Sisheng Chris Zhang

Doctoral Researcher / FPI Fellow of Political Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Area of interests

Normative and Analytic Contemporary Political Theory

Ethics

Distributive Justice

Philosophy of Work

Self-Employment

Philosophy of Higher Education

Education

2021-2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES

2023-2023 Concordia University, CA

2017-2018 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES

2016-2017 University of Warwick, GB

2013-2016 University of Essex, GB

Employment

2021-2022 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

2016-2017 University of Warwick, Coventry

Teaching

2021, 2022, 2023 Justice and Individual Rights, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2021, 2022, 2023 History of Political Philosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Funding

2021-2025 Full funding for PhD / FPI scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PGC2018-095917-A-I00

2017 Participatation grant for “Equality and Citizenship Summer School 2017”, University of Rijeka

Work in Progress and Presentations

February 2024 “Is Well Done Enough?: An Analysis on Meaningful Work”

October 2023 “Meaningful Work: a Double-Sided Coin”

A paper on an individualist conception of social contribution

“What Special Duties do the Self-Employed Owe to the Society?”

“Post-Work and Self-Employment”

“Meaningful Work as Public Goods”

June 2021

April 2021 “What is Distinctive about Contemporary Self-Employment?”

Other Presentations

June 2021 “Justice and Self-Employment”

July 2018 “If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You Like Lotteries?”

February 2018 Commentator for Robert Huseby (Oslo), “Sufficiency and the Threshold Question”

May 2017 “Speech and National Self-Determination”

May 2016 “Should there be a right to Euthanasia? A case against Velleman”

Administration and Organisation

2022- UPF Law & Philosophy PhD Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

October 2022 Republicanism and Labor Justice, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat de Barcelona

July 2022 Labor Market and Workplace Justice Workshop, University of Oxford

July 2021 Labor Justice and Transformation of Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2021- Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group, online

Outreaching

Summer 2020

Wednesday, 21 February 2024