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.
This year's 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 July 1, 2022.
Workshop papers will be pre-circulated, and participation implies a commitment to reading the papers in advance.
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.
Program (Updated July 13)
(All listed times are in EDT)
9:00
WELCOME (Thursday July 14)
9:15
Author: Thomas Christiano (University of Arizona)
Paper: “Worker Participation and The Egalitarian Conception of Fair Market Exchange.”
Commentator: Arash Abizadeh (McGill University)
10:30
WELCOME (Thursday July 14)
10:45
Author: Suzanne Love (Georgia State University)
Paper: “Freedom from the Market."
Commentator: Sylvie Loriaux (Université Laval)
12:00
LUNCH
13:30
Author: Colin Macleod (University of Victoria)
Paper: “Diagnosing the ‘Burdens’ of The Rich Egalitarian: How Capitalism Nurtures Pleonexia.”
Commentator: Andrée-Anne Cormier (York University) Patti Lenard (University of Ottawa)
14:45
BREAK
15:00
Author: Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)
Paper: “Self-esteem and Social Competition.”
Commentator: Daniel Weinstock (McGill University)
18:30
DINNER
9:45
WELCOME (Friday July 15)
10:00
Author: Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)
Paper: “Markets, power, and (in)equality.”
Commentator: Patti Lenard (University of Ottawa)
11:00
WELCOME (Friday, July 15)
11:15
Author: Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)
Paper: “Extreme wealth in a world on fire”