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.

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 1, 2023.

This year’s 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.

Programme

9:00 Welcome (Thursday June 8)

9:15 Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria); Commentator: Åsbjørn Melkevik (Queen’s University)

10:30 Break

10:45 Louis-Philippe Hodgson (York University), “Parental Justice: A Rawlsian Proposal”; Commentator: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Sabine Tsuruda (Queen’s University); Commentator: Denise Celentano (Université de Montréal)

14:45 Break

15:00 Jan Kandiyali (Durham University, UK), Commentator: Will Roberts (McGill University)

18:30 Dinner

9:30 Welcome (Friday June 9)

9:45 Martin O’Neill (University of York, UK), “Public Goods, Public Provision, and the Sense of Justice”; Commentator: Eleni Schirmer (Concordia University)

11:00 Break

11:15 Avia Pasternak (University of Toronto); Commentator: Sylvie Loriaux (Université Laval)

12:30 Lunch and Farewell

The workshop will take place in the seminar room of the Library Building (LB-362) and the food will be served in the adjacent Friends of the Library Room (LB-361).

WHERE:
Sir George Williams Campus
McConnell Building,
Library 3rd floor (Room LB-362)
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8

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