of Political Thought,
University of Durham, March 2007.
2006
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION
Paul Gilbert
'International Morality and Global Ideals' (invited
paper) 2nd Serbian Philosophical Society
International Law and Ethics Conference Series -
'Terrorism:Moral,Legal and Political issues', Belgrade, June 23-25,
2006 .
'The Justification and Limits of Humanitarian Intervention',
1st Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral and Legal
Philosophy, Kfar Blum, Israel, June 15-18, 2006.
Luca Malatesti
'Moral Emotions and the Psychopath', AAPP International
Conference, Toronto, May 2006.
Søren Overgaard
'What, if Anything, Can Psychopathology Learn from Phenomenology
(and vice versa)?' 1st Conference for Applied
Phenomenology, University of Tokyo, Japan, 13 November,
2006.
'Living for the Other? Levinas’ Ethics and the Possibility of
Leading a Good Life'. My ‘Place in the Sun’: Levinas Today,
University of Queensland, Australia, 30 June - 1 July,
2006.
Suzanne Uniacke
Suzanne Uniacke convened a panel at the annual conference of the
American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) in March
2006. The Panel discussed the question: 'What Can Philosophy Say
About Public Policy?'
PRESENTATIONS
Don Carrick
Co-organiser of, and commentator on, Ethics Training and
Development in the Military, Workshop 1, University of
Hull, 22 and 23 June 2006.
Luca Malatesti
'The Moral Responsibility of the Psychopath', University of Rijeka,
Croatia, March 2006.
'Emotions and Moral Knowledge in the Psychopath', University of
Siena, Italy, February 2006.
Diane Pitt
'Why Medical Diagnostics Needs a Clinical Imagination', W.
Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, July 2006.
Tony Ward
'English Law's Epistemology of Expert Testimony'. Society
of Legal Scholars, Keele University, 4-7 Sept 2006.
'Resisting Irresistible Impulses in 1924' (invited paper). Workshop
on 'Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility', University of
Edinburgh, 8-9 March 2006.