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October Newsletter: Volume 1, issue 1
News and Upcoming Events
CEPI
The Centre for the Evaluation of Immigration Policy (CEPI) has started its monthly research seminar with faculty and graduate students from the Concordia community. Items of discussion include work in progress related to immigration and integration. Participants can join at any time! For more information: ceip.cepi@concordia.ca.
IPSA
The International Political Science Association (IPSA) invites you to renew your membership for 2015:
The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies invites faculty and graduate students working on Israel to share their research at the Institute’s Graduate Student-Faculty Seminars. For more information, contact Randy Pinsky: azrieliinstitute@gmail.com.
The Loyola Sustainability Research Centre
The Loyola Sustainability Research Centre invites you to an exciting gala dinner on October 24, featuring award-winning filmmaker Nora Bateson as keynote speaker. The event is part of the Leaders in Conservation Conference on the role of botanical gardens in socio-environmental governance and biodiversity, co-organized by Peter Stoett and Katja Neves. The conference will take place on October 23-25.
Registration is required to attend the keynote address and dinner. For more information and to register:
Upcoming Talks
October 16, Thursday. Diana Rivington (University of Ottawa) will be giving a talk in the Department titled “As if gender equality mattered: the possibilities and pitfalls of becoming a femocrat.” The talk will be held in H 1220 at 2:00 pm.
October 31, Friday. Norrin Ripsman will give a talk titled “Neoclassical Realism: A Research Agenda” at McGill University as part of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CEPSI-CIPSS) Annual Speaker Series. The talk will be held at McGill University, Leacock Building, Room 429, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. http://cepsi-cipss.ca/en/
November 20, Thursday. Stephen Saideman (Carleton University) will be giving a talk in the Department titled “Fighting Together, Fighting Alone: Principal-Agent Theory Goes to War.” The talk will be held in H1220 at 3:30 pm.
Kudos
Congratulations to Jeremy Speight for getting a Visiting Assistant Professor contract at Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland.
Brent Gerchicoff passed his comprehensive examinations in International Relations and Comparative Politics.
Amy Poteete has been appointed to the Editorial Board of The Journal of Development Studies for a five-year term, 2014–2019.
Graham Dodds contributed to a public exhibition on political apologies that is part of traveling expo entitled “Never Again! Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past” (“Bir Daha Asla! Geçmişle Yüzleşmeve Özür”) that will be in Samsun, Turkey during October 10-25. www.depoistanbul.net/en/activites_detail.asp?ac=97
Mebs Kanji and Kerry Tannahill presented a paper entitled “Is our Democracy in Trouble? Analyzing the Outcomes of Discontent with Political Authorities and Government Institutions in Quebec” at the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association (APPSA) conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Patrik Marier and Corey Guitard presented a paper entitled “A ‘Tsunami’ or ‘Enlightenment’? The Framing of Population Aging in Canadian Media” at the APPSA conference.
Graham Dodds presented a paper entitled “This was no ‘Act of God’” for a political theory panel at the 2014 APPSA conference.
Jeremy Speight presented a paper entitled “Becoming 'Big Men': Warlordism, Authority and Contested Statehood in Post-Conflict Northern Cote d'Ivoire” at the APPSA conference.
Graham Dodds gave a presentation on “Comprendre le système électoral américain” at a conference entitled “L’Amérique dans tous ses États: Quel portrait de la société américaine à l’aube des élections de mi-mandat?” at UQAM.
Media Appearances
Amy Poteete’s article “Afrobarometer Voter Preference Data and Actual Election Results” appeared in Mmegi Online (a weekday newspaper in Botswana) October 3, 2014: www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=46433
Patrik Marier’s research was featured in the Le Devoir on September 30, 2014
http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/actualites-economiques/419807/entretiens-concordia-innovation-comment-remedier-a-notre-myopie-collective
Theses and Internship Defenses
Congratulations to Alexandre Léger who successfully defended his internship report entitled: “Policy Convergence in the Area of Apprenticeship – A case study of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Germany” on September 23rd, 2014, under the Supervision of Dr. Guy Lachapelle, second reader Dr. Maben Poirier and chaired by Dr. Brooke Jeffrey.
Good luck to Alexandre in all his future endeavors.
Publications
Leander Schneider’s book Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania has been published by Indiana University Press in September 2014. James C. Scott (Yale University) writes:
"All students of Africa and of development should read Leander Schneider’s superb analysis of Tanzanian rural policy under Nyerere. First, it sits absolutely atop the mountain of other studies of villagisation by virtue of its empirical mastery and analytical subtlety. Second, it represents a devastating critique of the fatal methodological simplifications that plague much of contemporary social science."
www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=6040_5816&products_id=807291
Stephanie Paterson, Francesca Scala and Marlene Sokolon recently contributed to and edited a book called Fertile Ground: Exploring Reproduction in Canada (Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, July 15, 2014). Kate Bezanson (Brock University) writes:
“Fertile Ground is an important and timely intervention into multidisciplinary understandings of reproduction in Canada. The chapters speak to one another beautifully, and the text holds together with grace and depth. It represents excellent scholarship and will be of interest to academics and students in a range of disciplines - sociology, women’s studies, political science, philosophy, and the applied health sciences.”
www.mqup.ca/fertile-ground-products-9780773543690.php?page_id=73&
Mireille Paquet published an article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science entitled: "The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada."
Axel Hülsemeyer recently published an article entitled “Regional Integration and the Global Political Economy” in the International Studies Association Compendium Project – 2013 online update (2013). (Edited by Robert A. Denemark, Oxford: Blackwell).
Eleni Panagiotarakou recently reviewed the book 'Feminist Criminology' by Claire M. Renzetti. The review appears at the following link on the Canadian Criminal Justice Association (CCJA) website.
www.ccja-acjp.ca/pub/en/review-feminist-criminology/