The Department of Political Studies' Winter 2023 Speaker Series Presents:

Michael Murphy, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - Queen's University

"Quo Vadis Active Learning?  Innovative Teaching in the Political Science Classroom"

Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM

Dunning Hall Room 11, 94 University Avenue, Kingston

Light refreshments will be served!

Michael Murphy is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. 

Abstract:  The scholarship of teaching and learning in politics and international relations (SoTL-P&IR) has grown rapidly in the last quarter-century, with new conferences, journals, and book series opening space for pedagogical conversations that are immediately relevant to the fields. Reviews of this body of research indicates that “active learning” is one of the foremost topics under consideration, including simulations and games, debates and discussions, in-person and online collaboration, and small-group activities. “Quo Vadis Active Learning?” presents an analysis of how active learning has grown in political science from League of Nations simulations in Harvard in the 1920s to online collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic, including results from a systematic review of all SoTL-P&IR articles published from 2000-2019 (forthcoming in International Politics), and shares preliminary findings from a Banting-funded survey on assessment and evaluation in political science education. The presentation further explores emerging topics of interest that will structure disciplinary debates in SoTL-P&IR over the coming years, including experiential learning, equitable and inclusive course design, hybrid or mixed-modality learning, learning spaces, and assessment and evaluation in a post-ChatGPT world.

The Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA) and the Department of Political Studies' Winter 2023 Speaker Series Present:

Allison Harell, Professor of Political Science at UQAM

"Inclusive Redistribution and Perceptions of Immigrants’ Membership

in Europe and North America"

Friday, January 20, 2023 | 12:00-1:30 PM

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D214 | 68 University Avenue, Kingston

Light lunch provided

Abstract: Previous studies of public opinion have shown that immigrants and racialized minorities are often seen as less deserving of welfare benefits than native-born citizens. However, there is no consensus on its causes, or on how to build greater public support for more inclusive redistribution. While prejudice and discourses of deservingness have played a central role in this literature, I will argue that support for redistribution to immigrants and racialized minorities is powerfully tied to perceptions of their “membership commitment”: that is, whether they are seen as committed to the larger society and willing to make sacrifices for it (Harell et al. 2021). The presentation will focus on results from an original seven-country survey conducted in 2021-2022 in Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, and the US. The study provides the first systematic and cross-national test of the extent to which immigrants suffer a “membership penalty” within host societies, and how these membership penalties vary across Western countries with different citizenship and welfare regimes. In turn, these penalties are powerfully linked to both general redistribution attitudes, but especially inclusive redistribution, understood as the inclusion of immigrants in major social programs on the same terms and conditions as native-born. I conclude with a broader discussion of the barriers that immigrants and other marginalized groups face in being perceived as equally committed as native-born citizens and how these barriers might be addressed.