The Philosophy of Hate Crime Symposium
25 september 2011 | In academia Hate Crime Moral philosophy politics Self-indulgence | Comments?Tomorrow it starts: the Philosophy of Hate Crime Symposium, the 2nd in a series of symposia in the When Law and Hate Collide project. The Symposium, as far as I know, is the first to concentrate on philosophical aspects of Hate Crime and Hate Crime Legislation. (There has been a Law and Philosophy special issue, however, on Hate Crime Legislation back in 2001).
It is also quite unique insofar as, amazingly, I’m hosting it.
It is a symposium about hate. As a counter-weight to that other, more famous, 2400 year old symposium.
Here’s the schedule. As you can see, it’s all very interesting stuff
Monday 26/9
Introduction: How Law and Hate Collide
Mark Cutter, University of Central Lancashire and Christian Munthe, University of Gothenburg
Moving Beyond “Hate” Crime
Barbara Perry, Department of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
How hate hurts. The moral philosophical basis of ‘hate crime’ laws
Paul Iganski, Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University
Targeting Vulnerability: A Fresh Set of Challenges for Hate Crime Scholarship and Policy?
Neil Chakraborti, Department of Criminology, University of Leicester
The OSCE and its Work on Hate Crime
Joanna Perry OSCE
Panel Discussion
Tuesday 27/9
Criminalizing Hate, Criminalizing Character
Heidi Hurd, University of Illinois, College of Law
Hate as an Aggravating Factor in Sentencing
Mohamad Al Hakim, Department of Philosophy, York University
Two Kinds of Expressive Harm
Antti Kauppinen, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Philosophy of Hate Crime – a Conceptual Framework – Morality, Law and Public Policy
David Brax and Christian Munthe, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg
General Discussion
The symposium will be filmed and made available to the public as soon as possible. Watch the upcoming webpage: www.h8crime.eu