Who Pays for Socioeconomic Rights? The Politics of Financial and Moral Obligation

Workshop organized by Charles Walton, Paris IAS fellow, Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po), and Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po), with the support of Paris IAS, Centre d'Études européennes de Sciences Po, Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, The Leverhulme Trust and the Warwick University Global History & Culture Centre.

Presentation

This two-day workshop will explore the financial, moral and religious dimensions of socioeconomic rights in history. The question of ‘who pays’ for these rights and on what moral or religious basis will be the central focus of discussions.

Program

Thursday, 19 May
Institut d’Études avancées de Paris

9h30  Meet at IEA

9h45  Opening comments

10h  Julia Moses (University of Sheffield): Compensation as a Social Right

10h45  Alexandre Boza (Sciences Po): Defining social rights in the name of humanity: A New Deal for rights in the interwar period

11h30  Coffee Break

11h45  Romain Huret (EHESS): The same rights for singles? Unmarried people and tax policy in the United States

12h30  Keynote: Laurence Fontaine (CNRS-EHESS): Imaginer un monde sans pauvreté au siècle des Lumières

13h  Lunch

14h  Christian Christiansen (Aahus University): The rise of fall of social and economic rights in the works of Gunnar Myrdal

14h45  Simon Jackson (University of Birmingham): Performing Charity, Relieving Famine: the Syrian Mount Lebanon Ladies Relief Society of Boston and Humanitarian Philanthropy, 1915-26

15h30  Break

15h45  Valentine Zuber (École pratique des hautes études): The claim for economic and social rights in 19th century France: Political and religious convergences?

16h30  Alessandro Santagata (GSRL): Thinking the Commons. The Discussion about Private Property in the French Catholic Theology after Vatican II

Friday, 20 May
Sciences Po

9h45  Meet at Sciences Po

10h  Maguelone Nouvel-Kirschleger (University of Montpellier III): L’économie sociale leplaysienne, ou la loi morale comme substitut au(x) droit(s)

10h45  Alessandro Ferrari (University of Insubria): Religious freedom and market economy

11h30  Coffee Break

11h45  Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel (Sciences Po): Social Catholics in France in the 20th Century: From Duties to Rights?

12h30  Keynote: Olivier Zunz (University of Virginia): Tocqueville peut-il servir de guide pour comprendre la charité publique aux Etats-Unis, en Grande Bretagne et en France au milieu du XIXe siècle? 

13h  Lunch

14h  Michèle Grenot (ATD Quart Monde): Le droit d'être considéré comme un homme à part entière: un combat pour l'accès des plus pauvres aux droits civils et politiques pendant la Révolution française

14h45  Martin Lengwiler (University of Basel): Welfare through Taxation: Socio-political aspects of the Swiss tax system (19th/20th century)

15h30  Break

15h45  Edward Castleton (University of Franche-Comté): Who should pay the Leviathan? Taxation and French Anti-Statist Social and Economic Thought, 1848-1861

16h30  Bernard Thomann (INALCO): The Emergence of a « Right to Live » in Imperial Japan

Discutants :
Stépanie Roza (University Pierre Mendès France)
Claudia Stein (University of Warwick)
Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po)
Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po)
Charles Walton (University of Warwick)
Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne)
Christoph Conrad (University of Geneva)

While those workshops are not closed to the public, space is limited. Strongly interested individuals may contact Charles Walton: Charles.Walton@warwick.ac.uk