Indigenous Governance - Whats the difference?

Feb. 8, 2022
4:30 PM ET (via Zoom)

SPEAKER:
Daniel Brant, Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy, Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies

Every society in the world has a system and structure for governing itself. There are systems that appear to be inexperienced, some are exceptionally strong, some are highly organized and sophisticated, and some are vulnerable to the point of being annihilated. Governance plays an important role in how we undertake our everyday activities through the development and enforcement of policies which provide societal guardrails. Whether the governance role is undertaken by governments, institutions, sectoral or cultural groups, there is no question that governance responsibilities are required to be enacted. Colonization efforts to suppress Indigenous governance systems have been asserted for centuries but the roots of the Indigenous systems are still boiling in the hearts and minds of most Indigenous leaders and communities. So, what are the differences, and what does it means for a reconciliation agenda and are there incumbent responsibilities that need to be thoroughly examined by not only institutions but by our societies in general?   

COVID-19 and Public Policy 3.0

Queen’s School of policy Studies is pleased to host its third expert panel discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Almost two years to the day since the first session, and one since the second, our panelists will focus on the evolution of our understanding of SARS CoV-2, the Public Health Policy framework applied to addressing the pandemic it has caused and the direct and indirect effects of the public policies adopted to mitigate its impact.

Panelists:
Dr. Gerald Evans
Professor of Medicine, Chair, division of Infectious Diseases, Queen’s University; director of infection prevention and control Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Dr. Kieran Moore
Chief Medical Officer of Health, Province of Ontario. Professor, Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine, Queen’s University

Dr. Samantha Buttemer
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences and Policy Studies; advisor to Queen’s University on COVID-19

Dr. David Walker
Professor, Emergency Medicine and Policy Studies; Special advisor to the Principal on COVID-19;
Former Board Chair, Public Health Ontario and chair, Ontario’s Expert Panel on SARS

• FREE EVENT but registration is required.

"Imagining the Post-COVID Polity: Narratives of possible futures"

Speaker:
Dr. Paul Nesbitt Larking
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Huron University College, Adjunct Professor, Queen’s University, and fmr president of the International Society of Political Psychology. 

The COVID crisis is arguably the most important development of the 2st century so far and takes its place alongside the great eruptions of the past century. As with any crisis, the pandemic has generated sudden breaks and changes as well as stimulated visions and proposals for post-COVID societies. Our focus is on predictive and prescriptive narratives that envisage post-COVID societies. We theorize that the reality effects of a pandemic, coupled with associated economic and cultural shocks, have seriously destabilized both populist and liberal metanarratives and that a series of counter-narratives are currently emerging. We anticipate that societal changes conditioned by the pandemic have accelerated a turn toward five inter-related developments: A renaissance in rationality and evidence-based science; a reimagining of the interventionist state in response to crises in economy, society, and social order; a return to social equality; a reorientation to the local and communitarian, with reference in particular to solidaristic mutual aid, community animation, local sourcing and craft production; and the reinvention of democracy.