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The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity and the Department of Political Studies Present

"Bridging the Gap - Israel-Palestine Student Discussion" 

Thursday, April 11, 2024

7:00-9:00 PM  

Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202

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We are a group of York University students and alumni, both Palestinian/Arab and Israeli/Jewish, who want to change the way that the conversation about Israel/Palestine is happening at York University. We believe that, as fellow students who have a connection to this land, we all deserve human dignity and an honest conversation. We have established an Israel/Palestine student dialogue group on our campus for the purpose of sharing multiple perspectives in a respectful manner.

We are happy to share with the ����ֱ�� community the important dialogue work we are doing. York University Professor Randal Schnoor will moderate a public panel discussion with student leaders of York University's BRIDGING THE GAP to explore student motivations for starting this dialogue group, views on the current campus climate, challenges, and opportunities for dialogue. Question and discussion period with the audience will follow.

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Dr. Randal Schnoor, a sociologist, specializes in the study of contemporary Jewish Life in North America. For the last three years he has been teaching a course at York University entitled "Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada."

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In this course he succeeds in fostering a healthy environment for honest and respectful discussion between Jews and Muslims. Upon the Hamas attack on Israel of October 7/23 and the subsequent heavy Israeli military response, he was motivated to revitalize the BRIDGING THE GAP Israel/Palestine student dialogue group at York which had laid dormant since the onset of the COVID pandemic. The dialogue group is now thriving where Dr. Schnoor works closely with an executive of eight students (Jewish/Israeli/Palestinian/Arab) to design programming and establish safe spaces for genuine dialogue on the York campus.

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

The Kim Richard Nossal Undergraduate Teaching Award Inaugural Awards Ceremony and Reception

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 

2:30-4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 202

Light refreshments served

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The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award

The Kim Richard Nossal Teaching Award is in recognition of  and his legacy of commitment to higher education and teaching in Political Studies at Queen’s University.

This student-led award recognizes and celebrates teaching excellence at the undergraduate level in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. 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 will be presented to either one or two nominees annually each spring.

More about the award

 

 

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Research Fellows Present:

Dani Delaney - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies 

"Lip Service or Recommitment? An Analysis of Three Forms of Tribal Consultation" 

Monday, March 11, 2024 

3:00-4:00 PM

Mackintosh-Corry Hall | Room B201

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Political Studies Open House for Incoming and Potential Graduate Students

The Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University invites you to attend the 2024 Open House. Please join us for the opportunity to learn more about our program, engage with instructors and current students, and to hear about the wonderful services provided by the university.

This event is for those who have received and/or accepted an offer of admission to the MA or PhD program commencing September 2024. Information sessions are offered each fall for those interested in learning more about our graduate programs in general.  

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

11:00-1:00 PM (ET) 

Online via Zoom -

 

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Presents the Contemporary Antisemitism Lecture Series

featuring Dr. Magda Teter

Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies,

Fordham University

"Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History" 

Monday, March 4, 2024

2:30-4:00 PM

Online via Zoom -

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Abstract:

In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” This convergence is not just a product of American history, its roots go far deeper.  In this talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, will explore the interplay between Christian theology and law to demonstrate how the theological framework of Christian supersessionism articulated in antiquity and its subsequent application in law led to the creation of social hierarchies, legal exclusion of and a denial of equality to Jews and Black people also in modern times.

Biography: 

Magda Teter is a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (2005), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, The George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, HF Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Cullman Center at the NYPL, the NEH, and others. Teter is currently the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research. (Photo credit: Chuck Fishman)

 

The Department of Political Studies Presents The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory Inaugural Lecture

Colin Farrelly - Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory, ����ֱ�� Department of Political Studies 

Geroscience and Political Imagination: The Science of Healthy Aging

Friday, March 8, 2024 

12:00-1:30 PM

Mackintosh-Corry Hall | Room D216

Light lunch served - registration is encouraged, but not required:

Click to register for this event.

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Biography: 

Dr. Farrelly is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. He is cross-appointed with the  and occasionally teaches in the .

Over his 20+ year academic career, Dr. Farrelly has held academic appointments in 10 different departments in Political Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy in England, Scotland, the United States, and Canada. Previous appointments include Visiting Professor in UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Manoa in Hawaii, Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, Visitor in Oxford’s Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences, as well as permanent academic appointments at Waterloo University, Manchester University and the University of Birmingham.  

The author and editor of 6 books and approximately 50 journal articles, Colin’s publications include articles in journals in political science, philosophy, feminism, law, science, and medicine. He has published on a diverse array of topics, including the health challenges posed by population aging, the creation and evolution of patriarchy, virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, virtue jurisprudence, play and politics, freedom of expression, judicial review, non-ideal theory, gene patents, deliberative democracy, nanotechnology, sex selection, toleration, a citizen’s basic income, enhancing soldiers and economic incentives.

Dr. Farrelly believes science and science policy constitute the most significant areas of knowledge and public policy in the 21st century, and for the past 20+ years much of his research has focused on the ethical and social implications of advances in the biomedical sciences, especially human genetics and “geroscience”.  The latter aspires to increase the human health span by altering the rate of biological aging.

 

The Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity Research Fellows Present:

Fan Lu - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies 

"Coalitions, Conflicts, and the Space in Between: Political Relations Between Asians, Blacks, and Latinos in the U.S." 

Monday, February 26, 2024 

2:30-3:30 PM

Mackintosh-Corry Hall | Room E202

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