Housing and Social Justice Symposium, during which speakers will explore and discuss the intersection of housing issues, property rights, redistribution and inheritance, in the context of social justice concerns.
Organized by Alexandre Petitclerc (Université de Montréal) and Christian Nadeau (Université de Montréal), in partnership with the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP), the Faculté des Arts et Sciences de l’Université de Montréal, and the Département de philosophie de l’Université de Montréal.
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 Pause
11:25 – 12:15 Briana Toole (Claremont MacKenna College), Standpoint Epistemology: Social or Applied?
Chair: Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (McGill University, CRÉ, CRC-IAE)
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:05 Abe Tobi (Université de Montréal, CRÉ, CRC-IAE), Towards a Relational Account of Epistemic Agency
Chair: Éliot Litalien (Université de Montréal, CRÉ)
2:05 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:05 Cory Aragon (Cal Poly Pomona), Faces of Epistemic Oppression
Chair: Gilles Beauchamp (McGill University, CRC-IAE)
3:05 – 3:25 Coffee break
3:25 – 4:15 Bailey Thomas (Dartmouth College), Conceptualizing Africana Decolonial Epistemologies
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 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)
2:05 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:05 Tempest Henning (Fisk University), Bad (White) Epistemic Luck
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), Denialism, Doxastic Wronging and Apology
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)
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 organised 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
| Brookes Brown (University of Toronto): “The Acceptance Condition Reconsidered: Impartiality, Mutuality, and the Grounds of Fair Play. Commentator: Louis-Philippe Hodgson (University of York) |
| 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) |
| Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University): “Real Interests, Well-Being, and Ideology Critique.” Commentator: Denise Celentano (Universite de Montreal) |
| 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) |
