CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE

SIRRE First Annual Conference, McGill University, Montréal 17-18 September 2026

Thursday, 17 September 2026

09:00  – Opening and welcome

09:30–11:00 – SESSION 1 “Structural Injustice, Privilege, and Allyship”

• Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten): Structural injustice and the role of privilege
• Marie Garrau (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Alliance as a way to combat structural injustices? Reflections with and beyond Iris M. Young
• Chair and commentary: tbd

11:30–13:00 – SESSION 2 “Political Responses to Structural Injustice”

• Magali Bessone (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Structural epistemic reparations for slavery
• Maeve McKeown (Groningen): Political responsibility for genocide
• Chair and commentary: Catherine Lu (McGill)

13:00–14:30 – LUNCH with PhD poster presentation 

• Ellena Thibaud-Latour (Université de Montréal): Obstacle to Action: Indifference as an epistemic vice of privileged groups

14:30–16:00 – SESSION 3 “Responsibility Reconsidered”

• Jude Browne (Cambridge): tbd
• Tamara Jugov (TU Dresden): Moral responsibility for normative authority – an argument from implicit endorsement
• Chair and commentary: Christine Straehle (Ottawa)

16:15–17:15 – KEYNOTE

• Alasia Nuti (York): “We March with Our Dead”: Thanatoactivism and the structural reproduction of history
• Chair: Ryoa Chung (Montreal)

Friday, 18 September 2026

09:30–11:00 – SESSION 4 “Structural Injustice and Racism”

• Daniel James (TU Berlin): A matter of time: The diachronic structure of racialised oppression
• Reza Mosayebi (University of Witten): Structural racism and power
• Commentary: Magali Bessone (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

11:30–13:00 – SESSION 5 “Injustice, Equality, and Health”

• Mirjam Faissner (Lübeck) and Regina Müller (Bremen): What is bioethicists’ role in changing the system? An amended Role-Ideal Model of bioethicists’ responsibility for structural injustice
• Carina Fourie (University of Washington): The distortion of positional relationships and the distinctiveness of relational equality
• Commentary: Daniel Weinstock (McGill)

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13:00–14:30 – LUNCH with PhD poster presentation 

• Kyuree Kim (McGill): A moving-pictures view of structural processes in structural injustice

14:30–15:30 – KEYNOTE

• Hochan “Sonny” Kim (Bates): Structural injustice as an emergent disorder
• Chair: Jan-Christoph Heilinger (Witten)