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9th Montreal Social Justice Theory Workshop

When:
29 May 2025 – 30 May 2025 all-day
2025-05-29T00:00:00-04:00
2025-05-31T00:00:00-04:00
Where:
SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, Concordia University
Room LB-145
1400 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal
QC

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 (Université Concordia), the Centre de recherche en éthique (Université de Montréal) and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria.

The 9th edition of this intensive research workshop will take place on May 29-30 2025, in room LB-145 at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, J.W. McConnell Building, Concordia University, 1400, De Maisonneuve Boulevard, Montréal, Québec. 

The workshop will be in person. Places are limited and registration is required. If you would like to participate, please contact Christiane Bailey at the following address : sjc@concordia.ca.

9:00 Welcome (Thursday May 29) – Coffee and Food
9:15 Brian Berkey (University of Pennsylvania) and Kritika Maheshwari (TU Delft -The Netherlands): “The Ethics of Partner Hiring in Academia.”

Commentator: Christine Straehle (U of Ottawa)

10:30 Break
10:45 Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia): “How to Send a Message.”

Commentator: Andrée-Anne Cormier (Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique, Montreal)

12:00 Lunch
13:30 Denise Celentano (Université de Montréal) “Temporal Agency at Work.”

Commentator: Éliot Litalien (University de Montréal)

14:45 Break
15:00 Louis-Philippe Hodgson (University of York) – “Contractualism and Anti-Perfectionism”

Commentator: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)

18:30 Dinner (speakers and commentators)
9:30 Welcome (Friday May 30)
9:45 David Estlund (Brown University): “The Illusion of Purely Structural Wrong.”

Commentator: Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)

11:00 Break
11:15 Peter Dietsch (U. of Victoria): “The normative political economy of zero growth”

Commentator: Rafael Ziegler (HEC Montreal)

12:30

3:00

Lunch

Farewell

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