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Round-table Discussion with Angela Campbell, Ai Taniguchi and Karen Diop

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October 16, 2023

9:00-11:00

Louvain-la-Neuve

Salle Dabin - Place Montesquieu, 2

cedie@uclouvain.be

Photo by Benjamin Trösch on Unsplash

Video of Ai Taniguchi

 

Video of the Round-Table

 

Today's society is riven by a number of increasingly significant issues, among which issues relating to gender and race stand out in particular.

The university, as a place of reflection and openness to different types of knowledge and expertise, has a duty to take up such issues in order to provide one or more readings that will enable us to understand them better, criticise them and/or integrate them into solutions for the future.

Prof. Sylvie Sarolea's invitation to Prof. Angela Campbell (McGill), Prof. Ai Taniguchi (Mississauga) and Mrs Karen Diop (McGill) is precisely in line with this approach. Both have been developing expertise in approaches to gender and race for a number of years, both in their teaching and in their research.

Prof. Angela Campbell specialises in family law, health law, criminal law, inheritance law and feminist legal studies. Since 2015, she has been Vice-Principal for Equity and Academic Policy at her university.

Ai Taniguchi teaches inclusive linguistic in an EDID approach, the last D refering to Decolonization. She is also an artist, and uses comics and other forms of visual art to communicate linguistics to the public in accessible and informative ways.

Karen Diop's research focuses on decolonial practices and anti-racist initiatives, as well as gender issues and international migration. She plays a significant role in the anti-racism programme developed at McGill.

Welcoming them to our institution will enable us to benefit from their foreign and multidisciplinary perspectives.

In particular, on 16 October, at 9 AM-11 AM a round-table discussion with Prof. Angela Campbell, Ai Taniguchi and Prof. Karen Diop will be organised around the following question:

"How can the gender approach and the decolonial approach, together or separately, inform the normative approach?"

This will be an opportunity for them to answer this question from their own experience and expertise. Three doctoral candidates in law will then echo these comments by presenting the ways in which they integrate these approaches into their research, as well as the doubts and difficulties they encounter in doing so. Finally, the floor will be opened to discussion.

This event promises to be a fascinating discussion that will resonate with current social issues, which is why we are inviting anyone who is interested to join us.*

Program

9:00: Introductory remarks by Prof. Sylvie Sarolea
9:05: Prof. Angela Campbell
9:15: Prof. Ai Taniguchi
9:25: Karen Diop
9:35: Zoé Crine (PhD) and Sophie Mercier (PhD)
10:15: Opening of the discussion
10:50: Conclusion of the meeting

*This round-table is of course open to Masters students who will be invited to ask questions during the discussion. These questions may come from their own reflections or research.

Documents

Here are the beautiful documents and/or images proposed by our speakers. If possible, we suggest you read them before the seminar, to make the exchanges even more interactive.