Roundtable on the book The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: situating epistemic power and agency (OUP, 2025), by Amandine Catala (CRC-IAE, UQAM).

Registration required, before October 15. The address will be given to you by email before the event.

Program:

9.00-9.30: Welcome and coffee

9.30-10.40: Panel 1 – Ch. 1-2 – Chair: Kristin Voigt (McGill, CRÉ)

– Amandine Catala (CRC-IAE, UQAM): “A Very Brief Synopsis of The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice”

– Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami U, Ohio): “Shifting our Understanding of Epistemic Agency”

– Natalie Stoljar (McGill): “Comments on ch. 2: ‘Stereotypes and Testimonial Domination: A Structural Explanation of Epistemic Agency’”

– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments

10.40-11.00: Coffee break 

11.00-12.10: Panel 2 – Ch. 3-4 – Chair: Anne Iavarone-Turcotte (McGill, CRC-IAE)

– Gilles Beauchamp (CRC-IAE, CRÉ, CRIDAQ): “Comments on ch. 3: ‘Deliberative Impasses, White Ignoring, and Hermeneutical Domination’”

– Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill): “Comments on ch. 4: ‘Colonial Memory, Epistemic Aaordances, and Political Equality’”

– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments

12.10-12.30: Q & A with the audience 

12.30-1.30: Lunch

1.30-2.40: Panel 3 – Ch. 5-6 – Chair: Corinne Lajoie (Western University, UQAM, CRC-IAE)

– José Medina (Northwestern U) “Linguistic Epistemic Injustice and Hermeneutical Death”

– Nick Clanchy (CRC-IAE, CRÉ): “Comments on ch. 6: ‘Becoming Who You Are: Hermeneutical Breakthroughs, Transformative Experience, and Epistemic Empowerment”

– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments

2.40-3.00: Coffee break 

3.00-4.10: Panel 4 – Transversal Perspectives Transversales – Chair: Ryoa Chung (UdeM, CRÉ)

– Abe Tobi (CRC-IAE, CRÉ): “Hermeneutical Breakthroughs in The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice”

– Alison Wylie (UBC): “The Implications of The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice for Standpoint Theory”

– Amandine Catala: Response to Comments

4.10-4.30: Q & A with the audience

With the support of: CRC-IAE, CRÉ, GRIPP, CRIDAQ, FSH, UQAM Department of philosophy.