Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join, over Zoom, the sixth and final workshop of the 2021 Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, which will welcome Miriam Ronzoni (University of Manchester), whose paper is titled, "Rescuing Justice from Perfect Duties".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on the Colloquium’s webpage. The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join, over Zoom, the fifth and penultimate workshop of the 2021 Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, which will welcome Ekow Yankah (Yeshiva University), whose paper is titled, “Compulsory Voting and Black Citizenship".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on the Colloquium’s webpage. The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join, over Zoom, the fourth workshop of the 2021 Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, which will welcome Kim Ferzan (University of Pennsylvania), whose paper is titled, “Why Credit Time Served?".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on the Colloquium’s webpage. The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join, over Zoom, the third workshop of the 2021 Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, which will welcome Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA), whose paper is titled, “Fairness, Sanction, and Condemnation". 

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on the Colloquium’s webpage. The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Omar Bachour (Queen's), titled, "Four Proposals for a Post-work Society".

Further details, as well as Omar's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to the 2021 Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture, which welcomes Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC).

Lecture Title: Cultural Appropriation, Aesthetic Injustice

Abstract: People with different cultures come into contact with each other, and the contacts can go well, or they can go badly. If justice is goodness in the arrangement of social life, then arrangements of social life that shape cultural contact can be just or unjust. This lecture introduces a new way to think about contact between people with different aesthetic cultures. Arrangements of aesthetic life are unjust if they frustrate interests in what I call "value diversity" or "social autonomy.” To see this, I reflect on Canada’s reception of Bill Reid’s bronze, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.

For further information, please email philug@queensu.ca.

Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture: Dominic Lopes (UBC) (Poster, PDF 448 KB)