Articles by author: bhaggart

  • Panel discussion: Canada and the 2020 US election, Thurs., Oct. 22, 12-1 pm

    Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | By

    The US election on November 3 is shaping up to be an event of historic importance, with potentially far-reaching consequences for the US, Canada and the world.

    The Brock University Department of Political Science invites you to join us for an online discussion and Q&A session of the possible implications of the US elections. Our panel:

    Prof. Leah Bradshaw, Brock University
    Associate Prof. Charles Conteh, Brock University
    Assistant Prof. Will Greaves, University of Victoria
    Associate Prof. Blayne Haggart (moderator)

    For a link to the event, or for further information, please email politicalscience@brocku.ca.

    The Brock University Political Science
    Department presents Canada and the 2020 U.S. Election, October 22, 12 pm-1 pm

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  • Prof. Livianna Tossutti receives Excellence in Teaching award

    Tuesday, April 17, 2018 | By

    The Department of Political Science is happy to announce that one of our own, Associate Professor Livianna Tossutti, has won the 2018 Faculty of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching. In conferring the award, the adjudicating committee highlighted Prof. Tossutti’s commitment to teaching, her work on experiential learning and her embrace of innovative pedagogy in the classroom, as well as student testimonials describing her as “inspiring.” We couldn’t agree more.

    Prof. Tossutti will formally receive the award at June Convocation.

    Congratulations, Prof. Tossutti!

     

     

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  • The Department of Political Science Speaker Series presents David Smith: “Whither the Senate at 150?”

    Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | By

    Thursday, March 1, 2018
    10 am
    Plaza 600F

    In this talk, Dr. David E. Smith, OC, FRSC, will speak to the state of the Senate as a political institution. Specifically, he will discuss whether the Senate is in crisis and what makes the Canadian Senate different from others.

    David E. Smith is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University and Professor Emeritus, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. He has taught in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, from 1964 to 2004, and is a previous President of the Canadian Political Science Association. His publications include a trilogy of works on each of the parts of Parliament, as well as books on political parties, the constitution, and federalism. The People’s House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (University of Toronto Press) won the Donner Prize for the best book in Canadian public policy in 2007, and Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics (2013), won the Canada Prize in Social Sciences in 2014. His most recent book (2017) is The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors: Canada at 150 (University of Toronto Press).

    For further information, please contact Nicole Goodman, Department of Political Science.

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  • Using Photovoice to Generate Indigenous Elder and Youth Understandings of the Importance of Intergenerational Communication on Health and Well-Being

    Tuesday, February 06, 2018 | By

    The Department of Political Science Speaker Series presents

    Dr. Chelsea Gabel
    Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation and Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Aging and Society & Indigenous Studies

    Monday, February 12, 1:00 pm
    Plaza 600F

    The structure of Indigenous families and communities in Canada has been significantly impacted by the effects of colonialism, such as the dispossession of land, disruption in traditional life ways, intergenerational trauma, and the long-term effects of the residential school system. Bringing youth and elders together encourages cross-age connections and facilitates the sharing of cultural knowledge, which positively impacts health and community wellness. Dr. Gabel presents the results of a community-based, participatory action research Photovoice project that improves our understanding of the nature of intergenerational relationships in the southern Labrador Inuit community of St. Lewis, NL, Canada.

    Dr. Chelsea Gabel holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement and Innovation and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University. Dr. Gabel is currently leading three SSHRC grants and is involved in a number of research collaborations across Canada that integrate her expertise in community-based participatory research, photovoice, digital technology, intervention research and Indigenous health and well-being. She is also a member of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Standing Committee on Ethics that provides high-level strategic advice on the ethical, legal and socio-cultural dimensions of CIHR’s mandate.

    For further information, please contact Nicole Goodman.

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  • Dr. Robert Henry: Re”imagin”ing Indigenous Gang Involvement Using Photovoice Methods

    Tuesday, January 09, 2018 | By

    Monday, January 15, 10:30 amDr. Robert Henry
    Plaza 600F

    Indigenous scholar Dr. Robert Henry of the  discusses his work with Indigenous men and women who were involved in street gangs. Drawing on innovative photovoice methods, Dr. Henry examines the ways in which Indigenous men and women engage in street lifestyles, where the street gang becomes a site of survivance, challenging settler colonialism.

    Robert Henry, Ph.D., is Métis from Prince Albert, SK and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, in the Department of Sociology. Robert’s research areas include Indigenous street gangs and gang theories, Indigenous masculinities, Indigenous and critical research methodologies, youth mental health, and visual research methods. Working closely with community partners, he published a collection of narratives from his Ph.D. research titled, Brighter Days Ahead (2014). Robert has also published in the areas of Indigenous masculinity, Indigenous health, youth subcultures, and criminal justice.Preview (opens in a new window)

    For further information, please contact Nicole Goodman.

    Presented by the Departments of Political Science, History, and Sociology

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  • In Memoriam: William Matheson

    Friday, December 15, 2017 | By

    It is hard for me to imagine the Brock Political Science Department without the presence of Bill Matheson, even though he had been retired for many years. I came to the Department more than thirty years ago, and Professor Matheson exemplified for me everything that was good about Brock University. He loved the university. He gave most of his professional life to the university, and we are all better for his contributions. Professor Matheson’s accomplishments are many, and they bridge university teaching, university administration, scholarship, and community leadership. Surely, though, his greatest legacy is in the thousands of students he taught at Brock.

    A word of advice that Bill Matheson gave to me as a young novice professor: “be careful what you say and what you do: after a decade here, everywhere you go in the Niagara Region, there will be students, present and former, who greet you and remember you.” It was good advice, although almost none of us in the Political Science Department has had as many students travel through our classes. For generations of Political Science students, Professor Matheson’s legendary first year lectures were their introduction to the discipline. The great political thinker Hannah Arendt commented on more than one occasion that for some individuals the ‘who’ of a person – his presence –  is  greater than the sum of his accomplishments. Think of those lucky thousands of Brock students who got to experience the ‘who’ of Professor Matheson.

    – Leah Bradshaw

    “Bill Matheson’s legacy was anything but common,” The Brock News, December 12, 2017.

    Bill Matheson Obituary, St. Catharines Standard.

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