Ethics and politics
Ethics and politics
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Work in Progress Workshop on Structural Injustice @ Salle C-7088, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal
9 h 30 – 17 h 00
The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) is hosting the “Work in Progress Workshop on Structural Injustice,” a workshop for doctoral candidates and early-career researchers. It is organized by Ellena Thibaud-Latour (Université de Montréal) and Vojtěch Svěrák (University of Groningen and Charles University), a visiting researcher at the CRÉ.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Room C-7088, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de MontréalMany of today’s urgent problems are structural in nature: homelessness, global poverty, climate change, worker exploitation, white supremacy, gender-based oppression. They cannot be reduced solely to reprehensible acts of identifiable actors; rather, they stem from social processes, norms and institutional devices with complex histories. The workshop welcomes contributions to ongoing debates on structural injustice and responsibility from all disciplines concerned with oppression and domination broadly understood.
The workshop is held in English and follows a pre-read format: the texts will be shared with participants after registration.
Registration is free but required: registration form.
Program:
9h30 – 10h00 : Coffee and welcome
10h00 – 13h00 : MORNING SESSION
- Tyra Maud Declerck – The Vulnerability Paradox of Language Policies
- Radheesh Ameresekere – State Sovereignty as Non-Domination
- Alexandre Petitclerc – ls a Social Right to Housing Necessary?
13h00 – 14h00 : Lunch break
14h00 – 17h00 : AFTERNOON SESSION
- Robbie Dillon – The Pose-Digital Indian: Indigenous Cu/cure & Identity in the Age of Al
- Ellena Thibaud-Latour – Obstacles to Action and Political Responsibility: Indifference and the Recurring Issue of Motivation in the Context of Structural lnjustice
- Vojtěch Svěrák – Promoting Justice from Within: Political Responsibility and Institutional Activism
17h00 : Drinks
Organizers: Ellena Thibaud-Latour (ellena.thibaud-latour@umontreal.ca) and Vojtěch Svěrák (v.sverak@rug.nl).
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Charles Taylor Lecture Series 2026 : Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University) @ The 12, salle Leacock 232, McGill University; the 13, Cinema J.A. De Sève, Concordia University
12 Nov 16 h 00 – 13 Nov 18 h 00
The 2026 Charles Taylor Lecture Series welcomes Will Kymlicka for two talks on “An Ethics of Membership for Diverse Societies.”
The series of conferences will take place at McGill and Concordia Universities:
- “The Need for an Ethics of Membership” (November 12 at McGill from 4:00 – 6:00 pm – Leacock 232)
- “Addressing the Pathologies of an Ethics of Membership” (November 13 at Concordia, 4 – 6 pm – Cinéma De Sève) – followed by a reception
Please let us know you will join us.
About the speaker
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, where he has taught since 1998. He has published eight books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards. His books include Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson, and, most recently, Animals and the Rights to Politics (2025).
This series of conferences are co-organized by the GRIPP – Groupe interuniversitaire de recherche en philosophie politique, the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), Concordia’s Social Justice Centre, the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology – McGill University and the Chaire UNESCO d’étude des fondements philosophiques de la justice et de la société démocratique at UQAM.
Thanks to our partners for helping with publicity: Le Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ), The Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) at Concordia University, le Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales (GRSP), the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) and the Collectif de recherche Action Politique et Démocratie (CAPED).
