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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).
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Quel féminisme pour le 21e siècle? Genre, diversité et décolonialité @ Room 927 Leacock, McGill
21 May – 22 May All day
Quel féminisme pour le 21e siècle? Genre, diversité et décolonialité
Feminist Ethics Study Days 2025
Organized by Naïma Hamrouni, with the assistance of Anne Iavarone-Turcotte and Ryoa Chung, for the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics, the Réseau québécois en études féministes (RéQEF), and the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ).
Wednesday, May 21
1:00 p.m. – Welcome remarks
- Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR/CREF)
1:05–1:45 p.m. – Keynote Lecture
- Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (CUNY) – Choisir sans préférer : le multiculturalisme et les femmes au-delà du paradigme libéral (PUL, Minerve, 2024)
1:45–2:30 p.m. – Commentaries #1
- Marie-Pier Lemay (Carleton University)
- Sophie Guérard De Latour (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Response and discussion
2:45–3:30 p.m. – Commentaries #2
- Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (McGill U. / UQTR / CRÉ)
- Jules Salomone-Sehr (Oxford University)
Response and discussion
3:30–4:15 p.m. – Commentaries #3
- Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp (Université Laval)
- François Boucher (CÉST / UQTR)
Response and discussion
5:30–7:00 p.m. – Book Launch
Choisir sans préférer: le multiculturalisme et les femmes au-delà du paradigme libéral (PUL, Minerve, 2024), by Anne Iavarone-Turcotte
Location: Librairie Le Port de Tête
Discussion led by: Daniel Weinstock (McGill U.) and Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR/CREF)
Thursday, May 22
9:00 a.m. – Welcome
9:30–10:15 a.m. – Keynote Lecture
- Sophie Guérard De Latour (ENS Lyon) – Le multiculturalisme à l”épreuve du féminisme (Vrin, 2025)
Chair: Ryoa Chung (Université de Montréal)
10:15–11:00 a.m. – Commentaries
- Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (CUNY)
- Atagün Mert Kejanlioglu (McGill University)
Response and discussion
11:15–12:00 a.m. – Keynote Lecture
- Soumaya Mestiri (University of Tunis) – Vers un féminisme décentré: recadrer, résister (Cavalier bleu, 2024)
Chair: Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (CUNY)
12:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – Commentaries
- Chantal Maillé (RéQEF and Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)
Response and discussion
1:30–2:15 p.m. – Keynote Lecture
- Serene Khader – Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and What We Can Do About It (Beacon Press, 2024)
Chair: Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR/CREF)
2:30–4:00 p.m. – Commentaries
- Soumaya Mestiri (University of Tunis)
- Amandine Catala (Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, UQÀM)
- Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph)
Response and discussion
Chair: Natalie Stoljar (McGill University)
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The fellows of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité (GRIN) are pleased to invite you to their end-of-year colloquium, to be held on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:40 p.m., in room W-5215 of the Philosophy Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain, 5th floor, 455 Boulevard René-Lévesque Est.
Event Schedule :
TIMELENGTHPRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTARYMODERATION9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.50 minDenise Celentano (UdeM)“Temporal Control and Agency at Work”Aude Bandini (UdeM)9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.10 minBREAKBREAK10:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.40 minLéo Portelance (UdeM)“Considérer les patient‧es comme des acteur‧ices épistémiques : le cas de l’affection « post-COVID-19 »”Commentary by Annejulie CharestKarl-Antoine Pelchat10:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.40 minFélix Tremblay (UdeM)“La vérité est poésie » : Merleau-Ponty et la phénoménologie de la littérature”Karl-Antoine Pelchat11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.40 minEllena Thibaud-Latour (UdeM)“L’indifférence en tant que vice épistémique institutionnalisé : un obstacle à la justice sociale”Commentary by Melissa Hernandez ParraKarl-Antoine Pelchat12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.60 minLUNCHLUNCH1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.40 minSamuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill)“The Metaphysics of Doxastic Normativity”Commentary by Karl-Antoine PelchatFélix Tremblay1:40 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.40 minKarl-Antoine Pelchat (UQAM)“Qu’est-ce qui cloche avec la « relation de raison » ?”Commentary by Alexis Morin-MartelFélix Tremblay2:20 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.40 minAlexis Morin-Martel (McGill)“The Ethics of Kingmaking” (co-written with Gabriel Monette)Commentary by Samuel Carlsson TjernströmFélix Tremblay3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.20 minBREAKBREAK3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.40 minSara Trépanier-Fleurant (UdeM)“Amour: entre émotion, sentiment et syndrome”Commentary by Alex CartyEllena Thibaud-Latour4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.40 minAlex Carty (McGill)“Blame and Blameworthiness are Agent-Relative”Commentary by Sara Trépanier-FleurantEllena Thibaud-LatourFor those wishing to attend remotely, the event will also be broadcast online via the following link.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
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Julie Rose (Dartmouth University) @ Online.
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
Julie Rose (Dartmouth University) will give a presentation entitled “The Social Costs of the Elite’s Work Culture: An Egalitarian Case for Universal Work Regulations” as part of the activities of the Philosophy of Work Network.
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.
Summary
Highly-paid, well-educated professionals in the contemporary United States often work long hours and report that they would prefer to work less. Should work time regulations apply universally, protecting those in more and less advantaged occupational positions alike from excessive, anti-social, and unpredictable work hours? Recent arguments in political philosophy defend a view I call ‘exempt the elite.’ This position holds that egalitarian commitments do not support universal work hours regulations. Instead, the elite’s long hours are acceptable, even desirable, because if work time regulations applied universally, the result would be diminished tax revenue to redistribute to the less advantaged. I here take up the question of how egalitarians should regard the elite’s long hours work culture, and I grant that the elite may not have claims of justice to shorter work hours. Still, I challenge the position that the elite’s long hours should be welcomed by showing how their long hours work culture generates a range of inegalitarian social costs. Given a choice between public policies that aim to compress income inequality while regulating work hours universally or exempting the elite from work hours regulations, egalitarians must consider not only the tax revenue effects but the broader social effects. If the elite’s long hours are more detrimental than beneficial to the realization of broadly egalitarian commitments, there is an egalitarian argument for not exempting the elite from work time regulations.
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Le pouvoir dans l’Anthropocène : violence, injustice et migration climatiques @ Informations à venir.
All day
2024-2025 Annual conference of the Scholarship Recipients of the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ).
Click here to view the circulated call for proposals.
Organisation
Clara Dallaire, Léon Gatien, Nicolas Lacroix, Valérie Lafond, Roxanne Lépineet Romeo Moungang.
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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 May 7, 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).
We will discuss the text by Muriel Gilardone entitled “Amartya Sen : un allié pour l’économie de la personne contre la métrique des capabilités. Deux arguments pour une lecture non fonctionnelle de la liberté chez Sen” published in Revue de Philosophie Économique (2018).
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! Presentation by Zoey Lavallée @ Room 309, CRÉ, hybrid, 2910 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Zoey Lavallée, postdoctoral researcher at the CRÉ, will give a presentation on their work.
The event, which was originally scheduled for May 5, 2025, has been postponed.
More details to come.
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Symposium on the Expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying and Workshop on Alexandre Baril’s New Book @ See below
8 May 9 h 30 – 9 May 12 h 15
Symposium on the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying and a workshop centered on Alexandre Baril’s new book, Défaire le suicidisme : Une approche trans, queer et crip du suicide (assisté). In French.
The events will take place over two days.
The symposium on the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying will be held on May 8, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in Room 422 (2nd floor), 2910 Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard, Montréal.
It will be followed by a book launch and discussion of Alexandre Baril’s new work, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Librairie L’Euguélionne, 1426 Beaudry Street, Montréal.
The workshop will take place the following day, May 9, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., in Room 1085, McGill University, 680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal.
Program:
May 8, 2025
May 9, 2025
Organized by Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR), Yoann Della Croce, and Daniel Weinstock (McGill). Co-sponsored by the CRÉ, the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics on Vulnerability and Structural Injustices, and the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy (McGill).
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Launch of the second print issue of L’Amorce, a journal against speciesism @ Online.
12 h 30 – 13 h 30
The GRÉEA and the Environmental and Animal Ethics research axis of the CRÉ invite you to the launch of the second print issue of the journal L’Amorce, to wich members of the GRÉEA and the CRÉ have participated – Sarah Fravica, Martin Gibert and Frédéric Côté-Boudreau.
Several authors and editors of the journal will be present to discuss this new issue.
To join via Zoom, click here
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Annual Transatlantic Ethics Workshop #3 @ Online.
5 May – 6 May All day
The two half-day sessions of the 3rd Annual Transatlantic Meeting in Practical Philosophy will be held online on May 5 and 6, 2025.
To participate on Zoom, click here.
Program (.pdf)
Day 1
(All times in Eastern Standard Time – EST)
Keynote Address
9:00—10:15 am Havi Carel (Bristol), “Radical Bodily Doubt”
Chair: Ryoa Chung (UdM)
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10:20—11:00 am Loga Mitchell (UNC), “Mindfulness, Openness, and Morality”
11:00—11:40 am Nick Clanchy (McGill), “Roland Barthes on Love”
Chair: Magali Bessone (Paris 1)
Break
11:50 am—12:30 pm Andes Salazar Abello (Louvain), “Compatriot Partiality and the Right of Diasporas to Invite Foreigners”
12:30—1:10 pm Edgard Darrobers (Paris 1/UNIGE), “Sense of responsibility”
Chair: Sarah Stroud (UNC)
Day 2
9:00—9:40 am Aida Martinez Suarez (Hoover/Oviedo), “The Importance of Taking the Possible Unavoidability of Human Extinction Seriously”
9:45—10:25 am Will Kanwischer (UNC), “A New Dilemma for Animal Welfare Theorists”
Chair: Samuel Dishaw (Louvain)
Break
10:40—11:20 am Matthieu Debief (UNIGE/NoSoPhi), “Should philanthropy save political journalism?
11:20 am—12:00 pm Abraham Tobi (UdM/CRÉ), “Botched Apologies and Unfulfilled Promises”
Chair: Kristin Voigt (McGill)
Co-organized by the CRÉ, the Parr Center for Ethics, the Chaire Hoover & NoSoPhi.
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“The Politics of Métissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities” Conference @ McGill Faculty Club
1 May 8 h 30 – 2 May 18 h 00
This 2-day academic conference seeks to explore questions related to the mixing of life ways and identities—or métissage—and the wide range of perspectives and political considerations that pertain to this topic, as developed across settler and colonial contexts.
Registration is free and strongly recommended. For more information and to register, click here.
Organizers:
Yann Allard-Tremblay (Political Science, McGill University)
Elaine Coburn (International Studies, York University)Schedule:
May 1 8:30 Arrival 8:45-9:00 Opening and welcome
Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
Yann Allard-Tremblay9:00-10:30 Keynote 1 Emma LaRocque (University of Manitoba): Maybe Metis eh? The Problematics of Metis/metis Identities
10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break 10:45-12:15 Panel 1 Dale Turner (University of Toronto): Métissage as Reconciliation
Tania Islas Weinstein (McGill): Translating Mestizaje: The Politics of Racial Discourses in Mexico12:15-13:15 Break 13:15-15:30 Panel 2
Elaine Coburn (York): ‘A Cursed Line of Mestizos and Tremendous Whores’; the Underside of the Politics of Indigenous Realness
Catherine Lu (McGill): Indigeneity as seriality: Indigenous people as a social collective
Kelsey Brady (University of British Columbia): Decolonizing the Boundary Problem: Taking Indigenous Boundary Problems Seriously15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break 16:00-17:30 Panel 3 Documentary by Yasmine Mathurin: ‘One of Ours’
17:30-18:30 Reception May 2 8:30-9:00: Arrival 9:00-10:30 Panel 4 Melissa Williams (University of Toronto): Indigenizing Democratic Theory: A Grounded Approach
John McGuire (University College Dublin): Hubris and Hybridity: Anxieties of Identity in Ancient and Modern Democracies10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break 10:45-12:15: Roundtable Aaron Mills (McGill)
Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
Maïka Sondarjee (University of Ottawa)
Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill)
Yasmine Mathurin12:15-13:15 Break 13:15-14:45 Panel 5 Daniel Luna (University of Toronto): Coloniality After the Critique of Forms of Life
Tyler Loohuizen (McGill): On the Illegibility of Indigenous Affect and the Potentiality of Social Feeling14:45-15:15 Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break 15:15-16:45 Keynote 2 Bonita Lawrence (York): Legal Indianness and the Expulsion of Non-Status Indigenous People
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Animal Ethics Workshop @ Online.
28 Apr – 29 Apr All day
The Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GRÉEA) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) are organizing a workshop on key ethical issues concerning the moral responsibilities of human beings toward nonhuman animals.
Program
April 28, 2025
8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT
Richard Healey & Angie Pepper, “Against Interspecies Politics”
10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 2:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT
Will Gildea, “What Makes Us Matter: Sentience and (a Bit) Beyond”
April 29, 2025
8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT
Davide Pala & Matthew Perry, “Licencing Pet-keeping”
10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 2:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT
Angie Pepper, “Interspecies Companionship: Dominance, Desire, and Structural Injustice”
To register and received the papers to be read in advance as well as the zoom link, please do it here before April 16.
Organized and chaired by Kristin Voigt & Valéry Giroux.
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The Greea organises a members’ research workshop next Friday, April 25, from 9am to 4 pm, on the UdeM campus.
The program is attached, and practical information may be found here.
Lunch will be provided: please let us know if you plan on attending the workshop.
If participants are interested, we could have a drink in the neighborhood after the workshop.
PROGRAMMATION
9h15-10h15 – Laurent Jodoin (UdeM) – « L’approche mutualiste et entropique de la durabilité »
10h15-11h15 – Matthew Barker (Concordia) – «The Norms Defining Human Nature and Species Nature »
11h30-12h30 – Yves-Marie Abraham (HEC Montréal) – « Quels rapports avec les autres qu’humains dans un monde post-croissance?»13h30-14h30 – Antoine C. Dussault (Collège Lionel-Groulx) – « La nature sauvage et sa valeur d’altérité »
14h30-15h30 – Ghyslain Bolduc (Cégep Édouard Montpetit) – « Sortir de la prison climatique, mais à quel prix ? -
Second Edition of the ‘Everything Agency’ Annual Conference @ Université Laval
24 Apr 8 h 30 – 25 Apr 16 h 45
The second edition of ULaval’s annual “Everything Agency” conference will be held on April 24-25, 2025, at Université Laval’s Laurentienne Pavilion, in Québec City, Canada.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical aspects of agency from different perspectives, such as the philosophy of action, the philosophy of emotions, epistemology, normative ethics, political philosophy, political science, and much more.
In addition to the keynote talks, there will be eight slots for papers selected through a call for papers.
Our keynote speakers for 2025 are:
- Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
- Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
- Jane Friedman (New York University)
- Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organized by Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) and Catherine Rioux (Université Laval), in collaboration with Nathan Howard (University of Toronto). CRÉ is proud to be associated with this event.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the conference; attendance is free, but registration is required. Please write to the following email address before April 18, 2025 to register for the event.
For more details on the event schedule, click here.
