Thursday 14 June

8:30-9:00	SVHUM E0101	Arrival, registration and coffee
9:00-9:30	SVHUM E0101	Welcome address from the interim Head of the Department of Philosophy Heine Holmen Introduction of the GMR project by Annamari Vitikainen and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
9:30-11:00	Session IA SVHUM E0101 Refugees and minority rights Chair: Jonas Jakobsen		Session IB SVHUM E0103 Conditions of acceptability of prioritizing refugees Chair: Magnus Skytterholm Egan	Session IC: SVHUM E0104 National identity, national paradigms and integration Chair: Kjersti Fjørtoft
	Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus & UiT) and Sune Lægaard (Roskilde): Refugees and minorities: Some conceptual issues		Max Gabriel Cherem (Kalamazoo): Background conditions of acceptability for prioritizing refugees	Benedetta Romano (LMU Munich): Are immigrants a threat to national identity?
	Alec Ross ((Edinburgh): Rethinking Acceptable Criteria for Accepting/Rejecting Refugees in a Non-Ideal World		Annamari Vitikainen (UiT): LGBT rights and refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admission	Eilidh Beaton (UPenn): Should ability to integrate influence refugee admissions policy?
	Zsolt Kristof Kapelner (CEU): Minority rights and democratic legitimacy in regulating refugee admission (Skype)		Bouke De Vries (Max Planck Institute): Admitting refugees: Is it permissible for states to prioritise liberal-minded refugees?	Constanza Vera-Larrucea (Stockholm): Who should protect and who should be protected? The European puzzle
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12:30	Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 David Miller (Oxford): Selecting Refugees Chair: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
12:30-13:30	Lunch in Teorifagskafeen (Teorifagbygg Hus 1)
13:30-15:00	Session IIA SVHUM E0101 Refugees and minority rights: Rights and moral approaches Chair: Sune Lægaard		Session IIB SVHUM E0103 Why prioritizing some refugees over others is wrong? Chair: Frank Abumere	Session IIC SVHUM E0104 Political and economic refugees Chair: Vegard Stensen
	Felix Bender (CEU): Just and unjust citeria for determining refugee status: The case for shifting from individual persecution to political oppression		Rami Gudovitch (Haifa): Refugees- Why Prioritizing is Wrong	Udith Bhatia (Oxford): The Global South and its Hermeneutical Duty to Asylum Seekers
	Tom Syring (HL-center): Refugee and Minority Protection between Legal and Moral Obligations		Gary Slater (St. Edwards University): From Sacer to Sanctus: Against Prioritizing Among Refugees	Fumio Iida (Kobe): Can liberal states treat political and economic refugees alike?
	Dario Mazzola (Milan): Towards a Refugee-Centered Approach to Distribution		Daniil Aronson (IFK): “A Right to Have Rights”: Political Measures to Make the Refugee Crisis Ethically Relevant	Andreas Bengtson (Aarhus): Closing Borders ‘Hypocritically’: Brain Drain, Speaker Position and Hypocrisy
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-16:30	Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh): Refugee Discrimination – The Good, the Bad and the Political Expedient Chair: Kerstin Reibold
16:30-16:45	Break
16:45-18:00	Keynote lecture SVHUM B1005 Sarah Fine (KCL): Refugees and the Limits of Political Philosophy Chair: Annamari Vitikainen
18:15	Group transport from UiT The Arctic University of Norway to the Tromsø Cable Car
19:00	Dinner at Fjellstua located at the destination of the Cable Car

Friday 15 June

9:00-10:30	Session IIIA SVHUM Room E0101 Refugee crisis: A critique of attributed causes and solutions Chair: Kerstin Reibold	Session IIIB SVHUM E0103 Distribution mechanisms and admission criteria Chair: Patti Lenard	Session IIIC SVHUM E0104 On duties towards displaced children Chair: Frank Abumere
	Viki Mladenova (SNS): Non-ideal human rights (Skype)	Mollie Gerver (Newcastle): QALYs and Selecting Refugees	Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg): Should we prioritize child refugees?
	Erna Bodström (Helsinki): Are we doing enough? Asylum assessment as symbolic gate-keeping	Johannes Servan (Bergen): ‘What justice requires’ – state-centric and cosmopolitan perspectives on priority criteria in resettlement policies.	Odin Lysaker (Agder): Childhoods Put on Hold: A Waiting Guarantee for Vulnerable Unaccompanied Minors’ Prolonged Displacement
	Mladjo Ivanovic (GVSU): Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking.		Arianne Shahvisi (BSMS): Existence precedes nascence: an argument for accepting greater numbers of refugees
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:00	Keynote lecture SVHUME0101 Serena Parekh (Northeastern): The Refugee Crisis Needs a New Frame: We are Not Rescuers Chair: Jonas Jakobsen
12:00-13:00	Lunch in Teorifagskafeen (Teorifagbygg Hus 1)
13:00-14:30	Session IVA SVHUM E0101 Structure of selective procedures Chair: Andreas Føllesdal	Session IVB SVHUM E0103 Distribution mechanisms and admission criteria: Climate and would-be displacees Chair: Trine Antonsen
	Patti Lenard (Ottawa): Private sponsorship of refugees: The pros and cons of permitting citizens to select refugees for admission and resettlement	Melina Duarte (UiT): Should high greenhouse gases emitting countries be required to resettle more climate displaced than low greenhouse gases emitting countries? (Skype)
	Amanda Cawston (Tilburg): Who Decides? An Argument for Democratic Selection Criteria for Refugees	Benedikt Buechel (Edinburgh): From the value of a territory to two principles for a fairer distribution of would-be immigrants in need.
	Matthew Lindauer (ANU): Domestic Justice and Refugee Prioritization	Bradley Hillier-Smith (Reading): Is it morally justifiable to give priority to refugees who are suffering as a result of severe human rights violations?
14:30-14:45	Break
14:45-16:00	Keynote lecture SVHUM E0101 Lea Ypi (LSE): Irregular migration, adverse possession and the justification of the right to exclude Chair: Christopher Thompson
16:00-16:15	Break
16:15-17:30	Keynote lecture SVHUM E0101 Phillip Cole (UWE): Climate Change and Global Displacement: Towards an Ethical Response? Chair: Andreas Føllesdal