The CSDC organizes and co-sponsors various events and seminars throughout the years. The events address methodology, current events and other topics of interest. For more information, see below.
2020-2021 Events
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[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Method Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter / Description | Date &Time | Location |
| [Method Workshop]2021 R and Math Summer Camp | Organizers: Dr. Tim Elrick, Prof. Aaron Erlich, Prof. Peter McMahan, Prof. Thomas Soehl | August 16 to 20, August 23 to 26, 2021 | Zoom |
| [Host] CSDC Conference – Diversity and the State of Democratic Citizenship |
Organizers: Ruth Dassonneville, Jean-François Godbout and Aaron Erlich | April 22-23, 2021 | Zoom |
| [Co-S] 8th GRCP International Workshop | Organizers: GRPC | April 15-16, 2021 | Zoom |
| [Host] CSDC Graduate Student Conference 2021 |
Organisation: Graduate Students Committee | March 18-19, 2021 | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data | Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | March 4, 2021, 1pm | Zoom |
| [Co-S] Roundtable: Transparent methods, pre-registration, and replications in Political Science | Aaron Erlich (McGill), Amélie Godefroidt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Alexander Wuttke (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research) – Montreal Method Workshops | February 18, 2021, 11:30am-1pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]Campain Contributions | Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montréal) – Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | February 11, 2021, 1pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop] Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis | Graeme Blair (UCLA) – Montreal Method Workshops | February 4, 2021, 12pm | Zoom |
| [Co-S] QPEWS – The Quebec Political Economics Webinar Series (Winter 2021) | Organizers: Arnaud Dellis (UQAM) and Arthur Silva (ULaval) | Feb 1, Mar 1, Mar 29, Apr 26, from 1pm to 1:45pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop] 7th Winter School on Methods | Organizers: Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows committee | Feb 1, Feb 9, Feb 17, 2021 | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front-Door Criterion | Marc Bellemare (University of Minnesota) – Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | January 28, 2021, 1pm | Zoom |
| [Host] Celebrating CSDC authors |
Organizer: Frédérick Bastien |
December 4, 2020, 3pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]New Developments in Differences-in-Differences | Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) – Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | November 5, 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| [Host] Perspectives on the USA 2020 Presidential Election | Organizer: Dietlind Stolle (McGill) | October 30, 2020, 3pm | Zoom |
| [Co-S] QPEWS – The Quebec Political Economics Webinar Series (Fall 2020) | Organizers: Arnaud Dellis (UQAM) and Arthur Silva (ULaval) | Sept 21, Oct 19, Nov 16, Dec 14, from 1pm to 1:45pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic | Kyle Peyton (Yale University) – Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | October 8, 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| [Co-S] Seminar UQAM – Prof. Micael Castanheira | Organizer: Arnaud Dellis (UQAM) | October 2, 12:45pm to 1:45pm | Zoom |
| [Co-S] Polidoc 2020 – “Derrière les Frontières” | Partners: C-DEM, Apathy is Boring, CIVIX, Main Film, FRQSC | September 18, 2020, 12pm-1:30pm | Zoom |
| [Method Workshop]“Truth, Beauty, and Data: Why Data Visualization Matters in Research” | Andrew Heiss(Georgia State University) – Colorado, Boulder) – Montreal Method Workshops | Thursday, 17 September 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
2019 – 2020 Events
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Method Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter / Description | Date &Time | Location |
| [Method Workshop] Summer Workshop: Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field Experiments | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| [Method Workshop] R Summer Camp 2020 | Organizers: Dr. Tim Elrick, Prof. Aaron Erlich, Prof. Peter McMahan, Prof. Thomas Soehl | August 17-21, 2020 | Zoom |
| [Host] CSDC Research Slam | Organizers: CSDC | Friday, June 19, 2020, 3pm | Zoom |
| [Host] CSDC Conference – Democracy and Diversity | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| [Host] CSDC Graduate Students Conference 2020 | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| [Co-S] 8th GRCP International Workshop | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| [Co-S] 6th Leuven – Montréal Winter School on Elections | Organizer: André Blais, Ruth Dassonneville | February 29 – March 1, 2020 | Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] The mathematics of decision making: Voting Systems | Organizer: Frédérick Bastien, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques | February 18-19, 2020 | Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Regression Discontinuity Designs | Presenter: John Holbein | February 20, 2020 | C-6070-9, Lionel Groulx Building, UdeM |
| [Method Workshop] Designing Electoral Surveys | Presenter: Jane Green | February 9, 2020 | C-4019, Lionel Groulx Building, UdeM |
| [Method Workshop] Stan for the people – Two-day introductory workshop on Bayesian analysis and Stan | Organizers: CSDC, CPD, GIC, CSCDS | February 7-8, 2020 | McGill University |
| [Co-S] Lunch – Presentation: Essays on Multiculturalism and Secularism | Organizer: CÉRIUM and the Chaire en gestion de la diversité culturelle et religieuse | January 30, 2020, 12pm to 2pm | Room C-3151, Lionel-Groulx Building, Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] 6th Winter School on Methods | Organizers: CSDC | January 30, 2020, 8:30am-5:30pm | Boardroom 406, Thomson House, McGill |
| [Co-S] Workshop «Quantitative text analysis», with Annika Fredén and Sverker Sikström | Organizer: Chaire de recherche du Canada en démocratie électorale, and the Department of Political Science of Université de Montréal | January 17, 3-5pm | Université de Montréal |
| [Host] Effets du politainment sur l’audience sociale: quel type d’engagement pouvons-nous attendre des programmes de divertissement? | Presenter: Marta Rebolledo | December 12, 2019, 12pm-1pm | Room 3471-DKN, Université Laval, Québec |
| [Host] CSDC Extravaganza | Organizers: CDSDC, Graduate Students Committee | December 6, 2019, 3pm-5pm | Boardroom 404, Thomson House, McGill |
| [Co-S] AI Commons Workshop: Imagining an AI Commons: A One-Day Workshop on AI and the Commons | Organizer: Machine Agencies, Milieux Institute, Concordia University | December 6, 2019 | Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. EV Building, 11.455 |
| [Method Workshop] Publishing in High Profile Journals | Presenter: Margit Tavits | November 14, 2019, 4pm-6:30pm | Room LEA429, Leacock Building, McGill University |
| [Host] Les émotions comme recours stratégique en communication politique: comment sont-elles décodées par les spectateurs? | Presenter: Marta Rebolledo | November 5, 2019, 12pm-1pm | Room C-4145, Lionel Groulx Building, Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] Perspectives on the 2019 Federal Elections | Organizer: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) | October 15, 2019 | McGill Faculty Club Ballroom (3450 McTavish St.) |
| [Method Workshop] Using Convenience Samples in Social Science Research | Presenter: Yanna Krupknikov | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| [Method Workshop] Immigration and Public Opinion Research: Concepts, Context, and Current Trends | Presenter: Peter Dinesen | September 19, 2019, 2-4pm | LEA429, Leacock Building, McGill |
| [Co-S] Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem) Launch | Organizer: Consortium on Electoral Democracy | September 16, 2019, 2pm – 5:30pm | A-1330, Hubert Aquin, UQÀM |
2018 – 2019 Events
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Method Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter / Description | Date &Time | Location |
| [Method Workshop] 2019 Computing and Math Summer Camp | Organizer: Aaron Erlich, Peter McMahan, Thomas Soehl | August 20-30, 2019, 9am – 4pm | TBD |
| [Co-S] Politics, Physiology, and Cognition: Advances in Theory and Method | Organizer: LACPOP (UQÀM), APLS, CSDC | July 25-27, 2019 | President Kennedy Room PK1140, UQÀM |
| [Co-S] Public Forum – Europe on the Brink |
Organizer: Ruth Dassonneville et Laurie Beaudonnet | 21 mai 2019 | Hotel Delta, Montréal |
| [Co-S] Summer School – Participation politique et démocratie | Organizer: University of Lausanne | May 20-24, 2019 | University of Lausanne |
| [Method Workshop] Measuring Racial Attitudes and Asking Sensitive Survey Question | Organizer: Ashley Jardina | April 25, 2019, 3pm – 5pm | Room LEA429, Leacock Building, McGill |
| [Host] Concepts of democracy in democratic and nondemocratic countries | Organizers: Anna Zagrebina | April 25, 2019, 11:45am to 1pm | Conference Room (4th floor), 3610 McTavish Street, McGill |
| [Co-S] The international workshop on political communication – 7th edition | Organizer: GRCP | April 12-13, 2019 | Room C-3061 Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Life after the dissertation: A seminar on career planning, publication, postdoc, etc. | Organizer: Elin Naurin | April 12, 2019, 1pm – 2:30pm | Conference Room (4th floor), 3610 McTavish street, McGill; |
| [Host] CSDC 2019 Annual Graduate Students Conference | Organizers: Graduate Students Committee | March 29 – 30, 2019 | Maison du développement Durable, Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Social Science and the Digital Age | Organizer: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten | 1:30pm – 3pm, March 14, 2019 | Room 429, Leacock building, McGill |
| [Co-S] 5th Winter school Leuven – Montréal | Organizer: University of Leuven | March 1-9, 2019 | University of Leuven |
| [Co-S] Third generation delay among Mexican American | Organizer: Centre on Population Dynamics | February 13, 2019 | Leacock, room 429, McGill |
| [Method Workshop] Stan for the people Two-day introductory workshop on Bayesian analysis and Stan | Organizer: Aaro Erlich and Thomas Soehl | January 25 – 26, 2019 | McGill University |
| [Host] CSDC Winter School on Methods | Organizers: Graduate Students Committee | January 24, 2019 | Room 404, Thomson House, McGill |
| [Co-S] Movie Screening: What is Democracy? | Organizer: Cinema Politica Concordia | January 23, 2019, 7:30pm – 9pm | 1455 boul Maisonneuve |
| [Host] Élection Québécoise de 2018: Retour Critique et Perspective Multi-Dimensionnelle | Organizers: Éric Bélanger and Jean-François Daoust | January 18, 2019 | Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill |
| [Method Workshop] Experimental and Causal Inference Designs: A workshop for graduate students | Organizer: Michael Bechtel | 9am – 12pm December 7, 2018 | Conference Room (4th Floor), 3610 McTavish Street, McGill |
| [Co-S] Ending Fake News: the Future of Media Education Policies and Practices | Organizer: Thierry Giasson | November 9 – 10, 2018 | Grand Bibliothèque, Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment | Organizer: James Druckman | 11am – 12pm November 2, 2018 | Room C-4019, Lionel Groulx Building, Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] The Pathways to Prosperity Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities of a National Partnership on Immigration | Organizer: Victoria Esses | 4pm – 6pm October 18, 2018 | Room D-427, Marie-Victorin Building, Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Training workshop on collection, analysis and visualization of social media data using tableau | Organizer: Axel Bruns | 9am to 12pm, October 15, 2018 | Henry F.Hall Building, H1220, Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest |
| [Co-S] What is the FATE of platforms? Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics Under Review | Organizer: Fenwick McKelvey | 4 to 6pm, October 12 | Room H1220, Hall Building, Concordia |
| [Host] A look back on the 2018 Quebec Election | Organizer: Éric Bélanger | 11:30am – 2:30pm, October 5, 2018 | Arts Building, W-20, McGill |
| [Co-S] Renewal of the Canadian Senate: Where to from here? | The CSDC is glad to co-sponsor this event with the Institute for the Research on Public Policy. | 8:15am – 4:30pm, September 27, 2018 | Rideau Club, 99 Bank Street, Ottawa |
| [Host] Voices from the Political Trenches: Women Candidates Talk Gender Parity | Organizers: Edana Beauvais and Eli Bakopanos | 6pm – 8pm September 27, 2018 | Room 232, Leacock Building, McGill |
| [Host] Democracy Night: A night of film, debate and research on the state of democracy in Canada | The CSDC will present two documentaries and a round table featuring members and students | 5:30pm – 9:00pm September 20, 2018 | Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave, Montreal |
| [Co-S] La Presse + Colloque – Jeunes et Politique: Amour ou Désamour? | The CSDC is glad to co-sponsor this event with La Presse +. | 9am – 5pm, September 13, 2018 | 1000 rue Saint Urbain, Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] Advanced methods workshop pizza lunch series on Time Series Analysis: The general to specific modelling strategy | Organizer: Olivier Jacques and Isadora Borges Monroy | 11:45am- 1pm September 11, 2018 | 3610 McTavish Street, 4th floor, conference room |
2017 – 2018 Events
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter / Description | Date &Time | Location |
| [Co-S] 2018 Computing and Math Summer Camp | Organizers: Aaron Erlich and Thomas Soehl | August 23-25 / August 28-30 / August 31, 2018 | McGill |
| [Co-S] Identity, Memory and Historical Narrative: Results of Social Research in Kyrgyzstan | Organizers: Department of Psychology, UdeM | June 22, 2018 | D-427, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, UdeM |
| [Co-S] 2018 Canadian Municipal Election Study Conference: Montreal and Quebec in Focus | Organizer: Éric Bélanger | June 19, 2018 | Room 232, Leacock Building, McGill |
| [Co-S] L’École d’été internationale sur la participation et la démocratie | Organizer: Université Libre de Bruxelles | May 28 – June 1, 2018 | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| [Host] Getting Started with Text Analysis in Python | Organizer: Christopher Cochrane (University of Toronto) | 9:00am – 12:00pm, may 17, 2018 | Room 430, 3610 McTavish street, McGill University |
| [Method Workshop] Getting Started with Text Analysis in Python> | Organizer: Christopher Cochrane (University of Toronto) | 9:00am – 12:00pm, may 17, 2018 | Room 430, 3610 McTavish street, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Breaking the News: How Bots, Trolls and Other Media Manipulators Threaten Our Politics | Organizer: University of Ottawa, Public Policy Forum | May 14, 2018 | Room 1160, Desmarais Building, University of Ottawa |
| [Co-S] Mini-Workshop on the “Theories of Lobbying” | Organizer: Prof. Arnaud Dellis | 4:30pm – 5:30pm April 27, 2018 | Room PK-1140, UQAM |
| [Co-S] The International Workshop on political communication | Organizer: Groupe de recherche en communication politique, ULaval | April 20-21, 2018 | room 2320-2330, Gene-H-Kruger Building, Université Laval |
| [Host] 2018 Annual Graduate Student Conference of the CSDC | Organizer: CSDC Graduate Students Committee | April 13-14, 2018 | Hotel Clarendon, Quebec City |
| [Co-S] Multiculturalism: Failure or Success Story? | Organizer: Centre d’études et de recherches internationales | April 6th, 2018 | salle C2059, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] The Development and Influence of Political Identities | Leonie Huddy (Stony Brook University) | 9:00am – 12:00pm, march 23, 2018 | Room 160, ARTS Building, McGill University |
| [Co-S] 4th Leuven-Montréal Winter School on Elections | Organizers: Department of Political Science, UdeM | March 3-10, 2018 | Université de Montréal |
| [Host] CSDC Methods Winter School | Organizer: CSDC Graduate Students Committee | January 26, 2018 | Room 211, Education Building, McGill University |
| [Method Workshop] Stata workshop | Jean-François Daoust (UdeM) | 10:00am – 12:30pm, January 25, 2018>/span> | Room C-3134, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal>/span> |
| [Co-S] PopDataViz2017 | Organizer: Centre on Population Dynamics | December 13-14, 2017 | Room 210-11, McIntyre Medical Building, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Colloque sur le bilan du gouvernement Couillard | December 16-17, 2017 | Local 3244, Pavillon Charles De-Konick, Université Laval | |
| [Host] Trends and New Directions in Canadian Political Behaviour: A symposium in honour of Elisabeth Gidengil | Organizer: CSDC Team | November 30 – December 1, 2017 | Faculty Club, McGill University |
| [Method Workshop] Training seminar on the Social Network Harvester ASPIRA | Organizer: Groupe de recherche en communication politique, ULaval | 11:45am – 1:00pm, November 21, 2017 | Room TBA, université Laval |
| [Host] Roundtable: Who is to blame for the Crisis in Catalonia? | Organizer: Eric Guntermann, | Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Brexitannia by Timothy George Kelly | Organizer: RIDM | November 13 and 15, 2017 | Cinéma du Parc, Montréal |
| [Method Workshop] The Design of Field Experiments With Survey Outcomes: A Framework for Selecting More Efficient, Robust, and Ethical Designs | David Broockman (Stanford University) | 10:30am – 12:00pm, November 8, 2017 | Room 430, 3610 McTavish street, McGill University> |
| [Co-S] McGill Speaker Series: Pablo Beramendi: The Political Geography of the Eurocrisis | Organizers: Jean Monnet Centre Montréal | November 2, 2017 | Leacock 429, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Midi Science Politique: Vieillissement, habitude et participation électorale: Le cas de la France entre 2002 et 2012 | Organizer: Groupe de recherche en communication politique | October 17, 2017 | Pavillon De Koninck, local 3470, Université Laval |
| [Co-S] Midi Science Politique: Prosperity V. Policy: Comparing the two faces of economic voting | Organizer: Groupe de recherche en communication politique | October 5, 2017 | Pavillon De Koninck, local 3244, Université Laval |
| [Co-S] Roundtable: Measuring the Health of Democracies | Organizers: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Groupe de recherche sur le fonctionnement de la démocratie | September 11, 2017 | Thomson House Ballroom, McGill University |
2016 – 2017 Events
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter / Description | Date &Time | Location |
| [Co-S] Participedia Summer School | The Participedia Summer School holds a series of talks and events to discuss Participation, its modes, its limits and its effects. | June 12-17, 2017 | Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference | The annual Conference of the CPSA explores topics in Political behaviour, Political Theory, Comparative Politics and many more. The CSDC sponsored the following sessions;
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May 30-June 1, 2017 | Ryerson University |
| [Host] Round table – Immigration, Social Cohesion and Integration | A round table hosted by the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and the Laboratory on Social Change and Identity | May 25, 2017 | C-2059, Pavillion Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] Université d’été: La Participation Démocratique | This Summer School is an opportunity to learn more and to gain skills necessary to the analysis of the state and the political engagement of citizens. | May 23-27, 2017 | Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, Université Laval (DKN-3470) |
| [Co-S] The International Workshop on political communications | The workshop will introduce participants to an overview of innovations in political communication research. | April 21-22, 2017 | Room 3632, Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault, 1055 Av. Du Séminaire |
| [Host] Should the protection of free academic speech be absolute? | Organizers: Allison Harell and Marc André Bodet | April 10, 2017 | Leacock Building, McGill Unfiversity |
| [Co-S] 2nd Queen’s Migration Workshop | Graduate students and Postdoctoral Fellows offer a series of presentations on migration. | April 8-9, 2017 | Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. |
| [Co-S] Metropolis Conference: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Discrimination | Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Discrimination: Lived Experiences, Socio-Political Context, and Potential Solutions. A talk examining anti-immigration feelings from different angles. | March 17, 2017 | Centre Sheraton, Montreal. |
| [Co-S] Présidentielle 2017 en France : la fin d’un cycle? | Organizers: Marc André Bodet and François Gélineau | March 15, 2017, 12:15pm | Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée Nationale, Quebec City |
| [Co-S] 2017 Computing and Math Summer (P)re fresher workshop for graduate students | Statistical Data Workshops for Graduate students, over the course of three days. | August 23-25, 2017 | Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] ‘Dragon’s Den’ Public Forum: Proposal for Senate Reform | Organizers: Arash Abizadeh | December 9, 2016 | New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill University. |
| [Co-S] Workshop: Representation, Bicameralism, and Sortition: With Application to the Canadian Senate | The CSDC is co-sponsoring this workshop and public forum with Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS) of the Yan P. Lin Centre, and the Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique de Montréal (Gripp) | Friday, December 9, 2016 | New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Voters Adrift: Consequences of Electoral Dealignment in Representative Democracies | This workshop is organized by Ruth Dassonneville, the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy at the University of Montreal and is generously supported by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. | Friday & Saturday, December 2-3, 2016 | Université de Montréal |
| [Host] 2016 American Election Recap | Organizers: Dietlind Stolle and Holly Garnett | November 25, 2016 | SSMU Building, McGill University |
| [Co-S] “Quebec is my country” by John Walker | Screening of documentary “Quebec is my country” by John Walker, event organized in collaboration with Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal | Wednesday, November 16, 2016 | Concordia University |
| [Host] Au-delà des big data | Organizers: Frédérick Bastien and Claire Durand | October 18, 2016, noon | Université de Montréal |
| [Host] Electoral Reform Forum | Organizer: André Blais | October 20, 2016, 7:30pm | McGill University |
| [Co-S] Midi Science Politique: Comment les primaires ouvertes sont-telles devenues possible en France? | An event run in collaboration with the Groupe de recherche en communication politique, it discuss the use of open primaries in the context of french presidential elections. | Thursday, October 6, 2016 | Pavillon De Koninck, local 3470, Université Laval |
| [Host] The State of Democratic Citizenship in Canada | Organizers: Allison Harell and Dietlind Stolle | September 23-24, 2016 | Pavillon Sherbroooke, UQAM |
2015 – 2016 Events
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| [Co-S] Resisting Gendered and State Violence: Indigenous Women’s Activism | The CSDC is co-sponsoring the Indigenous Women’s Activism symposium organized by Presented by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and the Canadian Women’s Foundation. The symposium is focused on the relationship between resisting gender violence and demanding sovereignty and brings together key experts from academia and activism. We are thrilled to be welcoming Ellen Gabriel and Prof. Audra Simpson (author of Mohawk Interruptus) as keynote speakers. Other panels will include participants from the Native Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence, the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Quebec members of Idle No More, Native Youth Sexual Health Network and Families of Sisters in Spirit as well In short, this will be a lively and timely event, free and open to the public. |
September 24 – 25, 2016 | McGill University, Montreal |
| [Co-S] Talk- From London to Paris: Social Media and the Transformation of Crisis Reporting | CSDC member, Fenwick McKelvey, is hosting Valerie Blair-Gagnon’s talk on how BBC journalists use social media following the 2005 London terror bombings. The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies, the Concordia Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism Studies, and the CSDC. The event will take place at Concordia. | September 17, 2016 | Concordia University, Montreal |
| [Host] International conference: Youth Political Participation: On The Diverse Roads to Democracy | Organizer: Valérie-Anne Mahéo, keynote address by Professor Jan W. van Deth (Manheim University). | June 16-17, 2016 | Downtown campus, McGill University |
| [Host] CSDC Methods Seminar: Advanced issues in cross-national multilevel research: tests for harmful multicollinearity, and tests for influential cases | Prof. Tom van der Meer (University of Amsterdam) | 9am – 12pm, May 13, 2016 | Room 430, 3610 McTavish, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Celebrating the census: Why Counting Matters for Canada’s Future | The CSDC is co-sponsoring the McGill University, Department of Sociology, School of Social Work’s panel discussion that explores the value of the long-form census for Canada’s economic development, social cohesion, family well-being, and health equality. | April 29, 2016 | Moyse Hall Theatre, McGill University, Montréal |
| [Co-S] International Workshop on Political Communication | The CSDC is co-sponsoring the International Workshop on Political Communication, hosted by the Groupe de Recherche en Communication Politique (GRCP), on April 22 and 23 2016, at Université Laval in Quebec City. The workshop will introduce participants to an overview of innovations in political communication research. Over two days, five leading political communication scholars will present current developments in subfields of the discipline, as well as discuss some of their most recent work with audience members. This year’s presentations will focus on digital citizenship in a comparative perspective, economic and technological transformations of journalism, predictions of political behavior through analysis of large scale social media datasets, authenticity in political communication and racialized media framing of politicians. | April 22-23, 2016 | room 3632 of the Louis-Jacques-Casault Building, 1055 Avenue du Séminaire, Quebec City |
| [Host] Workshop your manuscripts for publication or presentation | Graphos, McGill Writing Centre | April 22, 2016 | Room 33-2, 3610 McTavish, McGill University |
| [Host] Workshop your manuscripts for publication or presentation | Graphos, McGill Writing Centre. | April 1, 2016 | Room 33-2, 3610 McTavish, McGill University |
| [Co-S] International Colloquium: Aisthesis and the Common: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere | The CSDC is co-sponsoring Media@McGill’s International Colloquium. The event brings together artists, designers, art historians, curators, philosophers and scholars in urbanism and media studies to reflect on emerging models of the public sphere and the role of aisthesis in this emergence. | March 17-18, 2016 | Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal |
| [Host] CSDC Graduate Student Conference | The annual CSDC Graduate Student Conference during which students can share their research projects with their peers. | March 10-11, 2016 | Hôtel Clarendon, Québec |
| [Host] Workshop “Immigrant Inclusion in the Polity: Public Perceptions versus Immigrant Experiences”, International Metropolis Conference | Organizer: Allison Harrel (UQAM) | 11am – 12:30pm March 5, 2016 | International Metropolis Conference, Toronto |
| [Co-S] The Leuven-Montréal Winter School | The Leuven-Montréal Winter School is offering a program focused on theories and methods in the Study of elections and voting behavior. The Winter School is organized jointly by the universities of Montréal and Leuven. It will take place from February 26 to March 5, 2016 in Montréal, Canada. The program aims to provide between 18 and 30 graduate students in electoral behavior, comparative politics or political parties, with the core theoretical frameworks and empirical tools in the field of electoral behavior. For more information, including the application guidelines, click here. | February 26 – March 5, 2016 | Université de Montréal (Canada) |
| [Host] Methods Seminar: Investigating the psychological processes behind political attitudes | Prof. Dr. Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University) | 10am – 12pm, February 19, 2016 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Co-S] The Canadian Census: The Census in Canadian Society: Then and Now | The long-form census controversy of the past five years has raised acute awareness of the vital and multiple roles of the Canadian census across all sectors. This three-part, co-sponsored series of roundtable discussions will examine the census from several disciplinary and sectoral perspectives. | January 22, 2016 | Institute for Health and Social Policy Charles Meredith House |
| [Host] CSDC Methods School | Alexandre Blanchet (UdeM), Chris Chhim (McGill), Jean-Philippe Gauvin (UdeM), Alexandre Morin-Chassé (UdeM), Eric Guntermann (UdeM), and Charles Tessier (ULaval) | January 7-8, 2016 | Room 230, Ferrier Building, McGill University |
| [Host] Methods workshop: The Challenge of Political Text-as-Data | Prof. Arthur Spirling (New York University) | November 13, 2015 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Host] Student workshop Internet and political | Organizer: Philippe Duguay (Université de Montréal) | November 6, 2015 | Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, A-1715, UQAM |
| [Host] Election Preview: Canada Votes | Moderator: Richard Schultz; Panelists: Patrick Fournier (Université de Montréal), Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University), Claire Durand (Université de Montréal), Benjamin Forest and Mike Medeiros (McGill University), Yannick Dufresne (Université Laval), Dominic Forest (Université de Montréal) | October 16, 2015 | Ballroom Thomson House |
| [Co-S] Series of Talks on Diversity | The CSDC is co-sponsoring a series of talk on diversity during the 2015-2016 academic year. The talks focus on diversity and democratic citizenship research | Academic year 2015-2016 | Concordia University |
2014 – 2015
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| [Co-S] Workshop- The State of Democracy in the European Union | The workshop is held just after ECPR, and is organized by Centre members, Sven-Oliver Proksch (McGill University) and Laurie Beaudonnet (Université de Montréal). The workshop is co-sponsored by both the CSDC and the European Union Centre of Excellence. It takes a look at the state of democracy in the European Union and features presentations from several scholars. | Academic year 2014-2015 | Montreal |
| [Co-S] Speaker Series Les défis du pluralisme | The CSDC is co-sponsoring a series of talks on political philosophy and the issue of pluralism in different liberal societies. This speaker series is a student initiative organized by Saaz Taher and Daniela Heimpel (Université de Montréal) and the talks will be hosted at the University of Montreal during the fall and winter semesters 2014-2015. [For more info contact staher@hotmail.fr and daniela.heimpel@gmx.de. | Academic year 2014-2015 | Montreal |
| [Co-S] Series of Talks on Diversity | The CSDC is co-sponsoring a series of talks on diversity during the 2013-2014 academic year. The talk focus on diversity and democratic citizenship research | Academic year 2014-2015 | Montreal |
| [Co-S] 2015 ECPR General Conference | The 2015 ECPR general conference will be held at the Université de Montréal between August 26th and August 29th, 2015 marking the first time the ECPR general conference will take place outside Europe. The CSDC will be one of the sponsors of this event. This is a golden opportunity for members of the Centre and especially student members to enhance the visibility of their research as well as of the Centre by participating in the conference. There is currently a call for section proposals; sections consist of three to eight panels on a specific topic. Proposals must be submitted before November 17th, 2014. For more information, contact André Blais (andre.blais@umontreal.ca). | August 26-29, 2015 | Université de Montréal |
| [Host] Women’s and Minority Representation Workshop | Organizers: Prof. Benjamin Forest (McGill University) and Mike Medeiros (McGill University) | August 24-25, 2015 | Room 406 Thomson House McGill University |
| [Co-S] Workshop on Democratic Citizenship | As in past years, the CSDC will again be present at the Société québécoise de science politique’s annual meeting. The Centre workshop, co-organized by Allison Harell and Philippe Duguay (UQAM), will bring together Centre scholars and students to highlight the most current research being conducted by our membership around the theme of democratic citizenship. The workshop will take place between May 20-22, 2015 at Concordia University. For more information, contact Allison Harell (harell.allison@uqam.ca) or Philippe Duguay (duguay.philippe@courrier.uqam.ca). | May 20-22, 2015 | Concordia University |
| [Host] Field experiments and randomized controlled trials: practical issues of design | Prof. Peter John (University College London) | 9:30-11:30 April 23rd 2015 | Room 517 Leacock Building McGill University |
| [Co-S] Conference- La démocratie québécoise et canadienne : un bilan de santé | The CSDC is co-sponsoring the conference « La démocratie québécoise et canadienne: un bilan de santé, » which will take place in Quebec City in April of 2015. Organized by Professor François Gélineau (Université Laval), the aim of the conference is to allow the holding of a substantive dialogue on the health of the Canadian and Quebec democracy. To do this, the conference brings together academic experts, politicians and practitioners to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a number of proposals for institutional reform. Some of the topics that will be addressed in the conference include: citizen participation and representation, the role of elected officials and political parties, and the operation of parliamentary and electoral institutions. | April 8-9, 2015 | Quebec City |
| [Co-S] Workshop- Indexing the integration of Immigrants in Canada | The CSDC co-sponsored the workshop “Indexing the integration of Immigrants in Canada.” The project, led by Allison Harell (UQAM) and Antoine Bilodeau (Concordia Univerity), was presented at the annual Metropolis conference in Vancouver, B.C in March of 2015. Taking as a starting point that an index should be as user friendly as possible to enable use from specialists as well as a broad spectrum of policy-makers and researchers interested in the phenomenon of integration with less experience in quantitative methods, this project sought to identify: How is that best achieved? | March 26-28, 2015 | Vancouver |
| [Co-S] Workshop- Conceptualizing Prejudice and Discrimination: Roma in the Comparative Context | The workshop aims to analyze prejudice towards Roma in connection with prejudice towards indigenous, ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities in the European and Canadian context. In particular, we are interested in the similarities and differences between these sets of prejudice and their consequences in the lives of the minorities. It is organized by Roxana Barbulescu (College of Europe), Laurie Beaudonnet (Université de Montréal) and Allison Harell (Université du Québec À Montréal), as part of the “Mapping Anti-Roma Prejudice in the EU 28” (MARP) Project, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC, McGill University) and the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE, Université de Montréal– Université McGill). | March 24, 2015 | Université de Montréal, Carrefour de Arts et des Sciences Room: C-1017-02 |
| [Host] Multilevel Bayesian Models | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:00-12:00 February 20th 2015 | Room 927 Leacock Building McGill University |
| [Host] Physiological Response Equipment | Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan) | 9:00-12:00 January 30th 2015 | Room 927 Leacock Building McGill University |
| [Co-S] The Leuven-Montréal Winter School | The Leuven-Montréal Winter School is offering a program focused on theories and methods in the Study of elections and voting behavior. The Winter School is organized jointly by the universities of Montréal and Leuven. It will take place from January 15 to January 22, 2015 in Leuven, Belgium. The program aims to provide between 18 and 30 graduate students in electoral behavior, comparative politics or political parties, with the core theoretical frameworks and empirical tools in the field of electoral behavior. For more information, including the application guidelines, click here. | January 15-22, 2015 | University of Leuven (Belgium) |
| [Co-S] CSDC in Zurich! | We are happy to announce the first co-organized event between the CSDC and our partner organization The National Center of Competence in Research Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century at the University of Zurich. The event will be composed of a two day workshop around the theme of “Political Communication in Mediated Democracies” which will take place from November 19th to November 20th. Eight members (including two students) of the CSDC will take part: Frédérick Bastien, Geneviève Chacon, Pénélope Daignault, Yannick Dufresne, Patrick Fournier, Thierry Giasson, Elisabeth Gidengil and Dietlind Stolle. This workshop will be an opportunity to develop a closer relationship between the CSDC and NCCR Democracy as well as explore possibilities for future collaborations in terms of research and student training. For more information, contact f.bastien@umontreal.ca. | November 19-20, 2014 | University of Zurich |
| [Co-S] International Colloquium Sound, Vision, Action | Hosted by Media@McGill, the event seeks to foster exchanges between artists and scholars of sound and vision, while questioning both as to how they contribute to social change | November 14-15, 2014 | McCord Museum Montréal |
| [Host] Causal Inference Using Propensity Score(2) | Kosuke Imai (Princeton University) | 11:45-1:00 October 29th 2014 | 3150 Jean Brillant, Room C-41452 Université de Montréal |
| [Host] Causal Inference Using Propensity Score(1) | Kosuke Imai (Princeton University) | 1:30-3:30 October 27th 2014 |
Pav. De-Koninck – 5325 Université Laval |
2013 – 2014
Legend
[Host]= the CSDC was the primary host and organizer of the event
[Co-S]= The CSDC was a co-sponsor of an event organized by one of our partners
[Workshop]= The CSDC organized or co-sponsored a workshop.
| Subject | Presenter | Date & Time | Location |
| [Co-S] Series of Talks on Diversity | The CSDC is co-sponsoring a series of talk on diversity during the 2013-2014 academic year. The talk focus on diversity and democratic citizenship research | Academic year 2013-2014 | Concordia University |
| [Co-S] Workshop: Citizens, Parties, and Electoral Contexts | Prof. Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill University) and Dr. Ferran Martinez i Coma (University of Sydney) are organizing a one-day pre-IPSA Workshop | July 18, 2014 | Montreal |
| [Host] Workshop on Web Scraping | Radhika Saksena (University of Princeton) | 9:00am – 5:00 pm, June 3-6 2014 | Room 437, Education Building, McGill University |
| [Host] Introduction to bayesian statistics | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (UdeM) and Charles Tessier (U Laval) | 2:00pm – 4:00 pm, April 24 2014 | Room 429, Leacock Building, McGill University |
| [Host] Analyzing Political Text | Will Lowe (Mannheim), Krzysztof Pelc (McGill), Eric Guntermann (UdeM), Sven-Oliver Proksch (McGill), Stuart Soroka and Mark Daku (McGill) | 12:30pm – 15:30 pm, March 31 2014 | Room 406, McGill University |
| [Host] Scaling Techniques in Political Science | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:00am – 12:00 pm, March 14 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Workshop on Voting Experiments | Making Electoral Democracy Work (MEDW) and the CSDC are organizing a two-day workshop on voting experiments. The purpose of the workshop is to present voting experiments conducted within and outside the MEDW project and to discuss the methodological issues associated with this type of experiment. | March 28-29 2014 | UdeM |
| [Host] Roundtable on the Quebec election 2014 | Frédérick Bastien (Université de Montréal), Éric Bélanger (McGill University), Claire Durand (Université de Montréal), Jean-François Godbout (Université de Montréal), Patrick Fournier (Université de Montréal) | 11:30pm, February 27, 2014 | Amphithéâtre B-2245, pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant |
| [Host] Roundtable “Fair Elections Act” | Éric Bélanger (McGill university), André Blais (Université de Montréal), Youri Cormier (Apathy is Boring), Miriam Lapp (Elections Canada), Stephen Maher (Postmedia News), et Leslie Seidle (IRPP), Miriam Fahmy (Institut de Nouveau Monde) | 12:00pm, February 21, 2014 | Ballroom, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Host] Introduction to Latex | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (Université de Montréal) | 1:00 – 3:00 pm, January 30 2014 | 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, local C-9019, Université de Montréal |
| [Host] Establishing causation using multiple methods | Dr. Marc Hetherington (Vanderbilt University) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, January 24 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Host] Field experiments in Political Science | Dr. Donald Green (Columbia University) | 11:00 – 12:30 pm, January 10 2014 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Host] R and R Graphics | Eric Guntermann (Université de Montréal) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, December 13 2013 | Room 429, Leacock Building, McGill University |
| [Host] Issues in Field Experiments | Dr. James Lo (University of Mannheim) | 10:30 – 12:30 pm, November 28 2013 | Room 406, Thomson House, McGill University |
| [Co-S] Workshop on Representation and Equality | The workshop, organized by the Trudeau Foundation, consists of 4 panels (1) Gender balance in parliament, (2) Ethnocultural diversity in Canadian politics, (3) Electoral boundaries redistributions, and (4) Justice in electioneering. The CSDC a collaborator for this event. | November 20 2013, 8:30am | Chancellor Hall, McGill University |
| [Host] STATA Workshop | Jean-Philippe Gauvin (Université de Montréal) | Tuesday November 19 2013, 1:00 – 3:00 pm | C-3134 Pavillon Jean-Brillant, Université de Montréal |
| [Co-S] International Colloquium: The Participatory Condition | The CSDC is co-sponsoring the International Colloquium hosted by Media@McGill. One of its aims is to critically investigate the relationship between new possibilities afforded by participatory media and the realization (or hindrance) of democratic participation | November 15 – 16 2013 | Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal |
| [Co-S] 2013 Beaverbrook Annual Lecturer: Al Gore on Technology and the Future of Democratization | Al Gore examines the effects of technological innovations on the democratic process. The CSDC a collaborator for this event. | November 5 2013, 6:00pm | Pollack Hall, McGill University |