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WORKSHOP 1

PRESENTED BY THE CANADIAN POLITICS SECTION

TOPIC: Canadian Legislatures and Leadership

ORGANIZERS

Scholars of Canadian legislatures and political leadership are invited to present on topics about Canadian parliamentary institutions and/or political leadership from diverse theoretical, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. We welcome papers, roundtables, and other sessions on topics such as:

• Representation, party discipline, and institutional design (Parliament, provinces, territories)
• Media framing and public perceptions of politicians
• Ethics, transparency, and accountability in leadership
• Practitioner perspectives and applied lessons in governance
• Leadership in political parties, interest groups and other extra-parliamentary settings
• Large-scale analysis of parliamentary discourse and proceedings
• Related topics concerning the executive or legislative branches of government in Canada

Paper proposals, roundtable ideas, and practitioner session suggestions are all welcome. After the conference, participants will be encouraged to engage in coordinated site visits on June 5 in downtown Ottawa. Subsidies will be available to assist graduate students and precariously employed scholars attending the additional day.

The workshop is sponsored by the Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy at Carleton University and the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at Acadia University.

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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WORKSHOP 2

TBA

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WORKSHOP 3

PRESENTED BY THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIOLOGY SECTION

TOPIC: Québec Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion

ORGANIZERS

Biennial Workshop on Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion in Québec Politics
(3rd edition)

In the first edition of this biennial workshop in 2020, Québec politics seemed to be at crossroads and on the verge of a possible partisan realignment. In several ways, the 2022 Quebec election suggested an electoral realignment, with the Coalition Avenir Québec being re-elected after ending about half of a century of the bipartisan Parti libéral du Québec-Parti Québécois party system in 2018.

In 2025, public opinion polls suggest that the incumbent government of the CAQ might be wiped off the map and scholars of elections, parties and public opinion in Quebec politics are left with many puzzles to answer. This workshop will tackle these puzzles in a pre-electoral context, as the next Quebec election will take place in October 2026.

The workshop welcomes paper proposals that aim to improve our understanding of Québec politics by addressing issues related to elections, parties, and public opinion. In particular, the following topics would nicely fit within the scope of the workshop:

• Analyses of electoral behaviour (voter turnout, vote choice) and other forms of political participation (online activism, demonstrations, etc.) in Québec politics.
• The state of public opinion on national/regional identities, independence, federalism, and similar questions.
• Party systems and partisan realignment in Québec.
• Legislative behaviour in the Quebec National Assembly.
• Party strategies.
• Comparisons of Québec with other substate nations or Canadian provinces on the preceding topics.

As for all congress activities, the workshop is bilingual (i.e., it will take place in both official languages). All discussants will be bilingual and will be able to read and provide comments for both English and French submissions. Participants should feel free to submit their proposals in the language of their choice. Discussions and Q&As will take place both in French and in English during the workshop.

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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WORKSHOP 4

PRESENTED BY THE WOMEN, GENDER AND POLITICS SECTION

TOPIC: Reproductive Justice

ORGANIZERS

The reproductive politics of the early & mid- 2020s has been a site of precarity producing both agony and affirmation. The overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US in 2022, and the ongoing rollback of protections for reproductive and bodily autonomy and dignity, have sent ripples of anxiety up across the Canadian border. While fundamental legal protections are maintained in Canada, we’ve witnessed the claw-back of federal funding from national reproductive rights organizations and the closure of nonprofit clinics throughout the country, and concern that the newly introduced Pharmacare coverage for contraception may be vulnerable to austerity measures. This political moment has informed a new urgency, although the systems of oppression at play are certainly not new.

At the heart of reproductive justice is a political movement, nurtured and fought for by the activism and deliberation of Black women in the US, alongside other marginalized communities. Unified under the umbrella of Sistersong in the 1990s, the movement itself traces its roots to the early resistance efforts of Black and Indigenous women to the colonial state. They define reproductive justice a “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (nd), while insisting that rights themselves are inadequate without conditions that support access and dignity.

As a framework for both theoretical analysis and practical engagement in advocacy, reproductive justice provides a foundation for understanding all issues as reproductive justice issues. The climate crisis, infringement on Indigenous sovereignty, violence in local communities and overseas, cost of living and housing precarity, among a range of other increasingly urgent concerns each shape the ways in which individuals experience bodily autonomy and possibilities of reproducing family and community in safety and dignity.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on a range of issues, engaging with the lens of reproductive justice. We invite researchers at all career stages that are addressing the theoretical dimensions of RJ as well as those that are working on more empirical projects, including those that consider and engage with the work of activists.

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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WORKSHOP 5

PRESENTED BY THE POLITICAL ECONOMY SECTION

TOPIC: Global Trade

ORGANIZER

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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WORKSHOP 6

PRESENTED BY THE CPSA/ISA-CANADA SECTION ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

TOPIC: Canada and Palestine

ORGANIZER

The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in Occupied Palestine (in particular, Gaza and the West Bank) has had dramatic implications for Canada both domestically and internationally. This workshop will focus on the ramifications for Canadian foreign policy at both levels. This workshop will draw together researchers working on all aspects of the Palestine question in Canada including, but not limited to:

• The effect of Canadian policy towards Palestine on Canada’s political and moral standing in the non-Western world.
• The implications of Gaza for international human rights law, the laws of war, and other institutions of international law, including the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and how this relates to Canada.
• The effect the conflict on international institutions on which Canada has, in the past, placed considerable political capital, such as the United Nations.
• The nature and extent of Canadian media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
• The suppression of debate/discussion and protest around Israel-Palestine on the campuses of Canadian universities and in academia more generally.

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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WORKSHOP 7

PRESENTED BY THE CPSA/ISA-CANADA SECTION ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

TOPIC: Canada and the United States

ORGANIZER

Canada is engaged in an ongoing trade and political conflict with the United States. This conflict has already dramatically affected Canada’s domestic political environment (e.g., the election of a new Liberal federal government led by Mark Carney) and continues to shape Canada’s immediate economic and political future. This workshop will draw together researchers examining all aspects of the Canada-US relationship including, but not limited to:

• The nature and extent of Canada’s economic bargaining power with respect to the US.
• The prospects for genuine Canadian trade and political diversification and how this would affect Canada’s global perspective in the future.
• How Canada’s relations with Asia and/or Europe may be affected by the ongoing trade dispute with the US.
• The likelihood of violent conflict between Canada and the US and how Canada could respond/protect itself.
• To what extent does Canada risk its economic future in order to placate the US in the present?

Questions about this workshop can be emailed to the organizers (click on the  icon below their pictures for contact information).

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