Climate change and vulnerability – 5th annual Just Climate Transitions Conference
This year’s Just Climate Transitions conference focuses on questions of vulnerability and justice in the context of climate change. As climate change accelerates it produces new vulnerable groups or heightens vulnerability for already disadvantaged groups. For example, heat waves are predicted to cause many deaths among the elderly and homeless, more extreme weather events will hit subsistence farmers especially hard and increase their precarity, and rising sea levels and desertification will displace whole communities. These scenarios raise questions about how such vulnerabilities can be assessed, alleviated, and prevented in a just manner. They also highlight the need to distribute the burdens of climate change fairly and question current power relations that produce inequalities and make minorities suffer disproportionally from climate change.
Program
Tuesday June 17th - Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee: House 6 – Room H02
12:00 Welcome
12:20 : Antonio Pio De Mattia: Discourse Ethics and Climate Justice: Reframing Vulnerability Through Communicative Rationality
13:20 10 min comfort break
13:30 Josep Recasens Subias: Conditional Compensation for Climate Disasters
14:30 15 min coffee break
14:45 Kathleen Wallace: Vulnerability and Climate Change: What do Care Ethics and Disability Studies Tell Us?
15:45 15 min coffee break
16:00 Meilin Lyu: Climate Change and the Vulnerability of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Greek Archaeological Sites
17:00 10 min comfort break
17:10 Vedran Obućina: Religion and Vulnerability within Environmental Ethics
Wednesday June 18th – Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee: House 6 – Room H01
9:30 Yvette Drissen: When Workers Are Left Behind: Epistemic Injustice in the Climate Transition
10:30 15 min comfort break
10:45 David Paaske: Climate Mitigation Harms and the Rights of Animals
11:45 Lunch break (Lunch at Ulf’s)
13:00 Zhyar Nasruddin, Friederike Rohde: Epistemic Infrastructures of Vulnerability: Attribution, Capacity, and the Epistemic Foundations of Climate Vulnerability
14:00 End of workshop
YERUN Research Mobility Award: Racism, sexism, fascism - What duties do citizens have to counter unjust attitudes and behaviours in everyday life?
Location: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebnitzsee, House 1, Room 2.31
Date: Friday June 20th
Program:
9:30 – 10:30 Ibrahim Orha: On Civic Relational Equality: Do Citizens Have Egalitarian Duties Against Discriminatory Attitudes, Actions, and Expressions?
15 min coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Felix Werfel: What duties do citizens have to counter unjust attitudes and behaviours in everyday life?
15 min coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Riley Lewicki: Trans as an International Cosmopolitan People Against Fascist Ultra Nationalism
LUNCH
14:30 – 15:30 Milo Poertzgen: Privileged Individuals’ Duties in Relation to Structural Injustice
15 min coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Samboyang Ceesay: On the duty to be anti-racist after Hanau
15 min coffee break
17:00 – 18:15 René Bünnagel: Rethinking Discrimination – The Danger of a Neutralized Conception
The workshop is kindly supported by a YERUN Research Mobility Award
