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Association canadienne de science politiqueProgramme du congrès annuel de l'ACSP 2025
Les politiques d’appartenance : conflit,
communauté, curriculum
Organisé au Collège George Brown, Toronto, CANADA
3 juin au 5 juin 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Relations internationales
C16(b) - Roundtable: International Relations in Canada: Understanding the Field
Date: Jun 5 | Heure: 08:30am to 10:00am | Salle:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Michael Murphy (Queen's University)
Veronica Kitchen (University of Waterloo)Stéfanie von Hlatky (Queen's University)
Heather Smith (UNBC)
David Black (Dalhousie University)
Maika Sondarjee (University of Ottawa)
Caroline Dunton (Queen's University)
Lou Pauly (University of Toronto)
William O'Connell (Columbia University)
Abstract: 2025 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of THB Symons’ landmark report To Know Ourselves, which evaluated the status of “Canadian Studies” in institutions of higher learning across Canada. Symons wrote critically of the field of international relations as it existed in the early 1970s, summarizing it as a meagre field dominated by non-Canadian-trained scholars researching non-Canadian topics and teaching non-Canadian texts. In response to Symons at the report’s quarter-century, Kim Richard Nossal argues that the late twentieth century saw a rapid development of international relations in Canada; while distinct from American international relations, this shift to a “home-grown IR” was too methodologically and theoretically diverse to uncritically accept Symons’ challenge. As the disciplinary sociology of IR in Canada has continues, investigations have tracked the approaches, assumptions, theories, and methods dominant in research contexts; attitudes towards the field and its subjects revealed through major surveys; the politics and power of language in shaping the field of international relations; the training of the professoriate; and unique strengths in the Canadian academy as differentiated from American international relations. This roundtable brings together contributors to a volume on the state of IR in Canada as we reach the fiftieth anniversary of the Symons Report.