Please find below a preliminary program.
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Registration
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
Dean Trevor Farrow (Osgoode Hall Law School) and
Symposium goals from co-organizers:
Annie Bunting, Ruth Buchanan, David Schneiderman and Inbar Peled
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Panel I – Relationality and Judgment
Moa Bladini (University of Gothenburg), Lived Autonomy of Judges in Everyday Life in Court: Expanding Nedelsky’s Relational Approach
Patricia Cochran (University of Victoria), Filling out forms: Embodied engagement with legal texts and the creation of a common world
Julen Etxabe (University of British Columbia), Relational Authority
Nick Poole (York University), The Modern Equivalent of the Soul: Searching for the Heart of Judgment with Jennifer Nedelsky
Moderator: Emily Kidd White (Osgoode Hall Law School)
30-Minute Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel 2 – Relationality and Anti-Oppression Movements
Mara Marin (University of Victoria), Conceptualizing Structure
Sheila Wildeman (Dalhousie University), Relational Autonomy and Mental Health Disability: Cultivating Judgment in the Company of Diverse Others
Anna Drake (University of Waterloo), Obligations and Refused Connections: Reimagining responsibility in the relational context
Debra Thompson (McGill University), From BLM to the War on Woke: A relational analysis of racial progress and populist retreat
Moderator: Margot Young (University of British Columbia)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Panel 3 – Re-imagining Responsibility and Rethinking Blame
Danardo Jones (Windsor University), Race, Risk and Pre-Trial Release
Sarah-jane Nussbaum (Univ. of New Brunswick), Sentencing's Relations: Reckoning with Colonialism in Canadian Sentencing Decisions
Anna Corigal Flaminio (Toronto Metropolitan University), Indigenous Kin-Visiting: An Urban Indigenous Justice Approach in the Criminal Legal System
Inbar Peled (University of Toronto), Three Conceptions of Responsibility: Legal Actors and the Crisis of Accountability in Policing
Moderator: Palma Paciocco (Osgoode Hall Law School)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel 4 – Roundtable Dialogue ~ Key Relational Concepts
Rebecca E. Kingston (University of Toronto)
Roxanne Mykitiuk (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Ben Berger (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Moderator: David Schneiderman (University of Toronto)
15-Minute Break
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Keynote: - Evolution of a relational approach: An intellectual autobiography
Delivered by: Jennifer Nedelsky, Osgoode Hall Law School
Co-Chairs: Inbar Peled and Annie Bunting
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Welcome remarks/ Day 1 recap
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Morning Plenary
Chair: Sonia Lawrence, Osgoode Hall Law School
Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota) Care as a Human Right: A Democratic, Relational Construction
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Panel 5 – Relational Theory and Animal Law
Angela Fernandez (University of Toronto), Excluding Animals from Relationality: Equivalent Equality and Rights of Nature for Animals
Jess Eisen (University of Alberta), Animal Relations
Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria), Rights of (Mother) Nature: A Relational Feminist Framework for Legally Uplifting Animals?
Lindsay Borrows (Queen’s University), A Tribute to Jenny Nedelsky: Finding New Stories for Law
Moderator: Ruth Buchanan (Osgoode Hall Law School)
15-Minute Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Panel 6 – Relationality reshaping disciplinary turns from Property to Contract Law
Estair Van Wagner (University of Victoria), More-than-ownership for the more-than-human world
David Sandomierski (Western Law School)
Sophie Nunnelley (University of Ottawa), The Relational Dimensions of Health AI Regulation
Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Moderator: Karen Drake (Osgoode Hall Law School)
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Panel 7 - More-than-Human Relationality: From Consumption to Decay
Bita Amani (Queen’s University), Toward an Edible Society: Rethinking Innovation and Sustainability in Consuming the (M)other
Hadley Friedland (University of Alberta), Pedagogies of Generosity: Learning to Learn in a World of Relationships
Jessica Croteau (Haverford College), Declining Well: A Right to Compose in More than Human Constitutionalism
Tvrtko Vrdoljak (University of Cambridge), Politicizing Causal Selection in Social Inquiry: More-than-Human Approach
Moderator: Iván Vargas Roncancio (Dept. of Social Science, York University)
30-Minute Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Concluding Panel 8 - Towards Relational Constitutionalism
Amaya Alvez (University of Concepción), Mapping ancestral lands of Andean indigenous peoples in Chile in the face of a 'Lithium rush'
Craig Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School)
David Schneiderman (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), Against Constitutional Property Rights
Jennifer Nedelsky (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Moderator: Bruce Ryder (Osgoode Hall Law School)