Day 1

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcome & Introductions (Augie Faller & Zara Anwarzai)

10:35 AM - 11:15 AM

William Paris (University of Toronto)

"The Normativity of Social Ontology"

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Benjamin Kellogg (Georgia State University)

“Marx’s Social Ontology and Moral Abolitionism”

01:35 PM - 02:15 PM

Victor Babin (Université du Québec à Montréal)

“Is Transgenerational Social Action Feasible?: The Case of Climate Justice”

02:15 PM - 02:45 PM

Ying Huang (Union College)

“From Diagonal to Co-Production Social Ontology and Community Theoretical Labor”

03:35 PM - 05:30 PM

Roundtable: What’s the relationship between theorizing and organizing?

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Workshop reception

Open to all workshop speakers, organizers, and registered participants. To take place at a nearby brewery. Appetizers and shared plates will be provided.

Day 2

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Grégoire René (McGill University)

“Easy Ontology, Ideology Critique, and Feminist Metaphysics” (Zoom - register for Zoom link)

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Lauren Wong (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

“No Pressure: Defending Pragmatic Metaphysics Against Deflationism About Race” (Zoom)

11:35 AM - 12:15 PM

Yiqun Chen (Simon Fraser University)

“Collective Responsibility without Intentionally Attributable Subjects”

01:50 PM - 02:30 PM

Alison Air (Simon Fraser University)

“Ameliorating Psychiatric Injustice in Dissociative Identity Disorder”

02:30 PM - 03:10 PM

Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University)

"Social Roles, Ritual (Lǐ 禮 ), and Personhood"

03:25 PM - 04:05 PM

Katrina Haaksma (Indiana University/Aarhus University)

“Modelling Social Affordances in Gender Conferrals”

04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Roundtable: What’s the future of social ontology?