6th Annual Graduate and Early Career (Virtual) Reading Retreat
Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
11-12 May, 2021
Location: Zoom

Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2021

The Stockholm Centre is pleased to announce its 6th Annual Reading Retreat. We invite submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD). Papers should address philosophical issues relating to the ethics of war and peace, broadly construed. This includes, for example, papers on causation, responsibility, authority, partiality, scarcity of resources, collective action, punishment, and self-defence. At this time, the Stockholm Centre has a particular interest in papers on migration, refugees, and rights.

Each successful applicant will be allocated a faculty respondent, who will provide written comments on the paper and serve as a commentator at the retreat. In order to find the most suitable respondents, faculty will be invited after papers have been selected. Past respondents have included Helen Beebee, Yitzak Benbaji, Garret Cullity, Christopher Finlay, Helen Frowe, Adil Haque, Holly Lawford-Smith, Seth Lazar, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kieran Oberman, Massimo Renzo, David Rodin, and Laura Valentini.

Papers should be no longer than 8000 words, including notes, and prepared for blind review. Papers should not be under review prior to the retreat. Submissions from graduate students should include a letter from their department confirming their year of study. Submissions from early career researchers should include confirmation that they are within two years of receiving their PhD (e.g. letter from examiner or supervisor, or a copy of their PhD certificate). Submissions and enquiries should be sent to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

Helen Frowe and former postdoc Ben Matheson have edited on symposium in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the ethical indirect interventions. The symposium follows a workshop held in Stockholm, May 2019.

Helen and Ben can be found introducing the symposium on the justice everywhere blog, here.

SCEWP post-doc, William Bülow, has a new paper out on whether it is morally permissible to impose non-negligible risks of serious harm  on innocent civilians in order not to endanger tangible cultural heritage during armed conflict.

As with all papers at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, it is open access. Check it out here: http://jesp.org/index.php/jesp/article/view/1076

We are delighted to announce that Joseph Bowen has joined us as Postdoctoral Researcher. Joe has recently finished his PhD at the University of St Andrews and University of Stirling. He specialises in moral and political philosophy, focusing on the nature of rights, directed duties, and permissible harming. Find out more about Joe here.

…. in the Journal of Moral Philosophy! It features papers by Christian Barry (ANU), Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Virginia), Adil Ahmad Haque (Rutgers), Massimo Renzo (KCL), and Jeff McMahan (Oxford)!

SCEWP Director Helen Frowe’s paper, “If You’ll Be My Bodyguard: Agreements to Save and the Duty to Minimize Harm”, has just been published in the latest issue of Ethics.

…about the moral distinction between killing and letting die. Listen to her interview here.

SCEWP Director Helen Frowe’s new paper, “Lesser-Evil Justifications for Harming: Why We’Re Required to Turn the Trolley“, is out now in the The Philosophical Quarterly.

Helen Frowe has been awarded a five-year prolongation of her Wallenberg Academy Fellowship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over the next five years, she will develop an account of the ethics of foreign intervention. The project will explore the relationship between agent-relative prerogatives and duties to save, the permissibility of wars of intervention, and the ethics of indirect intervention, such as arming and training members of rebel groups. Information about events and vacancies will appear on the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace website.