Department of Political Studies professor Stéfanie von Hlatky and doctoral candidate Émile Lambert-Deslandes examine how Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated debates over NATO deterrence and one of its key components - nuclear sharing, in this Editor's Choice journal article, "The Ukraine War and nuclear sharing in NATO",
The Department of Political Studies is saddened to learn of the recent passing of distinguished faculty member Professor Emeritus Dr. Bruce Berman at the age of 81. Dr. Berman retired from the Department of Political Studies in 2003.
The following is Dr. Berman's obituary:
Congratulations to Dr. Célia Romulus, whose dissertation, Remembering the Duvalierist State – Gender, State Repression, and Migration Patterns between Haiti and Canada, has won the 2023 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS)-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Fine Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities category. Dr.
Post-Doctoral Fellow (CSDD and IIGR)
He/Him
PhD (Queen's); MA (Queen's), BAH (University of Toronto)
Political Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Michael Luoma (PhD, Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2023) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) and the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) at Queen’s University.
Michael’s research draws contemporary political philosophy into dialogue with grounded contexts of normative and political contestation. Specifically, Michael’s research examines the conditions for political legitimacy in Indigenous – settler relations, with a focus on the requirements for fair negotiation of territorial authority among self-determining peoples in a multinational federal system. Pursuant to this objective, Michael has conducted research on Indigenous political authority and collective self-determination, territorial rights and restitution, federalism, transnational Indigenous communities, and the negotiation of modern treaties.
You may find additional details about Michael’s research, on the negotiation of modern treaty agreements, on his CSDD profile.
You may view additional details about Michael’s research, on federalism and border governance, on his IIGR profile.
Date
Friday March 22, 2024Location
Mackintosh-Corry Hall Room D214Light lunch served
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.
Dr. Tracey Raney (she/her) 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.
In addition to holding a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Calgary, she holds a Masters Degree in Canadian Studies (with a specialization in Women’s Studies) from Carleton University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies from Queen’s University.
Dr. Raney’s broad research interests are in the areas of Canadian politics and women and politics. Her work focuses mainly on questions of identity, representation and leadership on topics including Canadian national identity, sub-national political identities in Canada, women’s political representation (Canada and Ontario), gender-based violence in politics, and sexual misconduct in legislatures. You can read more about her externally-funded projects on violence and harassment against women in Canadian politics in this Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council feature (external link) on her research.
Date
Friday March 1, 2024Location
Robert Sutherland Hall Room 334
Light lunch served
Daniel Voth is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Calgary. He is Métis, from the Métis Nation of the Red River Valley. He completed his undergraduate degree in Politics at the University of Winnipeg and a PhD at the University of British Columbia. His doctoral research examined the political and decolonizing relationships between Métis and other Indigenous peoples in Manitoba. To learn more about Daniel Voth, see his faculty profile at the University of Calgary.
Date
Tuesday January 30, 2024Location
Robert Sutherland Hall Room 202The Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD), and the Department of Political Studies present:
Featuring:
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?”
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”
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
1:00-4:00PM
Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202
Date
Friday February 2, 2024Location
Robert Sutherland Hall Room 334
Light lunch served
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.
To learn more about Megan MacKenzie, see her faculty profile at Simon Fraser University.
Date
Friday January 26, 2024Location
Robert Sutherland Hall Room 202"Liberal Internationalism's Cheshire Cat: Imperialism, Status, and the United Nations Security Council"
"Old Foes in A New Conflict: Neoliberalism, Ultra-nationalism, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in the Digital Age in Africa"
"Understanding Connections: An Anthropologist's Insight into Security and Peace"
"Domains of Self-Determination? Indigenous Land Claims and Border Security Cooperation"
Light lunch provided
Dr. Caroline Dunton is the Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellow. Caroline studies Canadian foreign policy, the United Nations Security Council, diplomacy, and settler colonialism in Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa, where she has also been a Research Associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies. She also holds an MA from The George Washington University, an MA from the University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Knowledge Integration from the University of Waterloo. Outside of academia, she has worked at Global Affairs Canada, including as a Senior Policy Analyst in Foreign Policy Planning and the Cadieux-Léger Fellow. She is currently the Book Reviews Editor at International Journal.
Dr. Surulola Eke is the latest Peacock Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Department of Political Studies. Working with supervisor Dr. Andrew Grant, his research agenda focuses on the linkages between autochthony, natural resources, and conflicts in West Africa. Dr. Eke has published on these linkages and related security governance themes in several scholarly journals, including Third World Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Peace Research, and African Security Review.
Dr. Emilie El Khoury is a postdoctoral fellow at Queen's University's Centre for International Policy and Defence (CIDP). Her expertise lies in the field of anthropology, with a specific focus on the Middle East and the Maghreb. Her research areas encompass war, religion, politics, and their application to topics such as terrorism, security, gender dynamics, and the processes leading to radicalization and violence. Her doctoral research (completed in 2022) focuses on women's experiences and the situations that promote or compromise their security in times of war and peace.
Dr. Michael Luoma’s research is centered in theories of territorial rights, political authority, and collective self-determination. Within that domain, and in dialogue with Indigenous political philosophy, Michael’s doctoral project examined the conditions for legitimate treaty negotiation processes and just territorial rights arrangements on Turtle Island. In addition to this work, he is interested in the philosophy of migration and the ethics of political action. Michael is a settler, born and raised in Orillia, Ontario on Chippewa territory (Crown Treaty 16, Chippewa Williams Treaty).
