Kant at the Border: Law, Justice and Migration

This 2-day workshop is being organised by Dr Martin Sticker, Department of Philosophy, as part of his Benjamin Meaker Annual Award. This Award has funded multiple trips for Practical Philosophy Professor Corinna Mieth to visit Bristol and collaborate with Dr Sticker on the project: 'Meaningful Work and Exploitation from a Kantian Perspective'.

Please notify Dr Sticker if you would like to attend this workshop: martin.sticker@bristol.ac.uk 

20.8.2026
  • 10-11.15: Zara Bain: "But y (Kant) tho? Charles W. Mills’s turn to Kant for prescriptive theory construction as a model for refugee-led political theory"
  • 11.30-12.15:  Omar Madhloom: "Kant and Immigration Legal Practice"
  • Lunch
  • 1:30-2.45: Anna Milioni: "Kantian political philosophy and the critique of methodological nationalism"
  • 3-4.15: Dagmar Wilhelm: "Kantian hope and transformation in Critical Theory"
  • break
  • 4.45-6: Mincan Li: "A right to work somewhere: reconstructing Kant’s cosmopolitan right in the context of migrant domestic labour”.
21.8.2026
  • 10-11.15: Howard Williams: "The Emergence of Kants Political Philosophy : A selective philosophical history"
  • 11.30-12.15:  Sorin Baiasu: "Is Kant's Right Normatively Independent? The (Curious) Cases of Politics-first Approaches"
  • Lunch
  • 1:30-2.45: Stephan Zimmermann: "Acting From Respect for the Law: Why Kant’s Distinction between Juridical and Ethical Duties Does Not Contradict his General Concept of Duty in the Groundwork and the Second Critique"
  • 3-4.15: Elisabeth Widmer: "Kant on Paternalism: A Form-Based Reading”
  • break
  • 4.45-6: Corinna Mieth, Martin Sticker: "Kant on Gratitude to Migrants"

Contact information

Dr Martin Sticker: martin.sticker@bristol.ac.uk