8:30-8:45       Registration

University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Fraser Building,

Room 152

8:45-9:00       Words of Welcome from Glen Coulthard (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UVic)

9:00-10:45     I. Self-recognition. « looking within » as the essential pre-condition to fruitful cross-cultural interaction

• Matthew Wildcat (MA Candidate, Indigenous Governance, UVic)

Problems of Recognition and Self-Recognition

• Kelly LaRocca (LLM Candidate, Law, UVic)

Moving Beyond the State of Exception

• Kirsty Gover (JSD Candidate, NYU School of Law)

Tribal Concepts of Indigeneity: Inter-indigenous Recognition and Tribal Membership Governance in the Western Settler States

Chair : Robert Lee Nichols (PhD Candidate, Political Science, U. of Toronto)

Discussant : Mathieu Gagnon (MA Candidate, Philosophy, Université Laval)

10:45-11:00                Break

11:00-12:45    II. Recognition as « acknowledging one’s own otherness ». At the heart of identity formation : the relation between Self and Other.

• Marie-Joie Brady (PhD Candidate, Political Science, Ottawa University)

Conflict, Hospitality and Friendship: Agonistic Democracy and Constitutional Debates in Canada

• Mary Butterfield (MA Candidate, Philosophy, UVic)

The Relevance of Pornography to R. v. Ewanchuk

Chair : Charles Horn (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UVic)

Discussant : Jackie Steele (PhD Candidate, Political Science, Ottawa University)

12:45-13:45                Lunch

13:45-15:30    III.      Implementing recognition : three angles of critical appraisal

• Tom McMorrow (Doctoral Student, Law, McGill) and Coel Kirkby ( LLM Candidate , Law, McGill)

The Neglected Influence of Private Economic Relations on Identities in the Canadian Politics of Recognition

• François Boucher (PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Queen’s University)

The Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples: From Protection to Self-Determination

• Astrid Tirel (MA Candidate, Sociology, UQAM) and Jean-Mathieu Lamothe (MA Candidate, Sociology, UQAM)

The Representation of the Indigenous Contemporary Subject in the Institutions of Art in Québec and in Canada

Chair : Sébastien Malette (Phd Candidate, Political Science, UVic)

Discussant: JD Crookshanks (PhD Candidate, Political Science, U of Alberta)

15:30-15:45                Break

15:45-17:30    IV.      Exploding the boundaries of the taken-for-granted : exploring forms of recognition, beyond the State and «Self-Determination»

• Zoran Oklopcic (SJD Candidate, Law, U. of Toronto)

Eight Theses on Self-Determination: From Self-Determination of Peoples to Principles of Polity-Formation

• Maria Koblanck (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UVic)

Same, Same but Different

• Doris Farget (PhD Candidate, Law, U. de Montréal)

The Legal Protection of Lifestyles as a Way for Cultural and Social Self-Determination

Chair : Rémi Léger (PhD Candidate, Political Science, Queen's University)

Discussant: Janique Dubois (PhD Candidate, Political Science, U. of Toronto)

17:30    Concluding Words from Andrée Boisselle (PhD Candidate, Law, UVic)

After conference:   Meet at the Bent Mast