Sophia Symposium on The Right to Move?
Debating the Ethics of Global Migration
December 12, 2009 - December 13, 2009
Do people have a right to live where they want? This is one of the fundamental ethical dilemmas of a global society. Is there a fundamental "right to move?" Conversely, how do we justify limiting this right? And how do we conceptualize the ethics of migration generally? Crossing disciplinary boundaries and the border between academia and public life, this conference brings together philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, legal scholars, and policy makers. This will be a two day event with paper presentations and Q/A on the first day and an open-ended roundtable discussion on the second day.
This symposium is organized and sponsored by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Short essays from the symposium will be published online in a special issue of Policy Innovations, an online journal of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Language: English (no translation available)
No registration required
The abstracts of the papers and bios of the speakers can be found at Policy Innovations web site:
http://www.policyinnovations.org/calendar/data/000053
Contact:
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
Director: James Farrer
7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, JAPAN
TEL: +81-(0)3-3238-4082
FAX: +81-(0)3-3238-4081
Email: diricc@sophia.ac.jp
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
170 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065-7478
Phone: +1-(212)-838-4120
Fax: +1-(212)-752-2432
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★December 12 (Sat) Panel Sessions
◆Welcome and Opening Address 9:15 am -
◇James Farrer, Director, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
Welcome
◇Linda Grove, Vice President for International Exchange, Sophia University
Opening Address
◆Morning Session 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Chaired by Midori Okabe, Sophia University
◇Devin Stewart, Director, Global Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Reconciling an Ethical Immigration Policy with the Myth of the Nation-State
◇Mark Raper, President, Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania
Precarious Lives: Involuntary displacement of people in Asia-Pacific today
◇Mathias Risse, Associate Professor, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
The Capabilities Approach and Collective Ownership of the Earth: An approach to the ethics of immigration
◇Hiroshi Kimizuka, Deputy Director, General Affairs Division, Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice
Japanese Immigration Control Policy and Administration
◆Early Afternoon Session 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Chaired by Koichi Nakano, Sophia University
◇Midori Okabe, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University
Managed Migration, Managed Rights?: A comparative study of the European Union and Japan
◇John Haffner, Author, Japan's Open Future
Immigration, Openness and Renewal: A new direction for Japan
◇Gracia Liu-Farrer, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Doing Wrong or Not: The case of undocumented Chinese migrants in Japan
◇Kosaku Yoshino, Professor, Department of Sociology, Sophia University
The Englishization of Higher Education in Asia and the Migratory Flows of International Students
◆Late Afternoon Session 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Chaired by David Wank, Sophia University
◇Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute
Linking Ethics and Self-Interest in Human Mobility
◇Akihiro Asakawa, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Is "Borderless-ization" Happy?: The ethical justification of proper management of international migration
◇Florian Coulmas, Director, Deutsches Institut fur Japanstudien
The Ethics of Language Choice
◇James Farrer, Director, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
Cosmopolitanism as Virtue: Towards an ethics of global city life
End of day one
★December 13 (Sun) Workshop Roundtable Session
◆Roundtable discussion 10:00-12:30
The workshop is open to the public. We will have a full morning of discussion of the issues brought up in the papers, as well as the issues brought up by audience members following each session. There will be no fixed order of discussion, but an actual roundtable with the authors seated at the table, and any audience members invited to sit in adjacent seating.
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