2026 Graduate Students Conference

The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) hosted its annual graduate student conference on 20-21 March, in Québec. The goal of this conference is to offer graduate and postdoctoral students interested in the Centre’s research areas the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their research.

This year, there were 23 presentations by students from 4 universities members of the CSDC.

Congratulations to the two students who received the best paper award at the 2026 CSDC Graduate Student Conference: :

Luisa Hinke Martinez – MA student in political science at McGill University (Supervisor : Elissa Berwick)
Présentation: « Does Violence Matter to Everyone? Investigating the Effects of Right-Wing Violence on Issue Salience among German Partisans »

Camille Arteau-Leclerc – PhD student in Political Science at Université Laval (Superviseur : Thierry Giasson)
Présentation: « Entre visibilité, authenticité et scénarisation : la personnalisation du politique sur Instagram en contexte d’hybridité médiatique au Québec »

The CSDC thanks all the participants. Also, a thank you to the organizing committee, Colleen McCool (Communication – Concordia University) et Frédérick Bastien (Political science Université de Montréal).