Conceptualizing Justice Week – Sensing Justice: Embodied Encounters in Criminal Justice

For Conceptualizing Justice Week, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS) and the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg will host two research workshops and the Bonnycastle Lecture Series, presenting the Honourable Senator Kim Pate. Free and open to all.

Workshop 1: Sensing Justice: Embodied Encounters in Criminal Justice (Drs. Anita Lam, YorkU & Steven Kohm, UW)

This workshop invites participants to explore justice through the senses—touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound. In contrast to blindfolded Justitia’s disembodied impartiality, we will engage in hands-on activities that foreground the body as a vital site of knowledge and perception. Participants will learn how sensory experiences shape criminal justice encounters, and how sensory methods can be used to document, critique, and reimagine justice. Through guided exercises, this workshop offers tools for critically reflecting on how justice is felt – not just theorized.

Workshop objectives
* Explore how sensory experiences shape criminal justice encounters.
* Challenge dominant visual and abstract representations of crime, punishment, and justice.
* Introduce sensory methods as tools for researching and reimagining justice.
* Engage participants in embodied, multisensory activities that provoke reflection on justice, harm, and social control.

Please e-mail k.maier@uwinnipeg.ca and s.kohm@uwinnipeg.ca to register for one or both workshops.