RECODE - Future Research Directions (Montreal 2013)
Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada: future research directions
A workshop sponsored by the ESF Research Networking Program RECODE
and the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue
Université de Montréal, 12-13 September 2013
Carrefour des arts et des sciences
Pavillon Lionel Groulx
THE PROGRAM
The Themes
The program is structured around the four thematic areas at the heart of RECODE. To the respective four sessions, we add a final roundtable at which we will discuss possibilities for future research collaborations:
- The Political Communities of Migrants: De-Territorialised Diversity and Political Integration in Host Countries: This session expands RECODE’s focus on the emergence of transnational communities and the institutionalization of diaspora politics to also include the extent of political integration of migrants in their new host country.
- Linguistic Diversity and Political Communication: The purpose of this section is to assess to what extent a common public sphere has to be based upon one common language. It will compare the European experience, where the consolidation of nation-states was reached at the expenses of linguistic minority groups, with Canada, which was built from the beginning on the basis of an agreement between two distinct linguistic communities.
- Religions and the Public Sphere: Accommodating Religious Diversity in the Post-secular Era. The aim of this section is to explore the changing relationship between the religious and the political spheres in democratic societies. The underlying hypothesis is that, against the prevailing Weberian idea of modernization as religious “disenchantment” of the world, we are facing a profound change in the functional parameters of religion.
- Solidarity beyond the Nation State: Diversity, Solidarity and Redistribution. This section addresses critical questions facing western democracies. How can we maintain and strengthen the bonds of community in ethnically diverse societies? How can we reconcile growing levels of multicultural diversity and the sense of a common identity which sustains the norms of mutual support and underpins a generous welfare state?
- Roundtable: Future Directions and Collaborations. The final discussion will be launched by four research leaders, two from the RECODE network and two from important networks in Canada.
The Schedule
Thursday, September 12, 2013
10:00 – 10:30
Welcome and opening remarks
- Jane Jenson, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
- Peter A. Kraus, Political Science and Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg.
- Keith Banting, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.
10:30 – 12:00
The Political Communities of Immigrants: Transnational Diasporas and Political Integration in Host Countries
- Chair: Oliver Schmidtke, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria and co-lead, TRG Immigration and Social Policy, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue.
- Gianni D’Amato, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, Université de Neuchâtel. Download presentation: D’Amato Montréal 12-09-13.
- Stephen White and Antoine Bilodeau, Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Download presentation: White & Bilodeau Montréal 12-09-13.
- Discussant: Victor Satzewich, Department of Sociology, McMaster University.
13:00 – 14:30
Linguistic Diversity and Political Communication
- Chair: Lawrence McFalls, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
- Donna Patrick, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University. Download presentation: Patrick Montréal 12-09-13.
- Peter A. Kraus, Political Science and Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg. Download presentation: Kraus Montréal 12-09-13.
- Discussant: Martin Papillon, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa.
15:00 – 16:30
Religions and the Public Sphere: Accommodating Religious Diversity in the Post-secular Era
- Chair: Magdalena Dembinska, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
- Francisco Colom González, Centre of Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council. Download presentation: Colom González Montréal 12-09-13 .
- Avigail Eisenberg, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria. Download presentation: Eisenberg Montréal 12-09-13.
- Discussant: Jocelyn Maclure, Faculty of Philosophy, Laval University.
Friday, September 13, 2013
9:00 – 10:30
Solidarity Beyond the Nation State: Diversity, Solidarity and Redistribution
- Chair: John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.
- Keith Banting, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. Download presentation: Banting Montréal 13-09-13.
- Grete Brochmann, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Download presentation: Brochmann Montréal 13-09-13.
- Discussant: Edward Koning, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
11:00 – 12:30
Future Directions and Collaborations
- Francisco Colom González, Centre of Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council.
- Jane Jenson, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal and co-lead, TRG Immigration and Social Policy, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue.
- Peter A. Kraus, Political Science and Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg.
- Alain Noël, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal and President, Centre d’études sur la pauvreté et l’exclusion (CEPE).
Workshop brought to you with the collaboration of:
