Department of Political Studies Class of 2024 Fall Convocation Reception!

All POLS Fall 2024 graduates and their guests are invited to attend this luncheon reception on Friday, November 15th from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. 

Friday, November 15th | 12:30 – 2:30PM

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202  

138 Union Street, Kingston 

Light refreshments will be served

The January Political Studies Departmental Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2025 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202.

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 Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Emerging Scholars Present:

Kaitie Jourdeuil - PhD Candidate | Department of Political Studies, Queen's University

"Can we decolonize territorial rights? An exploration" 

Monday, November 4, 2024 

2:30-4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 334

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) is pleased to announce its next event, a talk from Kaitie Jourdeuil, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies, titled “Can We Decolonize Territorial Rights? An Exploration”.

Abstract

What does it mean to decolonize territorial jurisdiction in countries like Canada? How can settler political theorists contribute to this process? This talk presents preliminary thoughts on these questions emerging from my dissertation research. Drawing on Indigenous political thought and empirical scholarship, I suggest that decolonization is not a process of redistributing authority, as it is often framed in Canadian political debates and liberal thought, but of changing how settler and Indigenous political communities relate to each other-that is, how we understand territorial jurisdiction itself. I also consider the methodological responsibilities of settler political theorists to contribute to these processes and the implications of these responsibilities for the traditional objects, methods, and arguments of normative political theorizing.

Brief biography

Kaitie Jourdeuil is a SSHRC doctoral scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, specialising in Political Theory and Canadian Politics. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kaitie joined the Department of Political Studies in 2019 as a Master's student in Political and Legal Thought. She received her Bachelor of Humanities with High Distinction from Carleton University's College of the Humanities, during which she completed a year of study at Cardiff University in Wales.

The November Political Studies Departmental Meeting will be held on Thursday, November 14, 2024, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202.

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:

"Decision 2024: Perspectives on the U.S. Elections" :: A Panel Discussion

Join the Department of Political Studies for Q&A and commentary on the state of the race, recent campaign events, discussion of voter choices, and the impact of possible election outcomes. Panelists will share their perspectives on the race for the U.S. presidency and other federal elections and take audience questions.

Panelists: Paul Gardner, David Haglund, Fan Lu

Moderator: Zsuzsa Csergő

Thursday, October 31, 2024 

2:30 - 4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202

Light refreshments served

A Panel Discussion Featuring:

Paul Gardner, Assistant Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

Paul Gardner is an Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He was formerly a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at the Queen's University Faculty of Law and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Gardner's research and teaching interests are broadly in American law and politics. His work sits at the intersection of a number of sub-disciplines of political science, including American institutions, judicial politics, American political development, law and society, and political behavior.

David Haglund, Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

After receiving his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1978 from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, D.C., David Haglund assumed teaching and research positions at the University of British Columbia.  In 1983 he came to Queen's.  From 1985 to 1995, and again from 1996 to 2002, he served as Director of the Queen’s Centre for International Relations (subsequently renamed the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy).   From 1992 to 1996 he served as Head of the Department of Political Studies, and as Acting Head for the 2015-16 academic year.  He has held visiting professorships in France (at Sciences Po in Paris, at the French military academy – Saint Cyr-Coëtquidan, and at l’Université Paris III/Sorbonne nouvelle); in Germany (at the Universität Bonn, and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); in Ireland (at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin); and in the US (at Syracuse University and Dartmouth College).  From 2003 to 2012 he served as co-editor of the International Journal.

Fan Lu, Assistant Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

Fan Lu’s primary fields of study are American Politics and Quantitative Methods, with a focus on race. She is interested in understanding political relations between Latinos, Asians, and African Americans. “People of color” in the United States share similar experiences with discrimination and political mis/underrepresentation. Yet, each group has distinct racial and cultural identities that lend themselves to different political needs and aspirations. What motivates them to form political coalitions with one another? What instigates inter-group conflict? She answers these questions using a combination of individual and aggregate level data, with plans to extend the study of racial politics beyond the United States.

Moderator: Zsuzsa Csergő, Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

Zsuzsa Csergő (PhD in Political Science, The George Washington University, 2000) is The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She specializes in the study of nationalism and contemporary challenges to democracy, with particular expertise on Central and Eastern Europe. Before joining the Queen’s faculty, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the Women’s Leadership Program in U.S. and International Politics at the George Washington University. From 2013-2020, she was President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), the largest international scholarly association in the field of nationalism and ethnicity studies. She currently serves as Director of the association’s online initiative, “Virtual ASN.” 

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

A Panel Discussion 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 Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality, an affiliate of the Canadian Historical Association, and book review editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. 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. 

Moderator: Elizabeth Baisley, Assistant Professor, Queen's Department of Political Studies

Dr. Elizabeth Baisley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies. Broadly speaking, Baisley’s research focuses on issues of rights and representation in Canadian politics. This research often foregrounds the role of political parties, interest groups, and social movements in social and political change. Baisley draws on both qualitative and quantitative materials, including archival materials, interviews, observations of political events, survey data, roll-call data, and experiments. 

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

Founder and Principal, MASS LBP 

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Lecture 4:00-5:30pm

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202

Light refreshments served

About 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.

About the speaker:

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 masslbp.com.

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

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 Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202.

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.