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:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ebe9d5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260327T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260327T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/scholar-spotlight-dr-emme tt-macfarlane LOCATION:TC - William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education & Career Action 200 University Avenue West Room: 2218 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Emmett Macfarlane CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Macfarlane will speak on to the relationship between\nspecific governments and the judiciary. Extending a previous stu dy of\nthe records of the Mulroney\, Chrétien\, and Harper governments be fore\nthe Supreme Court of Canada\, and applying a conception of political \nregimes adapted from American scholarship\, this paper analyzes the\nimp act of judicial review on the Trudeau governments’ legislative\nagenda. The paper draws on a dataset of all Supreme Court cases\ninvolving federal legislation challenged on Charter grounds during the\nTrudeau era (2015-2 025)\, as well as a handful of relevant lower court\ncases involving highl y salient policies. In so doing\, the paper also\nre-examines the relevanc e of a ‘regimes’ lens of analysis in light\nof criticisms that the con cept does not translate to the context of a\nparliamentary system. DTSTAMP:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec206d 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec2fbf DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260306T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260306T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/speaker-series-dr-minh-do LOCATION:TC - William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education & Career Action 200 University Avenue West Room: 2218 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Dr. Minh Do CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Dr. Do will be speaking on her book\, _Process as Power_\, pu blished\nat UBC Press. The book examines how Indigenous consultation is\ni mplemented in B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Process. Drawing on\nanaly ses of judicial decisions\, environmental assessment reports\, and\ninterv iews\, it demonstrates how the process of Indigenous consultation\nis a ke y site where state legitimacy is contested. DTSTAMP:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec3e35 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260227T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260227T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/events/scholar-spotlight-dr-anna -drake SUMMARY:Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Anna Drake CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Anna Drake will be speaking on a new approach to deliberative\n consociationalism. She combines critical work on structural injustice\nand deliberative democracy with intersectional feminist interventions\ninto p ower-sharing. Drawing from the radical analysis in the Combahee\nRiver Col lective statement (1977) and their argument that\nintersectional identity is a source of knowledge and the impetus for\nmuch-needed structural chang e\, she argues post-conflict societies\nshould focus not on power-sharing\ , but on a transformation of power.\n\nOnline MS Teams Link: Scholar Spot light: Anna Drake | Meeting-Join |\nMicrosoft Teams\n[https://teams.micros oft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2MzMjQyNGItY2QwMS00Njg3LTgwYTktNGJmYzc 5YzRhMjdk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247- 3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2250d27332-9d08-42b9-8e1c-72ba1e931061%22%7 d] DTSTAMP:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec49e3 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec55df 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec62ea 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec6fc6 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec7d2d 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f11b4ec8ae4 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:20260428T204046Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR