University of Colorado at Boulder
Philosophy Department

Development and Human Rights in a Globalizing World*
Fall 2007 Morris Colloquium
October 5-6, 2007

Friday, October 5, 2007

Keynote Address
David Schweickart, Loyola University Chicago
“Global Poverty: Alternative Perspectives on What We Should Do—and Why”
5pm, Humanities 150

Reception
6:30pm, Humanities Room TBA

Saturday, October 6, 2007
All talks will be in Humanities 250

10:15 – 11:45 am
James Nickel, Arizona State University
“Relativism and Human Rights: Eight Responses to the Relativist”

1:45 – 3:15 pm
Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University
“Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference”
Commentator: Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado

3:30– 5:00 pm
Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina
"Globalization, Development, and War: Contemporary Reflections on Kant's Perpetual Peace"
Commentator: Abigail Gosselin, Regis University