Past Events
Political Behaviour Research Group Series (2016-2021)
Topic: Worst Gamble Ever? Election 2021
Speakers: Allison Harell (UQAM), Peter Loewen (Toronto University), Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University), Laura Stephenson (Western University) (Moderated by Cris de Clercy, Western)
Date: Friday, September 17, 2021 @ 2:00-3:00PM
Topic: Fight For the White House, U.S. Election 2020
Speakers: Julian Wamble, George Washington University, Julia Azari, Marquette University, Jennifer Merolla, University of California-Riverside, Howard Lavine, University of Minnesota (Moderated by Matt Lebo, Western)
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2020 @ 3:00-4:30PM
Topic: Migration as a Formative Event: The 'Impressionable Years' and Immigrant Political Engagement in Canada
Speaker: Stephen White, Carleton University
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019 @ 1:30-3:00PM
Topic: The Effect of Opionion Polls on Political Information Seeking
Speaker: Jason Roy, Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Friday, February 8, 2019 @ 1:30-3:00PM
Topic: Behavioural Foundations of Negative Attitudes Towards Women
Speaker: Jordan Mansell, University of Quebec at Montreal
Date: Friday, November 23, 2018 @ 12:00-1:00PM
Topic: The Politics of Discriminatory Policing
Speaker: Charles Crabtree, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, September 28, 2018 @ 12:30-1:30PM
Topic: Do I Wish To Vote?
Speaker: André Blais, world-renowned expert on turnout and political behaviour. His 2000 book, "To Vote of Not To Vote", was inspired by discussions with our very own Professor Emeritus, Bob Young.
Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 @ 2:00-3:30PM
Topic: Unpacking the Evolutionary Influences for Political Ideology: Implicit Attitudes as Social Cues
Speaker: Jordan Mansell, D. Phil Candidate, Oxford University, BA & MA, Western University
Date: Friday, November 18, 2016 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Political Science Seminars (2017-2021)
Title: Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free-Speech in the Streets
Speaker: Dr. Alexis Lerner, Presidential Data Postdoctoral Fellow, Western
Date: October 6, 2021 @ 2:30pm (EST)
Super Tuesday Preview: Democratic Race & US Election 2020
Matt Lebo, Chair and Professor, Political Science, Western University
Political Science Distinguished Lecture
Title: Public Perceptions of Regional Collaborations in Transportation Policy
Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth R. Gerber, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement; Jack L. Walker, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, Research Associate, Center for Political Studies
Date: March 2, 2020 @ 12:30pm (EST)
Title: The Automated Analysis of Political Speech Based on Transcripts: Comparing Human and Machine Classification of the Video and Written Records of Debates in the Canadian House of Commons
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Cochrane, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
Date: February 28, 2020 @ 1:00pm (EST)
Title: Gender Quotas, Women's Representation, and Legislative Diversity
Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Barnes
Date: February 24, 2020 @ 1:00pm (EST)
Title: Applying Spectral Embedding Techniques to Problems in the Social Sciences: Diffusion and Permeability of Political Violence in North-West Africa
Speaker: Dr. Christian Leuprecht, Professor in Leadership, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC)
Date: January 30, 2020 @ 12:00pm (EST)
Title: Nag Him, Nag Her: Is Voter Mobilization within Households Gendered?
Speaker: Dr. Eline A. de Rooij, Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University
Date: January 20, 2020 @ 1:00pm (EST)
Title: Absent Mandate: Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections
Speaker: Dr. Harold D. Clarke, PhD Duke University, Ashbel Smith Professor, University of Texas
Date: November 1, 2019 @ 10:00am (EST)
Title: Care Ethics and the Economy
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Held, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center-City University of New York
Date: May 9, 2019 @ 2:00pm (EST)
Title: BREXIT: Implications for Europe
Speaker Panel: Prof. Radoslav Dimitrov, Department of Political Science; Prof. Bruce Morrison, Department of Political Science; Prof. Frank Schumacher, Department of History; Prof. Pietro Pirani, Modern Languages
Date: April 2, 2019 @ 1:00pm (EST)
Political Science Distinguished Lecture
Title: Pop Struggle: Repression and Dissent in Graphic Novels, Comics, Film, Music, and Board Games
Speaker: Dr. Christian Davenport, Political Science, University of Michigan
Date: January 22, 2019 @ 3:00pm (EST)
Title: The Trinity Western Cases: Faith, The Public Interest, and The Rule of Law
Speaker: Dr. Heather MacIvor, University of Windsor
Date: November 19, 2018 @ 4:30 - 6:00pm
Title: Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
Speaker: Dr. Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Political Science, Western University
Date: November 19, 2018 @ 1:00PM
Title: Canada's Role in NATO's Deterrence and Defence Projecting Stability
Speaker: Dr. John Manza, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations
Date: November 8, 2018 @ 4:00PM
Title: The New Minority. Immigration and the Politics of Nostalgia
Speaker: Justin Gest, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Date: November 1, 2018 @ 3:00 - 5:00PM
Title: Pursuing the Law as a Vocation
Speaker: Justice Grant Huscroft of the Ontario Court Appeal
Date: October 22, 2018 @ 2:45PM
Title: The Politics of Discriminatory Policing
Speaker: Charles Crabtree, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Date: September 28, 2018 @ 12:30PM
Title: Fighting Fake News on the Front Line: Public Radio Ukraine (Hromadske Radio)
Speaker: Kyrylo Loukerenko, Editor-in-Chief
Date: April 4, 2018 @ 4:30 - 6:30PM
Title: Brexit, The 2017 British General Election and Beyond
Speaker: Dr. Harold D. Clarke
Date: March 23, 2018 @ 1:30 - 3:00PM
Title: Sovereignty and Canada's Arctic Extended Continental Shelf
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
Date: November 24, 2017 @ 1:00 - 2:30PM
Title: Telling (Developmental) Tales out of School
Speaker: Dr. Robert Vipond
Date: November 16, 2017 @ 1:30 - 3:00PM
Title: Can the Right of Self-Determination Justify Immigration Controls?
Speaker: Dr. David Miller
Date: November 9, 2017 @ 3:00 - 4:30PM
Title: Biometric Emotions: Affect for the Purposes of Security
Speaker: Dr. Shoshana Magnet, University of Ottawa & The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies
Date: October 20, 2017 @ 1:00 - 3:00PM
Title: Laying Down the Law: When Advocacy Works
Speaker: Jane Kovarikova, PhD ABD
Date: October 17, 2017 @ 2:30PM
Title:Explaining the Underrepresentation of Women in US Electoral Politics
Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Dolan
Date: September 29, 2017 @ 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Title: A Federation Within a Federation? Reconciling Indigenous and Westminster Parliamentary Government in Canada's North
Speaker: Dr. Jerald Sabin
Date: September 26, 2017 @ 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Title: Using Experts to Measure Party Positions
Speaker: Dr. Ryan Bakker, Associate Professor, University of Georgia
Date: April 21, 2017 @ 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Title: The Trump Effect: USA & Global Governance
Speaker Panelists: Chios Carmody (Law, Western), Radoslav Dimitrov (Political Science, Law) Jennifer Mustapha (Political Science, Western),Valerie Oosterveld (Law, Western)
Date: January 26, 2017 @ 1:30 - 12:30 PM
TJ Speakers' Series (2021)
Title: Charting A Course to Measures of Non-Recurrence: The Possibilities and Limits of Customary Justice
Speaker: Isaac Bayor, Political Science and TJ Centre, Western University
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Title: Truth-Finding without Transitional Justice: Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry in Turkey
Speaker: Onur Bakiner, Political Science, Seattle University
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Title: How the History Wars Came to Canada: The TRC and the Unanticipated Politics of Toppling Statues
Speaker: Matt James, Political Science, University of Victoria
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 @ 3:30-4:30 p.m.
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