Closing Conference CORES

9–10 September 2026
IFILNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Rooms SC + SD & Online

The closing conference of the FCT-funded research project CORES (2023.14900.PEX) brings together top international scholars to reflect on the nature and manifestations of epistemic injustices, harms, and wrongs, across different contexts of human activity; and on the corresponding challenges of amelioration, mitigation, and redress.

Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol/Oxford), Claudia Picazo (Universidad de Educación a Distancia), Leo Townsend (University of Southampton) & Dina Lupin (University of Southampton)

SELECTED SPEAKERS

Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal), Nick Clanchy (University of Oxford), Alice Monypenny (University of Nottingham), Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo & Victor Fernández Castro (Universidad de Granada), Ariana Razavi (University of Liverpool), Giorgia Toppi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

DISCUSSANTS-AT-LARGE

Carolina Flores (Universidade de Lisboa), Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool)

Programme

Day 1 | Wednesday, 9 September

10:00–11:25 Chair: Giulia Terzian

Havi Carel: Is illness ineffable? (Comments by Eleonora Volta)

11:25–12:00 Coffee break

12:00–13:10 Chair: Lucija Duda

Alice Monypenny: Burdens of Epistemic Agency in Healthcare

13:10–14:20 Lunch break

14:20–15:30 Chair: Javier Osorio

Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo & Victor Fernández Castro: Beyond Epistemic Injustice: Mindshaping and First-Person Authority in Mental Health

15:30–16:40 Chair: Amalia Haro Marchal

Amandine Catala: Beyond Diagnostic and Discursive Approaches: Pluralizing Amelioration Toward Epistemic Justice

16:40–17:15 Coffee break

17:15–18:40 Chair: Eleonora Volta

Claudia Picazo: Conceptual Amelioration and the Transformative Power of Social Movements (Comments by Pedro Abreu)

Day 2 | Thursday, 10 September

10:00–11:25 Chair: Pedro Abreu

Leo Townsend & Dina Lupin: Communicative resistance and indigenous rights to consultation (Comments by Álvaro Domínguez-Armas)

11:25–12:00 Coffee break

12:00–13:10 Chair: Amalia Haro Marcal

Giorgia Toppi: Beyond Testimonial Injustice: Vulnerability and the Political Conditions of Epistemic Appearance

13:10–14:20 Lunch break

14:20–15:30 Chair: Lucija Duda

Nick Clanchy: Second-Order Hermeneutical Breakthroughs

15:30–16:40 Chair: Javier Osorio

Ariana Razavi: The Ideal Theory of Non-Ideal Epistemology

16:40–17:15 Coffee break

17:15–18:40 Chair: Álvaro Domínguez-Armas

Richard Pettigrew: The Wrong of Epistemic Injustice (Comments by José Pereira)

20:15 Conference dinner

To join the session on Zoom, please get in touch with Álvaro Domínguez-Armas (domingualv@ff.cuni.cz).

Abstracts

Download the book of abstracts here.

Organisation

Pedro Abreu, Álvaro Domínguez-Armas, José Pereira, Giulia Terzian, Eleonora Volta

Enquiries should be directed to the organisers, through the email address epistemicwrongs@gmail.com.