"...There are many ways to obfuscate or evade surveillance systems, but one of the biggest problems we face has to do with our social imaginary. Despite the numerous warnings we receive about the dangers of surveillance, until we can imagine our societies working in a different manner, surveillance seems to be here to stay. It will continue to...

Rich debates on the crises of democracies are in the center of our project activities financed with the support of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet programme of the European Union. Year one of our Jean Monnet project CEDoD - Canada Europe Dialogue on Democracy - allowed the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria to house an event series...

Responding to Forced Migration and Refugees with Innovative Policies: Examining Europe and Turkey During the Canadian Council for Refugees Consultation ( 30 May - 1 June 2019, Victoria, BC; Roots: Reconciling the global with the local) our project Canada Europe Dialogue on Migration is organizing two public events. The first one is on May 29th...

European Parliament elections: A ‘battle for the future of Europe’ or referenda on national governments? By Oliver Schmidtke , Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and former European Community Studies Association (ECSA-C) president Between May 22 and May 26 EU citizens have the opportunity to cast their vote in...

Graduate students in Victoria, Canada, debate the approach to readings on “democracy from below” by Ryan Beaton, March 2, 2019 While the preparations for a gathering of a s cholarly discussion on the Futures of Democracy in Victoria BC take place, a pre-seminar organized by graduate students discusses a series of readings by Fonna Forman and...

March 21-22, 2019, University of Victoria What are the major problems facing democracies? What are the connections between these problems? What are the democratic ways to resolve these prob lems and reconcile all affected by them? This workshop brings together scholars who have presented enlightening responses to these three questions from a wide...