Globalisation and Global Justice

Theme: Globalisation and Global Justice
Type: 52nd Annual Conference
Institution: Societas Ethica
Location: Linköping (Sweden)
Date: 20.–23.8.2015

We live in an age of globalisation, meaning that we are in various ways linked to distant people. Globalisation poses new challenges for ethics. The impact of our collective actions, in the form of consumption, production, banking, travelling, etc. transcends national borders and this means that the scope of our moral responsibility is becoming broader. The climate crisis, the financial crisis, the food crisis and the Ebola crisis are evidences of our
global interdependence and of the vulnerability of and within the present world order. Business, politics and health care services are increasingly globalised, but does that also apply to ethics? Is there a need for a global ethics? What are the roles of churches and world religions in a globalised world, and what are the implications for ecumenism?

One aspect of globalisation is that national sovereignty is hollowing and the states are losing control. Important economic and political decisions shaping the future of societies are taken less and less at a domestic level and more and more at a global level within global institutions and corporations. Since economic globalisation affects how wealth and power is globally distributed, it has become indispensable to discuss social ethics in a global context and to develop principles of global justice. Cosmopolitanism is challenging
nationalism but what does that entail?

Through different parallel sessions Societas Ethica will address the major moral questions regarding globalization and global justice. These sessions will focus on:

- Global ethics, global values, natural law and universalism
- Global justice; distributive and historical, and international aid
- The ethics of the global economy; financial market, fair trade and corporate responsibility
- Ethical challenges of the globalisation of social media and of information and communication technology
- Migration and ethics
- Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and global governance
- Open channel (for PhD?students)

Keynote speakers

Professor Jan Aart Scholte
University of Warwick and University of Gothenburg

Professor Kok Chor Tan
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania

Dr Lea Ypi
Associate Professor in Political Theory at London School of Economics

William Schweiker
Professor of Theological Ethics University of Chicago

The conference will also include panels on European and Asian perspectives on global ethics, global rectificatory justice and Ethics and Migration.