Day 1: 17 June, 2014
09:00-09:30 Registration at TEO-H6 6.303 Auditorium 3
09:30-10:00 Welcome Speeches from Kjersti Fjørtoft, Head of the Department of Philosophy, and from Tor Ivar Hanstad, Head of the Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice Research Group
10:00-12:00 Session 1 Global Justice
Chair: Melina Duarte
Deliberative Democracy at the Global level: The Participation of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities in the Amazon Region
Denise Vitale
The Doomed Aspiration of Pure Instrumentality: Global Administrative Law and Accountability
Danielle Rached
Governing the commons through deliberation? On the environmental promise of deliberative democracy
Øyvind Stokke
Gezi Park Protests in Turkey: A New Way of Participation at Local Level?
Ömer Çaha
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:15 Keynote lecture Carol C. Gould
The Sociality of Free Speech: The Case of Humor across Cultures
Chair: Annamari Vitikainen
14:15-14:30 Coffee Break
14:30-16:30 Session 2 Epistemic democracy
Chair: Michael Morreau
Deliberative Proceduralism: Thomas Christiano and the Intrinsic Value of Democratic Procedures
Pilvi Toppinen
An Epistemic Case for Deliberative Democracy
Chris Thompson
Can Epistocracy Save the Climate?
Trygve Lavik
Offensive Expressions: The Limits of Neutral Balancing Tests and the Need to Take Sides
Yossi Nehushtan
16:30-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-18:10 Session 3 Free Speech 1
Chair: Espen Gamlund
Norms of Civility: Hannah Arendt on Free Speech
Odin Lysaker
What Does Cultural Pluralism Require of Human Rights?
Claudio Corradetti
Religion as ‘the social bond of society’ – Suppressive and Ideological Consequences of a Seemingly Innocent Concept
Dennis Meyhoff Brink
18:10-19:10 Reception[1] and Exhibition of Religious Satire
Day 2: 18 June, 2014
9:00-11:00 Session 1 Democratic Deliberation
Chair: Jonas Jakobsen
Parliamentary Deliberation: An Absent Focus of Research in Democratic Theory
Jose Maria Rosales
Public Deliberation and Norms of Civility in an Era of ‘Raceless Racisms’: The Case of Norway in the aftermath of the Terror Attacks of 22/7 2011
Sindre Bangstad
Federalism, Democracy, and Public Deliberation
Jose Gomes Andre
Public Deliberation and Religious Pluralism: The Dilemma of Lebanese Consociational Democracy
Ari Tatian
11:00-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:30 Keynote lecture Andreas Føllesdal
Tracking Justice Democratically, or With International Human Rights Review – or Both?
Chair: Øyvind Stokke
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Session 2 Free Speech 2
Chair: Claudio Corradetti
A Hohfeldian Analysis of Language Rights
Manuel Toscano
Freedom of Expression and Offense: Deliberating in Contexts of Cultural Diversity
Kanchana Mahadevan
Harmful Speech and Self-Disclosure in the Case of the Danish Muhammad Cartoons The Diverging Implications of Enlightenment Liberalism and Romantic Liberalism
Gina Gustavsson
Public Reason and Citizenship Education
Andrée-Anne Cormier
15:30-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-17:40 Session 3 Public Reason
Chair: Kjersti Fjørtoft
Revisiting Harm, Humour and Humiliation
Krishna Menon
Pluralism , Public Justification, and Religious Reasons
Aurelia Bardon
Truth or Reasonableness?
Adam Etinson
Occupy Gezi Park: Legitimacy Crisis of Representative Democracy and Building a New Public Sphere
Ülker Yükselbaba
20:00 Conference dinner at Quality Hotel Saga[2]
Day 3: 19 June, 2014
9:00-11-00 Session 1 Free Speech 3
Chair: Christoph Laszlo
Blind Spots and Complementarity in Habermas and Rawls’ Models of Deliberative Democracy
Silje Aa. Langvatn
Mill’s Freedoms and the Margin of Appreciation
Hege C. Finholt
To See and Remain Silent Rethinking the Public Sphere and Formation of Public Sentiment
Mladjo Ivanovic
Between Fundamentalism and Relativism: Normative Aspects of Hanna Arendt’s Concept of Freedom of Speech
Pawel Murzicz
11:00-12:00 Lunch
12:00-13:30 Parallel Sessions
Session A room TEO-H6 4.213
Chair: Trygve Lavik
A Non-Authoritarian Religious State? Critical Reflections on Mauve Cooke’s Postsecularism
Jonas Jakobsen
A Critique of David Estlund’s Epistemic Proceduralism
Tomasz Jarymowicz
Joint Opportunities and Cultural Disadvantages
Annamari Vitikainen
Session B room TEO-H6 5.202
Chair: Silje Aa. Langvatn
Territorial Rights of Liberal Democratic States: Challenging the (Federal) States’ Right to Control the Movement of Persons Across Borders
Melina Duarte
In Favor of a “Politics of Suspicion”: A Modest Defense of a Moderate Political Realism
Tor Ivar Hanstad
Our Obligation to Aid Knowledge
Heine Alexander Holmen
13:30-13:40 Coffee Break
13:40-15:00 Keynote lecture Christian F. Rostbøll
A Non-Instrumental Justification of Democracy and Freedom of Expression
Chair: Claudio Corradetti
15:00 Final remarks from Kjersti Fjørtoft, Head of the Department of Philosophy, and from Tor Ivar Hanstad, Head of the Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice Research Group.