BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e525947a2 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260325T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260325T163000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/explore-political-science -research-your-library SUMMARY:Explore Political Science Research in Your Library CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join us in the lobby of Dana Porter Library for a showcase of o ngoing\ngraduate student political science research. This poster session\n highlights emerging scholarship from the PSCI 601 class (_Research and\nWr iting in Political Science_) and leverages the Library as a hub for\nresea rch connections\, interdisciplinary dialogue\, and knowledge\nmobilization . All members of the academic community—undergraduates\,\ngraduate stude nts\, staff\, and faculty are invited to engage with the\npresenters and l earn about current political science inquiry. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e52595de4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-0 SUMMARY:Speaker Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:GENDER\, PEACE\, AND POWER SHARING\n\nDr. McCulloch will be spe aking on her upcoming book _Gender\, Peace\,\nand Power-Sharing_ (Universi ty of Toronto Press\, June 2026)\,\ncoauthored with Siobhan Byrne (Univers ity of Alberta). The book\nexplores how power-sharing and the women\, peac e\, and security agenda\nintersect in peacebuilding practices. It offers a feminist\n“alternative telling” that captures the tensions and potent ial of\nthese frameworks DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e52596a45 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251114T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251114T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series LOCATION:TC 2218\, William M. Tatham Centre\, University of Waterloo 200 Un iversity Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Speaker Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:LAWLESS: ABORTION UNDER COMPLETE DECRIMINALIZATION\n\nCanada is the only country with complete decriminalization of\nabortion: no gestati onal duration limitations\, no parental consent\nobligations\, and no wait ing periods. In recent years\, other countries\n(New Zealand\, Colombia\, Uruguay\, Mexico) have made strides toward\nthis\, while the United States has notoriously lost ground. Amidst the\ntumult\, nurse and scholar Marth a Paynter uses historical context and\ncontemporary issues to explain why experts advocate against laws\ngoverning abortion. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e525978cd DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T133000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T143000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/scholar-spotlight-series LOCATION:HH 341\, J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue W est Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Scholar Spotlight Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:OBSTRUCTED LABOUR: A CENTURY OF (IN)ACTION ON MATERNAL MORTALIT Y IN\nCANADA\n\nCanada's official maternal mortality statistics are incomp lete to the\nextent that the World Health Organization applies an amplifie r of 60%.\nThis problem has been known for at least 100 years with no last ing\nprogress to address it at a national level. Through the lens of\nrepr oductive justice\, this presentation chronicles the historical\ntrajectory and interrogates the public policy failure to prioritize\nthe critical is sue of maternal mortality. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e525986db DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/scholar-spotlight-series- 0 LOCATION:HH 341\, J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue W est Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Scholar Spotlight Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:FROM MYTH TO MALICE: AFFECTIVE AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF FA LSE\nCLAIMS TO INDIGENEITY\n\nIn this talk\, Rowland will interrogate the phenomenon of false\nIndigenous identity claims and their corrosive effect s on Indigenous\ncommunities. Drawing on personal experience\, historical precedents\,\nand critical Indigenous scholarship\, he situates these prac tices\nwithin the broader logic of settler colonialism and its drive towar d\nself-indigenization. In particular\, he will focus on the drive to\ncon sume and assume historical Indigenous suffering in the effort to\ncohere f alse claims. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e52599491 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250307T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250307T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-red-river- sovereignties-radical-refusal-fish SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Red River Onto-Sovereignties: On Radical Refusal\, Fish\nConservation\, & Quantum Relationality CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:BY DR. ZOE TODD\n\nAssociate Professor\; Tier 2 Canada Researc h Chair in Indigenous\nGovernance and Freshwater Fish Futures\n\nDrawing o n various scholars\, Dr Zoe Todd critiques the push to 'braid'\nIndigenous and settler paradigms in conservation. As a Red River\nMétis scholar\, D r Todd advocates for the radical refusal of systems\nbased on white posses sion and individualism\, urging western\ninstitutions to embrace Indigenou s practices and global\nanti-imperialist solidarities. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e52599f94 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250228T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250228T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-permanent- marginality-indigenous-identity-and SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Permanent Marginality: Indigenous Identity and\nAca demia CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:BY RACHELLE “MĀĒYAWEKĒSEKŌKIW” BESAW\n\nPhD Candidate\, Sociocultural Anthropology\, Arizona State University\n\nIn this lecture\ , the speaker will discuss the marginal space she now\ninhabits as a lingu istic anthropologist\, indebted to the oftentimes\ncruel and violent histo ry of anthropological and linguistic research\ninflicted upon Indigenous N ations\, and her own Tribe\, in the name of\nScience. She will discuss her own journey through an academic system\nbuilt on the oppression and subju gation of her people\, and how she has\nhad to rely upon extractive and ex ploitative research on her path to\nreclaiming her Indigeneity. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e5259aa61 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250131T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250131T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-why-cant-t hey-keep-their-darn-promises SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Why Can't They Keep Their Darn Promises? CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:As Canada prepares itself for a federal election\, we can all e xpect to\nhear a list of promises from each political party that deep down we\nknow will never be kept. Why can't political parties keep their\nprom ises? DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e5259b4ad DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200227T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200227T133000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-consensus- and-control-individuals LOCATION:HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue West HH 341 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Speaker Series: \"Consensus and Control: the Individual's Instituti onal\nPerception and its Formation\" CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Sabrina Lei is currently a Visiting Scholar with the Department of\nPoltiical Science from School of Public Affairs\, Xiamen University\, \nChina. Sabrina's research theme focus is “Diplomatic Positioning of\nt he States: A Comparison between China and Canada”\, and she is\ncurrentl y working on the book  “Consensus and Control: Analysis of\nHuman Polit ical Life”. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f3e5259c136 DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Abidjan:20190918T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=Africa/Abidjan:20190918T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/trudeau-formula-martin-lu kacs LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb St W Room 1-42 Wa terloo ON Canada SUMMARY:The Trudeau Formula | Martin Lukacs CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch and discussion of the Trudeau Formu la\,\nfeaturing author and investigative journalist Martin Lukacs. DTSTAMP:20260430T232629Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR