Political Science Weekly Digest June 28, 2024
June 28, 2024
POLITICAL SCIENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONGRATS TO LYNN NG!
Congratulations to Lynn on her successful PhD defense on June 10. Her dissertation is titled “From Competition to Cooperation: Reworking Care Relations in Eldercare”. Committee: Feng Xu (Supervisor) and Arthur Kroker (Member). Lynn will start a Banting postdoc this September with Dr. Ethel Tungohan at York University.
CONGRATS TO STACIE SWAIN!
Congratulations to Stacie (PhD student) who has accepted a tenure track position at Memorial University in Religious Studies and Gender Studies. Stacie is completing her dissertation on Indigenous spirituality and the politics of religion in the settler-colonial state.
CONGRATS TO KELLY AGUIRRE!
Congratulations to Kelly on the recent publication of two articles:
- “Decolonization is Also Metaphorical: Indigenous Feminist and Queer-Two-Spirit Storywork Matters” in Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 3rd Edition (Fernwood Press, May 23, 2024) https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/making-space-for-indigenous-feminism-third-edition
- “Your Absence is Not an Accident: Storying Feminist Friendship from Dissonance to Dissidence” / Kelly Aguirre, Mariam Georgis, Sarah Munawar in Feministing in Political Science (U of Alberta Press, May 17 2024) https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772127324/feministing-in-political-science/
CONGRATS TO WILL GREAVES!
Congratulations to Will on the recent publication of an article which surveys the literature on Canadian foreign policy related to the Arctic, climate change, and environmental diplomacy in Canada from 1989-2022. The piece is Will Greaves and Gabriella Gricius, “Overlooking nature: the Arctic, climate change, and environmental diplomacy in the study of Canadian foreign policy,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30(2): 160-175. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11926422.2024.2344001.
CONGRATS TO AMY VERDUN!
Amy’s recent article has been published: Lucia Quaglia and Amy Verdun (2024) ‘The Geoeconomics of the Single Market for Financial Services’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(4): 1046-1062, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13595
UVIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
CFGS BORDERS IN GLOBALIZATION – JULY 2024
Registration is open for UVic’s Borders in Globalization Program, offering eight intensive summer institutes this July 2024. Participants develop comprehensive understandings of contemporary borders by learning from top academics in the field as well as policy experts from a variety of international, governmental, non-governmental, and local organizations. For more information, click here.