October 30-31, 2026
Simon Fraser University | Vancouver, British Columbia
Harbour Centre | 515 West Hastings Street | Sauder Industries Policy Room (2270)
Day 1: October 30, 2026
10:00am-10:30am: Welcome and introductions by Augie Faller (University of the Fraser Valley) and Zara Anwarzai (Simon Fraser University)
10:35am-11:15am: William Paris (University of Toronto) – “The Normativity of Social Ontology”
11:15am-11:55am: Benjamin Kellogg (Georgia State University) – “Marx’s Social Ontology and Moral Abolitionism”
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:35pm-2:15pm: Victor Babin (Université du Québec à Montréal) – “Is Transgenerational Social Action Feasible?: The Case of Climate Justice”
2:15pm-2:55pm: Ying Huang (Union College) – “From Diagonal to Co-Production Social Ontology and Community Theoretical Labor”
3:00pm-3:30pm: Coffee break
3:35pm-5:30pm: Roundtable: What’s the relationship between theorizing and organizing?
6:00pm-8:00pm: Reception (all workshop participants)
Day 2: October 31, 2026
9:30am-10:10am: Grégoire René (McGill University) – “Easy Ontology, Ideology Critique, and Feminist Metaphysics” (Zoom)
10:10am-11:00am: Lauren Wong (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – “No Pressure: Defending Pragmatic Metaphysics Against Deflationism About Race” (Zoom)
11:00am-11:30am: Coffee break
11:35am-12:15pm: Yiqun Chen (Simon Fraser University) – “Collective Responsibility without Intentionally Attributable Subjects”
12:15pm-1:45pm: Lunch
1:50pm-2:30pm: Alison Air (Simon Fraser University) – "Ameliorating Psychiatric Injustice in Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder"
2:30pm-3:10pm: Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University) – "Social Roles, Ritual (Lǐ 禮 ), and Personhood"
3:10pm-3:25pm: Coffee break
3:25pm-4:05pm: Katrina Haaksma (Indiana University/Aarhus University) – “Modelling Social Affordances in Gender Conferrals”
4:05pm-4:30pm: Coffee break
4:30pm-5:30pm: Roundtable: What’s the future of social ontology?
7:30pm: Dinner (workshop speakers, roundtable guests, and organizers)