Webinars: Policy Challenges During a Pandemic

WEBINAR: Monitoring Health Systems Responses

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:05:22 +0000

This webcast with Amélie Quesnel-Vallée is open to the public. Priority during the Q&A section of this webcast will be given to Max Bell School MPP students.

WEBINAR: How Can Globalization Be Governed?

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:38:14 +0000

Covid-19 starkly illustrates the fragility that accompanies globalization. Climate change looms even larger, but on a timescale that has not generated the necessary sense of urgency. New concepts of governance are required. What might they be?

WEBINAR: Policy Transparency Challenges (and Implications) of Government Responses to COVID-19

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:40:59 +0000

Governments around the world are taking historic measures to flatten epidemiological and recession curves in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

WEBINAR: Partisan Politics During a Pandemic: From Consensus to Conflict

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:09:01 +0000

How is the COVID19 crisis affecting political partisanship? Why is it accentuated in some countries, but put aside in others? What lessons could we draw for the post-COVID-19 world?

WEBINAR: Health Disparities Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:05:47 +0000

Watch the livestream of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TItzg2BYcms

WEBINAR: Food security in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

nicholas.salter@mcgill.ca — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 03:26:05 +0000

Aurélie Harou looks at the short-term and expected long-term effects of COVID-19 on the demand and supply of food at home and internationally.

POSTPONED: WEBINAR: The Challenge of Journalism in Abnormal Times

yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:47:38 +0000

In this webinar, Professor Andrew Potter will look at the challenge of journalism in abnormal times. Register here.

WEBINAR: Looking Through the Retro-Scope

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:53:38 +0000

This webinar will look at why policy makers missed so many opportunities to prepare for the pandemic, and why governments frequently fail to learn from history.

WEBINAR: “I Am in Control”: Lessons in Crisis Management from Past Crises

yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:08:39 +0000

When President Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, Al Haig, then Secretary of State famously said: “ As of now, I am in control at the White House”.

WEBINAR: Harm Reduction in Pandemic Times

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:22:42 +0000

As the length of the lockdown imposed by governments extends from weeks to months, policymakers must consider integrating harm reduction thinking to the way in which they define the terms and the enforcement of restrictions.

WEBINAR: Crisis Communications during COVID-19: The Good, the Ugly and the Ugly

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:21:07 +0000

Everything about the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented, including policy responses and the way they are communicated. With no playbook to rely on, governments around the world are improvising on the go, with mixed responses.

WEBINAR: Pathogens, Pandemics and Public Liberty

yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:21:07 +0000

Civil liberties were not designed for peace and social stability: they were designed to create safeguards against state incursions especially during turbulent times.

WEBINAR: The World Oil Market, COVID-19, and International Politics

yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:50:28 +0000

World oil prices have collapsed, a combined effect of COVID and an ill-timed price war -- with powerful implications for economies, climate policy, and foreign relations.

WEBCAST: Why can’t they just send us all a cheque? Debating a crisis basic income

katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:30:11 +0000

In this webcast moderated by Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan, watch Jennifer Robson, Associate Professor at Carleton University, and Ken Boessenkool, public-policy economist, discuss the complexity of delivering government benefits during a c

WEBINAR: The Journalist’s Job During a Global Pandemic

yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:35:23 +0000

The current pandemic, the biggest story since 9/11 but more intense in scope, has changed everything about the news business. It isn’t only humans who are being ravaged by the current health emergency.