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Philosophical Perspectives on Values and Mental Health @ C-1017-02, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal
6 Nov – 7 Nov All day
Conference on Philosophical Perspectives on Values and Mental Health
The event will now be held in hybrid format to accommodate those affected by the STM strike. To access the Zoom link, click here.
Program
Thursday, November 6
5:00pm – 6:30pm – Keynote presentation
“Cross-Cultural Human Kinds and the Naturalness of Social Categories” – Jonathan Y. Tsou (Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Dallas)
Commentary: Matthew Valiquette (Department of Philosophy, McGill University)
Friday, November 7
8:30 – 9:00: Coffee, pastries, and welcome
9:00 – 9:50: “Advancing the debate about MAiD for persons with MD through the Values in Science Framework” – Mona Gupta (Département de Psychiatrie et d’Addictologie, Université de Montréal)
10:00 – 10:50: “Personomics: Leveraging digital and computational phenotyping towards a person centered precision psychiatry” – Axel Constant (Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex)
10:50 – 11:20: Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:10: “How Should We Frame Autism? An Ameliorative Proposal” – Amandine Catala (Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques – Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, Département de philosophie – Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal)
12:10 – 1:10 pm: Lunch
1:10 – 2:00 pm: “Values and first-person accounts in mental health” – Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval)
2:10 – 3:00 pm: TBD – Luc Faucher (Département de philosophie, Institut Santé et Société, Université du Québec à Montréal)
3:00 – 3:20 pm: Coffee Break
3:20 – 4:50 pm: Keynote presentation
“Mental health, suffering and value” – Sofia Jeppsson (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University
Commentary: Sarah Arnaud (Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, Centre de recherche en éthique)
Organization: Zoey Lavallee (McGill) and Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (ULaval) for the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the Groupe de recherche en philosophie de la santé mentale (POMH).
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Science, médecine et éthique @ SHIFT, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell, Concordia, hybrid
18 h 30 – 20 h 00
Third session of the Citizen Education Series on Animal Law and Ethics (in French).
Co-organized by DAQ – Droit animalier Québec, the Concordia University Centre for Social Justice, the Environmental and Animal Ethics Axis of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the GREEA – Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics.
This five-part series is open to everyone and will be held in French. You can attend in person or via videoconference by completing this online registration form.
Join us for a series of interactive talks designed to help you better understand the complex issues at the intersection of animal law and ethics. Through discussions, case studies, and collaborative exchanges, we’ll explore the laws that govern different groups of animals, their limitations, and the broader ethical challenges they raise.
Spots are limited — register here!
Les places sont limitées, inscrivez-vous ici.
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“Epistemic Occlusion” @ Room 309, hybrid
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
As part of the CRÉ Lunch Talks, Abe Tobi will give a presentation entitled “Epistemic Occlusion.”
To join via Zoom, click here.
Abstract
I introduce the concept of epistemic occlusion to describe a form of epistemic harm that occurs
when certain knowledges, frameworks, or epistemic agents are systematically rendered invisible
within dominant epistemic practices, not through active silencing or exclusion, but through
processes that pre-emptively block their recognition. Unlike testimonial strands of epistemic harms,
which concern the unfair downgrading of a speaker’s credibility, or hermeneutical strands, which
arise from gaps in collective interpretive resources, epistemic occlusion names a prior and more
elusive mechanism. It is a structurally produced condition in which certain knowledges or epistemic
agents are rendered imperceptible. I argue that epistemic occlusion operates through mechanisms
that shape what is seen, taken seriously, or even conceivable as knowledge. -
The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice (OUP, 2025) @ Information to be shared after registration
All day
Roundtable on the book The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: situating epistemic power and agency (OUP, 2025), by Amandine Catala (CRC-IAE, UQAM).
Registration required, before October 15. The address will be given to you by email before the event.
Program:
9.00-9.30: Welcome and coffee
9.30-10.40: Panel 1 – Ch. 1-2 – Chair: Kristin Voigt (McGill, CRÉ)
– Amandine Catala (CRC-IAE, UQAM): “A Very Brief Synopsis of The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice”
– Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami U, Ohio): “Shifting our Understanding of Epistemic Agency”
– Natalie Stoljar (McGill): “Comments on ch. 2: ‘Stereotypes and Testimonial Domination: A Structural Explanation of Epistemic Agency’”
– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments
10.40-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.10: Panel 2 – Ch. 3-4 – Chair: Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (McGill, CRC-IAE)
– Gilles Beauchamp (CRC-IAE, CRÉ, CRIDAQ): “Comments on ch. 3: ‘Deliberative Impasses, White Ignoring, and Hermeneutical Domination’”
– Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill): “Comments on ch. 4: ‘Colonial Memory, Epistemic Aaordances, and Political Equality’”
– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments
12.10-12.30: Q & A with the audience
12.30-1.30: Lunch
1.30-2.40: Panel 3 – Ch. 5-6 – Chair: Corinne Lajoie (Western University, UQAM, CRC-IAE)
– José Medina (Northwestern U) “Linguistic Epistemic Injustice and Hermeneutical Death”
– Nick Clanchy (CRC-IAE, CRÉ): “Comments on ch. 6: ‘Becoming Who You Are: Hermeneutical Breakthroughs, Transformative Experience, and Epistemic Empowerment”
– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments
2.40-3.00: Coffee break
3.00-4.10: Panel 4 – Transversal Perspectives Transversales – Chair: Ryoa Chung (UdeM, CRÉ)
– Abe Tobi (CRC-IAE, CRÉ): “Hermeneutical Breakthroughs in The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice”
– Alison Wylie (UBC): “The Implications of The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice for Standpoint Theory”
– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments
4.10-4.30: Q & A with the audience
With the support of: CRC-IAE, CRÉ, GRIPP, CRIDAQ, FSH, UQAM Department of philosophy.
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Mêmes êtres animaux, différentes lois – protections juridiques selon les espèces @ SHIFT, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell, Concordia, hybrid
18 h 30 – 20 h 00
Second session of the Citizen Education Series on Animal Law and Ethics (in French).
Co-organized by DAQ – Droit animalier Québec, the Concordia University Centre for Social Justice, the Environmental and Animal Ethics Axis of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the GREEA – Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics.
This five-part series is open to everyone and will be held in French. You can attend in person or via videoconference by completing this online registration form.
Join us for a series of interactive talks designed to help you better understand the complex issues at the intersection of animal law and ethics. Through discussions, case studies, and collaborative exchanges, we’ll explore the laws that govern different groups of animals, their limitations, and the broader ethical challenges they raise.
Spots are limited — register here!
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Introduction au droit animalier – de biens meubles à êtres sentients @ SHIFT, Pavillon J.‐W.‐McConnell, Concordia, hybrid
18 h 30 – 20 h 00
First Session of the Citizen Education Series on Animal Law and Ethics (in French).
Co-organized by DAQ – Droit animalier Québec, the Concordia University Centre for Social Justice, the Environmental and Animal Ethics Axis of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the GREEA – Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics.
This five-part series is open to everyone and will be held in French. You can attend in person or via videoconference by completing this online registration form.
Join us for a series of interactive talks designed to help you better understand the complex issues at the intersection of animal law and ethics. Through discussions, case studies, and collaborative exchanges, we’ll explore the laws that govern different groups of animals, their limitations, and the broader ethical challenges they raise.
Spots are limited — register here!
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Workshop of the axis Ethics & Politics @ Room 309, hybrid
20 Oct – 21 Oct All day
Annual Workshop of the CRÉ – Ethics & Politics Research Axis
To participate via Zoom click here.
Program
October 20, 2025 (afternoon)
13:00 — Sylvie Loriaux (Université Laval) – “Les limites du consentement. Sur le rôle que peut et doit jouer le consentement en politique, au travail et dans la vie intime”
14:00 — Alia Al-Saji (U. McGill) – “Gaza as a Compass for Thinking: Searching for a decolonial phenomenological method that can do justice to debilitation and resistance in colonial duration”
15:00 — Christian Nadeau (UdeM) – “Responsabilité collective, complaisance politique et compromission politique.”
October 21, 2025 (morning)
09:00 — Arash Abizadeh (U. McGill) – “Social Power”
10:00 — Charles Blattberg (UdeM) – “Towards One, As Many”
11:00 — Juliette Roussin (U. Laval) – “Que fait exactement la mésinformation à la délibération démocratique?”
Organized by Christian Nadeau and Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University).
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Conférences Hugues-Leblanc 2025: Magali Bessone, La justice réparatrice entre normativité et historicité: le cas Haïti @ UQÀM, local W-5215
14 Oct 10 h 00 – 15 Oct 12 h 00
The invited speaker, Magali Bessone (Professor of Political Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & IUF), will give a series of three lectures, in French, on the theme: Restorative Justice Between Normativity and Historicity: The Case of Haiti.
Penser par cas en philosophie politique
Tuesday, October 14, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Commentator: Juliette Roussin (Laval)Justice réparatrice et réparations épistémiques
Tuesday, October 14, 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Commentator: Amandine Catala (UQAM)Restitution et réparations : s’acquitter de la double dette
Wednesday, October 15, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Commentator: Lyns-Virginie Belony (Université de Montréal)All activities will take place in person at W-5215 (UQAM, Department of Philosophy, 455 Boulevard René-Lévesque East, Montreal, H2L 4Y2). Refreshments will follow the lectures as well as a light lunch on Tuesday.
The lectures will also be broadcast live on Zoom. In all cases, admission is free upon (mandatory) registration: https://uqam.zoom.us/meeting/register/HLXopPFWQ1-tfXLjIfzrrw
Event partners:
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques
Chaire de recherche du Canada en philosophie des sciences de la vie
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ)
Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ)
Faculté des sciences humaines (Vice-décanat à la Recherche), UQAM
Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP)
Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité (GRIN)This annual lecture series commemorates the memory of the great Quebec logician and philosopher Hugues Leblanc (1924–1999). Spanning two days, the event is structured around a series of presentations delivered by an internationally renowned speaker, alongside contributions from professors from Canadian and foreign universities, on a theme pertaining to analytic philosophy.
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GRIN Workshop: “Medicine and Philosophy: Reasoning from Specific Cases”
9 Oct 9 h 30 – 10 Oct 17 h 00
You are cordially invited to attend the workshop entitled “Medicine and Philosophy: Reasoning from Specific Cases,” which will be held on October 9-10, 2025, in room 307 at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., located at 2910 Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard, Montréal, Québec.
We will have the opportunity to hear from Aude Bandini (University of Montreal), Katrin Solhdju (University of Mons), Patrick Garon-Sayegh (University of Montreal), Luc Faucher (UQAM), and Miriam Solomon (Temple University), who will share their thoughts on this theme. The idea behind the workshop is to promote reflection and discussion on the epistemological and methodological contribution of reasoning based on specific cases in the philosophy of medicine.
Event Schedule:
Thursday, October 9, 2025
- 9:00 a.m.: Welcome
- 9:30 a.m.: Annejulie Charest, Léo Portelance (Université de Montréal), and Laurence Dufour, Presentation of themes and central ideas of the workshop
- 11:00 a.m.: Aude Bandini (Université de Montréal), “A Social Epistemology of “Experiential Knowledge”
- 12:30 p.m.: Lunch
- 2:00 p.m.: Katrin Solhdju (Université de Mons), “An “Assault on Reason” or an “At Last Rational Approach” to Therapeutic Thinking? The Case of Ethnopsychiatry”
Friday, October 10, 2025
- 9:30 a.m.: Patrick Garon-Sayegh (Université de Montréal), “On the Centrality of Case-Based Reasoning in Medicine”
- 11:00 a.m.: Luc Faucher (Université du Québec à Montréal), Titre à venir
- 12:30 p.m.: Lunch
- 2:00 p.m.: Miriam Solomon (Temple University), “The Philosophical Significance of Pivotal Cases”
To encourage maximum discussion and reflection, we invite you to write to the following email address to receive advance access to the workshop texts.
It will be possible to attend the workshop online via the following link.
We look forward to seeing many of you there.
*Please note that the event will be held in English.
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*Please note that the event has changed locations and that it will now take place in Room A-3316 of the Hubert-Aquin Pavilion at UQÀM, located at 400 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, Québec.
The Interuniversity Research Group on Normativity (GRIN) is pleased to welcome Miriam Solomon (Temple University), who will give a talk entitled “Stigma as an Actant in the History of Psychiatric Disorder”.
The conference will also be available via Zoom.
Abstract
The slogan “end the stigma” has become pervasive in mental health contexts. It makes a straightforward suggestion: if we can counter social prejudices about mental illness then we will be able to address mental illness more effectively and humanely. It is reminiscent of other medical-social movements such as the ones to reduce the stigma of breast cancer, beginning in the 1970s with Betty Ford’s openness about her own diagnosis and treatment and continuing with the work of advocacy groups such as Susan G. Komen and the National Breast Cancer Coalition to successfully fund and implement programs for early detection and intervention.
I signed on to “end the stigma” for mental illness a long time ago. However, in learning more about the history of mental health stigma, both in general and for particular conditions, I have found that stigma is a slippery beast that is often imperfectly managed by efforts that implicitly or unconsciously result in further stigmatization of some or all mental health conditions. It is not easy, and may not even be possible, to “end the stigma.” In addition, I have found that stigmatizing judgments run so deep that they have influenced professional judgments about the scope of psychiatric disorder and about the categories of psychiatric disorder. Stigma is not added to some neutral medical categories by a prejudiced society; rather, stigma was involved in making the categories themselves.
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Katrin Solhdju (Université de Mons) @ Room 422, Philosophy Department, Université de Montréal, hybrid
10 h 00 – 12 h 00
The Interuniversity Research Group on Normativity (GRIN) is pleased to welcome Katrin Solhdju (Université de Mons), who will give a talk (in French) entitled: “Accept It! Or You’ll Be Branded Deviant: On the Violence of Misplaced Psychopathologization.”
The lecture will also be available via Zoom.
Abstract
“This patient doesn’t realize she’s dying.” “Dad keeps forgetting more and more things, but he insists it’s just age.” “I always say you can be overweight and healthy, but I panic every time I visit my cardiologist.”
Such statements may seem entirely reasonable and well-intentioned. Yet invoking denial in relation to a medical situation—implying a refusal or inability to understand, whether on the part of patients or their loved ones—is never neutral. The mere suggestion of illusion, irrationality, or cognitive distortion carries consequences: it can subtly transform the dynamics of care.
Indeed, when we assume that someone is improperly “attached” to reality, do we not risk undermining their standing as a free, autonomous, and fully competent subject? In this talk, I examine the effects of accusations of denial and the pervasive imperative to “accept” as an unquestionable norm. I argue that so-called denial may be less a psychopathological state than an instrument of power relations—and I explore possible forms of resistance to its coercive force.
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Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania) will give a presentation entitled “Beyond ‘Bad Jobs’: Reconsidering Work’s Centrality” as part of the activities of the Philosophy of Work Network.
Abstract
In this paper, I argue that though precarity is objectionable, precarious work itself is not inherently so. I make a distinction between two types of work: terms-and-conditions precarious work and precarity-causing work. I contend that terms-and-conditions precarious work can be compatible with the conditions for flourishing. However, because work has become central to our access to many essential goods that contribute to our flourishing, terms-and-conditions precarious work does often lead to objectionable precarity. Therefore, I argue that we should be concerned not only with terms-and-conditions precarity but with the centrality of work in our lives.
The activities of the Philosophy of Work Network are open to researchers and graduate students with research interests in this area. Please write to the organizers, Denise Celentano (denise.celentano@umontreal.ca) and Pablo Gilabert (pablo.gilabert@concordia.ca), to receive the zoom link.
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We are pleased to invite you to the philosophy and ethics of economics reading group, which will be held in hybrid format (Zoom) on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from noon to 1:30 P.M. (Montreal time). The meeting will take place in room 2.880 (space z), 2nd floor at HEC, 3000 Côte Ste-Catherine (in the conference rooms located in the Alphonse-et-Dorimène-Desjardins International Institute of Cooperatives at the end of the hallway next to the library).
For this session, we will discuss Michael K. MacKenzie’s text entitled “Democratic philanthropy”, published in Contemporary Political Theory (2020).
We hope to see many of you there, and would be delighted if you could share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
Organized by Nicolas Pinsonneault, Morgane Delorme and Gabriel Monette.
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POSTPONED! “Epistemic Occlusion” @ Room 309, hybrid
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
Attention! The presentation will instead be held on November 5, 2025
As part of the CRÉ Lunch Talks, Abe Tobi will give a presentation entitled “Epistemic Occlusion.”
To join via Zoom, click here.
Abstract
I introduce the concept of epistemic occlusion to describe a form of epistemic harm that occurs
when certain knowledges, frameworks, or epistemic agents are systematically rendered invisible
within dominant epistemic practices, not through active silencing or exclusion, but through
processes that pre-emptively block their recognition. Unlike testimonial strands of epistemic harms,
which concern the unfair downgrading of a speaker’s credibility, or hermeneutical strands, which
arise from gaps in collective interpretive resources, epistemic occlusion names a prior and more
elusive mechanism. It is a structurally produced condition in which certain knowledges or epistemic
agents are rendered imperceptible. I argue that epistemic occlusion operates through mechanisms
that shape what is seen, taken seriously, or even conceivable as knowledge. -
Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen) @ Room 422, hybrid
10 h 00 – 12 h 00
The members of the CRÉ and GRIN are pleased to welcome Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen), who will be giving a lecture entitled “With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice.”
All are welcome!
To participate on Zoom, clic here. (ID de réunion: 816 4031 5575; Code secret: 958166)
AbstractWhat is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today’s world. Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the avoidable injustice that could be ameliorated by the powerful but nevertheless continues; and the deliberate perpetuation of structural processes that benefit powerful political and economic agents. In each of these, the role of power is different which changes the allocation of responsibility. From this understanding, we can shape a deeper, more sophisticated idea of how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it.BioDr Maeve McKeown is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Campus Fryslân, an interdisciplinary faculty at the University of Groningen. In 2024, she published her first monograph With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury Academic) and a volume co-edited with Prof Jude Browne, What is Structural Injustice? (Oxford University Press, Open Access). Her research interests include structural injustice, historical injustice, reparations and feminism. -
Join us for a round table discussion at the annual conference of the Société de philosophie du Québec (SPQ)! This year, the round table will offer an analysis of the philosophical issues surrounding the plant world, addressing the question: Why take an interest in plants?
Schedule:
- 2:00 p.m.: Lhéo Vigneault, “L’âme des plantes chez Aristote et les péripatéticiens : Une enquête sur la conscience et l’agentivité végétale”
- 2:30 p.m.: Marie-Pier Ladouceur (Université de Montréal), “Le problème de l’individualité chez les plantes »
- 3:00 p.m.: Special guest of the Centre Horticole de Laval: Pierre Miquelon, “Les plantes : des êtres vivants et complexes”
- 3:30 p.m.: Roxanne Lépine (Université de Montréal), “L’attribution de conscience dans le monde végétal : parcimonie ou double standard?”
- 4:00 p.m.: Raphaël Marquis-Pelletier (Université de Montréal), “Peut-on parler d’une agentivité du végétal?”
Co-organized by Roxanne Lépine (Université de Montréal), doctoral student at the CRÉ, in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA) and the Centre de recherche en éthique.
For more information, click here.
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We are pleased to invite you to the next Philosophy and Ethics of Economics reading group, to be held in hybrid format (Zoom) on June 5, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. (Montreal time). The meeting will take place in room 2.840, 2nd floor at HEC, 3000 Côte Ste-Catherine (next to the library).
For this next session, we will discuss the text by Bruno Verbeek, entitled “Isolationism, instrumentalism and fiscal policy”, published in Economics and Philosophy (2025).
We hope to see many of you there, and would be delighted if you could share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
Organized by Nicolas Pinsonneault, Morgane Delorme and Gabriel Monette.
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9th Montreal Social Justice Theory Workshop @ SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, Concordia University
29 May – 30 May All day
The aim of the Social Justice Theory Workshop is to enable sustained exploration in the theory of social justice. It addresses topics such as the articulation of ideals and principles of economic, political, gender, race, environmental, and cultural justice; the critique of inequality, domination, exploitation, and alienation; and the illumination of political institutions, practices and processes of transformation that might foster progressive change.
Workshop papers will be pre-circulated, and participation implies a commitment to reading the papers in advance.
This workshop is organized by Pablo Gilabert and Peter Dietsch, in association with the Social Justice Centre (Université Concordia), the Centre de recherche en éthique (Université de Montréal) and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria.
The 9th edition of this intensive research workshop will take place on May 29-30 2025, in room LB-145 at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, J.W. McConnell Building, Concordia University, 1400, De Maisonneuve Boulevard, Montréal, Québec.
The workshop will be in person. Places are limited and registration is required. If you would like to participate, please contact Christiane Bailey at the following address : sjc@concordia.ca.
9:00 Welcome (Thursday May 29) – Coffee and Food 9:15 Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania) and Kritika Maheshwari (TU Delft -The Netherlands): “The Ethics of Partner Hiring in Academia.” Commentator: Christine Straehle (U of Ottawa)
10:30 Break 10:45 Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia): “How to Send a Message.” Commentator: Andrée-Anne Cormier (Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique, Montreal)
12:00 Lunch 13:30 Denise Celentano (Université de Montréal) “Temporal Agency at Work.” Commentator: Éliot Litalien (University de Montréal)
14:45 Break 15:00 Louis-Philippe Hodgson (University of York) – “Contractualism and Anti-Perfectionism” Commentator: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)
18:30 Dinner (speakers and commentators) 9:30 Welcome (Friday May 30) 9:45 David Estlund (Brown University): “The Illusion of Purely Structural Wrong.” Commentator: Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)
11:00 Break 11:15 Peter Dietsch (U. of Victoria): “The normative political economy of zero growth” Commentator: Rafael Ziegler (HEC Montreal)
12:30 3:00
Lunch Farewell
For more information, click here.
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Author-Meets-Critics – Şerife Tekin, Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry @ Room W-5215, Département de philosophie, UQÀM
15 h 00 – 17 h 30
The CRÉ and the Institut Santé et Société (UQAM) are pleased to announce an Author-Meets-Critics session on Şerife Tekin’s book Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science (Routledge/Taylor-Francis) on May 28th.
The event will be held at UQAM’s Philosophy Department (room W-5215), from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
It is possible to participate online by joining this Zoom meeting.
Commentators:
Luc Faucher (UQAM)
Mona Gupta (CHUM, UdeM)
Nicholas Huynh (UQÀM, UdeM)Organizers:
Sarah Arnaud (Cégep Édouard Montpetit)
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Colloque Sud global, pluralisme et militantisme politique @ Online.
26 May 9 h 00 – 27 May 12 h 30
The Centre de recherche en éthique de Montréal is delighted to invite you to the conference on the Global South, Pluralism and Political Activism, to be held online via Zoom, on May 26 and 27, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Montreal time (GMT-4). To participate, click here (meeting ID: 842 1731 3838 and password: 699766).
Conference description
Contemporary societies are riven by moral disagreement on fundamental questions of human rights, dignity and how governments and societies deal with diversity of mores and beliefs.
The Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ) in Montreal, Canada, is inviting you to participate in a colloquium aimed at exploring the ethical considerations surrounding pluralism and social and political activism, as well as strategies for achieving local and global change. The conference on the Global South, Pluralism and Political Activism aims to enable students to exchange ideas across borders and forge lasting connections.
Conference schedule
The symposium will take place online via Zoom on May 26 and 27, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Montreal time (GMT-4). Schedules will be chosen according to speakers’ time zones. Sessions will last approximately 50 minutes each – 10 minutes presentation, followed by 10 minutes commentary and 30 minutes discussion.
Detailed schedule
NOTE : Please note that all times are Montreal time (GMT-4).
DAY 1 – 26 MAY 2025
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.: Opening remarks by Ernest-Marie Mbonda (Université catholique d’Afrique centrale, UQAM, Cégep de Sherbrooke)
- 9:20 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.: Georges Claude Deutou Pouleu (Université de Douala/Laboratoire d’Éthique – UCAC), “L’éthique de la désobéissance civile et le façonnement des sociétés africaines futures”
- 10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.: Break
- 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.: Vetinkpon Gilbert Kingbe (Université d’Abomey-Calavi – Benin), “Entre gouttes et vagues : le droit à l’eau au Bénin sous le prisme de la justice constitutionnelle”
- 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Smaïlou Adam Chabi (Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar), “Discrimination positive et promotion des droits des femmes au Bénin”
DAY 2 – 27 MAY 2025
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.: Kakmeni Yametchoua Schaller Jean (Université de Douala), “La dot en Afrique : libération ou marginalisation de la femme”
- 9:50 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.: Djia Tchadja Jude Voltaire (Université Catholique du Cameroun, Bamenda), “Injustice épistémique, auto-efficacité et engagement politique des jeunes en Afrique”
- 10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.: Break
- 10:50 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.: Mamadou Lamine NGOM (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar), “De l’idée d’un pluralisme écologique actif : entre injustices environnementales et « universalisme »”
- 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Yawovi Agbonkou (Sorbonne Université), “Justice sociale et participation citoyenne : le cas de l’espace civique au Togo”
- 12:30 p.m.: Closing remarks by members of the organizing committee and end of conference
If you have any questions, please write to us at the following address : colloquedusudglobalcre2025@gmail.com.
Organized by Ernest Mbonda (Catholic University of Central Africa), Christian Nadeau (Université de Montréal), Thomas Emmaüs Adetou (Université de Montréal) and Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert (Université d’Oxford).
