Events
Political Science Speaker Series
2022 Speakers
Title: The Highs and Lows of Chile's Second Democratic Transition
Speaker: Dr. Robert Funk, Visiting Researcher from the Universidad de Chile
Date: September 21st @ 2:00pm (EST)
Location: SSC 6210 (In person only)
ABSTRACT: From Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism to General Pinochet’s neoliberal experiment, Chile is a country that has often attracted the world’s attention. In recent months the country’s constitutional process once again was seen as a progressive example. Yet on 4 September, over 60% of the Chilean electorate rejected the constitutional draft. This presentation will review the road travelled and offers a theoretical framework which may offer some insight into possible successes and failures along the way. It posits that Chile is attempting a transition towards a new form of democratic governance.
Political Science Seminars
2022 Seminars
Title: The Web Will Be Decentralized! (For real, this time), But What Does That Mean, And How Can We Tell?
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Philippe Vergne, UCL School of Management, UK
Date: May 5, 2022 @ 11:00am (EST)
ABSTRACT: This workshop challenges the implicit assumption that decision-making and information are linked - i.e. that agents who make decisions have, by design, access to relevant information, and vice versa. Dr. Jean-Philippe Vergne will then differentiate between distributed and decentralized organization, as well as propose new measures - actionable in digital platform settings - to capture these two dimensions.
Title: How to Publish Your Scholarly Manuscript
Speaker: Emily Andrew, Publisher, McGill-Queen's University Press
Date: March 25, 2022 @ 12:30pm (EST)
ABSTRACT: This workshop will provide participants with the chance to learn from a seasoned university press editor. It will review the process of getting published, including key tips for preparing a successful book proposal; making sense of peer review; and choosing the right press. The floor will then be open to all questions.
Title: Everybody Hurts: Investigating Emotion Regulation as a Cause and Solution to Prejudice
Speaker: Dr. Jordan Mansell, NEST, Western University; Professor Amanda Friesen, Political Science, Western University; Professor Mathieu Turgeon, Political Science, Western University
Date: January 21, 2022 @ 2:00pm (EST)
ABSTRACT: There is an established relationship between emotion and prejudice. However, this relationship is complicated by the fact that humans are not passive emitters of emotion, but can act upon and regulate their emotional states. Given the pervasiveness of anti-prejudice norms, an explanatory gap exists between how experiencing negative emotion toward outgroups leads to prejudicial attitudes. One explanation is that the development of prejudice is a consequence of individuals’ failure to appropriately regulate their affective responses to outgroup members. Research on emotional regulation suggests that expressive suppression, the constraint of emotional expressions, in response to outgroup members could be responsible.
TJ Speakers' Series
2022 Seminars
Title: Operationalizing Virtue: How States Approach Indigenous Rights Issues
Speaker: Karolina Werner, Western University, NEST Postdoc
Date: Friday, April 8, 2022 @ 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Title: Transformative Reconciliation
Speaker: Kiera Ladner, University of Manitoba
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Title: Ending wars, ending structural violence
Speaker: Catherine Lu, McGill University
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Title: The role & limits of transitional justice in Africa's incomplete decolonization project: Lessons from postwar Sierra Leone
Speaker: Mohamed Sesay, African Studies, York University
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
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