Compassion against justice? reflections on a time of crisis

 Thursday 14th May
Concepts, discourses and objects of compassion
Chair: Juan Gibaja (IMF-CSIC)
9:15-9:30 Welcome and introduction
9:30-10:00 Oliver Hochadel (IMF-CSIC) ◆ How compassion made us human: the new history of the origin of humanity
10:00-10:30 Jon Arrizabalaga (IMF-CSIC) ◆ Compassio: from charity work to humanitarian action
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Álvaro Girón (IMF-CSIC)
◆ An alternative ethos of compassion: the anarchist morals of Piotr Kropotkin
11:30-12:00 Joan-Carles Mèlich (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
◆ From a philosophy of finiteness to an ethos of compassion
12:00-13:00 Debate
13:00-15:30 Break
The moral and political economics of compassionate practices
Chair: Josep Martí (IMF-CSIC)
15:30-16:00 Joan Benach (GREDS- Pompeu Fabra University)
◆ Health inequalities and Health inequalities and the commodification of the health service: right, charity or business?
16:00-16:30 Yolanda Aixelà (IMF-CSIC)
◆ Compassion as a colonial alibi: otherness in Spanish practices and discourses in Equatorial Guinea and Morocco
16:30-17:00 David Llistar (Debt in Globalisation Observatory, Barcelona)
◆ Anti-cooperation: justice instead of compassion
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
Music that encourages compassion*
Chair: María Gembero (IMF-CSIC)
17:30-18:00 Todd Borgerding (Colby College, Maine, EEUU)
◆ Music and emotion in Spanish preaching, ca. 1600
18:00-19:00 Luis Antonio González Marín (IMF-CSIC),
Tess Knighton (ICREA/IMF-CSIC) and Ascensión Mazuela (IMF-CSIC)
◆ The emotional impact of music at the time of the Counterreformation
* Talk accompanied by music

Cycle: Compassion against justice? reflections on a time of crisis

Organized by: Institucion Mila y Fontanals of the Spanish National Research Council (IMF-CSIC) and Residence for Researchers