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Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 | Workshop 3 | Workshop 4 | Workshop 5 | Workshop 6

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WORKSHOP 1

PRESENTED BY THE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY SECTION

TOPIC: Environmental Politics

ORGANIZERS

From public backlash against climate policies, to the politics of  “green transitions,” including hydrogen, critical minerals, and deep sea mining, to degrowth, energy justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the implications of UNDRIP, environmental policy and politics continues to be a source of rich scholarship and debate.  This workshop will draw together researchers working on environmental politics and public policy across local, subnational, national, and global scales. Research on any aspect of environmental politics and public policy is welcome including but not limited to:

• Climate obstruction, incumbent interests, and the politics of decline in deep decarbonization
• The politics of “long problems” (Hale 2024) and role of policy feedbacks, coalitions, and norms in energy transitions
• Governance (national, subnational, municipal, Indigenous) challenges and barriers to effective cooperation to meet climate goals
• The distributional effects of climate change and how policies can alleviate or exacerbate social, political, environmental, and economic inequalities
• The advantages and disadvantages of market-based mechanisms and their intersection with political backlash
• How local politics in urban or rural locales shape and impact environmental outcomes
• The intersection of climate, environmental, and energy politics across local, national, or transnational levels
• The role of international agreements (e.g. Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, UNDRIP) in spurring national or subnational environmental action
• The intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, treaty federalism, land back movements and new extractive bargains (Bowles and Andrews 2023) of the colonial state

Our hope is that the workshop brings together scholars working on these pressing topics to encourage engagement across disciplinary divides.

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

PRESENTED BY THE TEACHING AND THE WOMEN, GENDER AND POLITICS SECTIONS

TOPIC: Gender, Teaching And The Everyday

ORGANIZERS

This workshop, jointly organised by the Teaching and Learning and Women, Gender, and Politics Sections, will explore the multiple relationships between gender, teaching, and the ‘everyday’. The workshop will be organised around two core themes: 1) feminist approaches to the ‘everyday’ in teaching and learning, including ways of connecting lived experience to teaching content, practices, and relationships, and 2) feminist conceptions and experiences of the ‘everyday’ as teachers, including experiences and impacts of teaching, practices of collaboration, care, and support, and understanding the ‘teacher as human’. We welcome proposals that provide any number of perspectives and pathways for exploring relationships between gender, teaching, and the ‘everyday’.

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 3

PRESENTED BY THE TEACHING SECTION

TOPIC: Teaching In Context: Why And How Location Matters

ORGANIZER

Where you teach matters - whether in a large research institution, a small primarily undergraduate university, in a major urban area, a small rural community, or in Atlantic Canada, the prairies or Québec. Our teaching is also temporally contextualized by current events and technological developments such as AI. Despite this massive variation, and the ways that we have forged through the Covid-19 pandemic's disruptions of our teaching context, little attention is paid to the ways in which we respond to our contexts in how we develop and deliver our courses and interact with students. This workshop interrogates why and how we tailor our teaching to our contexts, including both planned contextualization and 'on the fly' adaptation when we encounter a 'misfit' between content and context. Proposals are welcome on all areas of teaching and context and from all career stages. Submissions from graduate students, early career scholars, instructors and contract faculty are explicitly welcomed.

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 TEACHING SECTION

TOPIC: Human Rights Teaching

ORGANIZERS

Human rights is a growing field of study, within Political Science and in related interdisciplinary programs. This workshop aims to bring together Canada's human rights teaching community to foster networking, learning and collaboration. It focuses on two practical dimensions. First, Human Rights Teaching Resources, will examine key resources for human rights teaching in Canada including non-traditional texts, experiential learning and academic resources. Second, Human Rights Teaching Strategies and Challenges will address the varied ways to engage with human rights content, common challenges in teaching controversial and polarizing human rights content, as well as the ways in which the practice of human rights is modelled within the classroom. It is anticipated that each dimension will be addressed through a roundtable, ideally sequenced to allow for informal discussion and community-building between sessions. Submissions are welcomed from the full range of human rights teaching at all levels - including those teaching in dedicated human rights programs and courses, as well as those addressing a human rights topic or theme in a broader course.

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 PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL POLITICS SECTION

TOPIC: Internal Migration: Trends, Tensions, and Policy Responses

ORGANIZERS

Internal migration far exceeds international migration, with estimates showing that there are nearly three times more internal migrants than international migrants. This trend is anticipated to persist or potentially increase in the future. On the one hand, several democratic countries are advocating for the removal of structural and cultural barriers to internal population movements (freedom of movement) to create a nation-wide labor and resource market. Many internal migrants exercise this right voluntarily, relocating for opportunity, family reasons, or improved living conditions. On the other hand, this narrative overlooks the complexities of internal migration. While some individuals move voluntarily, others are forced to relocate due to disasters, crises, environmental pressures, or state policies, such as internally displaced persons (IDPs).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from various subfields of political science to explore the multifaceted dynamics of internal migration. Key questions for consideration include, but are not limited to:

• What are the primary ‘push’ and ‘pull factors’ driving internal migration?
• What are the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of internal migrants, such as education, ethnicity, gender, and occupation?
• How are official discourses on internal migration framed, and how do host communities perceive these movements?
• Is opposition to internal migration framed in nativist or exclusionary language?
• What policies and laws govern internal migration, and how do they vary in unitary, decentralized, and federal states?
• Has internal migration prompted the creation of mobility restrictions and controls?
• How can insights from policies and attitudes governing international migration help us understand internal migration? Is there value in adopting a continuum approach that considers the similarities and overlaps between internal and international migration dynamics?

The goal is to bring together scholars examining internal migration from diverse perspectives (including policy analysis, territorial politics, conflict studies, public opinion, welfare state dynamics, mobility studies, and forced migration).

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 RACE, ETHNICITY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND POLITICS SECTION

TOPIC: Anti-oppressive strategies and solidarity in and out the classroom

ORGANIZER

This workshop invites scholars working on indigenous sovereignty, disability justice, anti-racist and decolonial approaches, pedagogies and practice of social change within and beyond academia to engage in conversations around radical futurities.

Teaching and fighting the various manifestations of coloniality, dispossession under the conditions of settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide, inequalities and structural violence against Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities require to sit with questions linked to academic freedom, building sustainable coalitions, envisioning solidarities and better futures. Following Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (2023), we invite scholars from all discipline who see hope as a practice, a discipline, and a tool to build a counterculture of care.

This workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, at different stages of their careers, to engage with the ideas of positionality, anti-oppression politics and coalition-building in academic setting and in communities. Teaching and researching contested topics can bring about hope and liberation as well as challenges. Often these questions remain at the fringes of political studies.

We invite research, all types of knowledge production and dissemination, creative processes that can contribute to creating a space to reflect on questions that include but are not limited to the following:

• How does positionality impact knowledge production and teaching practices?
• How can we teach contested subjects in the classroom?
• What are the epistemological and ontological insights brought by marginalized voices in the field?
• How can pedagogy contribute to social justice?
• How does your research and/or advocacy/activism engage with the potential and challenges of solidarity-building?
• How do you envision and contribute to building and sustaining a counterculture of care as well as communities of solidarity?
• What methodologies and pedagogies have you mobilized to discuss the specific experiences of violence lived by Indigenous, Black and racialized communities, and resistance strategies while engaging in solidarity-building?
• Drawing from gender studies, queer studies, disability studies, indigenous studies, Black studies, critical race studies, the scholarship on teaching and learning, abolitionist perspectives and other fields that focus on decoloniality and social justice, how do you envision a transformation of political studies and/or radical futurities?

This workshop will be an opportunity for scholars/activists who believe in more just societies to connect and collaborate. Questions as well as suggestions about this workshop can be emailed to the 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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