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Activities of our researchers

  • Current Perspectives on Structural Injustice @ McGill University, Montréal, Qc

    17 Sep – 18 Sep All day

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

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

    The participants, members of the SIRRE network:

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

    *This workshop is not a public event.

    Schedule:

    Thursday, September 17, 2026

    09:00  – Opening and welcome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    16:15–17:15 – KEYNOTE

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

    Vendredi, 18 September 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

    14:30–15:30 – KEYNOTE

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

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

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