Equality in Intimate Life
Luke Brunning and Natasha McKeever
University Place 6.206 (hybrid)
Intimate life and politics are connected closely, and this workshop seeks to explore their interrelationships. We hope to build on two successful workshops held at MANCEPT over the previous two years.
Broadly, we hope to try to understand and/or ameliorate an aspect of intimate life as shaped by the state and other social institutions. In recent years, much work has charted the different forms intimate life can take, and argued for a greater acceptance of diverse sexual practices and experiments in living. Often, people will suggest that any form of intimate life is acceptable as long as people relate as equals. But the connections between the growing literature on political egalitarianism – understood in terms of resource or relation – and intimate life are underexplored and ripe for analysis.
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Wednesday 7th September
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11:00-12:30
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Registration
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-14:00
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Welcome Speech
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14:00-16:00
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Session 1
Daniel Koltonski ‘Three dimensions of equality within intimate relationships’
Costanza Porro ‘Moral equality, vulnerability, and the value of relationships’
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 1 (continued)
Rachael Fielding ‘Domestic Labour’
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17:45-19:00
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Wine Reception
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19:30
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Conference Dinner
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Thursday 8th September
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10:30-11:30
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Session 2
Katrien Schaubroeck ‘Friendship as a tool for equality’
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 2 (continued)
George Surtees ‘Testimonial injustice, friendship and epistemic partiality’
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 3
Anastasiia Babash: Equality in cyberlove and cybersex
Ruby Hornsby: To what extent does Human-Robot Interaction involve reciprocated love?
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 4
Hannah Bondurant ‘The ethics of unicorn hunting’
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Friday 9th September
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9:30-11:30
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Session 4
Zoltan Miklosi ‘How does relational equality matter?’ (Presentation delivered online)
Rosella de Bernardi ‘”A duty not to discriminate?” Egalitarian norms and dating practices’
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 4 (continued)
Esa Díaz-León ‘Monogamy as a sexual preference: on the duty to feel compersion’
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 5
Cameron McCulloch ‘Privacy, intimacy, and the state’
Mark Silcox ‘The ethics of intimacy and political interventionism’
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30
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End of Workshop
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