Current Perspectives on Structural Injustice

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When:
17 September 2026 – 18 September 2026 All day
Where:
McGill University, Montréal, Qc
*This workshop is not a public event.
Kyuree Kim, Magali Bessone, Catherine Lu, Daniel Marc Weinstock, Ryoa Chung
https://sirre.org/montreal-conference/

The CRÉ is proud to host the first annual conference of the international SIRRE network (Structural Injustice, Responsibility for Relational Egalitarianism), “Current Perspectives on Structural Injustice”, September 17-18, McGill University, co-organized by Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten), Magali Bessone (Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Ryoa Chung (U. de Montréal, CRÉ).

Keynote speakers : Alasia Nuti (York) and Hochan Sonny Kim (Bates).

The participants, members of the SIRRE network:

  • Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten),
  • Magali Bessone (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • Ryoa Chung (U. de Montréal / CRÉ)
  • Kristin Voigt (McGill / CRÉ)
  • Marie Garrau (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • Maeve McKeown (Groningen)
  • Catherine Lu (McGill)
  • Ellena Thibaud-Latour (Université de Montréal)
  • Jude Browne (Cambridge)
  • Tamara Jugov (TU Dresden)
  • Daniel James (TU Berlin)
  • Reza Mosayebi (University of Witten)
  • Mirjam Faissner (Lübeck)
  • Regina Müller (Bremen)
  • Carina Fourie (University of Washington)
  • Daniel Weinstock (McGill)
  • Kyuree Kim (McGill)
  • Victor Muniz-Fracticelli (McGill)

*This workshop is not a public event.

Schedule:

Thursday, September 17, 2026

09:00  – Opening and welcome

09:30–11:00 – SESSION 1 “Structural Injustice, Privilege, and Allyship”

  • Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten): Structural injustice and the role of privilege
  • Marie Garrau (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Alliance as a way to combat structural injustices? Reflections with and beyond Iris M. Young
  • Chair and commentary: tbd

11:30–13:00 – SESSION 2 “Political Responses to Structural Injustice”

  • Magali Bessone (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Structural epistemic reparations for slavery
  • Maeve McKeown (Groningen): Political responsibility for genocide
  • Chair and commentary: Catherine Lu (McGill)

13:00–14:30 – LUNCH avec présentation d’affiche de PhD

  • Ellena Thibaud-Latour (Université de Montréal): Obstacle to Action: Indifference as an epistemic vice of privileged groups

14:30–16:00 – SESSION 3 “Responsibility Reconsidered”

  • Jude Browne (Cambridge): tbd
  • Tamara Jugov (TU Dresden): Moral responsibility for normative authority – an argument from implicit endorsement
  • Chair and commentary: Christine Straehle (Ottawa)

16:15–17:15 – KEYNOTE

  • Alasia Nuti (York): “We March with Our Dead”: Thanatoactivism and the structural reproduction of history
  • Chair: Ryoa Chung (Montreal)

Vendredi, 18 September 2026

09:30–11:00 – SESSION 4 “Structural Injustice and Racism”

  • Daniel James (TU Berlin): A matter of time: The diachronic structure of racialised oppression
  • Reza Mosayebi (University of Witten): Structural racism and power
  • Chair and commentary: Magali Bessone (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

11:30–13:00 – SESSION 5 “Injustice, Equality, and Health”

  • Mirjam Faissner (Lübeck) and Regina Müller (Bremen): What is bioethicists’ role in changing the system? An amended Role-Ideal Model of bioethicists’ responsibility for structural injustice
  • Carina Fourie (University of Washington): The distortion of positional relationships and the distinctiveness of relational equality
  • Chair and commentary: Daniel Weinstock (McGill)

​13:00–14:30 – LUNCH avec présentation d’affiche de PhD

  • Kyuree Kim (McGill): A moving-pictures view of structural processes in structural injustice

14:30–15:30 – KEYNOTE

  • Hochan “Sonny” Kim (Bates): Structural injustice as an emergent disorder
  • Chair: Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten)

For more information and the event program: https://sirre.org/montreal-conference/