07/05/2026

SYMPOSIUM FACES OF VULNERABILITY

Justice, Human Rights, and Technologies

 

May 07 – May 09, 2026

Auditório Tércio Pacitti (UNIRIO)

Rio de Janeiro/Brazil

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* Register as an attendee: ebarbosa@ufpel.edu.br

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PROGRAM

THURSDAy, 7th

19:30 - Opening Meeting

 

FRIDAY, 8th

8:30 – Unemployment Insurance and Inflation: Does Instability Undermine Autonomy?

Ryan Doody (Brown University)

Moderator: Evandro Barbosa (UFPel)

9:30 – Vulnerability and the Relational Meaning of Life: Rethinking Lives with Profound Disabilities.

Marco A. Azevedo (CNPq / INCT-IAS PUCRS)

Moderator: Ryan Doody (Brown University)

10:30 - Coffee-Break

10:45 – Blame and Vulnerability in Mental Healthcare. (online)

Anneli Jefferson (Cardiff University) / Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham University)

Moderator: Marco A. Azevedo (CNPq / INCT-IAS PUCRS)

12:00 – Lunch (Terra Brasilis Restaurant)

14:15 – Vulnerability, Status, and Security in a Digital Future of Work.

Joshua Preiss (PPE – UNC at Chapel Hill)

Moderator: Lan Li (UNC Chapel Hill)

15:15 – Challenging Context and Vulnerability for Ideal Theories of Justice.

Evandro Barbosa (UFPel) / Thaís Alves Costa (Unochapecó)

Moderator: Simone Gubler (Brown University)

16:15 –Coffee-Break

16:30 – Vulnerabilities in adaptation: knowledge worker narratives of AI-induced job role transitions.

Lan Li (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)

Moderator: Joshua Preiss (PPE UNC Chapel Hill)

 

SATURDAY, 9th

10:00 – Heaven on Earth: Pensions and the Dream of a Well-Earned Rest.

Simone Gubler (Brown University)

Moderator: Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)

11:00 – Not by bread alone: the success of the poor man's son and the failure of utility and splenetic philosophy.

Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University) / Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)

Moderator: Thaís Alves Costa (Unochapecó)

12:00 –Coffee-Break

12:20 – Two ways to think about human rights.

Michael Buckley (Lehman College – CUNY)

Moderator: Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)

13:20 – Lunch

15:00 – Sightseeing tour (for those interested)

20:00 – Closing Meeting

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Organizing Committee:

Evandro Barbosa (UFPel)

Thais Alves Costa (Unochapecó)

Vânia Dutra Azeredo (UNIRIO)

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Hosted by:

Research Group Faces of Vulnerability (CNPq/MCTI Nº 10/2023)

Graduate Program in Philosophy – UFPel

Interinstitutional Master’s Program in Philosophy (PCI-Minter/UFPel–UNIRIO/CAPES)

Graduate Program in Law – Unochapecó

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Supported by:

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)