CALENDAR

Here is the preview of our workshops, co-hosted events, and lecture series. 

Recurring events

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

Upcoming events

Summer - Fall 2025

• Estivales de la question animale (8 au 11 août 2025 - en français)
• Arts and Social Justice - First Meeting for the new initiative by Pablo Gilabert (SHIFT, September 12, 3-5 pm). 

Past events

Fall 2024-Winter 2025:

• 3rd Constructing Social Justice Workshop with Bengi Akbulut, Pat Devine and others (July 7 2025)
• Fracas pour Gaza: Make Fuss not War (May 17, 2025)
• 9th Annual Social Justice Theory Workshop (Thursday, May 29 - Friday, May 30, 2025)
• Aesthetic Rebellions to Reclaim Anti-Authoritarian Futures - Concordia University (May 29, 1 - 3:30)
• The Great Transition - La Grande Transion 2025 avec Bengi Akbulut, Stefan Christoff and Niloofar Golkar (May 29 - June 1). 
• Panel on the book Defund - Conversations Toward Abolition by Calvin John Smiley in collaboration with Left Wing Books and the Prison Radio Show (April 11, 6-8 pm) 
• Graduate Fellows Seminars with Nabiha Yahiaoui, Elham Mohtashamzadeh, and Varda Nisar (April 16, 1:00 - 5:30 pm)
• Atelier des boursiers GRIPP/ GRIPP Fellows Workshop - Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique with Alexandre Poisson and Charles Lurquin (April 1, 3 - 5:30 pm, LB-322) 
• Graduate Fellows Seminars with Moe Clark, Marcus-Xavier Granada and Frédéric Côté-Boudreau (April 4, 1 - 5:30 pm)
• Nehirowisiw (Atikamekw) Struggle Against Forestry (March 14, 6 - 8 pm)
• Lancement du livre Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel - Quand tombent les aiguilles de pin. Une histoire de résistance autochtone (March 21, 6-9 pm) 
• Cihan Erdal: The Movements of the 2010s and 2020s: The Lasting Influence of the Moments of Shining Brightness on Activist Youth Worlds (March 21, 3 - 4:30 pm)  
• Taking Jobs and Doing Harm - Philosopy of work network with with Theron Pummer and Ben Sachs-Cobbe (March 13, 12 - 1:30 pm)
• Migrant Justice in a Housing Crisis (Friday March 7, 1:30 pm) - Part of the Housing Justice Now Conference (March 7 - 9)
• Book Launch Abolish Rent (March 7, 6 - 9 pm) - Part of the Housing Justice Convergence (March 7 - 9)
• 2nd Progressive Publics Symposium organized by Chris Hurl and André Goulet (Feb 28 – March 1)
• Resilience Amidst War: Scholasticide and Food Crisis in Gaza with Dr. Ahmed Schaban organized by Kevin Gould (March 7, 12 - 1:30 pm) - Hybrid (Cinema De Sève & Zoom Webinar)
• Education, Debt and the Struggle over Political Imagination by Eleni Schirmer (Feb 20, 12 - 2 pm)
• Feminist Philosophy Symposium - Symposium de philosophie féministe - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (February 5 to 7)
• Lancement Observatoire québécois du droit animalier (OQDA) (February 7, 9 am - 4 pm)
• Séminaires sur les Concepts fondamentaux du droit animalier (January 29, 11:30 - 1 pm)
• Philosophy of Work with Joshua Preiss (January 13, 12 pm - Online)
• Community voices on housing justice struggles  with Stefan Christoff and CKUT (Dec 5 - 6 pm at SHIFT)
• 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)

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) 

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