Why Should We Care? An Undergraduate Ethics and Political Philosophy Conference
March 1st, 2024, 10h00 – 16h00
University of Pardubice, EB Building (See attached map).
(Sessions) Room E2; (Breaks) Room 01019
Online Attendance: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89265998670?pwd=Ek0tMo49iA1Rcqaq03Bas4JKhnm0kF.1
Conference Schedule
9h45 — Coffee and Registration
10h00 — Welcome Address from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (UPCE) and the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value
10h10 — Keynote Lecture: Matej Cibik "Spread of Conspiracy Theories"
10h50 — Panel 1: Life, Death, and Animality
· Tansu Yeşilkır (University: Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Charles University) “Animal Ethics, Laws, and Justice for Animals”
· Jakub Kast Novák (Charles University) “Suicide: Why Not?”
· Inna Vadymivna Zahrebelna (Ukrainian State University, Mykhailo Drahomanov) “Human Obligation to Society and the Positive Consequences of their Implementation”
· Filip Halečka (Charles University) “Evolutionary grounded ethics and self-coaching”
12h00 — Lunch
13h00 — Panel 2: Public Discourse and Political Culture
· Kateryna Klimok (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) “Normalization of War”
· Mauricio Samuel Isrrade Huicochea (Charles University) “A Case for the Ethics of Corruption”
· Zlata Pelykh (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) “Emotional manipulation in political discourse: a balancing act of ethics and persuasion”
· Liubomyr Vovnianko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) “The political environment as a myth-making space that influences human behavior: its origin and effects”
14h10 — Coffee
14h20 — Panel 3: Feminism and the Care Ethics Tradition
· Ellen Breen (University of Edinburgh) “A care ethic approach to nation healing in radical political environments”
· Pelahiia Antonivna Kurbanova (Ukrainian State University, Mykhailo Drahomanov) “A Model of a Female Behavior in Feminism and Its Impact on the Modern Ethics”
· Emmi Wilkinson (University of Edinburgh) “Care Ethics, Cottagecore and Tradwives: Is Care Ethics Successfully Feminist?”
15h20 — Keynote Lecture: Lesley Jamieson "Loving Well and Badly"
16h00 — Conference Closing, Sharing Final Reflections
*Those who are interested are welcome to join for an informal social after the conference closing at Plzeňka (Smilova 386, Pardubice I).
Organizing Committee: Laura Candiotto, Antony Fredriksson, Lesley Jamieson, Olena Kushyna
Queries can be directed to: LesleyPaige.Jamieson@upce.cz