BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3-
 M3//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20201023T082319Z
DTSTART:20201111T151500Z
DTEND:20201111T170000Z
SUMMARY:Philosophy Research Seminar - Leonie Smith (University of Manches
 ter)
UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}p16c-kglzlx
 tm-4i7aib
DESCRIPTION:This year we are running all of our research seminars online 
 using Zoom. If you would like to attend\, and are not included on our ev
 ents mailing list\, please email Dr Stephen Ingram to request the Zoom m
 eeting details.\n\nSeminars will take place on Wednesdays\, and will run
  from 15.15-17.00\, with a 5 minute break between the talk and the Q&A. 
 The Zoom meeting will be available to join from 15.00.\n\nTitle\n*Asylum
  seekers and group discrimination claims: epistemic agency and personhoo
 d\n\nAbstract\n*No instance in which the UK print press media (‘PPM’) di
 scriminates against a group of people as a class can ever fall foul of t
 he anti-discrimination guidelines in the Editors’ Code (the industry’s m
 ain code of conduct). This results in the main regulatory body for the P
 PM concluding that articles describing asylum seekers as “a plague of fe
 ral humans” are not even investigable on grounds of discrimination (IPSO
  case: 02741-15 Greer v The Sun). Opponents and proponents of this polic
 y typically frame debate in terms of ‘free speech vs harm’. Specifically
 \, that we need to balance: (A) The need for a free press\; with (B) The
  harms caused to marginalised groups by derogatory reporting. Predictabl
 y\, little progress is made in either side convincing the other. I argue
  that we ought to therefore instead assess the PPM’s freedom to report p
 ejoratively on asylum seekers on the basis of the fundamental values fro
 m which that freedom is derived. If we find a tension in upholding those
  values whilst also permitting discriminatory reporting\, this would ind
 icate that the policy needs revising\, on pain of irrationality. In this
  paper\, I propose one such value\, and one such tension.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:This event will run online - contact Stephen Ingram for details 
 on accessing the Zoom meeting.
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR