Workshop: Desert & Merit

Date
November 20 - 21, 2025

Location
Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice
LMU Munich, Main Building, Room M 210 (LMU room finder)
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich

Registration
https://eveeno.com

Program

Thursday, November 20 (LMU Main Building, Room M-210)

9:15 Welcome
9:30 David Miller (University of Oxford)
What do People Think They Deserve? Effort Natural Talent, Luck and Inequality
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Jahel Queralt (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Meritocracy Misunderstood: Ideological Critiques and the Normative Core
11:45 Coffee Break
12:00 Alexander Andersson (Gothenburg University)
A Tale of Two Meritocracies: Merit, DEI, and Affirmative Action
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Jonathan Kwan (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Ecological Citizenship and Merit from a Confucian Perspective
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Marius Baumann (LMU Munich & Hebrew University)
Desert and Institutions: A New Solution
18:30 Conference Dinner (covered for speakers)

Friday, November 21 (LMU Main Building, Room M-210)

9:30 Maria Dimova-Cookson (Durham University)
Merit, meaningful work and Ruskin's distinction between manual
and intellectual labor
10:30 Coffe Break
10:45 Huub Brouwer (Tilburg University)
Can Desert and Merit Ever be Forward-
Looking?
11:45 Coffee Break 
12:00 Stefan Gosepath (FU Berlin)
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Final Discussion