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22 - 23 September, 2011
Toronto, ON 

The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University is proud to help organize, in conjunction with the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Toronto's Department of Political Science, The Global Promise of Federalism: A Workshop in Honour of Richard Simeon.

The Workshop is being held at the Croft Chapter House (15 Kings College Circle, Toronto) of the University of Toronto's downtown campus on September 22^nd & 23^rd, 2011. Please visit the website to view the conference program (or see below), speaker bios, and venue details. Registration is free via Sari Sherman at: sari.sherman@utoronto.ca

Program:

Thursday, September 22

Croft Chapter House

8:30 – 9:00 | Registration, Continental Breakfast and Welcome

9:00 – 10:30 | Creating Federal Systems: Enabling Conditions

Chair: David Cameron (University of Toronto)

Marie-Joelle Zahar (University of Montreal)
`Rebuilding Trust? Federalism and the Management of Violent Conflict’

Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)
`Territorial Policy Communities’

Discussant: Karlo Basta (University of Toronto)

10:30 – 11:00 | Refreshment Break

11:00 – 12:30 | Federal Systems in Africa and Theocracies

Chair:  Sujit Choudhry (NYU)

Christina Murray (University of Cape Town)
`Cooperative Federalism in Africa: South Africa and Kenya’

Ran Hirschl (University of Toronto)
`Federalism and the Theocratic Challenge’

Discussant: Jean Lachapelle (University of Toronto)

12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 | Federalism in Spain

Chair: Ron Watts (Queen’s University)

César Colino (UNED)
`Living with Contradictions in the “Estado autonómico”: the Management of Internal Nationalisms and Social Cohesion in Spain’

Alain-G. Gagnon (UQAM)
`Constitutionalism, Empowerment and Multinational Federalism’

Discussant: Sebastian Baglioni (University of Toronto)

3:30 – 4:00 | Refreshment Break

4:00 – 5:30 | Societal  Diversities and Federalism

Chair:  Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)

Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh)
`Federalism as Centrifuge: Regional political cultures and political stability’

John McGarry (Queen’s University)
`Binding a Cypriot Federation’

Discussant: Philippe Roseberry (Queen’s University)

Great Hall, Hart House

6:30 | Cash Bar

7:00 | Dinner (invitation only)

Friday, September 23

9:00 – 10:30 | Federalism, Social Democracy and Social Equality

Chair: Julie Simmons (Guelph University)

Thomas O. Hueglin (Wilfrid Laurier University)
`Federalism and Democracy – A Critical Reassessment’

Alain Noel (University of Montreal)
`The Left, the Right, and Federalism’

Discussant:   Josh Hjartarson (Mowat Institute)

10:30 – 11:00 | Refreshment Break

11:00 – 12:30 | Alternate Modes of  Managing Internal Diversities

Chair:  Martin Papillon (University of Ottawa)

Jan Erk (Leiden University)
`Theories of Federalism, Practices of Federalism’

Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa) and Jenn Wallner (University of Ottawa),
`Adaptability and Change in Federal Systems: A Comparison of Australia, Canada, and the United States’

Discussant:  Alexandre Paquin-Pelletier  (University of Toronto)

12 :30 – 1:30 | Lunch

1:45 – 3:00 | Roundtable on the Global Promise of Federalism:

Chair: André Juneau (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University)

Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)

Christina Murray (University of Cape Town)

François Rocher (University of Ottawa)

Ron Watts (Queen’s University)

3:00 – 3:15 | Refreshment Break

3:15 – 3:45 | Reflections on Federalism

Chair: Keith Banting (Queen’s University)

Richard Simeon (University of Toronto)