Department of Political Studies

The Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award Third Annual Ceremony and Reception

hck — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:16:50 +0000

The Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award Third Annual Ceremony and Reception hck Wed, 04/01/2026 - 15:16

The Department of Political Studies Department Student Council (DSC) presents:

The Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award Third Annual Awards Ceremony and Reception

91��Ƭ�� The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award

The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award is in recognition of Professor Emeritus Kim Richard Nossal and his legacy of commitment to higher education and teaching in Political Studies at 91��Ƭ��.

This student-led award recognizes and celebrates teaching excellence at the undergraduate level in the Department of Political Studies at 91��Ƭ��. In particular, it rewards undergraduate instructors in the department who are at the beginning of their teaching careers, who have made an exceptional contribution to the study and education of Political Studies through their teaching at this university. The award is presented to either one or two nominees annually each spring.

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2026 Honours Thesis Colloquium

hck — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:12:23 +0000

2026 Honours Thesis Colloquium hck Mon, 03/23/2026 - 13:12

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Please join us for the Department of Political Studies 2026 Honours Thesis Colloquium!

Students will present for 10-12 minutes, followed by a Q&A session led by a graduate student discussant. Lunch and light refreshments provided.

Please consider attending to support the excellent research conducted by our undergraduate students.

Schedule

Time	Session	Presenter	Topic
9:00-9:05am	Opening Remarks	Jana Walkowski
9:05-10:30am	Panel 1: Security and International Relations	Henry Kerr Supervisor: Dr. Surulola Eke Discussant: Emmanuel Ampomah	Praetorian Putsches: Tracing the Dynamics of Regime Change in West Africa from 2020 to 2023
		Taylor Fountain Supervisor: Dr. David Haglund) Discussant: Kimberly Fawcett Smith	An American Withdrawal from NATO in context: the question of Nuclear Proliferation
		Dante Jorge Supervisor: Dr. David Haglund Discussant: Kimberly Fawcett Smith	The Impact of the President on Foreign Affairs: How Unconstrained is the Executive?
		Rosalyn Huang Supervisor: Dr. Christian Leuprecht Discussant: Sabrina Michel	Beyond Finance: A FATF-Inspired Model for Effective Human-Rights Sanctions
10:30-10:45pm	Break
10:45am-12:00pm	Panel 2: Equity, Community and Human Rights	Maya Al-Idrissi Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Laforest Discussant: Sabrina Michel	Harm Reduction vs. Forced Treatment: Exploring Two Municipal Approaches
		Errol Grimshaw Supervisor: Dr. Dani Delaney Discussant: Dr. Kaitie Jourdeuil	From Mosh Pitts to Protests: Investigating how the Punk Community Motivates Punks to Participate in Social Movements
		Greta Caroline Speidel Supervisor: Dr. Kaitie Jourdeuil Discussant: Inés Villanueva Pérez	Unsettled Law: The Impact of Colonial Legal Legacies on Contemporary Minority Rights Protections in Canada and the United States
12:00-12:30pm	Lunch (pizza lunch provided)
12:30-1:45pm	Panel 3: Social Policy in Canada	Anjali Sookdeo Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Laforest Discussant: Claire Mountford	The Overrepresentation of Indigenous Children in the Ontario Child Welfare System
		Nathan Veysey Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Laforest Discussant: Claire Mountford	The Canadian Welfare State, Early Childhood Education and Care, and Pathways to More Egalitarian Social Policy Regime
		Maxime Dalat Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Laforest Discussant: Gillian Brown	Gendered Colonialism and the Indian Act
1:45-1:55pm	Break
1:55-3:10pm	Panel 4: Democracy, Political Opinion and Policy in North America	Claire Dudley Supervisor: Dr. Fan Lu Discussant: Brendan Dell	Abortion Down the Ballot: How States Responded to the Dobbs Decision in the 2024 General Election
		Rissa Wang Supervisor: Dr. Boyoon Lee Discussant: Brendan Dell	Ideal Immigrant or Not? A Vignette-Based Survey of Affordability Pressures and Hostility Toward International Students in Canada
		Sofia Guido Supervisor: Rachel Laforest Discussant: Gillian Brown	Democratic Fragility in Canada: Trust, Crime Salience, Polarization, Social Capital, Media, and Inequality in a Platformed Democracy, 2019-2026
3:10-3:15pm	Closing Remarks

Depopulation: An Ethical Perspective

hck — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:36:47 +0000

Depopulation: An Ethical Perspective hck Fri, 03/20/2026 - 14:36

Join us for the next installment of the Corry Colloquium Speaker Series, featuring “Depopulation: An Ethical Perspective,” with Dr. Luara Ferracioli.

Dr. Ferracioli is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She works on the philosophy of immigration and the philosophy of the family. Her recent books include Liberal Self-Determination in World of Migration (OUP, 2022) and Parenting and the Goods of Childhood (OUP, 2023).

Learn more about Dr. Ferracioli's research.

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Stéfanie von Hlatky visits NATO headquarters with Kingston-Ottawa delegation

bej1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:08:54 +0000

Stéfanie von Hlatky visits NATO headquarters with Kingston-Ottawa delegation bej1 Thu, 03/19/2026 - 16:08

Dr. Margaret Moore awarded Killam Prize

bej1 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:03:01 +0000

Dr. Margaret Moore awarded Killam Prize bej1 Wed, 03/11/2026 - 16:03

Conditional Integration: How immigrant origins shape public support for integration courses in Canada

hck — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:06:45 +0000

Conditional Integration: How immigrant origins shape public support for integration courses in Canada hck Fri, 03/06/2026 - 11:06

Join us for the next installment of the Corry Colloquium Speaker Series, featuring “Conditional Integration: How immigrant origins shape public support for integration courses in Canada,” with Antoine Bilodeau.

Dr. Bilodeau is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Concordia University. His research focuses on the political integration of immigrants in Canada and other Western democracies and on understanding the roots of views toward immigration and ethnic diversity. He also studies questions relating to youth political engagement and political socialization.

Dr. Bilodeau is the leader of the Provincial Diversity Project with Luc Turgeon (Ottawa), Ailsa Henderson (Edinburgh) and Stephen White (Concordia).

Dr. Bilodeau is a member of the steering committee for the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS), and a member of the Center for Immigration Policy Evaluation.

Learn more about Dr. Bilodeau's research here.

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Villanueva Pérez, Inés

bej1 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:04:30 +0000

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Villanueva Pérez

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Inés

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Doctoral Student

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Biography:

Inés Villanueva Pérez is a PhD student in the Department of Political Studies at 91��Ƭ��, where she specializes in Political Theory and Gender and Politics. Her research interests revolve around the politics of the nonhuman, who is included in the political community, and how territory shapes political subjectivities and agency. She is also interested in Indigenous feminisms, political philosophy, and ways of knowing.

Selected Publications:

Hennrich, D. M. & Villanueva Pérez, I. (2024). “‘I am in mourning for life on Earth’: taking precariousness and grievability beyond the human”. Perspectiva Filosófica (PF), 51(1), 86-108. Contribution: 85%.

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2023). “Sobre el derecho a persistir: La vulnerabilidad como herramienta ontopolítica de ampliación ética” [trans.: “On the right to persist: vulnerability as an onto-political tool of ethical broadening”]. In I Congreso Internacional de Humanidades Ecológicas: Pensamiento, Arte y Educación ante las crisis y para las transiciones ecosociales [trans.: 1st International Congress on Ecological Humanities: Thought, Art and Education before the crises and for eco-social transitions] (p. 27). Âther Studio. [Conference proceedings publication]

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2020). “Pensar el progreso y la utopía. Mies y Bauman: ¿contraposición de horizontes?” [trans.: “Reflections on progress and utopia. Mies and Bauman: contrasted horizons?”] in A. Rivero-Vadillo, C. Flys-Junquera (eds.), Envisioning Change: Environmental Humanities (pp. 53-66). Vernon Press.

Villanueva Pérez, I. (2019). “Activismo climático y decrecimiento. El caso de Fridays For Future Barcelona” [trans.: “Climate activism and degrowth. The case of Fridays for Future Barcelona”], Ecología política, 58, 103-106. [trade journal]

Awards:

2025 Ellen Henderson Award in Political Theory (PhD)
2025 Queen 91��Ƭ�� ’s Graduate Award (PhD)
2022-2023 IKS Excellence Scholarship and Fellowship (MA)
2021 Segimon Serrallonga Excellence Scholarship (MA)

Teaching:

POLS250 Introduction to Political Theory; POLS350 History of Political Thought

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Supervisors: Dr. Margaret Moore & Dr. Will Kymlicka

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BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid — Spain); MA in Contemporary Philosophy (Universidade de Lisboa — Portugal / Université de Lille — France)

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Miles, Carrie

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Carrie

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613-533-6000 ex. 76175

carrie.miles@queensu.ca

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Roundtable Conversation with Dr. Alasdair Roberts

bej1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:09:45 +0000

Roundtable Conversation with Dr. Alasdair Roberts bej1 Tue, 02/24/2026 - 14:09

POLS faculty and graduate students are invited to join Dr. Alasdair Roberts for an informal roundtable conversation on his current research projects on centralization in large polities and Goldwin Smith and Canada-US relations. Dr. Roberts will also discuss the ways he utilizes AI in his research.

This conversation will follow his J.A. Corry Lecture, Why Great States Fail.

Alasdair Roberts is a professor of public policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He writes extensively on problems of governance and public policy. His most recent book, The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2024. It was a finalist for the 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. His preceding book, Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century, was published by Polity in 2023. Eight earlier books have received five book awards.

Professor Roberts grew up in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. He received his BA from Queen's University, his JD from the University of Toronto, and his MPP and PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Before University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor Roberts held tenured faculty appointments at Queen's University, Syracuse University, Suffolk University Law School, and the University of Missouri. In 2007, he became the first non-US citizen to be elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration. In 2014 he received the Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award for his research on open government. In 2022, he received the ASPA Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration.

From 2009 to 2017, Professor Roberts was co-editor of the journal Governance. He was Inaugural Director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2017 to 2022. In 2022, he served as co-chair of the ASPA Presidential Committee on International Scholarly Engagement. In 2022-23, he was the Jocelyne Bourgon Visiting Scholar at the Canada School of Public Service.

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Reflections on Over Thirty Years of Teaching & the Future of the Study of International Relations

bej1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:35:10 +0000

Reflections on Over Thirty Years of Teaching & the Future of the Study of International Relations bej1 Tue, 02/24/2026 - 13:35

Celebrating a career of teaching and mentorship, the Department of Political Studies is proud to announce Professor Wayne Cox's final lecture:

Reflections on Over Thirty Years of Teaching & the Future of the Study of International Relations

Wayne Cox started his academic career as a Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in 1992. He remained at RMC through most of the 1990s, and also taught courses at Queen 91��Ƭ�� ’s at the same time. In 2001, he came to Queen 91��Ƭ�� ’s permanently, and since that time, Professor Cox has taught the large introductory course to both International Relations and International Political Economy almost every year since. He has introduced the study of world politics to thousands of Queen 91��Ƭ�� ’s undergraduate students. He has also taught the core Ph.D./MA field course on International Relations most years since 2001, seeing hundreds of MA and Ph.D. students through their course work and field exams. He has supervised many graduate students who have gone on to careers as university professors, government officials, researchers, international lawyers, among many others.

Professor Cox is known widely as a critical theorist and his research and publications span a broad range of topics including critical and post-positivist international relations and political economy, international relations theory, Kurdish ethnonationalism, Middle Eastern politics, American hegemony and global order, Canadian foreign and defence policy, violence and war, human rights, and the teaching of world politics. Outside of university life, Professor Cox is an avid guitar player and songwriter.

This lecture is open to all students, faculty, staff, and members of the public.

Following the lecture, colleagues, students, and friends are invited to join Wayne at the Grad Club (162 Barrie St.) at 4:00 pm to celebrate his retirement and wish him all the best in this next chapter.

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