The Departments of Political Studies and Art History & Art Conservation invite you to join them for an evening with Dr. Jason Stanley, the Bissell-Heyd Chair in American studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

This lecture, open to the entire Queen’s community, brings to campus for the first time one of today's most influential public intellectuals whose acclaimed books How Propaganda Works and How Fascism Works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Stanley’s work exposes how language, myth making, and manufactured division erode democratic life, and why these forces are resurgent across the globe, and why Canadians should be deeply concerned.

Seating is limited so we encourage you to pre-register for this chance to engage in conversation with one of the most incisive and clear-eyed political philosophers of our time. A light reception will follow the lecture.

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Jason Stanley is a philosopher, whose work ranges over philosophy of language, epistemology, linguistics, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy. Jason is the Bissell-Heyd Chair in American Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and also has an appointment in the Department of Philosophy. In addition to his position at the Munk School, he is a Distinguished Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Before coming to the University of Toronto in 2025, he held positions as a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (2013-2025), Rutgers University (2004-2013), The University of Michigan (2000-4), and Cornell University (1995-2000).  

The author of seven books and dozens of scholarly articles in multiple disciplines, Jason won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2007 for his book Knowledge and Practical Interests (Oxford University Press, 2005), and the Prose Award in Philosophy for his 2015 book, How Propaganda Works (Princeton University Press, 2015). In addition to his academic work, Jason writes for a broader audience on the themes of authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and democracy, most frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, and Project Syndicate. Jason has also published in The Washington Post, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Folha de São Paulo, El Pais and many other outlets across the world.  A New York Times bestselling author, Jason’s work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Stanley is a member of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, a fellow of the African American Policy Forum, and serves on the advisory board of the Prison Policy Initiative. 

Join us for the next installment of the Corry Colloquium Speaker Series, featuring “Historical Narratives as an Obstacle to Peace: How Canadian Universities Can Help UN Peace Efforts,” with Colin Stewart. The event will take place on Friday, November 28, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

Until August of this year, Colin Stewart served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus, heading the peacekeeping force there (UNFICYP) and leading the UN’s mediation efforts on the ground.  Prior to that, he was the Special Representative in Western Sahara, heading MINURSO from 2017 to 2021.

Over the course of almost 20 combined years with the UN, he served in 5 peacekeeping missions and 3 political missions, working in Asia, Africa and Europe.  As Deputy Head of the UN Office to the African Union in Addis Ababa from 2011 to 2016, he played a lead role in building the UN-AU partnership in peacekeeping.  His work with the UN in putting on the successful referendum in East Timor in 1999 was recognized that year by Maclean’s Magazine.

In addition to his UN work, he has represented former President Carter and the Carter Center in Palestine and DR Congo, managing election observation missions for pivotal elections in each place. 

He was a Canadian diplomat from 1990 to 1997, serving in Ottawa (including as Legislative Assistant to then Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy) and Jakarta, with shorter assignments in Helsinki and Moscow. 

Mr. Stewart is a graduate of Laval University in Quebec City.  He is currently retired, living with his wife and son in Ottawa.

 

We invite you to attend the latest installment of the Corry Colloquium Speakers Series on Friday, November 21, from 12:00-1:30 pm, for a talk entitled: Progress and/or Backlash? Assessing Gender and Inter-sectional Forces in and Beyond the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, by Dr. Kelly Dittmar.

Dr. Dittmar is an Associate Professor, Political Science, at Rutgers University–Camden and Director of Research and Scholar, Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Learn more about Dr. Dittmar's research here.