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Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) International Conference: Practical, Political, and Institutional Progress @ Thomson House
24 Sep 8 h 45 – 25 Sep 17 h 00
The Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) of the Yan P. Lin Centre is pleased to invite you to its 2024 Conference on “Practical, Political, and Institutional Progress”, taking place this September 24 and 25, in the Thomson House Ballroom at McGill University. The conference brings together senior and junior scholars working on progress and related topics that have practical, political and institutional import for understanding and theorizing global justice, broadly conceived.
The papers will be distributed in advance. To register and view the full program of the event, as well as receive the papers, click here.
An event organized by Catherine Lu (McGill University) and co-sponsored by the Princeton University Department of Politics, the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ), the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP), and the Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) of the Yan P. Lin Centre.
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In the memory of Charles W. Mills @ Salle C-3061, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, UdeM
16 h 00
Lectures by Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia U.) and Chike Jeffers (CRC in Africana Philosophy, Dalhousie U.).
With the participation of: Agnes Berthelot-Raffard (York U.), Aly Ndiaye (Webster), Delphine Abadie (Laval U.), and Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR).
An event organized by Ryoa Chung (UdeM), in collaboration with the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics, and Mémoire d’Encrier Publishing.
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Online Workshop: Radical and Critical Approaches to Mental Health II @ Online
9 h 00 – 12 h 15
Online Workshop: “Radical and Critical Approaches to Mental Health II”
We are pleased to announce the second edition of the online workshop Radical and Critical Approaches to Mental Health.
Date: September 20th, 2024 (the workshop will take place online, via Zoom)
Time:
9:00 am – 12:15 pm EDT
1:00 pm – 4:15 pm GMT
3:00 pm – 6:15 pm CEST
Speakers:
- Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå University): ‘Different dissociations and philosophical distinctions.’
- Mikaela D. Gabriel (University of Toronto): ‘Kisapniaq: Exploring the evidence for ceremony and mental health care for Indigenous Peoples in Canada.’
- Alexandre Baril (University of Ottawa): ‘Radical and Critical Approach to Rethinking Suicidality: Reconceptualizing Suicide Prevention Through the Lens of Suicidism’
To register, and to see the program and abstracts for the event, click here.
We invite you to share the event flyer and information within your networks!
The event is co-sponsored by the Centre de Recherche en Éthique, Montréal (CRÉ), the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (C4E), and the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (CRC-IAE).
Organizers: Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Zoey Lavallee, and Larisa Svirsky.
*Note that the event will take place entirely in English.
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Lisa Herzog (UGroeningen) @ Online
11 h 00 – 12 h 00
As part of the activities of the Philosophy of Work Network, Lisa Herzog (UGroeningen) will offer a presentation entitled: “Labor Markets without Market Wages”.
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.
Abstract
Should wages be determined by market forces? This paper argues against this view, based on consideration of the kind of good that labor is and what it means to “trade” it. Two arguments brought forward in favor of market wages, the desert argument and the information argument, are not only mutually incompatible but also both not convincing. The first founders on the problem of complementarities in value creation. The second fails not only because of endogeneity problems, but also because of systemic market failures in labor markets. But is it possible to give up labor markets without endangering freedom of occupation or risking problematic degrees of inefficiency? This can be achieved by understanding labor markets as matching markets, comparable to those for donor organs: what matters is creating good matches, but the price mechanism is not central for this. From this perspective, various existing institutions, such as minimum wages and collective bargaining, can be reinterpreted as “approximative institutions” that move labor markets in a more just direction.
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8th Montreal Social Justice Theory Workshop @ Room LB-145, Concordia
27 Jun – 28 Jun All day
8th edition of the Social Justice Theory Workshop, organized by Pablo Gilabert and Peter Dietsch, for the Social Justice Centre, at Concordia, and University of Victoria.
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 (Concordia University), le Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Université de Montréal) and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria.
The 8th edition of this intensive research workshop will take place on June 27-28, 2024.
The workshop will be in person. Places are limited. If you would like to participate, please send your name to Christiane Bailey (sjc@concordia.ca) by May 25, 2024.
The workshop will take place at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation.
Program
Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University): “Real Interests, Well-Being, and Ideology Critique.” Commentator: Denise Celentano (Universite de Montreal)
Andree-Anne Cormier (Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique, Montreal): “Is Loneliness a Problems of Justice?” Commentator: Natalie Stoljar (McGill)
Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria): “Just incomes and climate change: Can economic justice pave the way for climate justice?” Commentator: Juliette Roussin (Laval)
Brookes Brown (University of Toronto): “The Acceptance Condition Reconsidered: Impartiality, Mutuality, and the Grounds of Fair Play. Commentator: Louis-Philippe Hodgson (University of York)
Aaron James (University of California, Irvine): “Republican Money” Commentator: Jacqueline Best (University of Ottawa)
Steven Klein (King’s College, London): “Towards a Democratic Theory of Labour Unions” Commentator: Éliot Litalien (Université de Montréal)
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“Quel rôle pour les animaux dans les sciences, les pratiques et les imaginaires du réensauvagement ?” @ Room 309, UdeM, Hybrid mode
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
Virginie Maris (Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, at Montpellier | CEFE) will give a lunch talk at CRÉ/GRÉEA.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
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Luttes de justice sociale et environnementale: l’engagement des chercheur.ses @ Librairie Port de tête
18 h 30 – 20 h 00
The GRÉEA and the CRÉ are pleased to invite you to a roundtable discussion on the theme of researchers’ engagement in social and environmental struggles.
On the occasion of the visit of Virginie Maris (Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Montpellier) who will be doing a research stay as an invited researcher at the CRÉ, Anne Desruisseaux (Université de Montréal), Francis Dupuis-Déri (Université du Québec à Montréal), and Christian Nadeau (Université de Montréal) will join Virginie to respond to questions posed by Juliette Roussin (Université Laval). An open discussion period will follow.
The event will be held at the Port de tête bookstore in Montreal.
Organization: Véronica Ponce (Marianapolis college, GRÉEA) and Valéry Giroux (CRÉ, GRÉEA).
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Listening to our silences: Technologies, communication and marginalization @ Room C-1017-02, Carrefour des Arts & Sciences, Université de Montréal
13 Jun – 14 Jun All day
The graduate fellows of the Center for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) are pleased to announce their international conference, dedicated this year to the theme “Listening to Our Silences: Technologies, Communication, and Marginalization.”
Organizers: Thomas Emmaüs Adetou (Ph.D., UdeM); Véronique Chetmi Eyali (Ph.D., ULaval); Louis Pierre Côté (Ph.D., UQTR); Ann-Sophie Gravel (Master’s, ULaval); Gabrielle Joni Verreault (Ph.D., UdeM); Alexis Morin-Martel (Ph.D., McGill); Alexandre Poisson (Ph.D., UQÀM); and Marie-Christine Roy (Ph.D., UdeM).
Program
Day 1 – June 13
8h00-9h00: Breakfast / Welcome of participants
9h00: Keynote talk 1. Kevin Macnish (University of Leeds)
10h15: Break
10h30-12h30: Panel 1. Social justice , identity and inclusion
Nick Clanchy (McGill), “Infrapolitical Strategies for Tackling Hermeneutical Injustices Amidst the Global Trans Panic”.
Sandrine Renaud (UQTR), “Causeries injustes: les campagnes de sensibilisation à la stigmatisation en santé mentale et la reproduction des injustices épistémiques”.
Alex Desrochers Yanakis (UQÀM), “La figure mythique de Cassandre selon une perspective neurodivergente ou comment faire lire un roman sur l’autisme à un public qui ne veut rien savoir sur le sujet”.
12h30-13h30: Lunch
13h30-16h00: Viewing of the film “À mort le bikini” (2023), and animated discussion with director Justine Gauthier and guiding text “The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes” (2023) Lila Braunschweig.
16h00: Closing remarks for the day
Day 2 – June 14
8h00-9h00: Breakfast / Welcome of participants
9h00-11h00: Panel 2. Silencing, marginalization and resistance
Alejandro Macías Flores (UdeM); Raquel Maroño Vázquez (IMDHD); Alexia Martínez Montalban (ind. researcher), “Practices of Silencing in the Mexican Disappearance Crisis”.
Saja Farhat (UdeM) “Silences connectés: la marginalisation dans l’ère numérique”.
Emmanuelle Chartrand (UQTR), “Soutenir la quête et construction de sens pour et avec les familles en situation de négligence: vers une
pratique participative de l’utilisation psychoéducative”.11h00: Break
11h15-12h30: Keynote talk 2. William M. Paris (University of Toronto)
12h30: Closing remarks of the conference
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“Affective Injustice in Psychiatry: Emotion Policing and Medication Centrism” @ Room 309, hybrid
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
Midis de l’éthique series: presentation by Zoey Lavallee and Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien “Affective Injustice in Psychiatry: Emotion Policing and Medication Centrism”.
To participate on Zoom, click here.
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As part of the CRÉ lunchtime conferences, Denise Celentano (UdeM) will give a presentation entitled “Status Labor”.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
Abstract
The concept of status is usually taken to describe people’s standing in the social hierarchy, referring to relatively static positions in the social order. Yet status norms have a dynamic side to them, too: they also require individuals to “do” status. I refer to the work of “doing status” as “status labor.” Status labor is the work that agents are implicitly expected to perform in order to act and counteract social status ascriptions. Status ascriptions are culturally mediated presumptions of competence triggered by social identifiers. The belief of lower competence in women, black or working-class people is an example. Status labor is the work implied by that belief, e.g., working harder to prove one’s competence or self-polishing to fit norms of suitability. Status labor perpetuates social hierarchies by inflicting higher contributory burdens on lower status agents. The presentation focuses in particular, but not exclusively, on the status labor that agents perform in the context of the workplace, where status-based expectations of suitability to roles are particularly relevant. The presentation has three main aims. First, partly drawing on the work of Erving Goffman and the sociology of social status, it conceptualizes status labor, providing an exploratory taxonomy through concrete examples and a differential analysis. Second, it locates status labor in a relational egalitarian framework. While ideas of “treatment” and “expression,” recurring in the relational egalitarian debate, tend to mostly focus on the interactional aspects of status, status labor focuses on the intra-personal work of complying with status scripts, thereby providing a more fine-grained understanding of dynamics of social subordination. Third, it formulates relational egalitarian as well as non-relational egalitarian objections to status labor.
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ChatGPT and ethics: reflections around Large Language Models (LLM) and other generation algorithms @ Cegep de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
9 h 30 – 17 h 30
The Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ), Martin Gibert and Thomas Adetou are pleased to invite you to a colloquium on ChatGPT and ethics, which will be held at the SPQ annual conference on June 6, 2024 at the Cégep de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
The topic will be the ethics of algorithms such as Midjourney or Dall.e (image generation) or Large Language Models such as ChatGPT (text generation). The aim will be to explore the ethical implications arising from the emergence of generative algorithms, highlighting the challenges and opportunities they offer in the contemporary philosophical landscape. The hope is to create and encourage a space for interdisciplinary dialogue conducive to exploring the interactions between generative algorithms and the field of ethics.
Program:
9:30am / Welcome
9:35am / Dave Anctil (Collège Brébeuf) Robopolis-3 : vers une éthique hybride et émergente de l’IA.
10: 15am/Hugo Bérard (Université de Montréal ; Chaire UNESCO en Paysage Urbain ; Mila). Enjeux éthiques liés à l’utilisation des données pour entrainer les algorithmes génératifs
10:55am Coffee break
11:10am/Andréane Sabourin Laflamme (Cégep André-Laurendeau) Les impacts sociaux de la démocratisation de l’IA générative : biais, discrimination et pistes d’actions.
11:50am/Roxanne Lépine & Thomas Amah Adetou (Université de Montréal) Entre réalité et représentation : les enjeux éthiques des IA génératives.
12:30 Lunch break
2:00pm / Victor Tremblay-Baillargeon (Université de Montréal). L’IA générative et délibération morale : une solution aux angles morts moraux ?
2:40pm /Khaoula Chehbouni (Université McGill) Mitigation des risques liés aux Grands Modèles de Langage : Enjeux et Solutions.
3:20pm Coffee break
3: 35pm /Martin Gibert (Centre de Recherche en Éthique) Faut-il avoir peur des conseillers moraux artificiels?
4: 15pm /Nicolas Tardif & Clayton Peterson (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 2 Chaire de recherche UQTR en éthique de l’intelligence artificielle). Agents moraux artificiels : Limites d’une approche maximisant l’utilité attendue.
4:55pm Closing remarks
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Cette quatrième édition du colloque en philosophie économique francophone, organisé par Morgane Delorme dans le cadre de la Société de Philosophie du Québec, est l’occasion d’aborder à la fois de nouveaux thèmes et d’intégrer de nouveaux membres au sein d’un réseau en pleine émergence. Cette quatrième rencontre poursuit la constitution d’un réseau des praticien·nes québécois·e·s et francophones de la philosophie, de l’épistémologie ou de l’éthique économiques.
Cette année, un intérêt particulier est porté aux travaux de jeunes chercheur·se·s qui travaillent sur des thèmes innovants, témoignant d’un renouveau de l’éthique économique appliquée. Dans cette perspective, les dix interventions retenues abordent : la littératie financière, le limitarisme (plafonnement des salaires), la planification prospective, l’éthique de l’entreprise, la philanthropie, la fiscalité écologique, la justice sociale en contexte contemporain, le droit de vote pondéré favorablement pour les plus jeunes et le discount des catastrophes. Tous et toutes bienvenu·e·s.
9h00: Morgane Delorme (UdeM), “Introduction : Faire place à la philosophie économique normative”
9h40: Michaël Lemelin (UQAM), “Limitarisme économique (plafonnement des salaires & revenus)”
10h20: Saja Farhat (IDÉA/UdeM), “Repenser la philosophie et la planification prospective”
11h00: Gabriel Monette (Cégep André-Laurendeau/HEC), “Gouvernance coopérative dynamique”
14h00: Sacha-Emmanuel Mossu (Laval), ‘Philanthropie et justice – les incitatifs fiscaux pour dons de bienfaisance”
14h35: Alexis Ouellet-Simard (OttawaU), “Penser la fiscalité écologique”
15h10: Guillaume Mathelier (HEGG), “Justice sociale et écoumène” [par Zoom]
15h45: Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger (ENS Lyon), “Pondérer le vote en faveur des plus jeunes” [par Zoom]
16h20: Keven Bisson (McGill), “Le discount des catastrophes et le longtermism”
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La psychiatrie entre vulnérabilité et émancipation : approches historiques et philosophiques @ Salle 6, Cégep de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
8 h 30 – 17 h 00
Study day in philosophy of psychiatry organized by Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (McGill, CRÉ, CREF) and Emmanuel Chaput (John Hopkins University, Cégep André-Laurendeau) as part of the SPQ Annual Congress.
La psychiatrie, l’histoire de la psychiatrie et la philosophie de la psychiatrie contemporaine se sont certainement montrées sensibles à des questionnements liés aux thèmes des limites du soin, de l’empowerment, de la vulnérabilité, de la pathologisation et de l’oppression, mais aussi des possibilités d’émancipation amenées par la thérapeutique. C’est donc dans une posture interdisciplinaire, inclusive et critique que nous aimerions pousser cette réflexion sur l’évolution du rapport qu’entretint la psychiatrie avec ces notions de vulnérabilité et d’émancipation.
8h30: Accueil
8h45: Emmanuel Chaput (Cégep André-Laurendeau/ Johns Hopkins University), “Les psychiatres sont-ielles les bons ou les mauvais génies de leurs patient-es?”
9h35: Simon Goyer (UdeM), “Proposition d’une définition de l’erreur de diagnostic en psychiatrie basée sur la théorie des réseaux”
10h25: Ouanessa Younsi (UdeM), “Philosophie du soin en psychiatrie du point de vue de la pratique clinique”
14h00: Alexandre Klein (Cegep André-Laurendeau/Université d’Ottawa), “Entre émancipation et vulnérabilité : espoirs et ratés de la désinstitutionnalisation psychiatrique au Québec (1961-1997)”
14h50: Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (McGill, CRÉ, CREF), “Autonomie et internalisation de l’oppression: le cas du trouble dysphorique prémenstruel”
15h40: Luc Faucher (UQAM), “Fonctionnalité et préjudice”
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“Experiential Knowledge in the Making: Lessons and Perspectives from the DIY-AIDS Movement” @ W-5305, Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain (W)), UQAM
30 May – 31 May All day
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, MAY 30
09:30 – Welcome address10:00-11:15 – Shane O’Donnell (School of Sociology / School of Medicine – University College Dublin) “Transformations in Diabetes Care Lessons from Commons-based, Peer-produced Citizen Science.”
11:15-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-12:45: – Vololona Rabeharisoa (Centre de sociologie de l’innovation, Mines Paris – PSL Université) “On the Multiplicity of Lay Expertise: An Empirical and Analytical Overview of Patient Associations’ Achievements and Challenges”
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:45 – Aude Bandini (département de philosophie – Université de Montréal) “Experiential Knowledge: Conceptual Promises and Challenges in Epistemology”
15:45-16:00 – Coffee break
16:00-17:15 – Jonathan Garfinkel (Medical and Health Humanities – U. of Alberta) & Brian Cleal (Steno Diabetes Center – University of Copenhagen) “The divine comedy of diabetes and long Covid: an autoethnographic dialogue.”
19:00 – Workshop’s Diner
FRIDAY, MAY 31
09:00-10:15 – Henriette Langstrup (Departement of Public Health – University of Copenhagen) “Looping for (Self)Care—Personal Digital Health Technology and Algorithmic Systems.” (with Bianca Jansky)10:15-11:30 – Clay Davis (Department of sociology – Northwestern University) “The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas.”
11:30-11:45 – Coffee break
11:45-13:00 – Susi Geiger (Market Studies – University College Dublin) “Between activist, healer and entrepreneur: the fluid boundaries around marketizing one’s patient expertise” (with Olya Loza)
13:00-14:30 – Lunch
Thanks for their generous financial support :
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International Conference on Epistemic Oppression and Decolonization @ Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM
29 May – 31 May All day
The International Conference on Epistemic Oppression and Decolonization organized by Amandine Catala (UQAM)’ Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Angency will be held at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) on May 29-31, 2024.
With keynotes from:
- Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University, Ohio)
- José Medina (Northwestern University)
- Linda Alcoff (CUNY)
**The conference is free and open to all and it is possible to attend online via livestream on May 29-31 (no registration required) or in person at UQAM (registration required by May 8).
DAY 1 – 29 May 2024
10:00 – 11:15 (Keynote) Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami University, Ohio), Epistemic Pressure and Intersectional Interdependence
Chair: Kristin Voigt (McGill University, CRÉ)
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:25 – 12:15 Abe Tobi (Université de Montréal, CRÉ, CRC-IAE), Towards a Relational Account of Epistemic Agency
Chair: Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (McGill University, CRÉ, CRC-IAE)
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:05 Cory Aragon (Cal Poly Pomona), Faces of Epistemic Oppression
Chair: Gilles Beauchamp (McGill University, CRC-IAE)
2:05 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:05 Eric Bayruns García (McMaster University), Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation, History of Racial Injustice and Hermeneutical Injustice
Chair: Nick Clanchy (McGill University, CRÉ, CRC-IAE)
3:05 – 3:25 Coffee break
3:25 – 4:15 Tempest Henning (Fisk University), Bad (White) Epistemic Luck
Chair: Michelle Martineau (Université de Montréal, CRIDAQ)
4:15 – 4:25 Break
4:25 – 5:15 Karen Jones (University of Melbourne), Defund the Police: How to Identify and Undermine Common Strategies for White Policing of the Borders of Philosophy
Chair: Muhammad Velji (Wesleyan University)DAY 2 – 30 May 2024
10:00 – 11:15 (Keynote) José Medina (Northwestern University), Epistemic Border-Crossing: Polyphonic Decolonial Resistance and Collective Epistemic Self-Empowerment
Chair: Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill University, CRÉ, GRIPP)
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:25 – 12:15 Emma Velez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Latinx Decolonial Feminisms & Epistemologies Hecho a Mano
Chair: Mirjiam Fines-Neuschild (Université de Montréal, CERC, CRC-IAE)
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:05 Jorge Sanchez Perz (University of Alberta), Mestizaje as a Political Project and the Limits of Latin American Philosophy
Chair: Éliot Litalien (Université de Montréal, CRÉ)
2:05 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:05 Bailey Thomas (Dartmouth College), Conceptualizing Africana Decolonial Epistemologies
Chair: Leena Abdelrahim (University of Toronto)
3:05 – 3:25 Coffee break
3:25 – 4:15 Fiona Jenkins (Australian National University), Acknowledgment of Country and the Staging of History: Can Practices of Acknowledgment Alleviate Colonial Epistemic Oppression?
Chair: Dominique Leydet (UQAM, CRIDAQ, GRIPP)
4:15 – 4:25 Break
4:25 – 5:15 Rebecca Tsosie (University of Arizona), Non-Ideal Theory and Reparative Justice: The Logic of “Indigenous Rights”
Chair: Karine Millaire (Université de Montréal)DAY 3 – 31 May 2024
10:00 – 10:50 Veli Mitova (University of Johannesburg), Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations
Chair: Ryoa Chung (Université de Montréal, CRÉ, GRIPP)
10:50 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:50 Magali Bessone (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Specters of Haiti: Epistemic Reparations in a Postcolonial Context
Chair: Cheldy Belkhodja (Concordia University, CRIDAQ)
11:50 – 12:50 Lunch
12:50 – 1:40 Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR, CREF, CRÉ, CRIDAQ), The Importance of Colonial Memory in the Conceptualization of Structural Injustices
Chair: Amin Perez (UQAM, CRIDAQ)
1:40 – 1:50 Break
1:50 – 2:40 Seunghyun Song (Tilburg University), Epistemic Responsibility for Structural Remedies
Chair: Marie-Pier Lemay (Carleton University)
2:40 – 3:00 Coffee break
3:00 – 3:50 Désirée Lim (Penn State University), Decolonization, Museums, and the Right to Be Unknown
Chair: Soufia Galand (Université de Sherbrooke, CRC-IAE)
3:50 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:15 (Keynote) Linda Alcoff (CUNY), Imperial Museums and the Claim to Universal Knowledge
Chair: Phoebe Friesen (McGill University, CRÉ)This conference is made possible thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors::
– Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques/Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (CRC-IAE)
– Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ)
– Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ)
– Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP)
– Canadian Journal of Philosophy (CJP)
– Faculté des sciences humaines, UQAM
– Département de philosophie, UQAM
– Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe (CREF) -
“Partnering with Patients and Communities in Healthcare Ethics” @ Centre Mont-Royal
29 May – 31 May All day
The 18th annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation (ICCEC) and the 32nd annual Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS) conference will be held jointly. The conference on Partnering with Patients and Communities in Healthcare Ethics is co-organized by, among others, by two co-researchers from the CRÉ, Nathalie Gaucher and Marie-Ève Bouthillier, and a member of its Committee of Practical Experts, Antoine Payot. Please visit the event website for more details here.
The plenary conference entitled ‘Epistemic Injustices in Clinical Settings’ will be offered by Ryoa Chung (UdeM, co-director of the CRÉ), Naïma Hamrouni (CREF and UQTR), Agnès-Berthelot-Rafard (York), and Alexandra Pierre (president of the Ligue des droits et libertés and Concordia).
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Reading group in philosophy of economy @ Room CSC-02-840, HEC bâtiment Côte-Ste-Catherine, 2ème étage
11 h 00 – 12 h 00
9th session of the Reading Group in Philosophy of Economy
Discussion session on the text “The Power of Private Creditors and the Need for Reform of the International Financial Architecture”, from Anahí Wiedenbrüg and Patricio López Turconi, chapter 16 of Wealth and Power – Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Bennet, Huub Brower and Rutger Claassen, published in 2022 at Routledge.
To participate or receive the excerpts by email, contact the organizers (Morgane Delorme: morgane.delorme.1@umontreal.ca; or Gabriel Monette: gabriel.monette@hec.ca).
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W. Jared Parmer (RWTH Aachen University) @ Online
12 h 00 – 13 h 00
As part of the activities of the Philosophy of Work Network , W. Jared Parmer (RWTH Aachen University) will offer a presentation entitled: “Meaning and Alienation in Work”.
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.
Abstract
In this talk, I give a synoptic view of philosophical treatments of meaning in work, and how these treatments point to varieties of alienation in work, too. I suggest that there are neoliberal, liberal, and perfectionist approaches of meaningful work. These approaches distinguish themselves by how they answer two key questions: first, must meaningful work be in some way objectively good? and, second, is work somehow special when it comes to living a meaningful life? They generate different paradigm cases of alienated work as the opposite of meaningful work. I will finally offer some reasons for why I, tentatively, endorse a perfectionist approach to meaningful work.
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Workshop co-organized by Ophélie Desmons (INSPE Paris, Sorbonne University) and Martin Gibert (Université de Montréal).
With the support of GREEA (environmental and animal ethics research group), CRÉ (Centre de recherche en éthique) and UMR 8011 “Sciences, Normes, Démocratie”, Sorbonne University.
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Program
9:00 am (Montreal)/03:00 pm (Paris)
Mark Ryan (Wageningen), Leonie N. Bossert (U. of Vienna)
Dr. Doolittle Uses AI: Should We Try to Speak Whale?
AI technologies are increasingly applied on nonhuman animals. In this talk, we will focus on a particular application of AI to other animals, namely, using AI to decode animal communication, in particular whale communication. We will discuss a variety of ethical aspects of using AI to decode whale communication, as well as the risks and benefits involved.
9:30 am/03:30 pm
Ophélie Desmons (Sorbonne)
Une IA qui parle baleine, anticiper le pire et évaluer les bénéfices potentiels
Des projets récents de développement de l’IA laissent entrevoir la possibilité de communiquer avec les baleines. Cette intervention s’appuie sur les ressources offertes par une ouvre de fiction (Extrapolations, Saison 1, épisode 2, AppleTV, 2023) pour examiner la question de savoir si une telle IA est susceptible de produire de nouvelles injustices à l’égard des animaux concernés ou au contraire d’apporter des éléments de réponse à l’un des problèmes fréquemment souligné dans le champ de l’éthique et de la justice animales : le fait que les animaux ne disposent pas d’une “voix” leur permettant de faire entendre leurs intérêts et de revendiquer le respect de leurs droits.
Recent AI technologies point to the possibility of communicating with whales. This talk draws on the resources offered by a work of fiction (Extrapolations, Season 1, Episode 2, AppleTV, 2023) to examine the question of whether such an AI is likely to produce new injustices for the animals concerned or, on the contrary, to provide elements of a response to one of the problems frequently highlighted in the field of animal ethics and animal justice: the fact that animals do not have a “voice” enabling them to make their interests heard and claim respect for their rights.
10:00 am/04:00 pm
Soenke Ziesche, Yip Fai Tse (Princeton)
AI alignment for nonhuman animals: next steps
In our talk we present our latest research, which comprises further arguments why nonhuman animals ought to be included in AI alignment efforts and why we believe this is possible. In short, we propose to provide AI systems access with all types of data of nonhuman animals according to animal welfare methods and let the AI systems analyse the data and learn about the interests and preferences of nonhuman animals through (inverse) reinforcement learning.
10:30 am/04:30 pm
Jean-Cassien Billier (Sorbonne)
La pluralité des mondes moraux : les implications métaéthiques des interactions entre l’IA et les animaux non-humains
On sait déjà que l’IA peut créer des mondes moraux inédits, constitués d’agents moraux artificiels modulaires. L’interaction entre l’IA et les animaux non-humains ouvre une perspective plus radicalement nouvelle, et bien plus hétérodoxe : celle de mondes moraux constitués par des relations entre des entités morales non-humaines de deux types : les unes naturelles, les autres artificielles. Ces nouveaux mondes moraux pourront être dépourvus d’agents moraux humains ou de relation directe à ces derniers. Quelles sont les implications métaéthiques de cette potentielle multiplication des mondes moraux ?
11:00 am/05:00 pm – break
11:15 am/05:15 am
Augusta Gaze (Sorbonne)
Comment Zoopolis éclaire les relations entre systèmes d’IA et animaux non-humains?
Après une présentation de la Théorie des Droits des Animaux développée dans Zoopolis, nous partirons du cadre normatif posé par les auteurs afin de penser des cas qui ne sont pas intuitivement faciles à traiter. D’abord, nous analyserons l’exemple des systèmes d’IA capables d’éduquer les animaux de compagnie. Puis, nous poursuivrons avec l’interaction des voitures autonomes avec les kangourous.
11:45 am/05:45 pm
Angela Martin (Basel), Leonie N. Bossert (U. of Vienna)
Large Language Models, Search Engine Ranking, and Justice for Animals
In this talk, we focus on the manifold forms of harms that nonhuman animals can experience because of Large Language Models (LLM) and Search Engine Ranking (SER). We show how LLMs and SERs regularly disrespect animal interests, which amounts to speciesism. In a first step, we outline that LLMs and SERs should, in an ideal world, minimally not cause any harm to animals. In a second step, we argue that in the currently non-ideal world, LLMs and SERs should be actively altered to educate people about animals and speciesism. Finally, we discuss several objections to our arguments.
12:15 pm/06:15 pm
Martin Gibert (U.Montréal) et / and Nick Clanchy (Centre de recherche en éthique)
Qu’est-ce qui est spécial avec le spécisme algorithmique?
Le spécisme algorithmique, entendu comme l’ensemble des effets discriminatoires des algorithmes sur les animaux, se distingue des autres manifestations du spécisme par ses aspects plus automatiques et contrôlables – et donc plus facilement réversible. Il se distingue par ailleurs du racisme algorithmique car il est moins reconnu et par le fait que les victimes ne peuvent qu’être passives face à ces discriminations: elles ont besoin de notre epistemic care. Nous considérerons plusieurs exemples.
Algorithmic speciesism, understood as all the discriminatory effects of algorithms on animals, differs from other manifestations of speciesism in being more automatic and controllable – and therefore more easily reversible. It also differs from algorithmic racism in that it is less recognized, and its victims can only be passive with regard to such discrimination: they need our epistemic care. We will consider several examples.
12:45 pm/06:45 pm – closing remarks
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Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton) and Richard Healey (LSE) @ Room 309, UdeM, Hybrid
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
Members of the CRÉ and GREÉEA are delighted to welcome Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton) and Richard Healey (LSE), who will offer a presentation titled “Animals, Inferiory, and Abolition.”
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Abstract
In The Pecking Order, Niko Kolodny argues that natural persons have an irreducible claim against inferiority: a claim “that we not be set beneath another in a social hierarchy” (p. 5). Such social hierarchies, Kolodny suggests, are constituted by untempered disparities in power, authority, and regard. Though Kolodny acknowledges that the lives of many social animals are organised around the “pecking order” (p. 1, p. 87), other animals barely feature in his analysis of relations of inferiority. This omission is striking because many of our relations with nonhuman animals, especially those who have been domesticated, do not arise in “chance, one-off encounters”, but are rather “entrenched in an established, ongoing social structure” (p. 98). Think, for example, of our relations to livestock animals, laboratory animals, and pets. In each of these cases, animals are systematically subordinated by a pattern of social and legal norms that involve untempered asymmetries in power, authority, and regard.
These observations raise the question: Do non-human animals have a claim against inferiority within human-animal communities and hierarchies? In this paper, we argue that they do. Moreover, we suggest that nonhuman animals’ complaint against inferiority supports an abolitionist approach to animal rights. The basic idea is that to fully respect the rights of other animals, we must desist from using them as means to our ends. Importantly, the claim against inferiority not only supports the abolition of practices that clearly cause animals suffering but also those that need not, such as pet keeping.
The paper is structured as follows. First, we defend the claim that sentient nonhuman animals can have claims against inferiority against humans. We consider the view that only those capable of adequately recognising their position within a social hierarchy can have claims against inferiority. In response, we observe that while one’s ability to recognise one’s social position will likely have implications for what constitutes appropriate treatment, nothing in Kolodny’s account necessitates a recognition condition for the claim against inferiority. We further argue that the lack of a recognition condition is independently plausible if we wish to allow, for example, that young children in lower castes and individuals with severe cognitive disabilities can have claims against inferiority. Second, we argue that some nonhuman animals do have claims of inferiority against us. To illustrate this we show that animals have a complaint against being socially positioned as pets, which is grounded in a claim against inferiority. Specifically, we contend that the practice of pet-keeping is a socio-political institution which is constituted by untempered asymmetries in power, authority, and regard between humans and nonhuman animals. Furthermore, we argue that it is not possible to effectively temper these asymmetries while maintaining the practice of living with pets. This is because the tempering factors that undercut objections to social hierarchy in the human case (see Kolodny §5.2 and Ch. 8) either cannot be made to work for other animals (e.g., democratic governance) or otherwise require that the practice be dismantled. If our argument is correct, the implications are significant. Not only does this give us a further reason to abandon practices that harm other animals such as farming and biomedical research, but it suggests that the seemingly more benign practice of keeping animals as pets should be abolished.
