Speaker Series: "The Consequences of Ethnic Diversity: Can We Revive the Research Agenda?" by Dietlind Stolle
Date
Friday April 8, 20162:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room B313Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD), in collaboration with the P.E. Trudeau Foundation and the Canadian Opinion Archive Research (CORA).
Organized by Sara Pavan, Doctoral Candidate in Political Studies.
About the Speaker: Dietlind Stolle is Professor in Political Science at McGill University and Director of the Inter-University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC). She conducts research and has published on voluntary associations, trust, institutional foundations of social capital, the consequences of ethnic diversity, political mobilization, and new forms of political participation. Her newest book is Political Consumerism—Global Responsibility in Action (2013) by Cambridge University Press (with Michele Micheletti). Currently she serves as the Principle Investigator (PI) of the second wave of Canadian Youth Study and co-PI for the Canadian Election Survey (CES). Her new projects include experiments in political communication, collaborations with neuroscientists, and projects on the role of health as well as pregnancy for political mobilization.