The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities (Fall 2017)
October 20, 2017
About the Conference
Canadian society has several aspects that make study of it crucial to understanding global challenges in the twenty-first century. These include migration issues, religious diversity, and the struggle of Aboriginal peoples and minority nations in quest for recognition. The aim of this conference is to analyze the Canadian experience through all its diversity, and to emphasize the decisive contributions of Canadian scholars in these different fields.
Conveners
- Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
- Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
All workshop panels will be held in Room 105, Williams James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
9:00-9:15 Welcome Address
Michèle Lamont, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Harvard University
9:15-10:15 Keynote Session
Canadian Exceptionalism? A Model for 21st Century Democracies
Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
Presider: Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Panel I: National Minorities
Hypocrisy 150: Indigenous-Settler Relations, Group Positioning, and Prospects for Reconciliation at Canada’s Sesquicentennial
Jeffrey Denis, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University
Re-thinking How We Think about Immigration: Reasons Why We’re Great, Reasons Why We’re Not
Rima Wilkes, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
The Value of Diversity in Advanced Liberal Democracies: A World in Need of Renewed Markers
Alain-G Gagnon, Professor, Department of Political Science, Director of Canada Research Chair in the Study of Canada and Quebec, Université du Québec à Montréal
Chair and discussant: Jane Jenson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal / Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Successful Societies Program
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Panel 2: Citizenship
The Bureaucracy of the Canadian Model
Mireille Paquet, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University / Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University
Changing Canada’s Citizenship Regime. Federalism and Immigration
Jane Jenson,Professor, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal / Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Successful Societies Program
Strategic Citizenship, Eh? An Inquiry into the Motivations for Naturalization
Elke Winter, Associate Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa
Chair and discussant: Peggy Levitt, Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and Co-Director of the Politics and Social Change Workshop, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-4:15 Panel 3: Public Opinion
Visible Minority Canadians and Feelings of Belonging: Exploring Provincial Variations
Antoine Bilodeau, Professor, Department of Politial Science, Concordia University
Luc Turgeon, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
The Near Death of Canadian Multiculturalism
Will Kymlicka, Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University
The End of Multiculturalism? An Analysis of Public Discourses on Multiculturalism in Canada and in Great Britain
Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Chair and discussant: Michèle Lamont, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affair, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Harvard University
4:30-6:00 Panel 4: Religion
The Fate of Symbols: Religion, Secularism, and Patrimoine in Québec
Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
A Religion like No Other: Islam and the Limits of Multiculturalism in Canada
Phil Triadafilopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Multiculturalism, Religion and Secularism
Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol / Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
Chair and discussant: Jytte Klausen, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University, Fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C., and Affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University