Members of the campus community will gather at the Green Bean Café on Thursday, Nov. 28, for a special salon, entitled “Justice and Argument: The Legacy of Catherine E. Hundleby.”

Dr. Hundleby, a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies who died in August 2023, is remembered for her pioneering work in feminist argumentation. She developed the interdisciplinary doctoral program in argumentation studies, for which she served as its inaugural director and was still leading at the time of her death.

“Oppression,” she wrote in a 2013 paper, “pervades social politeness, marriage, and even the discipline of philosophy. Oppression shapes the people in those institutions and influences their argumentation practices, and the reception of their arguments.”

This stand is the focus of the panel, which takes its impetus from Hundleby’s work but quickly moves to explore wider questions that impact on Canadian issues of injustice, especially involving Indigenous communities.

Presenting are Alisha Jacobs, a PhD candidate in argumentation studies whose work focuses on social justice issues; Oxana Pimenova, a post-doctoral student at the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric; and Christopher Tindale, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy, CRAR director, and co-editor of the journal Informal Logic.

Thursday’s event, presented by the Humanities Research Group, is free and open to the public. It begins at 6 p.m. The Green Bean Café is located at 2330 Wyandotte St. West.

In co-ordination with this event, Leddy librarian Heidi Jacobs has created a reading list of Hundleby’s works. Anyone with Leddy Library access can find it here.