The Chair organizes a reading and writing group that allows students to discuss relevant texts and their own work in progress.
Winter
2026
Fall
2025
February-April 2026
Discussion of works-in-progress by Chair members: François Genest, Abe Tobi, Véronique Chetmi Eyali, Victor Babin, Kelsey Brady, Gabriela Rabello
September-October 2025
Discussion of Amandine Catala's book The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice (Oxford University Press, 2025)
November-December 2025
Discussion of works-in-progress by Chair members: Abe Tobi, Gontse Lebakeng, Corinne Lajoie, Alexandre Poisson
Archives
2024-25
April 7, 2025
Discussion of works-in-progress: Dr. Gilles Beauchamp (postdoc CRC-IAE)
March 17, 2025
Discussion of works-in-progress: Dr. Corinne Lajoie (postdoc affilié-e CRC-IAE)
February 24, 2025
Discussion of works-in-progress: Dr. Anne Iavaronne-Turcotte (postdoc affiliée CRC-IAE)
February 3, 2025
Discussion of works-in-progress: Dr. Abe Tobi (postdoc CRC-IAE)
November 22, 2024
Discussion of selected texts: Danielle Peers (U Alberta) and Nathan Fawaz (U Alberta)
November 1st, 2024
Discussion of selected texts: Khaoula Zoghlami (U Laval)
October 11, 2024
Discussion of selected texts: Briana Toole (Claremont McKenna College)
September 27, 2024
Discussion of selected texts
2023-24
April 4, 2024
Text by Dembroff et Saint-Croix sur l’identité agentielle
March 14, 2024
Text by Nick Clanchy sur l’injustice herméneutique
February 15, 2024
Text by Puddifoot et Sandelind sur le trauma et l’injustice épistémique mnémonique
January 25, 2024
Texte d’Amandine Catala sur l’autisme et l’injustice épistémique
December 6, 2023
Moral Emotions and Unnamed Wrongs: Revisiting Epistemic Injustice - Usha Nathan
November 1, 2023
Work in progress by Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien and Zoey Lavallée
October 4, 2023
The misappropriation of “woke”: discriminatory social media practices, contributory injustice and context collapse - Nicholas D. C. Allen
2022-23
March 28, 2023
Work in progress from Gilles Beauchamp
March 14, 2023
Text by Amandine Catala on epistemic injustice in relation to linguistic justice
February 28, 2023
Text by Emmalon Davis on credibility excesses
February 14, 2023
Text by Robin Dembroff and Dennis Whitcomb on content-based epistemic injustice
January 31, 2023
Text by Maria Lugones on world-travelling
January 17, 2023
Text by Emily Tilton, “That’s Above My Paygrade”: Woke Excuses for Ignorance
December 1, 2022
Discussion on Decolonizing Methodologies (text by Linda Tuhiwai Smith)
November 3, 2022
Discussion on Vulnerability, Ignorance, and Oppression (text by Erinn Gilson)
October 13, 2022
Discussion on the epistemological conception of safe spaces (text by Derek Anderson)
From Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, meetings were held online jointly with the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics, held by Professor Naïma Hamrouni (Philosophy, UQTR). Since Winter 2023, Chair meetings are held in person at UQAM.
2021-22
Summer 2022 - reading group :
Reading group on the pedagogies of discomfort
April 7, 2022 - work in progress session :
Amandine Catala on A Pluralist Account of Epistemic Agency
March 24, 2022 - Webinar :
Webinar 'Violences coloniales, racisme et réparations' with Naïma Hamrouni (CREF) and Magali Bessone (Sorbonne and Princeton)
March 10, 2022 - work in progress session :
Gilles Beauchamp on Post Christian Ignorance
February 24, 2022 - work in progress session :
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien on voluntary hermeneutic ignorance and the Mad Pride activist movement
February 10, 2022 - work in progress session :
Abigail Gosselin (Regis University) on Vulnerability and Resilience in Mental Illness
November 30, 2020 - work in progress session :
Presentation by Federica Berdini (CRÉ/CREF postdoc) on Agency and Authorship
November 16, 2021 - work in progress session :
Jules Salomone-Sehr (postdoc CRÉ/CRC-IAE) on Detached Agency
November 2, 2021 - work in progress session :
Patricia Roy on epistemic responsibility
October 19, 2021 - work in progress session :
Camille Zimmermann and Amandine Catala on Embodied Epistemic Agency
October 5, 2020 - group discussion :
Group discussion on social structures (text by Sally Haslanger)
2020-21
March 2021 - group discussion :
Session on decolonial research methodology, in collaboration with the Canada Research Chair in Practical Epistemology.
February 2021 - work in progress session :
Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, presentation on medicalization and epistemic injustice
January 2021 - work in progress session :
Serge Nguiffo Kayim, presentation on think tanks as agents of epistemic justice in Africa.
December, 2020 - work in progress session :
Camille Zimmermann, presentation on Kinesthesia, Vulnerability and Epistemic Agency.
November, 2020 - work in progress session :
Andréanne Veillette, presentation onepistemic guardianship, epistemic injustice and epistemic care.
October, 2020 - work in progress session :
Sarah Arnaud, ‘The influence of autistic communities’ expertise on science: towards a better understanding of autism’.