EPoS Summer Summit 2023

9.00  Welcome

9.15  Keynote – Rainer Bauböck
Part time professor in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute

Ethical Dilemmas in Migration Policy: How to study and how to address them?

The “Dilemmas” project proposes a new approach to the political theory of migration: the ethics of migration policy dilemmas. It identifies specific policy dilemmas of central relevance to policy makers and other stakeholders in the field, and then submitting these dilemmas to systematic theoretical analysis. We conceptualize policy dilemmas as involving hard choices between competing moral goals and distinguish this kind of dilemma from other types of ethical choices, such as conflicting means, dirty hands, political feasibility, and politics dilemmas. We argue that, besides enlarging the range of questions asked by political theorists of migration, our approach of engaging normatively with hard policy dilemmas can help mitigate the negative political and societal effects of reductionist political positions that seek to negate the existence of competing moral goals. We make the case for a multidisciplinary approach to the normative analysis of hard ethical dilemmas, transcending both explanatory and interpretive analyses in the spirit of an applied normative political theory that aims to be action guiding.

10.15  Coffee Break

10.45  Young Researchers Session

• Regine Öxl – Multiple Discrimination
• Claire Rimbaud – Avoiding your Conscience: Beliefs and Information Acquisition
• Milena Leybold und Monica Nadegger – Your very existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines: "Critiquing norms of contributorship on Instagram“
• Christian König – „Risk (mis)perception of structured financial products“

12.15  Research Spotlight 1

• Konstantinos Protopappas – "Innovation contest design with product and supplier diversity"

12.45  Research Spotlight 2

• Mike Peters – ETSM2030: Stimulating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises‘ Sustainability

13.15  Lunch

13.45  EPoS – the next steps