• Fri, Mar 14, 2025
  Race, Ethics + Power
  Lisa Guenther, Towards a Decolonial Phenomenology of the Lifeworld

  ► To stay informed about other upcoming events at the Centre for Ethics, opportunities, and more, please sign up for our newsletter.

  Towards a Decolonial Phenomenology of the Lifeworld

  The Two Row Wampum is a 1613 treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Dutch traders. Two rows of purple beads on a white background express a commitment to mutual respect and non-domination that has long since been betrayed by European colonizers. What would it take to reactivate the potentiality of the Two Row Wampum today, not as an agreement in the distant past but as an invitation to participate in building a lifeworld based on peace, friendship and respect? My reflections on this question are shaped by Anishinaabe legal scholar Aaron Mills’ account of the lifeworlds of law and Edmund Husserl’s late phenomenology of the lifeworld.

  ► This event is in-person. Join in person at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building room 200).

  

  
  Lisa Guenther

  Philosophy
  Queen’s University
  
  
  

  05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  200 Larkin
  

• Mon, Mar 17, 2025
  Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
  Ashwini Vasanthakumar, Fitting in, code-switching, 'passing': self-respect and the demands of immigrant integration

  ► To stay informed about other upcoming events at the Centre for Ethics, opportunities, and more, please sign up for our newsletter.

  Fitting in, code-switching, ‘passing’: self-respect and the demands of immigrant integration

  ► This event is in-person. Join in person at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building room 200).

  

  
  Ashwini Vasanthakumar

  Legal and Political Philosophy
  Queens University 

  04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  200 Larkin
  

• Fri, Apr 11, 2025
  
  Public Event: Charting Ethical Paths on a Divided Campus

  ► To stay informed about other upcoming events at the Centre for Ethics, opportunities, and more, please sign up for our newsletter.

  Public Event: Charting Ethical Paths on a Divided Campus

  Panelists:
  Lisa Shapiro
  Samantha Brennan
  Randy Boyagoda

  Panelists will address questions such as: the role and limitations of protests on campus; the duties of university administration in balancing safe and proper functioning of campus with allowing/encouraging freedom of expression for students, staff, and faculty; whether the university and the specific departments must abide by principles of neutrally in making public pronouncements.

  Register here to secure your spot!

  Please feel free to send questions in advance for the panelists. Send your questions to ethics@utoronto.ca with the subject: “Question(s) for April 11 event”.

  ► This event is in-person. Join us at the Centre for Ethics (Larkin Building room 200).

  

   

  Lisa Shapiro

  Dean of Faculty of Arts
  McGIll University

   

  

   

  Samantha Brennan

  Dean of the College of Arts
  University of Guelph

   

  

   

  Randy Boyagoda

  Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse
  University of Toronto

  05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  200 Larkin
  

Past Events