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TEACHING AND VISITING POSITIONS

University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Professor of Political Science, 2010-present; Department Chair, 2013-2018; Associate

Professor 2002-10; Research Associate, Indigenous Governance, 2000-2010

Courses: Democratic Theory, Gender and Politics.

Primary Committee Service: Co-founder and co-director of the Victoria Colloquium on Legal

and Political Thought, 2002-present; Graduate Director, 2004-8.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Associate Professor of Political Science, 1998-2000. Assistant Professor, 1990-98.

Courses: Democratic Theory, Canadian Constitutional Politics.

Primary Committee Service: Graduate Director, 1998-200, Director of 3rd year Honour’s

Program, 1997-9.

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities and Department of Government, Visiting Lecturer

Jan-June 2019.

Hebrew University, Department of International Relations, Visiting Teaching Professor, May,

2016.

University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Faculty of Jurisprudence, Visiting Teaching and Research

Professor, May, 2013.

University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Department of Political Science, Visiting Scholar, 2010-

11.

Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche en éthique, Visiting Research Fellow, 2004-5.

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University of Edinburgh, International Social Sciences Institute, Visiting Fellow, 1996-7.

EDUCATION

Queen’s University, PhD, Department of Political Studies, 1991

Queen’s University, MA, Department of Political Studies, 1986

University of Alberta, BA (Honours), Department of Political Science, 1985

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Research Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 2018-19

Halbert Fellowship in Canadian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 2016

Faculty Fellowship, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2011

Faculty Research Award, Social Sciences, University of Victoria, 2010

Research Fellowship, Centre de recherche en éthique, Université de Montréal, Québec, 2004-5

Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, May 2003

Faculty Fellowship, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2003

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1990-

92; declined

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1986-1990

RESEARCH GRANTS

2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),

Connections (Conference) Grant, Norms of Minority Participation, $11,190.00.

2013 Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) Aid to

Scholarly Publishing, $8000, Jeremy Webber co-applicant.

2011 CFHSS, Aid to Scholarly Publishing, Identity Politics in the Public Realm, $8000,

Will Kymlicka co-applicant.

2011-16 SSHRC Insight Grant, Minorities and the Norms of Effective Participation.

$69,500, Principal investigator with 1 co-investigator.

2010-17 SSHRC Partnership (formerly MCRI) Religion and Diversity, $2.5 million, Lori

Beaman (University of Ottawa) principal investigator; 1 of 17 co-investigators.

2005-10 SSHRC Partnership (MCRI) Indigenous Peoples and Governance, $2.5 million

Pierre Noreau (Université de Montreal) principal investigator; 1 of 32 co-

investigators.

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2005-10 SSHRC Partnership (MCRI) Ethnicity and Democratic Governance, $2, 497, 021

Bruce Berman (Queen’s University) principal investigator; 1 of 12 co-

investigators

2004 SSHRC Connections (Conference Grant) Sexual Justice/Culture Justice,

Vancouver May 28-29th, 2004; 3 co-organizers: $9,500.

2002-05 Genome Canada/Genome BC, Democracy, Ethics and Genomics, $1,200,000.

Michael Burgess, principal investigator. Research associate

2001-2004 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, Negotiating Cultural Difference, Rights and

Equality in Canada $55,600.

2000-2003 SSHRC Strategic Treaty Federalism (node of National Federalism Network), T.

Alfred principal investigator of UVIC node; 4 coinvestigators at UVIC: $30,000.

1998-2003 SSHRC Partnership (MCRI) Equality, Security and Community, J. Kesselman

principal investigator, 17 coinvestigators; $1,250,000.

1993-1996 SSHRC Strategic Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada, V. Strong-Boag

principal investigator, 4 co-investigators, $120,000.

PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEW AND FORTHCOMING

The False Promise of Consent: Consultation, Resistance and Plural Authority, under review as of

October, 2018.

Debating Multiculturalism: Toxic Discourse or Democratic Catharsis? Under review as of

October 2018.

John Borrows’ Constitutionalism: Commentary, Lakehead Journal of Law, with editor as of

December 2017.

Pluralism and the Authority of Groups to Discriminate, under review as of September 2018.

PUBLICATIONS

SINGLE AUTHORED BOOKS

Reasons of Identity: A Normative Guide to the Legal and Political Assessment of Identity Claims

Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Reconstructing Political Pluralism, Albany, New York: SUNY, 1995.

EDITED BOOKS

Co-edited with Patti Lenard, The Theory and Politics of Second-class Citizenship Special issue

of Politics, Groups, Identities, 2018.

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Co-edited with Patti Lenard, Religious Accommodation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism

Special Issue of Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 10:2 (2016)

Co-edited with Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, Andrée Boiselle, Recognition versus Self-

Determination, Vancouver BC: UBC Press, 2014.

Co-edited with Will Kymlicka, Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back

In, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011

Co-edited with Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux and Rita Dhamoon Sexual Justice/Cultural

Justice: Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice, London: Routledge, 2007

Diversity and Equality: The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada, Vancouver: UBC

Press, 2006

Co-edited with Jeff Spinner-Halev, Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity,

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Co-edited with Veronica Strong-Boag, Sherrill Grace and Joan Anderson Painting the Maple:

Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Multiculturalism, Multinationalism and Indigenous Rights: The Canadian Case, in Richard

Ashcroft and Mark Bevir eds., Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth, University of

California Press, 2019 (forthcoming).

*The Challenges of Structural Injustice to Reconciliation, Ethics and Global Justice, vol 11,

2018:82-90.

Three approaches to the Protection of Religious Freedom: Choice, Interest, Identity, Personal

Autonomy in Plural Societies: A Principle and its Paradoxes, M-C Foblets, A Dundes

Renteln and M Graziadei eds., London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 58-75.

Choice or Identity? Dilemmas of Protecting Religious Freedom in Canada, Multi-Religious

Society: Dealing with Religious Diversity in Theory and Practice Francisco Colom González

and Gianni D’Amato eds., Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 135-51.

*Religion as Identity Law and Ethics of Human Rights 10:2 (2016), 295-317

The Assessment of Cultures and the Autonomy of Communities Two Homelands, Special Issue

on the Legacy of Liberalism, Culture and Community, 44 (2016), 25-35

Voting rights for Non-Citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold? Journal of International Migration and

Integration, 16:1 (Feb 2015), 133-51. Featured article on EUDO Citizenship Observatory

The Political Assessment of Religious Authenticity. In Authenticity, Autonomy and

Multiculturalism Geoff Levey ed. London: Routlege, 2015, pp. 145-62.

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Indigenous Rights as Cultural Rights, Hokkaido Law Review (transl to Japanese by Yasuo Tsuji,

Kumiko Tsuda) 65:1 May 2014.

How should public institutions assess religious identity? The case of polygamy. Polygamy’s

Rights and Wrongs, Gillian Calder and Lori Beaman, eds., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014: 46-

68.

Self-determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions’ in Recognition versus Self-

Determination, Eisenberg et al eds., Vancouver BC: UBC Press, 2014, 293-306.

Indigenous Cultural Rights and Identity Politics in Canada, Review of Constitutional Studies 18:1

(2013) pp 89-109.

*Rights in the Age of Identity Politics, Osgoode Hall Law Journal 50: (2013) 609-36.

Identity Politics and the Risks of Essentialism, in Liberal Multiculturalism and Fair Terms of

Integration, Peter Balint and Sophie de la Tour (eds.) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013:

159-76.

Education and the Politics of Difference: Iris Young and the politics of education” Educational

Philosophy and Theory 38(1): 7-23. Reprinted in Citizenship, Inclusion and Democracy: A

symposium on Iris Marion Young, Mitja Sardoc ed., Oxford UK: Blackwell, 2006: 5-22.

À La Défense des Droit Culturels: Réponse à Jean LeClair Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec

XLI: (2012), 111-15

*Pluralism and Method at the Turn of the Century, Modern Pluralism: Anglo- American Debates

since 1880. Mark Bevir (ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 60-80.

Identity Quietism and Political Exclusion. In Reasonable Accommodation: Managing Religious

Diversity, Lori Beaman ed. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012, 89-115.

La discriminación pública de la identidad religiosa: La criminalización de las prácticas

poligámicas de los mormones en Canadá. In HACIA UNA SOCIEDAD POST-SECUL: La

gestión de la nueva diversidad religiosa, Francisco Colom González y Ana López Sala eds.,

Madrid: Fundación Jiménez Abad, 2012, 99-122.

The Public Assessment of Indigenous Identity, in Plural States of Recognition, Michel Seymour

and Martin Blanchard (eds.), London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010.

Feminism and multiculturalism, The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism Duncan

Ivison (ed.), London: Ashgate, 2010, 119-40.

Domestic and International Norms for the Assessment of Indigenous Identity, in A. Eisenberg

and W. Kymlicka eds., Identity Politics in the Public Realm. Vancouver: University of

British Columbia Press, 2011, 137-62.

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*Co-authored with W. Kymlicka, Bringing Institutions Back In, in A. Eisenberg and W.

Kymlicka eds., Identity Politics in the Public Realm. Vancouver: University of British

Columbia Press, 2011, 1-30.

L’évaluation publique de l’identité autochtone, La Reconnaissance dans tous ses états Michel

Seymour (ed) Montreal: Québec Amérique, 2009, 227-252.

Identity, multiculturalism, and religious arbitration: the debate over shari’a law in Canada,

Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice, Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon and

Avigail Eisenberg, eds. London: Routledge, 2007, 211-30.

Equality, trust and multiculturalism, in Social Capital and Social Diversity, Fiona Kay and

Richard Johnston eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007, 67-94.

Reasoning about the identity of Aboriginal people, in Accommodating Cultural Diversity:

Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice, Stephen Tierney ed., London: Ashgate, 2007,

79-97.

Education and the Politics of Difference: Iris Young and the politics of education” Educational

Philosophy and Theory 38(1): 7-23. (Reprinted in Citizenship, Inclusion and Democracy: A

symposium on Iris Marion Young, Mitja Sardoc ed., Oxford UK: Blackwell, 2006: 5-22).

Reasoning about identity: Canada’s Distinctive Culture Test, in Diversity and Equality, Avigail

Eisenberg ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, 34-53.

New approaches to fundamental freedom in Canada, in Diversity and Equality, Avigail

Eisenberg ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006, 1-14.

Pluralism and the Politics of Diversity, in Pluralism: Developments in the Theory and Practice of

Democracy, Rainer Eisfeld ed., World of Political Science Series, Germany: Barbara

Burdich, 2006, 59-80.

Co-authored with Colin Macleod The Normative Dimensions of Equality Dimensions of

Inequality in Canada, David Green and Jon Kesselman eds., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006,

33-64.

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: A Response to Patrick Loobyck. Ethnicities 5:1 (2005):

123-7.

The Distinctive Culture Test, Human Rights Dialogue, 2:12 (Spring 2005): 26-7.

When (if ever) are Referendums on Minority Rights Fair? in David Laycock ed., Representation

and Democratic Theory, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004 3-22.

*Diversity and Equality: Three Approaches to Cultural and Sexual Difference, Journal of

Political Philosophy, 11; 1 (2003) 41-64.

Context, Cultural Difference, Sex and Social Justice, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 35:3

(2002) 613-28.

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The Medium is the Message: How Referenda Lead Us to Understand Equality for Minorities, in

Matthew Mendelsohn and Andrew Parkin, eds., Referendum Democracy, London: Palgrave,

2001.

The Politics of Unethical Conduct in Politics, in Ethical Integrity and Political Leadership, co-

edited Colin Macleod, Avigail Eisenberg and Maureen A. Maloney, Victoria, BC: University

of Victoria, 2001, 33-50.

Le collectivisme des uns, l'individualisme des autres Argument, 2:2 (2000), 44-55.

Pluralism, Consociationalism, Group-Differentiated Citizenship and the Problem of Social

Cohesion, in Chang Shiyin ed., Collected Works on Sino-Western Political Culture , Tianjin

People's Press, Tianjin 2002, 235-62. Published in Mandarin.

Cultural Pluralism Today, in Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present,

Gary Browning, et al., eds., London: Sage, 2000, 385-401.

Using Difference to Resolve Rights-based Conflicts: A Reply to Joyce Green, Canadian Journal

of Political Science, XXXIV: 1 (2000).

Two Types of Pluralism in Canada, Canada: The State of the Federation, 1998/99, Kingston:

Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1999, 61-86.

The Public Interest and the Politics of Difference, International Review of Sociology, 8;3 (1998)

363-376.

Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada, co-authored (25% each) with Joan Anderson,

Sherrill Grace and Veronica Strong Boag, in Painting the Maple, Vancouver, UBC Press,

1998, 3-15.

Domination and Political Representation in Canada, in Painting the Maple, Vancouver: UBC

Press, 1998, 37-52.

L’Intérêt Public et Les Minorités Politiques au Canada, Revue Internationale de Politique

Comparée, 4 (1997), pp. 22-43.

Individual Development in Anglo-American Pluralism. Social Science Information sur les

sciences sociales, 35 (1996), 363-387.

*The Politics of Individual and Group Difference in Canadian Jurisprudence, Canadian Journal

of Political Science, 27 (1994), pp. 3-21.

Justice and Provincial Human Rights Acts, in Christopher Dunn, ed., Provinces: Canadian

Provincial Politics, Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996, 478-502.

COMMENTARIES AND BOOK REVIEWS

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Victor Muniz-Fraticelli’s The Structure of Pluralism: On the Authority of Associations. In

Political Theory (2016) 44:5.

Group Pluralism versus Group Accommodation: A commentary on Jean Cohen Netherlands

Journal of Legal Philosophy 44 (2015) 211-220.

Commentary: Identity Politics Conservative Style, Labour/Le Travail, Forum: History Under

Harper, 73 (Spring 2014): 231-3.

Nancy Hirschmann’s, Gender, Class and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. In Perspectives

on Politics 8 (2010) 317-8.

Courtney Jung, The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics. In Ethics and International Affairs 23:1

(Spring 2009) 65-7.

Matthew Festenstein, Negotiating Diversity, Political Studies 55:1 (2007).

Jeff Spinner-Halev, Surviving Diversity. In Canadian Journal of Political Science 37:2 (June

2004): 488-90.

Alexandra Dobrowolsky, The Politics of Pragmatism: Women, Representation and Canadian

Constitutionalism in Canada. In American Political Science Review, 95:4, 2001, 1015

Karen Slawner and Mark E. Denham eds., Citizenship after Liberalism. Journal of Multilingual

and Multicultural Development, 22:1, 2001 89-91

Michael Walzer, On Toleration, and Ian Shapiro, Democracy’s Place. Canadian Journal of

Political Science, 31, 1998, 203-205.

Easton on Regulating Speech, The Problem of Pornography by Susan M. Easton. Dialogue: The

Canadian Philosophical Review, 1996 208-12.

David Miller and Michael Walzer, eds., Pluralism, Justice and Equality. American Political

Science Review, 90, 1996, 635-636.

Nancy Hirschmann, Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory. In The

Philosophical Review, 103, 1994, 387-90.

Allen Buchanan, Secession Canadian Journal of Political Science, 25 1992, 389-90.

Allan Gilbert, Democratic Individuality. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 24, 1991 665-66.

Commentary on Round-table Discussion: Executive Federalism, Public Input and Public

Interest. P.M. Leslie and R.L. Watts, eds., Canada: The State of the Federation 1987-88,

Kingston, Ontario: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 1985, 215-256.

PUBLISHED REPORTS

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Professional Ethics in Political Science: Report of the Canadian Political Science Committee on

Professional Ethics, co-authored with J. McClure and C. Dick, Canadian Political Science

Association, November, 2009, 23 pp.

Multicultural policy responses to ethnic extremism and religious accommodation, Canadian

Diversity/Diversité Canadienne 5:2 (Spring) 64-6 2006, (1500 words)

Report on LEAF consultation on women’s equality and freedom of religion, LEAFlet, March,

400 words.

Democracy as Dialogue, SPARC BC: News from the Social Planning and Research Council of

BC, Special Issue on Democracy, Volume 20; Issue 3, 2004.

Presentation to the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs for the BCCLA, in

Proceedings of the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, BC,

November 2nd, 2001, 6 mss pp.

Recall and Initiative, The Democratic Commitment, 28, 1994, pp. 1-3.

Participation and Process, Newsletter of the Network on the Constitution, February, 1992, 16-17.

PRESENTATIONS

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND PLENARY SESSIONS

Group Pluralism versus Group Accommodation: Commentary on Jean Cohen’s Plenary Address.

Netherlands Legal Philosophy Association and the Association for Social and Political

Philosophy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 25th 2015

The Protection of Cultural Rights for Indigenous Peoples. Ainu Research Centre Annual

Lecture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan, December 3, 2013

Protecting Indigenous Rights as Cultural Rights: Some Lessons from Canada. Keynote to First

Annual Conference of the Constitutional Court of Peru (Invitation of the Constitutional Court

of Peru) Lima, Peru, August 20-22, 2012.

Dilemmas of Protecting Religious Freedom Today. Annual Marshall Lecture in Public

Philosophy. Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Department of

Philosophy, Halifax, Sept 27, 2012.

Identity Politics in the Public Realm. Keynote to UBC Graduate Student Annual Retreat, Bowen

Island, June 21, 2011.

Culture, Identity and Tradition. Plenary commentary on David Miller’s Plenary Address,

Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal, Quebec, June 1-3, 2010.

The Assessment of Indigenous Identity in Canadian and International Human Rights Law.

Keynote to the Nordic Association of Canadian Studies and the Nordic Political Science

Association meetings, Tromsø, Norway, August 7-9. 2008.

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Three Explanations for Multicultural Backlash. Keynote to Canadian Studies Associations

Student Forum, Empire Landmark Hotel, Vancouver BC, October 23, 2006.

INVITED COLLOQUIUA

The False Promise of Consent, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, October 3, 2018.

The Authority of Groups to Discriminate, CSPT, Toronto, January 26, 2018

The Dilemmas of Diversity in Canada Today, International Relations Colloquium, Hebrew

University, Jerusalem, May 18, 2016.

Pluralism, Accommodation and the Relational Authority of Groups. Centre de Recherche en

Ethique et Politique, University of Montreal, November 11, 2015.

Intercultural Law: The Canadian Case. Lecture series, Faculty of Jurisprudence, University of

Cagliari, April 16, 17, 22 and 23, 2013.

The Institutional Dynamics of Canadian Multiculturalism. Master class. Faculty of

Jurisprudence, University of Cagliari, Italy, July 10, 2013.

Voting Rights for Non-Citizens. Political Theory and Law, Kobe University, Kobe Japan, Nov

30, 2013.

The Dilemmas of Religious Freedom. International Symposium on the Governance of Religious

Diversity, University of Victoria, Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, Nov 22-24,

2012.

Voting Rights for Non-Citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold. St Mary’s and Dalhousie Depts of

Philosophy, Sept 28, 2012.

Identity Politics in the Public Realm: The Role of Institutions, Centre for Ethnicity and

Citizenship, University of Bristol, (Invitation of the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship),

October 27, 2011.

Culture in Legal and Political Reasoning: Il ‘test culturale’ della giurisprudenza candase nel

contesto delle politiche del riconoscimento, University of Cagliari, Aula magna Facolta’ di

Giurisprudenza, (Invitation of the Faculty of Jurisprudence, U of Cagliari), November 21,

2011.

Identity Politics and Indigenous Peoples, University of Michigan Law School, Nov 2, 2009.

The normative assessment of identity claims, Tel Aviv University, Dec 6, 2010 (Invitation of the

Dept of Political Science, Tel Aviv U). Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,

Israel, Dec 8, 2010 (Invitation of the Dept of Political Science, Hebrew U).

Implementing Indigenous Rights in Canada, Human Rights Law and the Implementation Gap

Central School of the Community Party of China, Beijing and Changsha, November 22-29,

2007. (Invitation from Rights and Democracy).

Is cultural identity putting democracy at risk? Sheldon Chumir lecture series in Ethics, University

of Western Ontario, March 16, 2007 (Invitation from the Sheldon Chumir Foundation).

Multiculturalism, social cohesion and participation in Canada, Ministry of Culture, National

Council for Culture and the Arts, Seminario Participación Ciudadanía y Cultura Santiago –

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Chile, October 2-3, 2006. Invitation from the Government of Chile and the Canadian

Embassy in Santiago

The Distinctive Culture Test and the Architecture of Cultural Accommodation,

Centre for Values and Ethics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Jan 14, 2005

Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Jan 26, 2005.

Centre de recherche en Ethiques á Université de Montréal, March 15th, 2005

Is Trust a Multicultural Concept? Centre for Research in Economic and Social Policy, UBC, Feb

15, 2002

The Proposed Referendum on Treaty Negotiations in BC, Dept of Political Science, Simon

Fraser University, Jan 28th, 2002.

Recognizing Aboriginal Identity in Canadian Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh, Feb 12,

1997.

Nationalism and Pluralism, presented at

Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh, May 16., 1997

Politics and Philosophy Group, University of York, York, England, May 20, 1997.

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, England, May 22, 1997.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Lying and State Authority: Cases of Immigration and Asylum, Workshop on LGBTQ Refugees,

University of Ottawa, November 29-30.

Relational Pluralism, Workshop on Authority, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University,

October 5, 2018.

Justice and Culture in Canada, Justice and Culture: Legal Techniques and arguments to solve

multicultural conflicts, Observatory on Human Rights, Cagliari, Italy May 11-12, 2018

Consent and Dissent in Settler-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Peoples’ Free, Prior and

Informed Consent, Université de Montréal, April 26-28, 2018

An (even) more expansive ideal of diversity for Canada, Dialogue with Quebec’s Minister of

Canadian Relations and the Canadian Francophonie, IIGR, Queen’s University, Kingston

Ontario November 20th, 2017

The State and Religious Diversity in Canada, Final Conference of the Religion and Diversity

Project, University of Ottawa, Oct 26-8, 2017.

Justice and Reconciliation: Commentary on Catherine Lu’s book, American Political Science

Association, San Francisco, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2017.

Pluralism and Public Discrimination, Western Political Science Association Meetings,

Vancouver, April 12-14, 2017.

The Malaise of Multiculturalism: Group Pluralism and Group Accommodation. Gesellschaft fur

Kanda-Studien (Invitation of the Canadian Embassy and the German Canadian Studies

Association), Grainu, Germany, Feb 12-14, 2016

Cultural Minorities and the Citizenship Handbook, Conference on Sites of Memory, Jackman

Centre, University of Toronto, Sept 16-17, 2016.

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Pluralism and Political Method, Workshop on Cross-border Conceptual Travel, SFU, BC, July 4-

5, 2016.

Religious Exemption and the Distinction between Pluralism and Accommodation, Annual Law

and Religion Roundtable, McGill University, Montreal, June 20-21, 2016.

Education Equality in Multicultural States, with Patti Lenard, Conference on Standards and

Diversity in Education, University of Ottawa, April 9, 2015.

Groups and the State: Pluralism and Accommodation, Canadian Political Science Association

Meetings, Ottawa, June 2-5, 2015

The Political Dynamics of Canadian Multiculturalism: An Internal Perspective. Multiculturalism

in the Commonwealth, UC Berkeley, Jan 31, 2014.

Identity, Choice, Accommodation: New Debates on Citizenship, Transnational Migration and

Changing Citizenship Regimes, University of Ottawa, March 21, 2014.

Choice, Identity and Religious Freedom, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle,

Germany May 26-8, 2014

Religious Freedom in Canada: From Choice to Identity, Responding to Complex Diversity: The

Canadian-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, Montreal, Sept 12-13.

Voting Rights for Non-Citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold, Canadian Political Science

Association, Victoria, BC June 4, 2013.

Religion as Ethnicity: Public Policy and Secularism in Canada, Accommodating new Religious

Diversities in Post-Secular Settings, Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Madrid,

Apr 11-12, 2013.

Religion as Identity, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington DC Aug 28-

31, 2013.

Gender and Identity Politics: A Rapprochement? Diversité culturelle, genre et démocratie,

Université de Paris, 1 Sorbonne, France, Nov 7-8, 2013.

Rights in the Age of Identity Politics, The Charter @ 30 years, Osgoode Law School, Toronto,

Sept 14, 2012.

Democratization, feminism and identity politics,Workshop on Reconciling Multiculturalism and

Feminism, University of Pompeu Fabra, December 2, 2012.

How do Courts Assess the Authenticity of Religious Practices? Workshop on Forces of Law:

Legal Subjects and the Power of Commandment, University of Toronto, May 23, 2011.

The Public Assessment of Religious Authenticity, American Philosophical Association Western

Division, San Diego, April 23, 2011.

Identity Skepticism and Group Skepticism, International Studies Association, Montreal, March

17, 2011.

In Defense of Cultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Governance Workshop, Montreal, April

18, 2011.

Democratic Engagement and Identity Politics: The Case of Indigenous Peoples. Western Political

Science Association, San Francisco, March 31-April 2.

Can the Norms of Effective participation and identity be reconciled? Canadian Political Science

Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, June 1-3, 2010.

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How Should Public Institutions Assess Religious Identity? American Political Science

Association Meetings, Washington DC, Sept 2-5, 2010.

Authenticity and Religious Identity. Workshop on Multiculturalism and Religious Identity:

Comparisons of Canada and India, University of Ottawa, Sept 23-25, 2010.

Religious Identity and Discrimination in the Public Sphere: The Prosecution of Polygamy in

Western Canada. Workshop on Migration and Religious Diversity, Zaragoza, Spain Oct 28-

29, 2010.

Religious Identity and Discrimination in the Public Realm. Workshop on Religion in the Public

Sphere, Université de Montréal, Nov 4-6, 2010

Authenticity and the Accommodation of Religious Practices. Workshop on Authenticity,

Autonomy and Culture, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, Brussels, Dec 2-3, 2010.

Religious Arbitration and the Religious Identity, Symposium on Religious Arbitration,

University of Ottawa Law School, January 15.

Authenticity and Religious Entitlements, Interrogating Religion Workshop, University of Ottawa,

April 17-19, 2009.

Reasonable Accommodation: A BC Perspective. Taylor-Bouchard Report on Reasonable

Accommodation: One Year Later, Université de Montréal, May 1-2, 2009 (Invitation from

the CREUM). Audio recording: http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/spip.php?article1053

The Assessment of Religious Identity: A Normative Approach, Workshop on Polygamy and

Pluralism, UVIC Law School, Oct 1-3, 2009.

American Pluralism, Identity Politics and Method at the Turn of the Century, Anglo-American

Debates in Pluralism, UC Berkeley, California, Oct 10, 2009.

Identity and democratic participation, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Meetings,

Victoria, BC, Oct 15-17, 2009.

Public decision-making and a normative guide to assessing identity claims, EDG workshop on

How Institutions Assess Identity, Radisson Hotel, Kingston, Ontario, Sept 18, 2008

Identity quietism and political exclusion, Workshop on Reasonable Accommodation, University

of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Sept 25-27, 2008

Pluralism and public-decision-making in Canada, Canadian Lessons for Global Pluralism,

Ottawa, May 13, 2008. (Invitation from the Aga Khan Foundation).

The public assessment of indigenous identity, IPG Midterm Conference, Université de Montréal,

Montreal, Quebec, October 10-11, 2008

Religious accommodation and the perils of authenticity, EDG workshop on Secularism, the

secular state, and religious diversity, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, October 31,

2008

Indigenous identity: the perils of essentialism and domestication, Plural states of recognition: a

conference in honour of Charles Taylor, Montreal, Quebec, Sept 20-3, 2007.

Sources of ambivalence towards Aboriginal group representation in Canada. Conference on

Representation and Democracy, UBC, Vancouver, May 18-20, 2006

How we implicitly assess identity all the time: the case of religious arbitration in Ontario, CPSA

meetings, York University, June 1-3, 2006.

Learning from Shari’a: skeptics, quietists and multiculturalism’s identity gap, EDG Munk Centre

Workshop, University of Toronto, Nov 2, 2006

Avigail Eisenberg Page 14 of 17

Pluralism and the Politics of Diversity,” Political Pluralism: The State of the Discipline,

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, March 10-12, 2005

Assessing Identity and Global Justice Democracy and Global Justice, St Louis University and

Washington University, St Louis, April 1-2, 2005.

Identity and Liberal Pluralism, Principles of Association in British Thought, University of

Chicago, Nicholson Centre for British Studies, April 9, 2005.

Accommodation v Self-Determination: Identity and Indigenous Peoples, Constitutionalism and

Cultural Pluralism: Lessons from Canada, School of Law and Centre for Canadian Studies,

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 28-29, 2004

Essentialism, Gender and Identity in the Courts, Sexual Justice/Culture Justice, UBC,

Vancouver, May 29-30, 2004

Identity Politics in the Liberal and Pluralist Democratic Traditions, Centre for Global Change and

Governance, Rutgers University, Newark NJ, Sept 10 2004.

Identity and Liberal Politics in Canada,” ‘Diversity and Equality: Minorities and the Protection

of Fundamental Freedoms,’ Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Faculty Symposium,

University of Victoria, Feb 20, 2003

Identity and Deliberative Democracy, Democratic Deliberation, Centre for Research in Ethics at

the Université de Montreal, April 11-13, 2003.

Cultural Accommodation and Self-Determination: When Is Arguing for Identity Worthwhile?

American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28, 2003.

Are Referendums on Minority Rights Ever Justified?” Canadian Political Science Association,

Toronto, Ont, May 30, 2002.

Identity and Liberal Politics: The Problem of Minorities within Minorities. Minorities with

Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity. University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Oct 4-5, 2002.

Referendums and Electoral Reform, UBC Political Science Students Association Conference on

Electoral Reform, Vancouver, UBC, Nov 2, 2002

Diversity and Equality: Three Approaches to Cultural Autonomy and Sexual Equality, Canadian

Political Science Association Meetings, Quebec City, June 25-28, 2001

Adjudicating Conflicts involving Cultural Autonomy and Sexual Equality, American Political

Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, Aug 28-Sept 2, 2001

Political Theory and the Problem of Social Cohesion, Equality/Security/Community Annual

Meetings, UBC, Nov 16-17, 2001.

Citizenship and Difference, delivered at conference on Constitutionalism, Citizenship and

Democracy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, Nov 24-26, 2000.

Using Referenda to Resolve Issues in which the Identity-related Interests of Groups Differ,

Referenda and Democracy, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Queen’s University,

Kingston, Ontario, May 14-15, 1999

Trust, Exploitation and Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights, University

of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Sept 16-19, 1999. Also delivered at Equality, Security, Community,

UBC, October 22, 1999

Sacrificing Universality on the Altar of the Nation, How Canadian Connect: State, Economy,

Citizenship and Society, Kingston, Ontario, February 20-21,1998

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Social Justice, Nationalism and Multicultural Politics, Canadian Political Science Association

Meeting, University of Ottawa, May 31-June 2, 1998

The History of ‘Community’ in American Political Science. Roundtable on the Concept of

Community, American Political Science Association Meetings, Boston, September 3-6, 1998.

Political Pluralism and Ethnic Prejudice, Socio-Pluralism, Colby College, Waterville, Maine,

September 7-10, 1995

Individualism and Collectivism in the Politics of Canada’s North, Canadian Political Science

Association, Montreal, June 5; The British Columbia Political Science Studies Association,

May 6; Conference on Circumpolar Studies, University of Northern British Columbia,

February 24-26, 1995

The Public Interest and Minority Politics in Canada, Socio-Pluralism at the Institut d’Etudes

Politiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, September 19-22, 1996

Individualism and Political Representation in Canada, Women and Representation, University of

Waterloo, October 3-4, 1997

The Roots of Pluralism: John Dewey on Democracy, Canadian Political Science Association

Meetings, Calgary, June 12-14, 1994

The Individual in the Liberal Pluralist Tradition, International Political Science Association

Meetings, Berlin, August 20-23, 1994

Voluntary Association and the Politics of Identity, American Political Science Association

Meetings, New York, September 1-4, 1994

Individual and Group Difference in Canadian Jurisprudence,’ Canadian Political Science

Association Meetings, June 5-7, 1993

The Community in Communitarianism and Post-war Pluralism, Canadian Political Science

Association Meetings, Kingston, Ontario, June 2-4, 1991

The Individual and Community in the Liberal Pluralist Tradition, Canadian Political Science

Association Meetings, Victoria, BC 1990

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ORGANIZED

Co-organized with Patti Lenard Pamela Klassen and Paul Bramadat, Norms of Religious

Minority Participation: Fields of Practice, November 27-Dec 1 2014.

Co-organized with Patti Lenard and Neus Tobisco, Litigation, Accommodation and Minority

Participation, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain, May 23-24, 2013.

Co-organized with Daniel Weinstock, Gender, Islam and the Court: The Case of NS v R., McGill

University Law School, February 15, 2013.

Co-organized with Margaret Moore, Territorial Rights and Ethnic Diversity, Research group on

Ethnicity and Democratic Governance, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, June 4-5,

2010

Co-organized with Will Kymlicka, How Public Institutions Assess Identity, Radisson Hotel,

Kingston, Ontario, September 15-17, 2008

Co-organized with Jeremy Webber, Self-determination versus Recognition, Laurel Point Inn,

Victoria, BC, Feb 29-March 2, 2008

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Co-organized with LEAF (West coast), National Consultation on Women and Freedom of

Religion, December 2-5, 2004

Organizer, Diversity and Equality: Minorities and the Protection of Fundamental Freedoms,

Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Faculty Symposium, University of Victoria, Feb

20, 2003.

Co-organized with Jeff Spinner-Halev, Minorities with Minorities: Equality, Rights and

Diversity, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Oct 4-5, 2002

Organizer and chair, Minorities within Minorities, panel at APSA meetings, Boston, August 29-

Sept 1, 2002.

Co-organized with UBC colleagues, Rethinking Citizenship in the Canadian Federation: A

Conference in Honour of Alan C. Cairns, Peter Wall Institute, UBC, October 11-13, 2001.

Co-organizer with Jeff Spinner-Halev, Cultural Diversity and Sexual Equality, panel at APSA

meetings, San Francisco, August 30-Sept 2, 2001.

Organizer, Aboriginal Politics and Challenges to the Nation-State, UBC, November 26, 1997.

Co-organized with Sherrill Grace, Veronica Strong-Boag and Joan Anderson, Race, Gender and

the Construction of Canada, UBC, October 20-23, 1995

Organizer, Plenary Session, Citizenship, Canadian Political Science Association Meetings,

Calgary, June 12-14, 1994.

Co-organizer, President’s Series on the Constitution, UBC and Robson Square, Vancouver

October 16-18, 1992.

Co-organizer, President’s Series on the Constitution, UBC, October 31-November 1, 1991.

PUBLIC ESSAYS, BLOG POSTINGS, OPINION PIECES

Multiculturalism and Sexism. Filozofuj 2016 http://filozofuj.eu/wp-

content/uploads/2016/02/fi007_v1.pdf

Multiculturalism and Canada’s Founding Peoples Canadian Issues/Themes Canadiens, Special

Issue on Who Founded Canada, Summer, 2016.

The Politics of Ethnic Fraud, Blog: In Due Course http://induecourse.ca/the-politics-of-ethnic-

fraud/ December 2016

Choice or Identity? Dilemmas of Protecting Religious Freedom in Canada, Recode Working

Paper Series No. 24 (Jan 2014), Augsburg Germany ISSN 2242-3559 1-15.

http://www.recode.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fin.pdf

Identity politics and public decision-making in Canada: What does success looks like? Canada’s

Experience with Pluralism Centre for Global Pluralism website. February 17, 2012.

Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and their Skeptics. FEDCAN Equity Issues Portfolio Series,

http://blog.fedcan.ca/2011/03/17/multiculturalism-interculturalism-and-their-skeptics/, 2011.

Reasoning about the identity of Aboriginal people” with Martin Blanchard, Document de

Travail/Working Papers 1:1 Spring 2006,

http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/IMG/pdf/ATELIERS_VOL1N1_07_103_111.pdf

The Distinctive Culture Test, Carnegie Foundation’s Human Rights Dialogue, Special Issue on

Cultural Rights, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 2005

http://www.cceia.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5149

Avigail Eisenberg Page 17 of 17

Dialogue on reconciliation with Taiaike Alfred, Lyana Patrick, Shauna McRanor and Brock

Pitawanakwat, transcribed for publication, 2002.

Ought there to be a Referendum on the BC Treaty Process? Co-authored with Cara McGregor.

Policy.ca: A Non-Partisan Resource of the Political Analysis of Canadian Policy Issues,

http://ww.policy.ca/ 2001

Diversity and equality: Three approaches to cultural and sexual difference. Constitutionalism

Web-Papers (ConWEB), http://www.les1.man.ac.uk/conweb/, 2001

Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Diversity. Canadian Policy Research Network,

http://www.cprn.com/family/files/crcd-3_e.htm, 2000

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professional Associations

Member: Canadian Political Science Association, American Political Science Association,

International Political Science Association;

Board of Directors: BC Civil Liberties Association (1992-2010), Legal Education and Action

Fund (West Coast), Government Liaison Committee (2003-11), Rhodes Scholarship

Selection Committee for BC (2005-9); Canadian Political Science Association (2000-3),

Research Committee on Pluralism, International Political Science Association (2000-7),

Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform (2003)

Editorial Boards and Editorial Advisory Boards: Review of Constitutional Studies, Canadian

Journal of Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory, Diversitas Book Series, Peter

Lang Publishers, Global Constitutionalism, Politics Groups and Identities, Palgrave Studies

in Citizenship Transitions.

Associate Editor, Contemporary Political Theory, 2001-08.

Associate Editor, European Political Science Review, 2015-2018.

Reviewer: Academic presses: Nelson Publishers, Broadview Press, Prentice Hall Canada,

Oxford University Press, UBC Press, University of Toronto Press, McGill-Queen’s

University Press, Harvard University Press, Pennsylvania University Press, Sage

Publications, Ethnicities (special issue), Pennsylvania State University Press,

Macmillan/Palgrave, Columbia University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge

Journal reviews: International Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Political

Science, American Journal of Canadian Studies, Northern Review, Political Research

Quarterly, Innovations, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Journal of Canadian

Studies, Eidos, Contemporary Political Theory, American Journal of Political Science,

Perspectives on Politics, Ethnicities, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Nations and

Nationalism, Political Studies, Canadian Foreign Policy Review, Quebec Studies, Canadian

Bar Review, Theory and Society, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Commonwealth and

Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Law and Religion,

Ethnopolitics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Law and Society,

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Israel Law Review, Ethics and Social Philosophy, Human Rights Review, Ethnicities, Global

Constitutionalism, Politics Groups and Identities, British Journal of Political Science,

European Political Science Review, Law and Ethics in Human Rights, American Political

Science Review, Res Republica, Journal of Politics, Social Theory and Practice, Theory and

Culture, Political Theory, American Journal of Political Science, Res Philosophica

Reviews for NGOs including Academic Award Agencies: Canadian Policy Research Network,

Aid to Scholarly Publishing, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, Legal Education and

Action Fund, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, SSHRC Insight Grants,

Canada Research Chair Program, Canada Council for the Arts, Molson Prize (Government of

Ontario), SSHRC Insight National Adjudication Political Science Committee (Ottawa-based

Adjudication)