The Centre for the study of democratic citizenship is happy to present:
The CSDC Conference 2021 – Diversity and the State of Democratic Citizenship
When: April 22-23, 2021, on Zoom.
Registration is now closed. Contact us at cecd-csdc@umontreal.ca if you have questions.
About: Canada and democracies across the globe face a broad array of important norma-tive and empirical questions with regard to diversity. What avenues are available to immigrants, ethnocultural citizens, or other minority groups to be heard by decision-makers? How have both citizens and institutions responded to this growth in diversity? How do these responses vary across democratic contexts? For the second edition of its triennial conference, the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) will present a broad, multidisciplinary range of papers that address these questions. The conference will include a series of panels for the invited papers, as well as a roundtable. Panels are organized around the following subthemes, with an emphasis on diversity:
- Immigration
- Elections
- Representation
- Democratization
- Democratic Politics
- Psychology
Program (conference book available here: 2021 CSDC Conference)
Thursday, April 22
1:30 – 2:30pm Panel 1. Is democracy for women and young people? / La démocratie est-elle pour les femmes et pour les jeunes?
Chair: Jean-François Godbout
- Dietlind Stolle, Elisabeth Gidengil and Olivier Bergeron-Boutin. Are young people more willing to accept democratic deconsolidation?
- Jordan Mansell, Allison Harell, Melanee Thomas and Tania Gosselin. Competition and Gendered Prejudice: Failure and Consequences for Politics.
2:45 – 3:45pm Panel 2. Minority groups, nationalism, and identity / Groupes minoritaires, nationalisme et identité
Chair: Ruth Dassonneville
- Thomas Soehl and Sakeef Karim. How legacies of geo-political loss shape popular nationalism today.
- Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen White, Luc Turgeon et Alisa Henderson. Le sentiment d’appartenance des minorités ethniques dans les états multinationaux. Le rôle des expériences d’exclusion au Québec et dans les autres provinces.
Friday, April 23
1:30 – 2:30pm Panel 3. Prejudice and acceptance of others / Préjugés et acceptation des autres
Chair: Aaron Erlich
- Frédérick Bastien. Les médias d’information et l’opinion publique sur l’immigration.
- Samuel Mérineau, Jean-Marc Lina et Roxane de la Sablonnière. Intégration identitaire et immigration : un modèle dynamique de l’acceptation de l’autre.
3:00 – 4:30pm Roundtable discussion on Diversity and the State of Democratic Citizenship
Moderator: Amen Ben Ahmouda, Public Affairs and Program Officer at Equal Voice
- Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Queen’s University
- Kassra Oskooii, University of Delaware
- Erin Tolley, Carleton University
The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).