HEALTH, MORTALITY, AND INEQUALITY
Symposium in memory of Professor Juha Sihvola
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/health-mortality-inequality/index.html
An international symposium organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with the Academy of Finland, the Philosophical Society of Finland, and the Argumenta Project, “Human Mortality”, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
Time: June 17-18, 2013
Venue: Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences and Letters), Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
Free admission. Welcome!
PROGRAMME
Monday 17 June 2013
12:45-13:15 Registration
13:15 Welcome, Professor Sami Pihlström, Director of HCAS
13:30 Keynote lecture
· Professor Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago): The Fear of Death: Incomplete Arguments and Questionable Consolations
15:00 Coffee
15:30-17:00 Session 1
· Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela (HCAS): Trading in Mercy: On the Global Law and Politics of Animal Sacrifice
· Jonathan Wolff (University College London): Social Policy and the Social Gradient in Health
· Sami Pihlström (HCAS): Does Death Make Us Equal?
17:30 Reception at Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences and Letters)
Tuesday 18 June 2013
10:00 Session 2
· Mikko Salmela (HCAS): Emotional Encounter with the Dying
· Pekka Sulkunen (HCAS): Who is well? A Critique of the Medicalisation Thesis
· Erika Kiss (Princeton University): The Problem of Sustainability as the Crisis of Liberal Education in the Global Digital Economy
11:30 lunch break
13:00 Session 3
· Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): Fear of Death and Fear of Cruelty: Judith Shklar's Liberalism Revisited
· Michael Puett (Harvard University): tba
· Ville Päivänsalo (University of Helsinki): Pluralist Collaboration for Health and Dignity
14:30 coffee
15:00 Session 4
· Nils Weidtmann (Tübingen University): Mortality and responsibility - some intercultural remarks
· Sara Heinämaa (HCAS): Phenomenological Insights into Death and Dying: Time, Selfhood and Gender
· Terhi Utriainen (University of Helsinki): Death, Dying and Vulnerability in the Culture of Re-enchantment?
16:30 Closing of the symposium
Further information: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/health-mortality-inequality/index.html