Injustice is often difficult to pin down. It manifests not only in one group using their power to inflict physical or psychological harm on another\, or to limit another group&rsquo\;s options\, choices or possibilities through overt policies or political means. Recent developments in philosophy have highlighted that injustice can take more insidious forms. It can manifest at an epistemic level: depriving agents of the ability to conceptualise the harms done to them\, or blocking their ability to articulate the ways in which they have been wronged. Injustice often functions structurally\, in the absence of any identifiable oppressing agent. Frequently\, unjust social structures have a deceptive nature\, making systemic issues appear to be individual failings\; thus\, effectively identifying and resisting these diverse sites of injustice requires careful attention to the interplay between structural and interpersonal forces\, and questions of individual\, collective and vicarious responsibility and agency. These matters are further complicated by issues of complicity: the way in which agents can play a role in upholding or reinforcing their own subordination and the subordination of others. Complicity manifests itself in the &lsquo\;grey zone&rsquo\; of agency\, responsibility and choice in situations of injustice\, where strategic negotiations with oppressive social structures need to be disentangled from adaptive preferences and internalised oppression\, or affective mechanisms that inure agents against acknowledging\, resisting and combatting injustice. Epistemic and structural injustice\, and our complicity in both\, raise difficult questions for the possibility of resistance.
\nThis two-day international workshop brings together speakers from a range of philosophical perspectives in order to explore issues of injustice\, resistance and complicity in relation to questions of responsibility\, gender\, the role of emotion\, as well as from applied and legal perspectives. The keynote lecture\, &lsquo\;Moral justification and structural epistemic injustice&rsquo\;\, will be given by Professor Alison Jaggar.
\nThis workshop is organised by the department of Ethics Social and Political Philosophy and co-sponsored by the centre for Philosophy Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen.
\nRegistration is free\, but essential as places are strictly limited
\nTo register go to: \; \;https://forms.gle/kwRGBvqb4JbRmPjy9 \;
\nThis is planned as an in-person event\, there is not currently the possibility to join remotely. Please only register if you are able to attend in person. \;
\n\nDeadline for registration: Thursday 12th \;May
\nProgramme
\nDay 1\, Tuesday 14th \;June 10am &ndash\; 5.30pm
\nWhat Does That Have to do With Me? Exploring Conditions of Responsibility for Persons and Collectives
\nNicole Ramsoomair (Dalhousie University)
\nHow to Dress Like a Feminist
\nCharlotte Knowles (University of Groningen) Filipa Melo Lopes (University of Edinburgh)
\nBlurred Lines: Complicity and Injustice in Cases of Rape
\nKatrina L. Sifferd (Elmhurst University)
\nLegal Proof and Structural Injustice
\nLily Moore-Eissenberg (University of Oxford)
\nRepairing Moral Damage Through Self-regarding Resistance
\nAlycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (Grand Valley State University)
\nDay 2\, Wednesday 15th \;June 10am &ndash\; 5.30pm
\nNarrative Resistance and Emotional Transformations
\nLaurencia Sá\;enz Benavides (Universidad de Costa Rica)
\nPrecluded Anger\, Occluding Emotions: The Loss of Emancipatory Possibility
\nDenish Jaswal (Harvard University)
\nShared and Partial Connections: Using Imagination to Train Response-Abilities
\nLydia Baan Hofman (Erasmus University)
\nKeynote lecture: \;Moral justification and structural epistemic injustice
\nAlison Jaggar (Professor Emerita\, University of Colorado Boulder)
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