7 Dec
2023
7 Dec
'23
1:17 p.m.
Dear colleagues,
on behalf of Univ.-Prof. Angela Kallhoff and the Department of
Philosophy, I cordially invite you to a guest lecture titled
*"Humankind’s Common Cultural Heritage, Justice and Territorial Rights"*
by *Cecile Fabre *(All Souls College, Oxford).
Thu Dec. 14th, 2023, 6:30 p.m. in HS 3D (NIG)
For questions, contact sophie.kroiss(a)univie.ac.at
Abstract:
The thought that there are cultural landmarks which have universal value
is a familiar one. It is at the heart of UNESCO's and the World
Heritage's mission, and is affirmed in a number of international
declarations, not least the Convention Concerning the Protection of
World Cultural and Natural Heritage. For all its appeal, UNESCO's ideals
raise some deep concerns. In particular, it is not easy to articulate an
account of universal value; and it is not easy to show why we are under
moral obligations in respect of that heritage. Nevertheless, I attempt
to defend those ideals. I seek to show that the protection of
humankind's heritage, qua humankind's, not only is a moral imperative:
more strongly put, it is a duty of justice. I then address one of the
most important objections to it - namely that it undermines states’ and
their citizenries’ legitimate interest in deciding what to do with
landmarks which are located on their territory.
/Cecile Fabre a political philosopher, and currently Senior Research
Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Political
Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and affiliated with the Faculty
of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations,
and Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research interests are in theories of
distributive justice; the philosophy of democracy; just war theory; the
ethics of foreign policy, with particular focus on the ethics of
economic statecraft and the ethics of espionage.
She most recently published Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of
Espionage and Counter-Intelligence (Oxford University Press 2022);
Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality
(Harvard University Press, 2018), preceded by (among others)
Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Morality of
Defensive War, co-edited with Seth Lazar (Oxford University Press,
2014), Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, 2012)./
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