Conference Announcement: Punishment at Newcastle
- ‘Punishment’ conference
Research Beehive, Old Library Building, University of Newcastle
Friday and Saturday, 2nd-3rd December 2005
Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/punishment/index.htm
OVERVIEW
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This conference aims to bring together some of the leading philosophers with new scholars to discuss and debate issues in the philosophy of punishment from across a number of approaches. Papers will be published in a special issue of the new Journal of Moral Philosophy, published by Sage (website: http://mpj.sagepub.com) appearing in November 2006. The conference is supported by the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; the Newcastle Political Philosophy Group; and the University of Newcastle.
PROGRAMME
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Friday, 2nd December 2005 —- Beehive room 2.29 (9.30-17.00)
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1.00 – 1.30 Conference Registration
1.30 – 3.00 Michael Clark (University of Nottingham) “Retribution and Organic Unities”
3.00 – 3.30 Tea/coffee
3.30 – 5.00 Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield) “Punishment as State Denunciation of Crime”
5.00 – 5.30 Break
5.30 – 7.00 Matt Matravers (University of York) “Doing Retributive Justice in Conditions of Distributive Injustice”
Saturday, 3rd December 2005 —- Beehive room 2.29 (9.30-17.00)
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9.30 – 11.00 Richard L. Lippke (James Madison University) “Imprisonable Offenses”
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee/tea
11.30 – 1.00 Leo Zaibert (University of Wisconsin) “The Fitting, the Deserving, and the Beautiful”
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Geoffrey Scarre (University of Durham) “Punishment and Reputation”
Speakers will have 25-30 minutes to present. Commentators will then have about 10 minutes to offer comments, followed by a brief 2-3 minute right of response by speakers before opening the floor for 45 minutes of discussion.
Commentators include Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle), Antony Duff(University of Stirling), Gerhard Overland (University of Oslo), and Jens Timmermann (University of St Andrews).
REGISTRATION
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Want a registration form? Email me (t.brooks@ncl.ac.uk) and I can send you one as an attachment. Registration forms with payment must be sent by *15th November 2005* to:
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Dr Thom Brooks
Department of Politics
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
These forms also have information about accommodation. Delegates are recommended to select accommodation in Jesmond or City Centre areas, preferably along Osbourne Road.
*Papers to be delivered at the conference will be made available to all conference delegates prior to the meeting.*
DIRECTIONS
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The conference will take place on 2nd-3rd December 2005 (Friday-Saturday) at the University of Newcastle’s Research Beehive (located upstairs, first floor, in ‘the Old Library Building’). A map of the university can be found here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/navigator_large.php?x=9&y=2&w=4&h=4 The Old Library Building is towards the centre of the map south of Merz Court and Exhibition Park.
Directions to campus can be found here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/info/