Greetings!
On May 2 and 3, 2024, VIU’s Political Studies department will host the annual conference of the British Columbia Political Studies Association, which will focus on the theme of Trust and Leadership. The conference will feature two keynote events: On May 2, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Morgan Mowatt (University of Victoria) will deliver a talk entitled "A Package Deal: Indigenous Knowledge, Culture and Political Authority-Making"; and on May 3, Jarislowsky Research Chairs in Trust and Political Leadership Dr. Cris de Clercy (Trent University) and Dr. Michael MacKenzie (VIU) will give a joint talk entitled "Contemporary Challenges in Democratic Leadership and Public Trust." The conference will also include multi-disciplinary research papers and posters by faculty and students on trust and/or leadership across time and space as well as other topics broadly related to politics. University instructors and researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, practitioners, and local community members are all welcome.
Keynote speakers
May 2, 2024: Dr. Morgan Mowatt
A Package Deal: Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, and Political Authority- Making
Dr. Morgan Mowatt is a member of the Gitxsan Nation and is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement and the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. Their research is focused on Indigenous authority-making, Indigenous-state relations, more-than-human diplomacy, and reciprocal and resurgent governance against colonial and imperial violence.
May 3, 2024: Dr. Cris de Clercy and Dr. Michael MacKenzie
Contemporary Challenges in Democratic Leadership and Public Trust
Dr. Cristine de Clercy is an expert on the study of political leadership. Currently Trent University's inaugural Jarislowsky Research Chair in Trust and Political Leadership and Professor of Political Studies, for many years before this role she taught in the Political Science department at Western University, and was affiliated with its Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies department. She is one of Canada's foremost experts in political leadership and has been teaching and conducting research in this field for over two decades.
Dr. Michael MacKenzie is an expert in democracy and public trust who taught in the department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh for several years before joining VIU as the inaugural Jarislowsky Research Chair in Trust and Political Leadership. He is the author of Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action (Oxford University Press, 2021) and a co-editor of Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems (University of Edinburgh Press, 2023).
Call for Panels, Papers and Posters
Questions about the conference can be sent to Jocelyne Praud: Jocelyne.Praud@viu.ca