Sisheng Chris ZHANG
Doctoral Researcher / FPI Fellow of Political Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
- Roger de Llúria (campus de la Ciutadella), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
- 08005 Barcelona
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, Spain
- Ph.D Law / Political Philosophy, “Justice, Autonomy, and Self-Employment”
- Supervisors: Drs Iñigo González-Ricoy (Barcelona) and Jahel Queralt Lange (UPF)
2023 Q2
Concordia University, Canada
- Visiting Researcher, Centre for Social Justice and Department of Philosophy
- Supervisor: Prof Pablo Gilabert (Concordia)
2017-2018
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- MA Political Philosophy, “Sufficiency: Distributive or Contributive?”
- Supervisors: Dr Edward Page (Warwick) and Prof Andrew Williams (ICREA-UPF)
2016-2017
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- MA Political and Legal Theory, double degree with Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2013-2016
University of Essex, United Kingdom
- BA(Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Employment
2021-2022
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- Research Assistant
- “Family Justice” for Prof Serena Olsaretti (ICREA-UPF)
2016-2017
University of Warwick, Coventry
- Research Assistant
- “The Ethics of Santa Claus” for Prof Matthew Clayton (Warwick) and Dr Tom Parr (Warwick)
Teaching
2021-2024
Justice and Individual Rights, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Module leader: Dr Jahel Queralt
2021-2024
History of Political Philosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Module leader: Prof Josep-Juan Moreso and since 2023 Dr Eze Paez
Certificate
- Received “Excellent” for Initial Training in University Teaching Programme (FIDU), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Funding
2021-2025
Full funding for PhD / FPI scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PGC2018-095917-A-I00
2017
Participation grant for “Equality and Citizenship Summer School 2017”, University of Rijeka
Work in Progress and Presentations
October 2024
“How is Self-Employment Meaningful?”
- UPF Law and Philosophy PhD Seminar
February 2024
“Is Well Done Enough?: An Analysis on Meaningful Work”
- Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory 2024
October 2023
“Meaningful Work: a Double-Sided Coin”
- UPF Law and Philosophy PhD Seminar
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
- UPF Law PhD Jornada Conference
April 2021
“What is Distinctive about Contemporary Self-Employment?”
- UPF-UCLouvain Hoover Chair Workshop
Other Presentations
June 2021
“Justice and Self-Employment”
- SOAS Postgraduate Political Theory Workshop, online
July 2018
“If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You Like Lotteries?”
- The 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
February 2018
Commentator for Robert Huseby (Oslo), “Sufficiency and the Threshold Question”
- Sufficiency: Never Enough
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
May 2017
“Speech and National Self-Determination”
- University of Warwick MA Dissertation Conference
May 2016
“Should there be a right to Euthanasia? A case against Velleman”
- University of Essex Annual Government Student Conference
Administration and Organisation
2022-2024
UPF Law & Philosophy PhD Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Co-Organiser, Law & Philosophy
2022-2024
UPF Law & Philosophy Mailing List, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Creator and Manager, Law & Philosophy
October 2022
Republicanism and Labor Justice, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat de Barcelona
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
July 2022
Labor Market and Workplace Justice Workshop, University of Oxford
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
July 2021
Labor Justice and Transformation of Work, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Conference Co-Organiser, Justice at Work
2021-2024
Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group, online
- Convenor, Cross-institution
Current
Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy - BIAP, Universitat de Barcelona
- Member
Outreaching
Summer 2020
- Seminar on Sufficientarianism and Distributive Justice (in Chinese)
- 706 Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China
Document Last Update: Thursday 30 May 2024