Program online: 2017 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy & Poverty on Human Dignity

The program of the 2017 Salzburg Workshop in Philosophy & Poverty on the topic of Poverty and Humand Dignity is now online!

The workshop will take place at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg on 1 and June 2017. Draft papers will be shared among all participants in advance.


Guests welcome but please register via e-mail until 15 May 2017 at gottfried.schweiger[a]sbg.ac.at.

More info here: http://www.workshop-poverty-philosophy.org/

Thursday, 1 June 2017, 10.00- 17:45

• H.P.P. [Hennie] Lötter (University of Johannesburg): Poverty and Human Dignity
• Christian Neuhäuser (Technical University Dortmund): Poverty, dignity and self-respect
• Alfred Archer, Bart Engelen & Alan Thomas (University of Tilburg): Shame, Well-Being and Inequality
• Hanna-Maria Niemi (University of Eastern Finland): Right against Poverty: Can the notion of human dignity help us define socio-economic rights?
• Daniel Putnam (Princeton University): Poverty as a Social Relation

Friday, 2 June 2017, 09.30- 15:45

• Rocio Lorca (University of Chile): The meanings of punishing the poor: from injustice to hostility
• Cristian Dimitriu (Forschungskolleg Frankfurt): The irrelevance of poverty for the morality of the lending system
• Zlata Bozac & Viktor Ivankovic (Central European University, Budapest): Should We Nudge Charitable Giving? The Nudge Ethos
• Anandita Mukherji (Boston University): Depriving Capabilities: Global Poverty Alleviation as a Duty Not to Harm