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

Tracey Raney - Toronto Metropolitan University

"Gender-based Violence in Canadian Politics: Public Opinion, Legislative Accountability, and Actions Needed"

Friday, March 22, 2024 

12:00-1:30 PM

Light lunch served

Abstract: Gender-based violence in the public sphere poses a significant threat to political equality and democratic governance globally. Since the #MeToo movement, several countries in the global North have taken some steps to address this problem, including Canada. Yet little is known about what the public thinks of these steps or their expectations of what should happen when an elected official engages in this unethical behaviour. In this talk I will present public opinion data on what Canadians believe should happen when an MP engages in one type of gender-based violence: sexual harassment. The findings have relevance for lawmakers in Canada and elsewhere, revealing the importance of transparent, independent processes to improve legislative accountability on this issue. The talk will conclude with some reflections on future actions needed to address this growing threat to Canada’s democracy.

Biography: Dr. Tracey Raney is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Toronto Metropolitan University. She previously served as the Graduate Program Director of the MA in Public Policy and Administration.

The Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) and the Department of Political Studies' Corry Colloquium Speaker Series present:

Megan MacKenzie - Simon Fraser University

"Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence"

Friday, February 2, 2024 

12:00-1:30 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 334

Light lunch served

Abstract: 

In this presentation, Megan MacKenzie will draw out the key contributions of her recent book, Good Soldiers Don't Rape (Cambridge University Press), which focuses on sexual violence within defence forces. The book uses feminist theories of 'rape culture' and institutional gaslighting to identify the key stories, myths, and misconceptions about military sexual violence that have obstructed addressing and preventing it. It includes an analysis of nearly thirty years of media coverage of military sexual violence in three case countries – the US, Canada and Australia. MacKenzie will relate her book to the recent scandals and high profile cases of sexual misconduct that have plagued the Canadian Forces over the past three years.

Biography:

Megan MacKenzie is Director, Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.  She is a feminist scholar interested in war, security studies, post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, and military culture. 

The Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, and the Department of Political Studies present:

"The Gender, Sexuality, and Political Power Research Showcase"

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 

1:00-4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 202

Light refreshments served

Featuring:  

Panel 1: Gender and Governance, Foreign Policy, and Migration

Surulola Eke - “Rethinking the Power Concept in Gendered Migration Research: Agential Constructivism and the (Re)making of Gender Norms”

Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant - “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Hybridization of Parliament in Canada”

Michael Murphy - “Canada’s Approach to Quantum in Security and Economics: Feminist Foreign Policy or Tokenizing #WomenInSTEM?”

Panel 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Representation

Elizabeth Baisley and Quinn M. Albaugh - “Gender Attributions and Gender Stereotyping of Transgender and Nonbinary Politicians”

Kate Burke Pellizzari - “Are LGBTQ+ Candidates at a Disadvantage: An Examination of Political Finance in the 2015-2021 Canadian Federal Elections"

Fan Lu - “Gender Disparities in Asian American and Canadian Politics”

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Presents the Contemporary Antisemitism Series:

"Holocaust Distortion as a New Form of Holocaust Denial: the Case of Poland​"

featuring Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lecture 6:00-7:30 PM 

Kinesiology and Health Studies Building, Room 100

28 Division Street

About the Speaker: 

Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His interests focus on the Holocaust in Poland and, more specifically, on the relations between Jews and Poles during the war.  He has authored/co-authored or edited twenty books and published more than eighty articles in learned journals in many languages. Professor Grabowski’s book: Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland has been awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014.  In 2018 he co-edited and co-authored  “Dalej jest noc” [Night Without End] (a two-volume study of the fate of the Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland), published in 2022 in English by Indiana University Press.  Grabowski’s most recent book “On Duty. The Role of the Polish “Blue” Police in the Holocaust” (“Na Posterunku. Udział Polskiej Policji Granatowej i kryminalnej w Zagładzie Żydów”,  Czarne Publishing House), was published in Poland in 2020 and will be published in 2024 in English by Yad Vashem. 

This lecture series is supported by the Azrieli Foundation.