The Margins of Accountability
WORKSHOP AGENDA
26 March 2019
Tom Thomson Room, Hilton Hotel, 145 Richmond Street West, Toronto
8:00-8:30 Arrival, registration
8:30-8:45
Welcome, introductions, overview
Megan Bradley (McGill University) and Zinaida Miller (Seton Hall University)
8:45-10:15 Panel 1
Influences on Accountability: Focus on Time
Chair and discussant: Catherine Lu, McGill University
The Role of Time in Obfuscating the Criminality of Long-Term Atrocity
Processes
Randle DeFalco, University of Liverpool
The Timing of Accountability
Zinaida Miller, Seton Hall University
Heteronormativity and the Temporality of Transitional Justice
Pascha Bueno-Hansen, University of Delaware
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Panel 2
Eluding Accountability: Disasters, Disease and Environmental Justice
Chair and discussant: Lou Pingeot, McGill University
“When the earth opened”: Responsibility and Accountability after Disasters –
Insights from Sierra Leone
Mohamed Sesay, McGill University and Megan Bradley, McGill University
Responsibility for Combatting Highly-Infectious Diseases
Matiangai Sirleaf, University of Pittsburgh
Frontline Communities: Environmental Justice and the Legacies of War at Home
Bronwyn Leebaw, University of California, Riverside
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Panel 3
Pursuing Accountability: Costs, Criminalization and Corruption
Chair and discussant: Mohamed Sesay, McGill University
The Limitations of Accountability: Potential Lessons from Anti-Corruption Efforts
Manuel Balán, McGill University
Building Peace by Building Prisons? International Penal Peacebuilding and Social
Order in Haiti
Lou Pingeot, McGill University
2:15-3:30 Panel 4
Broadening Accounts of Accountability (I): Struggles and Claims of
Indigenous Peoples
Chair and discussant: Randle DeFalco, University of Liverpool
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as
Transformative Justice?
Rosemary Nagy, Nipissing University
Decolonizing Self-Determination
Catherine Lu, McGill University
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-5:15 Panel 5 –
Broadening Accounts of Accountability (II): Migrants’ Claims and
Peoples’ Movements
Chair and discussant: Martha Balaguera, University of Toronto
International Justice and Global Migration
Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University
Justified Migrations from Central America: Asylum Caravans and Accountability
Claims
Noelle K. Brigden, Marquette University
“Peoples’ Tribunals” as Implicit Critique of the Limits of Dominant Modes
of Accountability: An Exploration
Frédéric Mégret, McGill University
5:15-5:45
Conclusions and discussion of publication plans
7:00 Workshop dinner