Structural Injustice

The annual conference of NOMOS: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, on Structural Injustice, will be on September 27, 2024, 12:00-6:45 CT. It will be a hybrid event: an in-person conference hosted by University of Chicago's Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and Law School together with a Zoom meeting.

The in-person conference will occur at University of Chicago Law School, Room V, 1111 East 60th Street, Chicago.

Zoom meeting, 12:00-6:45 CT, https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91558958361?pwd=aFUr5w85DE1bS36MnVrP6PntAUaIGT.1

If you have difficulty joining the meeting, you may contact Cliff Chan at cliffchan@uchicago.edu. Initially, he will be setting up the event and may not be able to help you immediately. But once the program has begun, he will be able to help you connect.

Consent to Recording: The conference will be recorded. By joining the conference, you consent to being recorded while speaking.

Program

Editor Chiara Cordelli has invited the following excellent group of speakers:

Panel I (Law): 12:00-1:30 CDT

• Principal paper: Sophia Moreau (NYU), A Systemic Approach to Structural Injustices
• Political Science commentator: Catherine Lu (McGill University), Comment on Moreau
• Philosophy commentator: Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst College), The Wrong of Social Vulnerability: Comments on Moreau

Break: 1:30-2:00

Panel II (Political Science): 2:00-3:30 CDT

• Principal paper: Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins), Capitalism, Development, and the Politics of Structural Injustice
• Philosophy commentator: Carol Gould (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center), A Dialectical Approach to Structural Injustice
• Law commentator: Sabeel Rahman (Cornell University), Comment on Valdez

Break: 3:30-4:00

Panel III (Philosophy): 4:00-5:30 CDT

• Principal paper: Sally Haslanger (MIT), Social Structures as a Site for Injustice: Why Social Theory Matters
• Law commentator: Virginia Mantouvalou (University College London), Comment on Haslanger
• Political Science commentator: Alasia Nuti (University of York), Comment on Haslanger

Panel IV (Guest Student Scholar): 5:30-6:15 CDT

• Sonny Kim (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University/Nuffield College, University of Oxford), Two Kinds of Structural Injustice: Disentangling Unfreedom and Inequality

NOMOS Business Meeting, 6:15-6:45 CDT

All members of NOMOS (ASPLP) who attend the conference, whether in person or by Zoom, are encouraged to attend the annual business meeting, 6:15-6:45. The agenda will be distributed to all members by email shortly before the conference. 

Become a Member of NOMOS

If you are not already a member of NOMOS, we encourage you to join. All who become a member by October 1 will receive NOMOS LXVI: Civic Education in Polarized Times and, in 2025, NOMOS LXVII: Policing (the volumes growing out of our recent conferences). Only $50 per year for regular members and a mere $20 for graduate students and emeritus/a members. If you have trouble with the website, contact Micah Schwartzman at schwartzman@virginia.edu.

Sincerely,            

David Estlund, President

Micah Schwartzman, Secretary-Treasurer

Jennie Ikuta, Communications Director

Chiara Cordelli, Editor