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Here is the preview of our workshops, co-hosted events, and lecture series. Exact dates, times, and rooms to come once available.

Recurring

• Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop
• Philosophy of Work Network
• Séminaires sur les Concepts fondamentaux du droit animalier (OQDA)

UPCOMING:

• Community voices on housing justice struggles  with Stefan Christoff and CKUT (Dec 5 - 6 pm at SHIFT)
• Panel on the book Defund - Conversations Toward Abolition by Calvin John Smiley in collaboration with Left Wing Books and the Prison Radio Show (more info soon) 
• Séminaires sur les Concepts fondamentaux du droit animalier (January 29, 11:30 - 1 pm)
• Lancement Observatoire québécois du droit animalier (OQDA) (February 7, 9 am - 4 pm)
• Resilience Amidst War: Scholasticide and Food Crisis in Gaza with Dr. Ahmed Schaban organized by Kevin Gould (March 7, more info soon)
• 9th Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop (Thursday, May 29 - Friday, May 30, 2025)

PAST Fall 2024:

• Philosophy of Work Network with Jan Kandiyali (Durham University) and Barry Maguire (University of Edinburgh): « Socialism and Collective Ownership of the Means of Production » (Nov 29, 2024, 12 pm)
• The Ride Ahead with disability rights activist Samuel Habib - Cinema Politica Concordia (Nov 11, 7 pm)
• Kristeva Circle 10th Annual Meeting (Oct 24-26)
• The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers (Oct 28, 7-9 pm, UQAM)
• Zine Launch - No Security in Repression with Stefan Christoff and John Nathaniel (Oct. 30 at 6pm at SHIFT)
• Lancement de l'Observatoire québécois de droit animalier (Oct 3, 6 pm) 
• When the Pine Needles Fall Indigenous Acts of Resistance - Book launch with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Thursday Sept 26, 5 pm)
• Voices beyond Lockdown - Zine Launch with Stefan Christoff (Casa del Popolo, 4873 St. Laurent, Sept 21, 1-3 pm)
• Philosophy of Work with Lisa Herzog (Sept 13, 12-1 pm)
• Artists under attack by the realestate monster - A live community broadcast with Stefan Christoff (Sept 14, 2 pm)
• Breaking Barriers- How to Conduct Realistic Research on Homelessness (Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 3 p.m. – 6 p.m) 

• 8th Social Justice Theory Workshop (June 27-28, 2024)
• Book Launch Trafficking Harms with Fernwood Publishing (June 14 - 5:30 pm)
• Dismantling Green Colonialism in the Arab Region with Hamza Hamouchene (June 18, 6 pm)
• Environmental Justice Movements must stand with Palestine - A teach-in with Dr Rania Masri co-organized by Research for the Frontlines (May 28 - 7 - 8:30 pm)
• 2nd Constructing Social Justice Workshop organized by Bengi Akbulut (May 30-31)
• Lancement Revue Possibles - L'antispécisme: Penser et agir pour les animaux (Cégep du Vieux-Montréal - 14 mai 17:30 - Hybride)
• Roundtable Conversation Restorative Transitional Justice Hearings (May 16, 10:30-12:00)
• Rethinking Gramsci - Repenser Gramsci (May 8-10, 2024)
• Colloque ‘Logement et justice sociale’ / ‘Housing and Social Justice’ conference (May 9-10) 
• Screening of Ellen Gabriel's film, "Kanàtenhs: When The Pine Needles Fall" (May 10, 4 – 6 pm – Cinema De Sève) 
• Nazan Üstündağ in Conversation with Philippe Néméh-Nombré (Ethnography Lab - EV 10.625 - April 25, 5:30 pm)
  
• Housing Justice - A community panel on artists playing a role in the struggle for housing justice – Oboro Studio 4 - organized by Stefan Christoff (Thursday, April 25, 6 to 8 pm)
• Andrew Charman - Investigating entrepreneurship and business in informal spaces - organized by Joel Bothello (Friday May 3, 10:30 - 12:00)
• Philosophy of Work Network - Anca Gheaus - “One crisis to solve another? The place of care in the future of work” (April 19 - Online) 
• Book Launch - Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures with Jen Gobby and Leah Temper (April 10, 6 - 7:30)
• Screening Vibrations from Gaza and Canada Park with Rehab Nazzal, Ellen Gabriel, and Anna Shah Hoque (April 11 - 6-8 pm - EV1.615)
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Seminar with Charlie Bond and Mathilde LaRoche (Friday, April 12, 1:30-4:30)
• CERRUCHA - Art and activism in Mexico City - Organized by Stefan Christoff (Sunday April 14, 1 pm Casa del Popolo). 
• Growing Grass in Gravel. A Panel on Green Gentrification and Urban Environmental Injustice, School of Community and Public Affairs (March 19, 5:30 - 8 pm)
• Research for the Frontlines - Indigenous food Sovereignty & Community-Led Research (March 20 - 6-7:30 pm)
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Seminar with Thomas MacMillan and Mieko Tarrius (Friday, March 22, 1:30-4:30 pm)
• (Cancelled) - Talk by Dr. Semerdjian on the Armenian Genocide, co-organized with Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (March 27)
• Building Food Revolution - Food lecture with SEIZE and Concordia Food Coalition co-organized by Erik Chevrier (March 14, 6-9 pm)
• Philosophy of Work Network Launch - with a talk by Michael Cholbi (March 15, 12-1pm)
• Degrowth - An Eco-Socialist Perspective with Bengi Akbulut (March 16th, 1-2:30 pm - Online).
• Planners Network Disorientation Guide Launch: Towards a More Socially Just Planning (Feb 22, 3 pm)
• Here to Listen: Solidarity is Horizontal - A week of events in solidarity with Palestine (Jan 29 - Feb 2)
  
• Book Panel Essential Work, Disposable Workers. Migration, Capitalism and Class by Mostafa Henaway organized with Fernwood Publishing at SHIFT (February 7, 6 to 8)

PAST - Fall 2023

• The Ambivalence of Rootedness Oppressive and Liberatory Potentials Reading group - Session on Levinas and Heidegger (Dec 1, 1 - 3 pm)

• The Ambivalence of Rootedness Oppressive and Liberatory Potentials Reading group - Session on Coulthard & Deloria Jr. (Nov 10, 1 - 3 pm)
• Cinema Politica Screening: La bataille of La Plaine (Nov 13, 7 pm)
• Constructing Social Justice Workshop. Commoning after the Event: Social Movements and Commons (Nov 17 - 12:30 - 5 pm)
• The Ambivalence of Rootedness Oppressive and Liberatory Potentials (Reading group - Session on Glissant (Oct 20, 1 - 3 pm)
• Nancy R. Tapias Torrado, Braiding actions: Wet’suwet’en women leading the defense of the Yintah from abuses committed in connection with megaprojects (Thursday, October 12, 12:30-13:30 at McGill University). 
• The Intersections of Black and Indigenous Liberation, co-organized by Research for the Front Lines (Oct 10, 6 pm) - The recording is available on Youtube.
  
• Standing up for a place to stay - A community radio + tv Broadcast (Oct 4)
  
• (Cancelled) Rehab Nazzal: Driving in Palestine. Dialogue on Palestinian occupation - Exhibition and Panel Discussion (Sept 14, 5-8 pm) at the MAI Montreal Arts Interculturels.
• Lauren Beck - Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them, 4^th Space (Sept 20).
• Data Sovereignty & First Nations Principles of OCAP co-organized by Research for the Front Lines (Sept 21).  
  
• What is Capitalism and the Social Solidarity Economy, by Bengi Akbulut at SEIZE's Fundamentals of the Solidarity Economy (Sept 21, 6-9pm) 

PAST - Summer 2023

• Concordia Student Workers / Étudiant‧e‧s Travailleur‧euse‧s Feminist Convention with the participation of Eleni Schirmer and Nancy Tapias (August 25, 9am - 5pm - Hall H-1070 - Registration: register here). 
• Speaking-in-Relation - Effective Public Speaking - Research for the Frontlines Summer Training on Communicating for Radical Transformation (August 17, 6-7:30 pm)
• Launch of a special issue of the radical social justice magazine, Rethinking Schools: "Resisting debt, funding justice: the struggle against debt-financed public education." (co-edited by Eleni Schirmer) (August 7, 6 pm - Online)
• Community voices against Bill 31 and for housing justice (July 17, 6-8 pm)
• From Jargon to Action - Research for the Frontlines Summer Training on Communicating for Radical Transformation (July 11, 6-7:30 pm)
• 7th Social Justice Theory Workshop (June 8-9)

• Data Activism - Mobilizing Data for Justice (May 5-7)
• La grande transition - The Great Transition (May 18-21)
  
• Levinas and Glissant: Thinking the Relation (May 19-20)
  
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminar: Joseph Dean: "Nonabsolutism and Social Change" (Thursday April 20, 12-2 pm)
• Book Launch: Driving in Palestine by Rehab Nazzal (April 20, 4-6 pm)
• Human Dignity - Theory and Practice (April 28-29)
• Book Launch "Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth" by Didier Zúñiga
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminars: Ra’anaa Yaminah: "Futurities With(out) the Institution: The Emergence of Black Art and Activism in N’Swakamok" (Thursday April 6, 12-2 pm)
• Cyber Security Workshop with Michael Loadenthal - Co-organized with Research for the Frontlines (Online - March 29, 1-3 pm)
  
• Social Justice Speaker Series: Erik Chevrier on Building Food Sovereign Campuses (March 31, 3-5 pm)
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminars: Abagna Gideon Azunre: "The politics of multi-stakeholder participation and inclusion in informal contexts: Lessons from a Participatory Slum Upgrading Program (PSUP) in Accra, Ghana" (Thursday March 9, 12-2 pm)
• Social Justice Archives Project: Arts in Action - The 2012 Student Strike (March 10, 3-5 pm)  *UPDATE: Audio recording available on Sound Cloud, hosted by Stefan Christoff (part 1 and part 2).
  
• Bringing storytelling into research: a craft talk on narratives in the humanities and the social sciences (Feb 22, 5-7pm)
• PEOPLE OVER PROFIT: Alternatives to a Growth Economy Panel (Feb 21, 6pm)
  
• Settler Colonialism 101 with Chelsea Vowel (Feb 15, 6pm)
• Social Justice Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminars: Stephanie Eccles: "Making Animal Waste Essential: ‘Renewing’ Animal Agriculture through the Fraught Politics of Renewable Natural Gas Development" (Thursday February 2, 12-2pm)
• Guinean Refugees Organizing for #StatusForAll in Montreal (Friday Feb 10, 3-5pm)

Fall 2022

• Social Justice Speaker Series - Deniz Duruiz: “War, Racial Capitalism, and Kurdish Migrant Farmworkers in Turkey” (Dec 2, 2-4 pm)
• Chike Jeffers, "Eloquent Responses: Ethical and Political Themes in Ancient Egyptian Literature" - Co-sponsored with Philosophy Speaker Series (Nov 14, 3-5 pm)
• Social Justice Speakers Series - Palestinian Refugee Voices in Montréal / Stefan Christoff and others (Oct 28, 3-5 pm)
• Social Justice Speaker Series - Silvano De la Llata: "Tear-gas questions for activists - Creative resistance in the age of reactiveness" (Oct 14, 2-4 pm) 
• Cinema Politica - "CATEGORY: WOMAN – Premiere, with guest speakers" (Oct 17, 7 pm)
• Social Gathering with Faculty Members (Sept 23)
• Bengi Akbulut on Capitalism and the Solidarity Economy at SEIZE (Sept 22)
• Investigative Research 101, a training workshop with Investigative Researcher Tim Groves - co-organized with Research for the Front Lines (Sept 8)

Summer 2022

• Romani Experiences: Contexts of translation, interpreting and ethics (July 6-7, online, co-sponsoring)
  
• Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop (July 14-15, 2022 - In person)

Winter 2022

• Social Justice Fellows Lunchtime Seminars (Every Friday from April 29 to June 3 at noon - Hybrid format)
• Koby Rogers Hall, Relationships, Aesthetics, and Whatever Happens Next - A performative presentation (June 3, 2022 - Hybrid)
• Nicholas Goberdhan, “Invisible Carers: Making the Case for Racialized Young Carers” (May 27 - Hybrid)
• Balam Nedim Kenter - Rendering Surplus, Rendering Flesh: Capitalism, Animals, and Disability (May 25, co-organized with the GREEA - Online)
• Lea Denieul, "Mapping as a Mediating Tool to Strengthen Indigenous-Settler Alliances" followed by a commentary by Indigenous Cartographer, Margaret Pearce (May 20)
• Balam Nedim Kenter - A Prelude to a Philosophy of the Margin: Foucault and Marx on Disability and Animality (May 13)
• Gustavo Andrade - Cooperatives as tools of resistance of catadores in São Paulo, Brazil (April 29, 2022)
• Bengi Akbulut – On Decent Work and Economic Growth at the 17 Rooms Exercise on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (April 8, 2022)
• Stavros Stavrides - Space commoning as a source of social emancipation (March 18, 2022 - Watch on zoom or youtube)
   

Fall 2021

• Movement-led Research! A Conversation with Chris Dixon (Dec 8, 2021 - Watch on youtube or read the transcript published on Briarpatch Magazine)
  
• Jesse Tomalty, Discrimination at the Border (Co-organized with the Philosophy Department) (Dec 3, 2021) - Online only
  
• "Access to Information" Requests: A How-To Workshop (Oct 27, 2021 - Watch on youtube)
• How we fit Climate Justice work into our daily lives - A Talk with Climate Justice Montreal (Oct 15, 2021)
  
• Justice Between Generations: Asian, African, Indigenous, and Western Perspectives (September 29, 2021 – October 1, 2021)
   

Spring/Summer 2021

• Workshop on Amandine Catala’s Book Manuscript  – (Virtual): March 26
• Political Theory of Populism Workshop – (Virtual, Organized by the Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Agnes Tam): April 16-17
  
• Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop – (Virtual): June 10-11

Fall 2020

• 2^nd Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop – (Virtual): August 27-28
• Florencia Abbate, Feminismo y literatura en Argentina – (Virtual): November 6
  

Winter 2020

• Jasbir Puar, A No-State Solution - Palestine and the Question of Queer Theory: January 30
  
• Beverly Best, Wages for Housework Redux - Up-Ending the “Crisis of Care”: February 5
• Public Panel on Immigration, Can Immigration Provide an Answer to Population Ageing? (Organized by the Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Isabella Trifan): February 13
• Adam Hosein, Gender Libertarianism in the Workplace: February 14
• Social Justice Fellow Series, Elisabeth Roy Trudel and Maxine Iannuccilli: March 12
  
• Luis Sotelo Castro, Not Being Able to Speak is Torture: Performing Listening to Painful Narratives: March 18 CANCELLED
• 2^nd Annual Virtue Ethics and Politics Workshop – The Personal and the Common Good: March 27-28 CANCELLED
   

Fall 2019

• Social Justice Theory Workshop: August 29-30
• Other 1919s: The Problem of Sovereignty in a Global Context: September 6-7
  
• The Charles Taylor Lecture Series – Philip Pettit: Part One on 'Persons' (September 19) and Part Two on 'Values' (September 20)
  
• Social Sciences and Philosophy: A Common Problem, A Common Temporality by Mariana Larison: September 25
• Current Perspectives on Sustainable Investing by Amr Addas: October 28
  
• Is Entrepreneurship the Solution to Poverty? by Geoff Kistruck: November 1
  
• Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism and the Challenge of Germline Genome Editing by Nancy Snow: November 8
  
• The Political Aesthetics of Public Art in Democracy by Fred Evans: November 15
  
• Social Justice Fellows Series | Arman Motaghi and Mostafa Henaway: November 18
  
• The Unnatural Origins of Self-Interest by Ted McCormick: November 28

 

 

This page is updated when exact dates are confirmed. Details for each activity are posted individually on the Events page once they are available.  

If you have any question regarding one of these events, you are welcome to contact us.