Procreative Responsibility and Population Size

Thursday 25th of April 2013

09:30 welcome and coffee

Morning session. Chair: TBA

09.45 Individual Rights and Global Responsibilities: The Case of “Procreative Rights''

DANIEL WEINSTOCK

McGill University (Montreal, Canada)

(joint paper with: JURGEN DEWISPELAERE)

respondent: Philippe van Parijs (UCL)

11.15 Distributing the Cost of Demographic Change

ANDREW WILLIAMS

ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

respondent: Nicholas Vrousalis (Cambridge)

12.45 Lunch

Afternoon session. Chair: Speranta Dimitru, Universite de Paris, Descartes (Paris, France)

13.45 Inequality and Population Change

GUSTAF ARRHENIUS

Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)

respondent: Tim Meijers (UCL)

15.15 Short coffee break

16.30 The right to parent and duties to future generations

ANCA GHEAUS

University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)

respondent: Jurgen de Wispeleaere (McGill)

17.00 The limits of a Right to Reproduce

INGRID ROBEYNS

Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

respondent: Amandine Catala (UCL)

Friday 26th of April 2013

Morning session. Chair: Guillame Wunsch, UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

09.30 Intergenerational Justice in Practice: Measuring the Burden of the Old on the Young

PIETER VANHUYSSE

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy (Vienna, Austria)

respondent: Wim Van Lancker (UA, CSB)

11.00 Raising Children, Contributing to the Pension System and the German Constitutional Court

ANNE LENZE

Hochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)

respondent: Geoffrey Willems (UCL)

12.30 Lunch

Afternoon session. Chair: Adam Swift (Warwick)

13.30 Argentina`s Universal Child Allowance from the perspective of procreative responsibility.

CHRISTIAN FATAUROS

National University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Argentina)

respondent: Paula Gobbi (UCL)

15:00 Short coffee break

15.15 Utilitarian Population Ethics and Births Timing

GREGORY PONTHIERE

Ecole Normale Supérieure & Paris School of Econ. (Paris, France)

respondent: David de la Croix (UCL)

16.45 Do Procreators have Special Duties?

AXEL GOSSERIES

UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

(joint paper with: NICHOLAS VROUSALIS) (UK)

respondent: Inigo Gonzales (UCL)

18:15 Drinks and goodbye's