The Department of Political Studies fondly remembers highly esteemed Professor Emeritus Dr. John Meisel who died last week at the age of 101.
Date
Friday April 4, 2025Location
Staff Learning Room at Stauffer LibraryAGENDA
Opening Remarks 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rachel Laforest, Undergraduate Chair | 10 AM
Panel 1 | 10:05-11:05 AM
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Sydney Robinson: Stakeholder Influence and Policy Outcomes of Climate Legislation: A Case Study of Bill C-12
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Santiago Palacios: NATO카지노 게임 컬렉션s Burden Sharing Dilemma: What Can Canada Learn from a Latvian Defence Doctrine
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Hugo Savoeda: New Chains, Same Hands: The reshaping of the world system and South 카지노 게임 컬렉션 South relations of dependence
Panel 2 | 11:05-12:05 PM
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Lauren Hood: Sex: An Object of Desire and Mankind카지노 게임 컬렉션s Greatest Weapon
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Julian King: The Chicken or the Egg?: Strategic Culture under Authoritarianism Examined Through the Lens of Vladimir Putin and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Cordelia Jamieson: Roadblocks for Civic Involvement: Gender-Based Geographic Barriers to State-Level Political Candidacy in the Contiguous United States
12:05-12:30 Lunch Break (light lunch will be served)
Panel 3 | 12:30-1:30 PM
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rachel Starkman: The evolution of political debates in the United States
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Cara Mackenzie: Democratic Backsliding in India
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Ariana Wilson-Mcdermid: The Influence of Indigenous Cultural Practices on Marine Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparison Between Canada and New Zealand
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rachel McNeil: HIV/AIDS and Climate Crisis in Africa: Disparities in Governmental Response Between the Global North and the Global South
Panel 4 | 1:30-2:30 PM
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Roan Szucs: A Debate Between Democracy and Her Alternatives
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Janica Arevalo: Combatting Violence Against Women in Canadian Politics
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Cameron Christie: Balancing Act: Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s Arctic Strategy and Responding to Great Power Competition
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Gaoxiang Fan: The discourse on Canadian skills: the process of middle-class nation-building and the social and political consequences of rapid immigration policies
Panel 5 | 2:30-3:15 PM
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Yamna Asim: The Treatment of Hijras Before and After British Colonialization
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Pauli Jacobs: Evolution, Disparities and Service Delivery in Youth Mental Health: A Comparative Case Study of Urban and Rural Ontario
카지노 게임 컬렉션 Lizzie Liteplo: Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s Involvement in Overseas Conflict: Navigating International Engagement
3:15-3:20 - Closing remarks 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Rachel Laforest
By Mitchell Fox, Senior Communications Coordinator
February 25, 2025
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Introduced to mark the ascension of King Charles III on May 6, 2023, the recognizes significant contributions, whether in public service, arts, education, science, or other areas that have advanced Canadian society or brought international recognition to the country. The recipients exemplify the spirit of dedication and commitment to both their communities and broader Canadian society.
Date
Tuesday April 1, 2025Location
Light refreshments served
The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award
The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award is in recognition of and his legacy of commitment to higher education and teaching in Political Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트.
This student-led award recognizes and celebrates teaching excellence at the undergraduate level in the Department of Political Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트. In particular, it rewards undergraduate instructors in the department who are at the beginning of their teaching careers, who have made an exceptional contribution to the study and education of Political Studies through their teaching at this university. The award is presented to either one or two nominees annually each spring.
Date
Friday March 28, 2025Location
More than 60 countries that are collectively home to about half of the world카지노 게임 컬렉션s population held state-wide 카지노 게임 컬렉션national카지노 게임 컬렉션 elections in 2024, making it the biggest year of elections in history카지노 게임 컬렉션even without taking into account the year카지노 게임 컬렉션s many other sub-state and supra-state (the European Union) elections. The results are noteworthy in their own right, with about 80% of incumbents in genuinely democratic states losing seats or vote share from the last election, and some of these elections were exceptionally consequential, with the effects of their results already reshaping world politics in fundamental ways.
The purpose of this panel is to assess the year of elections and its significance from a global and comparative perspective, provided by three highly-regarded experts:
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Professor of Political Studies here at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 and one of our own experts on electoral politics. Each panelist will speak for up to 15 minutes, followed by in-depth discussion between the panelists and attendees. We hope that you can join us!
Laurie Beaudonnet
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Laurie Beaudonnet is Associate Professor of European Politics at the 카지노게임사이트 of Montreal (Department of Political Science) and Director of the Jean Monnet Center Montreal. She held the Jean Monnet EuroScope Chair from 2015 to 2019 and was co-director of RESTEP, an academic network on politicization in the European Union (EU), from 2017 to 2021. Her research focuses on political attitudes, elections and political parties in the European Union, using quantitative and qualitative methods. She is currently working on the dynamics of politicisation of the European issue among citizens and in political parties. Her work on attitudes towards European integration, politicisation, radical left and right has been published in European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European politics, and Party Politics.
Sithembile Mbete
Dr Sithembile Mbete is a political scientist with 15 years of experience working in academia, civil society, and government. She is the Executive Director of the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), a research institute focused on building democratic and effective state institutions in South Africa. Sithembile has a DPhil in International Relations from the 카지노게임사이트 of Pretoria (UP) where she was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences.
Sithembile카지노 게임 컬렉션s research interests include global governance (with a focus on the United Nations), global populism, and electoral systems. From 2020 to 2023, she was a research associate of the African Leadership Centre (ALC) at King카지노 게임 컬렉션s College London. In 2021, she served as a member of South Africa카지노 게임 컬렉션s Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Electoral System.
Prior to UP, she was a researcher in the secretariat of the National Planning Commission contributing to the drafting of the National Development Plan in the areas of public service reform, anti-corruption policy and community safety. Sithembile comments frequently on a range of political issues in South African and international media including the Financial Times, the New York Times, Al Jazeera, BBC World News, CNN, SABC, NewzroomAfrika, Voice of America, and others.
Sanjay Ruparelia
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Sanjay Ruparelia is an Associate Professor of Politics at Toronto Metropolitan 카지노게임사이트, where he holds the , and a Senior Fellow of the . His main publications include ; (editor), and (co-editor).
Sanjay serves as a co-chair of , an international network that studies democratic innovations, and on the editorial boards of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Politics, and . He co-hosts , a monthly podcast and lecture series, and regularly contributes to the media in Asia and North America.
Sanjay previously served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (NYC), United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (Geneva) and the Asia Foundation (Kabul), and taught at the New School for Social Research and Columbia 카지노게임사이트. His research has been supported by the Commonwealth Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Social Science and Humanities Research Council as well as Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stellenbosch and Yale. Sanjay earned a B.A. in Political Science from McGill, and a M.Phil in Sociology and Politics of Development and Ph.D. in Politics from Cambridge.
Moderator: Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Ph.D. McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트, and the Director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA). Her research focuses on Canadian politics, with particular interests in electoral politics, voting behaviour, and public opinion; news media; the political representation of women; and the conceptualization and measurement of sex and gender. She is the author of (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013), which won the 2016 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council of Canadian Studies, and was one of three books shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association카지노 게임 컬렉션s 2014 Donald Smiley Prize.
Date
Friday March 21, 2025Location
There is sharp polarization amongst Western analysts about Putin카지노 게임 컬렉션s objectives in the Ukraine war. Some argue the Russian invasion was a response to a perceived threat to Russian security from the West, which means that if the West acts to lessen that threat, the war can be brought to an end. Others argue that the war is driven by forces structurally embedded in the Russian state and society 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and can only be contained by force. Can these two positions be reconciled? Where does the truth lie?
Peter Rutland is a professor of government at Wesleyan 카지노게임사이트 where he has taught since 1989. He is associate editor of Russian Review and former editor in chief of Nationalities Papers. He works on the political economy of the post-Soviet space and the dynamics of national identity in that region. Recent articles include Voices of Peace and War (2023) and Nationalities Papers (2023).
Date
Thursday March 6, 2025Location
Zsuzsa Csergő (PhD in Political Science, The George Washington 카지노게임사이트, 2000) is The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies in the Department of Political Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트. She specializes in the study of nationalism and contemporary challenges to democracy, with particular expertise on Central and Eastern Europe. Before joining the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s faculty, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the Women카지노 게임 컬렉션s Leadership Program in U.S. and International Politics at the George Washington 카지노게임사이트. From 2013-2020, she was President of the , the largest international scholarly association in the field of nationalism and ethnicity studies. She currently serves as Director of the association카지노 게임 컬렉션s online initiative, 카지노 게임 컬렉션.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Csergő's research contributes to the understanding of tensions between nationalism and democracy in multiethnic societies. Her articles about nationalism, majority-minority relations, kin-state politics, and minority democratic agency in the EU context have appeared in leading journals in her field, including Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, Publius, Nations and Nationalism, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Societies, and other venues. She is the author of Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2007), co-editor and co-author of collaborative volumes (books and special issues) focused on Europeanization and minority political agency, and Central and East European politics. She is currently writing a book about the sources of minority democratic agency in majoritarian states, based on comparative research on six linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe (Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia, Poles in Lithuania, and Russophones in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
Dr. Csergő leads the comparative Minority Institutions Database, which officially launched in March, 2023. She is also the Principal Investigator of a collaborative research project entitled 카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션 (funded by SSHRC), focused on Montreal, Brussels, Belfast, and Vilnius. Additionally, Csergő is a General Editor of the , and a member of , hosted at the 카지노게임사이트 of Glasgow.
To learn more about Dr. Csergő, visit her faculty profile.
Date
Thursday February 27, 2025Location
In public discourse, the exploitation of workers is thought to be a violation of labour laws, typically the outcome of actions by unscrupulous employers. Much labour exploitation, however, happens within larger legal and political structures widely seen as legitimate 카지노 게임 컬렉션 notably, immigration regimes and employment programs. Focusing on the plight of migrant workers, I examine the role that states play in deliberately producing and sustaining systemic conditions of structural vulnerability. Reflecting on current political and legal challenges to Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s temporary migrant labour programs, I discuss key reforms that advocates seek, despite the knowledge that the vulnerability of migrant workers is intentional. I also consider whether recent legal approaches to holding states accountable for contributing to structures of exploitation can deliver transformational change.
is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ethics & Global Social Change at the 카지노게임사이트 of Guelph.
Department of Political Studies assistant professor and American politics expert Paul Gardner appeared on CTV Morning this week to discuss what President Trump can do through executive orders. You can watch the interview .
