Call for Abstracts: Vulnerability and Intergenerational Justice Workshop

20 January 2025

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The workshop seeks to explore the role and significance of future generations’ vulnerability in intergenerational justice. The abstract submission deadline is January 20, 2025

We have space for two further speakers in the program. If you are interested in participating, please submit an anonymized abstract of around 1,000 words, along with an email including your name, title, and affiliation, to riccardo.spotorno@uni-hamburg.de. The format of this workshop is pre-read. Participants will give a brief presentation of their paper during a one-hour discussion session. We invite abstracts addressing topics including, but not limited to:

• What duties do states have to prevent or mitigate future generations’ vulnerability?
• How should relationships of vulnerability between temporally distant groups be conceptualized?
• Is future generations’ vulnerability relevant for long-termism?
• Does vulnerability to past policymakers raise specific relational concerns, and what duties might these concerns ground?
• Can there be value in future generations’ vulnerability, for example, as a reflection of enduring political institutions or shared history?
• Do future state officials have special responsibilities to address the vulnerability caused by their predecessors’ policies?
• Are democratic states especially responsible for future generations’ vulnerability because their citizens democratically authorize policies with long-term effects?
• How does the non-identity problem affect the vulnerability of future generations?
• Do current procreators have special responsibilities concerning future generations’ vulnerability, and if so, how should the state enforce these

Further details here

 Abstract Submission Deadline: January 20, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline: April 24, 2025
Workshop Date: May 09, 2025

For any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Riccardo Spotorno at riccardo.spotorno@uni-hamburg.de.