(Please contact me if you would like to attend.)

September 28th and 29th at Fung House. 48 Professors Row, Tufts Campus, Medford MA

Thursday Sept. 28

5 pm “(Un)equal Respect and Agents of Justice”
Benedetta Giovanola, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy
Department of Political Science, Communication, and International Relations, University of Mascerata, Italy Commentator: Dennis Rasmussen, Associate Professor of Political Science

6:15 pm “The Nature and Design of Robust Institutions”
Speaker: Brian Epstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Commentator: Peter Levine, Lincoln-Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life

7:30 pm Dinner for all participants

Friday, Sept. 29th
9:00 am “Justice, Self-Sufficiency, and Commodious Living: Hobbes’ s Commercial Republic”
Speaker: loannis Evrigenis, Professor of Political Science Commentator: Vickie Sullivan, Professor of Political Science

10:15 am “Grounds for Coverage: Considering the Basis for Entitlements of Immigrants to Health Care”
Speaker: Keren Ladin, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine and Occupational Therapy
Commentator: Alecia McGregor, Assistant Professor of Community Health

11:30 am “We, the Mediated People: Unconventional Adaptation in post-Cold War South America”
Speaker: Joshua Braver, Jonathan M. Tisch Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science Commentator: Abiodun Williams, Director, The Institute for Global Leadership

12:30 pm . Lunch

Sponsored by the Tufts Department of Philosophy, the Department of Political Science, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life