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The Corry Colloquium Speaker Series of the Department of Political Studies presents:

"Backlash against LGBTQ2S+ People and Rights in Canada" :: A Panel Discussion

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 

11:30 AM -1:00 PM

The Law Building | Room 4

Light lunch served

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Featuring:

Quinn Albaugh, Assistant Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

Quinn Albaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on parties, elections, and representation in Canada in a comparative perspective. Her work tends to focus on themes of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class inequalities. She is currently working on a book project entitled Gatekeeping: How and Why Party Organizations Improve the Representation of Marginalized Groups. In addition, she is working on three major projects on LGBTQ politics, which focus on (1) LGBTQ candidates and representation, (2) LGBTQ linked fate and political behaviour, and (3) the political attitudes and behaviour of trans and nonbinary people.

Steven Maynard, Adjunct Associate Professor, Queen's Department of History

Steven is a Canadian social historian, specializing in the history of sexuality. His research, scholarly publications, and contributions to public and community-based history are animated by critical questions concerning the histories and politics of gender and sexuality. He also publishes in the areas of archival theory and Foucault studies. Steven’s teaching focuses on the pedagogical possibilities of "a history of the present." He is the founder and ongoing co-chair of the, an affiliate of the Canadian Historical Association, and book review editor of the . Steven has been active in the LGBTQ movement for many years and writes frequently on politics, culture, and history for the mainstream and queer community press.

Trish Salah, Associate Professor, Queen's Department of Gender Studies

Trish Salah’s research, teaching and supervision areas include postcolonial/decolonial, feminist, trans and queer poetics, literatures and theory, transnational transgender cultural production, psychoanalysis and affect theory, sex workers' rights movements, and un/popular cultures. Her current projects are Towards a Trans Minor Literature, an inquiry into the aesthetic and political projects of trans, transsexual, genderqueer and two-spirit writers, and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 2, a poetic exploration of colonial sexologies and phantasies of place-based sexuality.

Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, investigated the inscription of diasporic trans and queer subjectivities and the social, rhetorical and desiring labour of minority community formation. Her second book, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, employs the lyric as a lens to read transgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, anthropological, sexological and psychoanalytic archives. 

 

2024: Maximum Democracy or Learning to love the public

The John Meisel Lecture Series in Contemporary Political Controversies Sixth Annual Lecture

Maximum Democracy or Learning to love the public

Peter MacLeod 

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

Lecture 4:00-5:30pm

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202

Light refreshments served

*Registration link coming soon!*

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���˴�Ƭ the lecture:

It’s easy to feel skeptical about democracy. It’s even easier to be skeptical about the public. But in this year’s Meisel lecture, Peter MacLeod makes the case for why much of the dysfunction and polarization within western democracies can only be undone when we fundamentally change our relationship with the public. As he argues, it’s not that people are impossibly divided or disinterested in politics, it’s that we fail to tap into the capability of citizens to create public value or play an expanded role in the work of governing. Democratic norms should not be taken for granted and recent domestic and global events demonstrate why they must be regenerated. In response to this challenge, MacLeod describes an audacious vision that seeks to re-energize politics by dramatically expanding the public’s role in the next chapter of our democratic evolution.

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Peter MacLeod is the principal of MASS LBP and one of Canada’s leading experts in public engagement and deliberative democracy. Since its founding in 2007, MASS has completed more than 250 major policy projects for governments and public agencies across Canada while popularizing the use of Civic Lotteries and Citizens’ Assemblies, and earning international recognition for its work.

He writes and speaks frequently about the citizen’s experience of the state, the importance of public imagination, and the future of responsible government.

He and Richard Johnson are also the authors of the forthcoming book, “Democracy’s Second Act” which will be published next year. Find him on Twitter @petermacleod and at .

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The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Research Fellows Present:

Debra Thompson - Good Family Visiting Faculty Research Fellow & Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies | McGill University

"What do we mean by 'systemic racism' in Canada? [A work-in-progress talk]" 

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 

2:30-4:00 PM

Kingston Hall | Room 101  **please note the change of location

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The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) is pleased to announce that Dr. Debra Thompson, an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at McGill University, is a Good Family Visiting Faculty Research Fellow with the CSDD during the 2024–25 academic year!

To begin her Fellowship, Dr. Thompson will give a talk titled “What do we mean by ‘systemic racism’ in Canada? (A work-in-progress talk)”, as part of the CSDD’s ‘Research Fellows Present’ series. 

The October Political Studies Departmental Meeting will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2024, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E202.

An agenda will be shared a few days prior to the meeting. This meeting is open to department members only: faculty, staff, adjuncts, post doctoral fellows, and student representatives.

The Corry Colloquium Speaker Series of the Department of Political Studies presents:

Patricia Mockler - Western University | ���˴�Ƭ (CORA)

"Political Participation and the COVID-19 Pandemic" 

Thursday, September 19, 2024 

2:30-4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 334

Light refreshments served

Abstract:

This project explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for women’s political participation in Canada. Drawing on data from the Canadian Election Study’s Democracy Checkup surveys, we examine how women’s participation evolved with the introduction of public health measures to manage the spread of the virus. The disruptions caused by the COVID -19 pandemic changed the availability of important resources that are precursors to political participation; time, money, and access to opportunities for political socialization became scarcer. These disruptions were not distributed equally across sociodemographic groups but instead have been structured by the politics of gender and have been most pronounced for those citizens who were less likely to participate in politics before the pandemic (Johnston et al. 2020, Baiden et al. 2022, Davison et al. 2020, Tolley 2019). This presentation probes the impacts of these changes for gender gaps in political participation and specifically considers the experiences of racialized women and mothers.

 

Bio:

Patricia Mockler is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen’s University and Western University. Her research examines political participation, deliberative democracy and democratic innovations. She is especially interested in heterogeneity in political participation in the Canadian context, with an emphasis on non-electoral forms of participation. She has published manuscripts examining inclusion in democratic innovations, election fundraising, and the defining features of deliberative mini-publics. 

Orientation for PhD and MA students entering the Department of Political Studies.

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 334

Time:  TBD

The September Political Studies Departmental Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E202.

A calendar invitation will be sent once a location is determined, and an agenda will be shared a few days prior to the meeting. 

2024 Department of Political Studies Graduate Student Welcome Reception

The Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University invites all current and incoming POLS graduate students, as well as faculty members and instructors, to attend the 2024 Graduate Student Welcome Reception! 

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

4:30-6:00 PM

The University Club | 168 Stuart Street, Kingston

:: Cash bar and light refreshments served ::

Please RSVP via the calendar invitations sent in July and August!