RGoNEMC 2005-2006 Speaker Series

The Political Culture of Respect: Implications for a Redefined Islam
Rima Berns-McGown
March 29, 2006

Rima Berns-McGown's research interests include the interrelationships between culture, religion, politics, and political culture as it concerns the integration of immigrants and minorities. She is the author of Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).

Divergent approaches to ethnic party politics in East and West: ‘Radicals’ as a litmus test for liberal democracy
Christian Leuprecht, Queen’s University and Royal Military College
March 10, 2006

Christian Leuprecht is a founding research fellow at the Centre for Security, Armed Forces, and Society at RMC, a Research Associate at the Institute for Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies, and a Fellow at the Centre for International Relations at Queen’s. His recent works include “Challenge and Change: Gender and Diversity in the Military” in Gender & Diversity (Editor: Franklin C. Pinch. Kingston: Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, 2005), and “Ethnic demographics: Canada's Force Multiplier” in Choice of Force: Special Operations for Canada (Editors: David Last and Bernd Horn. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005).

Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Justice
Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto
February 16, 2006

Joseph H. Carens's research interests include contemporary political theory, immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship. His current research focuses on the ethics of immigration. He is the author of "Who Should Get In? The Ethics of Immigration Admissions," Ethics and International Affairs, Vol 17, No. 1 (Spring 2003), and Culture, Citizenship, and Community : A Contextual Exploration of Justice As Evenhandedness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Whose Multiculturalism?
Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Queen's University
January 27, 2006

Cynthia Levine-Rasky is cross-appointed with the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Education. Her research interests intersect the areas of race, inequality, and education. Her current publications include the edited volume Working through Whiteness: International Perspectives (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002) in which she has an essay titled “Critical/relational/contextual: Toward a model for studying whiteness”, and Inequality in Canada: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class (edited with Valerie Zawilski. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004). Her current projects focus on the intersections between white racialization and the social relations of power.

Maîtres Chez Nous: The Role of Homelands in Ethnic Conflict
Walker Connor, Middlebury College
October 14, 2005

Walker Connor is scholar-in-residence in the Department of Political Science at Middlebury College. He is the first Fulbright Chair in Nationalism and Ethnicity at Queen's and is one of the world's leading authorities on nationalism. He is the author, among other things, of The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984) and Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 1996).

Jewish Settler Activism in the West Bank: Institutional Foundations
Oded Haklai, Queen's University
September 23, 2005