Positions held

2025-2026 to today

Student(s), Ethics and politics

Biography

Georges Lupwana Ngamasana is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Montreal under the supervision of Christian Nadeau (UdeM). He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Montreal, a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of Congo, a bachelor’s degree in theology, and a certificate of aggregation for secondary education from the Catholic University of Congo. His master’s thesis, supervised by Marc-Antoine Dilhac (UdeM), focused on recognition as a political dynamic and critical theory.

His current research focuses on the systemic nature of two complementary logics that jointly contribute to the violation of social rights and individual freedoms within liberal societies. It involves considering the relationship between, on the one hand, perpetuated vulnerabilities such as poverty, unequal access to education and housing, and social discrimination, which stigmatize certain social groups, and, on the other hand, the criminalization, repression, and social control of these groups. These two dimensions are two sides of the same coin: on one side there is the social injustice that results from the social system and on the other side the way in which this system responds to the problem. In response to these dual social injustices, both upstream (impoverishment, etc.) and downstream (criminalization), he believes it is necessary to respond by modelling normative demands based on social rights theory. Georges is also interested in the ethical issues surrounding the use of personal data by AI.

georges.lupwana.ngamasana@umontreal.ca