CSDC Speaker Series

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Note that all speaker series dates, locations and times are subject to change. For archives of past talks, please click here.

Schedule: Academic year September 2022 – August 2023

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Chadly Stern	Title coming soon	Friday, June 9	3:00 pm	TBD
Karen Nielsen Breidahl	Title coming soon	Friday, May 5	3:00 pm	TBD
Kristina Bakkaer Simonsen	Title coming soon	Friday, April 14	3:00 pm	TBD
Lucy Barnes	Title coming soon	Friday, March 17	3:00 pm	TBD
Mads Andreas Elkjaer	Title coming soon	Friday, February 17	3:00 pm	TBD
Andrew M. Guess	Title coming soon	Friday, February 3	3:00 pm	TBD
Alexander Fouirnaies	Title coming soon	Friday, November 11	3:00 pm	TBD
Rahsaan Maxwell	Title coming soon	Friday, March 10, 2023	3:00 pm	TBD

Schedule: Academic year September 2021 – August 2022

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Kaat Smets	Competing or Complementary? Local and National Competitiveness as Explanatory Factors of Turnout in SMP Systems	Friday, December 3, 2021	11am – 12:30pm	Zoom
Cristian Vaccari	Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies	Friday, November 12, 2021	11am – 12:30pm	Zoom

Schedule: Academic year September 2020 – August 2021

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Patricia Posey	Race and Indebted Access: How the Fringe Economy Shapes Political Inclusion	Friday, May 28, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Eline de Rooij	Immigrant political participation and the political context of origin and destination	Friday, May 21, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Stuart Soroka	The Increasing Viability of Good News	Friday, May 7, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Ingrid Haas	Understanding the Neural Underpinnings of Uncertainty in Political Evaluation	Friday, April 9, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Irene Bloemraad	Making Claims on Behalf of Noncitizens: National Values, Rights and the Dynamics of Inclusion	Friday, March 26, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Lilliana Mason	Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, & What It Means for Democracy	Friday, March 12, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Loleen Berdahl	The Resilience of Western Alienation in a Transformative Era	Friday, February 12, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Jen Schradie	The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives	Friday, January 22, 2021	10:00am	Zoom
Jonathan Mummolo	Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing	Friday, January 15, 2021	3:00pm	Zoom
Milan Svolik	Voting Against Autocracy	Friday, December 11, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom
Bart Bonikowski	The Partisan Sorting of ‘America’: How Nationalist Cleavages Shaped the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election	Friday, November 27, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom
Cesi Cruz	Making policies matter	Friday, November 13, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom
Liesbet Hooghe	A Cleavage Theory of Partisanship	Friday, October 16, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom
Daniel Butler	Constituents Ask Female Legislators to do More	Friday, September 25, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom
Daniel Butler	Constituents Ask Female Legislators to do More	Friday, September 25, 2020	3:00pm	Zoom

Schedule: Academic year September 2019 – August 2020

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Sara Hobolt	Political Entrepreneurs. The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe	Friday, June 26, 2020	11am	Zoom
Bart Bonikowski	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Daniel Butler	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Cory Clark	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Sara Hobolt	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Jonathan Mummolo	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
John Holbein	Are Voting Experiences Transformative? Expanding Upon and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence	Friday, February 21, 2020	3:00pm	Room C-2059, Lionel Groulx, UdeM
Jane Green	Testing the economic basis of populism: new insights into the economic drivers of the Brexit vote	Friday, February 7, 2020	3:00pm	Room C-2059, Lionel Groulx, UdeM
David Fitzgerald	Refuge beyond reach: how rich democracies repel asylum seekers	Friday, January 31, 2020	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
CSDC Extravaganza	Prof Eric Hehman’s talk: “Examining the impact of same-sex marriage legalization on citizens’ implicit and explicit anti-gay biases” & Research Slam	Friday, December 6, 2019	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Margit Tavits	Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Outgroup Intolerance	Friday, November 15, 2019	3:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Yanna Krupknikov	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Peter Dinesen	Working together? Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace and Generalized Social Trust	Friday, September 20, 2019	3:00pm	Room 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Peter Dinesen	Working together? Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace and Generalized Social Trust	Thursday, September 5, 2019	11:40am – 1pm	Room DKN 3470, Université Laval

Schedule: Academic year September 2018- May 2019

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Victoria Esses	Media Portrayals of Refugees: Nature and Consequences	Friday, October 19, 2018	3:00pm	Room D-427, Marie-Victorin Building, Université de Montréal
James Druckman	Unraveling Affective Polarization	Friday, November 2, 2018	3:00pm	Room C-6070-9, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal
Elizabeth Suhay	How Americans on the Left and Right Explain Socioeconomic Inequality	Friday, November 16, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Michael Bechtel	Inequality and Redistribution Behavior	Friday, December 7, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten	Asylum Seekers Centers in the Neighborhood: Causal Effects of Sudden Immigrant Influx on Exclusionary Attitudes	Friday, March 15, 2019	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Elin Naurin	The Political Effects of Pregnancy	Friday, April 12, 2019	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Ashley Jardina	White Identity Politics: The New Role of Racial Identity in America	Friday, April 26, 2019	3:00pm	Thomson House, McGill University
Eva Anduiza	“I am not a feminist but…” Women’s protests and gender attitudes in Spain	Friday, May 10, 2019	3:00pm	Room C-2059, Lionel Groulx Building, UdeM

Schedule: Academic year September 2017- May 2018

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Colette Brin Jeremy Clark Aaron Erlich	“How Canadian access news online“ “Democracy enhancing technologies“ “Covering the campaign election events in developing democracies“	Friday, September 15, 2017	2:30pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Philipp Rehm	“The past and future of welfare state politics”	Friday, October 27, 2017	3:00pm	Ballroom, University Centre (SSMU), McGill University
David Broockman	“Wealthy Elites’ Policy Preferences and Economic Inequality: The Case of Technology Entrepreneurs”	Wednesday, November 8, 2017	3:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Ryan Enos	“The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics”	Friday, December 8, 2017	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Dave Karpf	“Analytic Activism: How activist organizations refine tactics and develop strategies to build power in the digital age”	Friday, January 19, 2018	3:00pm	Room 624, Education bldg, McGill University
Marc Helbling	“Measuring Immigration Policies and their Effects”	Friday, February 9, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Noam Lupu	“Affluence and congruence”	Friday, February 16, 2018	3:00pm	Room C-3061, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal
Sarah Bush	“Who’s There? Election Observer Identity and the Local Credibility of Elections”	Friday, March 2, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Leonie Huddy	“The Social Nature of Partisan Identity”	Friday, March 23, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Eszter Hargittai	“Social media use and political engagement“	Friday, April 6, 2018	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Jessica Gottlieb	“Informality, Expectations, and Political Behavior: Evidence from a Developing Democracy”	Friday, April 13, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Victoria Esses	“Media Depictions of Refugees: Nature and Consequences“	Friday, May 4, 2018	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Christopher Cochrane	“The Automated Detection of Emotion in Transcripts of Parliamentary Speech: Comparing Human and Machine Classification of the Video and Written Records of Debates in the Canadian House of Commons”	Friday, May 18, 2018	3:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Maarten Vink	“Immigrant Naturalization in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden: Origin, Destination and Life Course in Longitudinal Perspective (1995-2015)”	Friday, May 25, 2018	3:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University

Schedule: Academic year September 2016- May 2017

Speaker	Title	Date	Time	Location
Kevin Arceneaux	“Degrees of Rationality: How Reflection Minimizes Partisan Reasoning and Promotes Democratic Accountability“	Friday, October 7, 2016	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Debbie Schildkraut	“A Tale of Two States:How State Immigration Climate Affects Belonging to State and Country Among Latinos“	Friday, November 4, 2016	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
David Lazer	“Democracy in a test tube: experiments in directly representative democracy“	CANCELLED Friday, November 11, 2016	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Arthur Lupia	“Uninformed: Why People Know So Little About Politics — and What We Can Do About It“	Thursday December 8, 2016	4:00pm	Room 108, SSMU, McGill University
David Farrell	“Ireland’s experiment with ‘coupling’ citizens and elites in a deliberative process: The Irish Constitutional Convention of 2012-14”	Friday, January 13, 2017	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Christian Joppke	“Between Lightening and Fortifying: The Uncertain Path of Citizenship in the West”	Friday, February 3, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Eitan Hersh	“Do Democratic and Republican Physicians Provide Different Care on Politicized Health Issues?”	Friday, February 17, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Diana Mutz	Mass Opinion Toward Trade in the US and Canada	Friday, February 24, 2017	10:00am	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Elizabeth Zechmeister	“How News Consumption Shapes the Security Agenda: Evidence from Latin America”	Friday, March 10, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Vincent Tiberj	“Présidentielle 2017 en France: la fin d’un cycle?“	Friday, March 17, 2017	12:45pm	Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée Nationale, Québec
Daniel Kreiss	“Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy”	Friday, March 24, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Zac Greene	“Issue Diversity and competition in party election campaigns”	Friday, April 5, 2017	11:45am	Room DKN 5325, Pavillon De Koninck, Université Laval
Samara Klar	“When Common Identities Decrease Trust: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women”	Friday, April 7, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Neil Malhotra	“The Economic Consequences of Partisanship in a Polarized Era”	Friday, April 21, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill Universit
Claire Adida	“Engendering empathy, begetting backlash: American Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees”	Friday, May 5, 2017	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Jeffery Jenkins	“Natural Disasters, ‘Partisan Retrospection,’ and U.S. Presidential Elections“	Friday, May 12, 2017	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University
Roger Waldinger	”Immigration and the election of Donald Trump: Why the Sociology of migration left us surprised and unprepared”	Friday, May 26, 2017	2:00pm	Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill University
Mikael Persson	“Responsive Democracy: Longitudinal Analyses on the Relationship between Public Opinion and Public Policy in Sweden 1956-2016″	Friday, June 9, 2017	2:00pm	Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University