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Research
Citizenship, Governance and Diversity: Perspectives on and from
Germany and Canada
One-day Workshop on June 2, 2015
Within the framework of the
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, May 30 to
June 5, 2015
Desmarais Hall 12110
Program
Arrival
and
Welcome
8:00
8:30
Session 1
8:30
10:00
Opening Remarks:
 Allan Rock, President, University of Ottawa
 Ruby Heap, Associate Vice-President Research, University of Ottawa
 Martina Kessel, Vice-President International and Communication, Bielefeld
University
Multiculturalism and (National) Identity
Chair: Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University), William Straw (McGill
University)
Presentations:
1. O Canada – Insights on the Perception of Canadian Multiculturalism from
German University Seminars - Julia Andres (Bielefeld University)
2. Discourses of belonging in Germany – an insight from citizenship ceremonies -Maria Jakob (Leipzig University)
3. Whither the Canadian Model? Evaluating the New Canadian Nationalism in
Comparative Focus - Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa)
4. Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces. A Dialog with Max Weber Barbara Thériault (University of Montreal)
10:00
10:30
Session 2
10:30
12:00
Coffee Break
The Regulation of Religious and Cultural Diversity
Chair: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University), Lori Beaman (University
of Ottawa)
Presentations:
1. “Us vs. them” in Canada and Germany – public discourse and statistical
mapping of diversity - Caroline Schultz (Expert Council of German Foundations
on Integration and Migration, Germany)
2. Cultural and Religious Diversity in Germany: A General Overview - Julia
Martínez-Ariño (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity)
3. Learning from German-led Research: Designing a Research Project on Religion
and Education - Christine Cusack (University of Ottawa)
4. Exploring the intricacies and dissonances of religious governance: The case of
Quebec and the discourse of request - Amélie Barras (York University)
12:00
13:00
Session 3
13:00
14:30
Lunch Break
New directions in Governance Studies
Chair: Detlef Sack (Bielefeld University), Benjamin Zyla (University of Ottawa)
Presentations:
1.
The Delivery of Social Capital - A case study in governance and social
structures: the merging young urban middle classes in Afghanistan - Michael
Daxner (Free University Berlin)
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3. Corporate Citizenship and Enforced Disappearance: The Role of Multinational
Subsidiaries in Bangladesh - Shamsud D. Chowdhury (Dalhousie University)
4. Governing through Art and Culture - Petra Rethmann (McMaster University)
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14:30
15:00
Session 4
15:00
16:30
Break
Citizenship and Social Questions in the Context of Migration
Chair: Thomas Faist (Bielefeld University), Elke Winter (University of Ottawa)
Presentations:
1. Symbolic Exclusion and its Consequences for Citizenship – Legal and Symbolic
Membership of Turkish Residents in Germany - Nils Witte (University of
Bremen)
2. Cutting the Ties? First Generation Limitations in Germany and Canada Martin Weinmann (Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and
Migration, Germany)
3. Citizenship and Belonging: Germany’s National Identity and Immigrants'
Integration Beliefs - Stefan Immerfall (University of Education at Schwäbisch
Gmünd)
4. Immigration, Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism after the Crisis of 2008: The
New Canadian Citizenship Regime in the Light of European Trajectories Frédérick Guillaume Dufour (UQAM)
Roundtable: Assessing possibilities for collaborative research on citizenship,
governance and diversity
16:30
17:30
Panelists
Lori Beaman, Thomas Faist, Wolfram Hilz,Wilfried Raussert, Detlef Sack, Will
Straw, Elke Winter, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Benjamin Zyla,
18:30
Reception hosted by the German Embassy (upon invitation)
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