Programme
The Future of Practical Ethics
The Biennial Conference of IDEA, The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
Maurice Keyworth Building
Monday 8th – Wednesday 10th September 2025
Note: timetable subject to change
Monday 8th September
1130 - 1300: Registration (Maurice Keyworth Foyer) & Lunch (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1300: Brief Welcome from Simon Kirchin, followed by our first Keynote - Helen Frowe - (Lecture Theatre G.02)
1430 - 1530: Choice of 3 parallel workshops
Workshop 1 - Seminar Room 1.03
1430: Affective Rights to the City - Pilar Lopez-Cantaro
1500: We Have the Power! A Relational View on Modifying Communicative Duties - Kasim Khorasanee
Workshop 2 - Seminar Room 1.04
1430: Moral Collectivism and the Methodology of Ethical Theory - Niels de Haan
1500: Agent-Regret, Moral Luck, and Moral Cognisance - Sam Summerfield
Workshop 3 - Seminar Room 1.05
1430: Epistemic Insight and Injury: Soldiers' Grey Zone - Sarah Hitchen
1500: Torturous Defence - Gerald Lang
1530 - 1615 Tea & Coffee Break (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1615 - 1745: Choice of 3 parallel workshops
Workshop 1 - Seminar Room 1.03
1615: Free Slot
1645: ‘Immersion in the adventure of living’: Narrative and the future of teaching practical ethics- Grace Lockrobin
1715: Metaphysical Injustice: People Who Stammer Cannot Teach- Dannish Kashmiri
Workshop 2 - Seminar Room 1.04
1615: Free Session
1645: Access to citizenship beyond sedentariness - Anna Milioni
1715: Epistemic Injustice and Social Imagination - Somreeta Paul
Workshop 3 - Seminar Room 1.05
1615: Multi-Agent Simulation of AI Hybrid Ethics... - Krzysztof Sołoducha
1645: Can We Trust Transparent AI? - Jack Madock (presenting online)
1715: Voice donors of synthetic voices are facing moral harm... - Matilde Nanni
1745 - 1830: Break & Wine Reception (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1830: Conference Dinner at The Woodhouse Room, University House (for those that have booked)
Tuesday 9th September
0830 - 0920: Coffee, pastries and networking (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
0930 - 1100: Choice of 3 parallel workshops
Workshop 1 - Seminar Room 1.03
0930: Adultery, Open Marriage and Autonomy - Mark Piper
1000: AI and Opacity Respect - Carl Fox
1030: A respect-based approach to vulnerability - Stefano Pinzan
Workshop 2 - Seminar Room 1.04
0930: A Case Study of Teaching Medical Ethics to Law Students - Emma Topham
1000: Periviability and Parental Decision Making - Teresa Baron
1030: Pregnancy, Corporations and Reproductive Rights - Megan Rawson
Workshop 3 - Seminar Room 1.05
0930: On the Foundations and Scope of Moral Standing - Vikas Beniwal
1000: A Kantian Argument for the Balance of Power - Tom Bailey
1030: Deception, Privacy and Self-defence - Benedict Rumbold and Kasim Khorasanee
1100 - 1130: Morning refreshments (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1130 - 1300: Keynote 2 - Clare Chambers (Lecture Theatre G.02)
1300 - 1415: Lunch (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1415 - 1515: Choice of 3 parallel workshops / papers
Workshop 1 - Seminar Room 1.03
1415: Friendship, Loneliness, and the Ethics of AI Companions - Gabi Arriagada Bruneau & Abel Wajnerman
1445: Engineering Responsibility in the age of AI - Fabio Tollon and Enrico Galvagni
Workshop 2 - Seminar Room 1.04
1415: In Harm's Way - Conscription and Fairness - Tim Taylor
1445: On Nuclearism: The Temptations and Unfulfilled Promises of a Timeless Fear. - Riccardo Valenti
Workshop 3 - Seminar Room 1.05
1415: Against Rewilding - Joshua Jarvis-Campbell
1445: Three Views of Animal Disability: Aristotelian, Wabi Sabi, and Oliver Sacks - Jennifer Mundale
1515 - 1600: Tea & Coffee Break (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1600 - 1730: Discussion Panel on AI with Andy Kirton, Paula Satne, Kevin MacNish and Mick Yates (Lecture Theatre G.02)
1730 - 1800: Break (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1800: Drink/walk into town
1900: Trinity shopping centre food court
Wednesday 10th September
0800 - 0850: Coffee, pastries and networking (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
0915 - 1045: Keynote 3 - Elselijn Kingma (Lecture Theatre G.02)
1045 - 1145: Choice of 3 parallel workshops
Workshop 1 - Seminar Room 1.03
1045: Infertility, Genetic Parenthood and Assisted Procreation - Giulia Cavaliere
1115 : Body-Identity Dysphoria surgery can be in the best interests of BID patients- Matthew Williams
Workshop 2 - Seminar Room 1.04
1045: Transhumanism Amidst Capitalism: How Framing Biotechnologies as “Consumer Choice” Evades the Moral Question - Maria Kenney
1115: free session
Workshop 3 - Seminar Room 1.05
1045: Searching for New Final Values and Addressing the Existential Crisis: Implications for the Future of Practical Philosophy - Yury Tikhonravov
1115: IDEA session
1115 - 1145 Morning coffee (Rooms 1.31-1.33)
1145: End of conference
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