Bayreuth-Düsseldorf-Milan PPE Student Conference
Students and faculty from the University of Milan, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and the UBT departments come together for the 1st Bayreuth-Düsseldorf-Milan PPE Student Conference.
The format includes 9 student papers, 3 from each department, with commentators from the other departments.
The conference is kindly supported by the PPPA programme of the University of Milan, the Department of Philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth.
Program (first draft)
Sunday 19.07.2026
Room S 145 (Building FZA)
13:00 Opening
13:10 - 13:55 Julia Jalonen de Lera (Bayreuth). Progress for Whom? – The Inevitability Myth of Effective Accelerationism as Undermining Demagoguery.
Commentator: Lucas Pilny (Düsseldorf)
13:55 - 14:10 Break
14:10 - 14: 55 Buse Aksoy (Milano), The EU Asylum System as a Coordination Problem: Institutions, Burden-Sharing, and the Limits of Cooperation.
Commentator: Emilia Lampen (Bayreuth)
14:55 - 15:40 Carlotta Donner (Düsseldorf). Climate Change, Migration, and Responsibility.
Commentator: Ada K.H. Morrigan (Bayreuth)
15:40 - 16:10 Break
16:10 - 16:55 Fabian Sokolowski (Düsseldorf). Normativity in Economic Measurement - Thick Concepts and the Case of Inequality.
Commentator: Julia Jalonen de Lera (Bayreuth)
16:55 - 17:40 Eleonora Colombo (Milano). Is Social Egg Freezing a Legitimate Health-Care Need?
Commentator: Carlotta Donner (Düsseldorf)
Monday 20.07.2026
Room: S 145 (Gebäude FZA)
09:00 - 09:45 Francesco Nava (Milano). The Privatization of Information Warfare in Just War Theory.
Commentator: Fabian Sokolowski (Düsseldorf)
09:45 - 10:30 Ada K.H. Morrigan (Bayreuth). The relationship between trust degradation, flawed ideologies, and the popularity of conspiracy theories.
Commentator: Buse Aksoy (Milano)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Lucas Pilny (Düsseldorf) On the Performativity of Potential Output Estimation: Asymmetric Self-Fulfillment in the German Debt Brake.
Commentator: Francesco Nava (Milano)
11:45 - 12:30 Emilia Lampen (Bayreuth) Examining Exploitative Emotional Labor In Lesbian Relationships.
Commentator: Eleonora Colombo (Milano)
Further information:
Bayreuth: Sena Bozdag | Sena.Bozdag@uni-bayreuth.de
Düsseldorf: Chiara Lisciandra | chiara.lisciandra@hhu.de
Milan: Francesco Guala | francesco.guala@unimi.it