UPCOMING EVENTS IN CANBERRA
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SEMINARS
The Centre presents a series of weekly seminars at the ANU in Canberra. In 2010, seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm, in the Arts Meeting Room (directly below CAPPE), Ground Floor, Haydon Allen Building (Building 022), The Australian National University.
Next Canberra Seminar:
Wednesday 17th of March: Christopher Wellman (CAPPE)
Title: The Rights-Forfeiture Theory of Punishment
Abstract
Punishment is notoriously difficult to justify because, by definition, it involves visiting hard treatment upon those who are punished. The rights-forfeiture theory of punishment contends that punishment is justified when and because the criminal has forfeited her right not to be subjected to this hard treatment. This view has very few advocates. In fact, because of a number of apparently devastating objections, this account is seldom even taken seriously by those who work on the morality of punishment. In this talk I aim to rehabilitate the rights-forfeiture account by offering responses to each of the standard criticisms.
Future Seminars in Canberra
Wednesday 24th of March: Ned Dobos (CAPPE)
Wednesday 21st of March: Gerhard Overland (Charles Sturt University/ CAPPE)
Wednesday 7th of April 7: Jane Stapleton (ANU, Law)
Wednesday 21st of April: Keith Dowding (ANU, Political Science)
Enquiries to Lina Eriksson: lina.eriksson@anu.edu.au