Thursday, September 22
Croft Chapter House
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration, Continental Breakfast and Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 | Creating Federal Systems: Enabling Conditions
Chair: David Cameron (University of Toronto)
Marie-Joelle Zahar (University of Montreal)
`Rebuilding Trust? Federalism and the Management of Violent Conflict’
Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)
`Territorial Policy Communities’
Discussant: Karlo Basta (University of Toronto)
10:30 – 11:00 | Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:30 | Federal Systems in Africa and Theocracies
Chair: Sujit Choudhry (NYU)
Christina Murray (University of Cape Town)
`Cooperative Federalism in Africa: South Africa and Kenya’
Ran Hirschl (University of Toronto)
`Federalism and the Theocratic Challenge’
Discussant: Jean Lachapelle (University of Toronto)
12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 | Federalism in Spain
Chair: Ron Watts (Queen’s University)
César Colino (UNED)
`Living with Contradictions in the “Estado autonómico”: the Management of Internal Nationalisms and Social Cohesion in Spain’
Alain-G. Gagnon (UQAM)
`Constitutionalism, Empowerment and Multinational Federalism’
Discussant: Sebastian Baglioni (University of Toronto)
3:30 – 4:00 | Refreshment Break
4:00 – 5:30 | Societal Diversities and Federalism
Chair: Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)
Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh)
`Federalism as Centrifuge: Regional political cultures and political stability’
John McGarry (Queen’s University)
`Binding a Cypriot Federation’
Discussant: Philippe Roseberry (Queen’s University)
Great Hall, Hart House
6:30 | Cash Bar
7:00 | Dinner (invitation only)
Friday, September 23
9:00 – 10:30 | Federalism, Social Democracy and Social Equality
Chair: Julie Simmons (Guelph University)
Thomas O. Hueglin (Wilfrid Laurier University)
`Federalism and Democracy – A Critical Reassessment’
Alain Noel (University of Montreal)
`The Left, the Right, and Federalism’
Discussant: Josh Hjartarson (Mowat Institute)
10:30 – 11:00 | Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:30 | Alternate Modes of Managing Internal Diversities
Chair: Martin Papillon (University of Ottawa)
Jan Erk (Leiden University)
`Theories of Federalism, Practices of Federalism’
Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa) and Jenn Wallner (University of Ottawa),
`Adaptability and Change in Federal Systems: A Comparison of Australia, Canada, and the United States’
Discussant: Alexandre Paquin-Pelletier (University of Toronto)
12 :30 – 1:30 | Lunch
1:45 – 3:00 | Roundtable on the Global Promise of Federalism:
Chair: André Juneau (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University)
Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen)
Christina Murray (University of Cape Town)
François Rocher (University of Ottawa)
Ron Watts (Queen’s University)
3:00 – 3:15 | Refreshment Break
3:15 – 3:45 | Reflections on Federalism
Chair: Keith Banting (Queen’s University)
Richard Simeon (University of Toronto)
Organizing Committee: Keith Banting, David Cameron, Gabriel Eidelman, Martin Papillon, Grace Skogstad, Luc Turgeon, and Jennifer Wallner.
