Winter 2026 Speaker Series
Winter 2026 Speaker Line-up
January 16 - Dr. Srdjan Vucetic (University of Ottawa) - "Five Eyes in the age of Donald Trump"
January 23 - Dr. Marcus Holmes (William & Mary) - "What Shall I Say Is Calling? Signal Sender Uncertainty in International Diplomacy
January 30 - Dr. Felicity Vabulas (Pepperdine University) - "Exit from International Organizations?
February 6 - Dr. Rawan Arar (University of Washington) - "When Practice Becomes Knowledge: The Distorting Power of Humanitarian Fictions in Refugee Research"
February 13 - Dr. Nicole de Silva (Concordia University) - "Why Not Hold the Pen? Exploring Implications of Drafting Privileges in International Organizations"
February 20 - Dr. Craig Parsons (University of Oregon) - "Markets, Integration, and Authority: How Did the European Union Get More Regulatory Power than Any National Federation?"
March 13 - Dr. Marie-Joelle Zahar (Universite de Montreal) - "Flawed by Design: Frames and Inclusion Agenda in Peace Processes"
March 19 - Dr. Stephanie Martel (Queen's University) - "Narrative Struggle Over International Order in and Beyond the Indo-Pacific: Implications for Non-Major Power Agency in Global Governance"
March 20 - Dr. Amitav Acharya (American University) (Inaugural T.V. Paul Lecture Series in International Peace and Security) - "Once and Future World Orders: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West"
March 26 - Dr. Sam Ritholtz (University of Oxford) and Dr. Rebecca Buxton (University of Bristol) - "The Way Out: Justice in Queer Search for Refuge"
March 27 - Dr. Paul Beaumont (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) - "Quantification and its Discontents: Navigating the Era of Indicators in Global Governance"
April 10 - Yusuf Yilmaz (McGill University) - "Chrono-positional Crises: Explaining the Civilizational Turn in Russia and Turkey"
Fall 2025 Speaker Series
Fall 2025 Speaker Line-up
September 5 - Dr. Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira (FGV, Brazil) - "It is identity, stupid! What Emerging Markets Teach about Trump and Populism"
September 19 - Dr. Theodore McLauchlin (UdeM) - "The U.S. Military in Protest Policing: Attitudes of Service-Members and Civilians”
September 26 - Dr. Ilias Alami (University of Cambridge) - "Between international financial subordination and turbulent geopolitics: financing green industrialisation in the global South"
October 3 - Dr. Carla Winston (University of Melbourne) - "Does Transitional Justice Really Have 'Norms'?"
October 24 - Dr. Marek Brzezinski (McGill University) - "The Quality of Atrocity: Explaining Extreme Violence by State Military Forces"
October 31 - Dr. Shiping Tang (Fudan University) - "The New Landscape of International Political Economy: Toward a New IPE of/for/from the Global South"
November 7 - Dr. Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo) - "What Kind of a Neomercantilist is Trump?"
December 5 - Dr. Elizabeth Bloodgood (Concordia University) - "What Does Government Know? Regulatory Diffusion, Translation, and Governments’ Ability to Enforce Foreign Funding Restrictions on NGOs"
