Conference Papers (since 1981)

Zurich, Jan. 81 - paper on "Conflict Management: The Experimental Evidence".

Queen's, Feb. 81 - paper on "A Model to Predict Ethnolinguistic Separatism".

Geneva, June 81 - paper on "Linguistic Minority Rights in the Light of Neurophysiological and Geographical evidence".

Montreal, April 82 - paper on "The B.C. Experience With the Banning of Pre-election Polls".

Quebec City, April 82 - paper on "Socialization Studies - An Evaluation".

Ottawa, June 82 - paper on "Language Rights, Transferable or Grounded?".

Rio de Janeiro, August 82 - paper on "A Typology of Ethnolinguistic Conflicts".

Mexico City, August 82 - paper on "Linguistic Minority Rights".

Denver, September 82 - panel on "Biology and Politics".

Geneva, November 82 - paper on "Political Science and Geography".

Seattle, March 83 - panel on "Political Geography and Geopolitics".

Vancouver, June 83 - paper on "Nation Building as Body Building".

Chicago, August 83 - paper on "The French Language in Canada".

Urbana, September 83 - paper on "Language and Communications".

Harare, February 84 - paper on "Language and Regionalism".

Salzburg, May 84 - paper on "Left, Right, and Center".

Quebec City, May 84 - paper on "Political Science in the US and English Canada".

Morigny, June 84 - paper on "Protecting Minority Languages in Canada".

Tutzing, June 84 - paper on "The Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Language Conflicts".

Bruxelles, August 84 - paper on "Territoriality and Language Conflict".

Glasgow, August 84 - paper on "The Multilingual Mind and Multilingual Societies".

Ottawa, August 84 - paper on "Language Statistics in Canada".

Washington, September 84 - paper on "Multilingual Minds and Multilingual Societies".

Montreal, March 84 - paper on "The Evolution of Political Science in Canada in the Last 30 Years".

Bordeaux, May 85 - paper on "Ethnicity and Territory in Canada".

Montreal, June 85 - paper on "Heroes and Villains - Politics Between the Positive and the Negative".

Paris, July 85 - paper on "les frontiŠres linguistiques intra-‚tatiques".

New Orleans, August 85 - paper on "A Sociophenomenological Essay on the Notions of Center and Centrality".

Quebec City, September 85 - paper on "De la pyramide ‚branl‚e … l'‚teignoir: la grande peur des masses".

Helsinki, October 85 - paper on "The Evolution of Political Science in Canada in the Last 30 Years".

Winnipeg, June 86 - paper on "The Usefulness of Biological Models For the Study of Language Conflicts".

Oxford, July 86 - paper on "Assessing the Neighbour's Effect on the Vote of Francophone Minorities in Canada".

New Delhi, August 86 - paper on "Measuring the Power of Languages in Conflict".

Ottawa, October 86 - paper on "The Spatial Structure of Ideologies".

New York, November 86 - paper on "Heroes of the Left and Heroes of the Right".

Montreal, June 87 - paper on "Canadian Demography and the Language Problem".

Warsaw, June 87 - paper on "The Language Problem in Canada".

Warsaw, June 87 - paper on "From Spatial Perceptions to Political Beliefs".

San Diego, June 87 - paper on "Language Planning and Game Theory".

San Francisco, July 87 - paper on "The Jewish Vote in Canada".

South Bend, November 87 - paper on "The Birth Rate and Language Conflicts in Canada".

Paris, December 87 - paper on "The Spatial Archetypes of Political Perceptions".

Montreal, March 88 - paper on "Les effets pervers de la l‚gislation linguistique".

Chicago, April 88 (U.C.) - "Language Conflict in an Era of Dense Communication Networks".

Chicago, April 88 (MWPS) - "Democracy and Verticality".

Grenoble, April 88 - paper on "Le conflit des langues au Canada".

Windsor, June 88 - CPSA, paper on "The Jewish Electorate".

Windsor, June 88 - Royal Society, paper on "Language Conflict - A Global View".

Washington, September 88 - IPSA Congress - "Using Regional Variations to Study the Jewish Vote in Canada".

Milan, November 88 - "Biology and Democracy".

Winnipeg, April 89 - paper on "The Territorial Solution to Language Conflicts".

Paris, April 89 (ECPR) - paper on "Heroes of the Left and Heroes of the Right".

Seattle, May 89 - paper on "Cooperation and Conflict Among Languages".

Laval, June 89 - CPSA - "History as Blood on the Ground".

Rome, June 89 - "Is The City Center Vital or Dead? Comparing Archetypes".

Paris, August 89 - panel on "Library Searches and the New Technologies From Card to Microfiche, to CDrom, to on line retrieval".

Atlanta, September 89 - paper on "Types of Multiple Ethnic Identities".

Edmonton, April 90 - paper on "The Future of the French Language Outside Quebec"

Kingston, May 90 - paper on "Reducing the Tensions Resulting For Language Contacts"

Quebec City, May 90 - paper on "Recherches sur la Francophonie en Colombie Britanique"

Victoria, June 90 - paper on "The Heroes Trade"

Warsaw, June 90 - paper on "Comparing the Heroes of English Canadian, French Candian, American, French, Belgian, and Polish students"

Limerick, July 90 - paper on "Solutions to Linguistic Conflicts: The Case for Ethnic Federalism"

Madrid, July 90 - paper on "Reflections on Some Dysfunctional Effects of Language Planning"

Toronto, October 90 - paper on "Survey Research and the Death of Man: The Forgotten Mates"

Ottawa, December,1990- paper on "Parsons, Horowitz, Christaller, and capital cities"

Kingston, April 1991 " What Constitutional Models for Canada?"

Kingston, May 1991 " Comparing the Heroes of English Canadian, French Canadian, French, and American Students"

Milan, May 1991 " The Incumbency Effect: the Canadian case"

Grenoble, June 1991 " L'ethnie du simple au compos‚"

Kingston, September 1991 " 'Multiculturalism', Ethnicity, and Elections in Canada: an Assessment of Primary and Secondary Sources for the Period 1970-1991".

Ottawa, October 1991 " Economics and Culture in Canada and Switzerland. Contrasting two different strategies"

Chicago, November 1991 "Democracy and the Incumbency effect"

Amsterdam, December 1991 " The global competition among Languages."

Ottawa, February 1992 "Langue et f‚d‚ralisme ethnique"

Aosta, May 1992 " The geography of economics and culture and the protection of minorities"

Budapest, June 1992 "Divided minorities"

Chicago, September,1992 "The incumbency problem"

Winnipeg, November,1992 "Deux types de fédéralisme ethnique"

Ottawa, Janvier, 1993 "Pourquoi les langues se chassent les unes les autres"

Paris, May 1993 " Culture, boundaries and the telecommunication revolution"

Ottawa, June 1993 " Les dix commandements entre la gauche et la droite"

Boulder, July 1993 "Talcott Parsons was right"

Winnipeg, October 1993 "La production culturelle en milieu minoritaire: ph‚nomŠnes de contagion et phénomènes d'irradiation"

Vancouver, October 1993 "Why such a weak link between Geography and Political Science?"

Ottawa, December, 1993 "Ethnicité, région, et gouverne: deux modèles d'analyse"

Calgary, June 1994 "The Communist Vote in English Canada"

Calgary, June 1994 with F.P Gingras "Setting the record straight: the election of 1993".

Vancouver, November 94 " Quebec and the Constitution"

Honolulu, November 94 "The Institutional Options of Multi-ethnic societies"

Vienna, January 1995 "Individual and Group Rights: the Canadian Case in Comparative Perspective"

Vancouver, March 1995 "Ethnic and Institutional Constraints on the referendum players"

Vancouver, March 1995 "Ethnicity and Language"

Ottawa, June 1995 "Minority Languages in Canada: their fate and survival strategies"

Budapest, September 1995 "The Language System and the Language Policies of Canada: Functionalities and Dysfunctionalities"

Paris, January 1996 "Le profil de l'électeur: trop de gauche, trop de face, trop de haut? comparaison de questionnaires électoraux canadien, français, et américain"

Paris, October 1996 "Le centre: icône ou carrefour?"

Ottawa, November 1996 "Comment conjuguer le Québec et le Canada"

Trois Rivières, May 1997. "Individu, modernité et démocratie"

Trois RiviŠres. May 1997. with Fran‡ois-Pierre Gingras "Qui suis-je? étude des rappports entre identités multiples"

Ottawa, October 1997. "Left and Right as ideological Organizers"

Montreal November 1997 panel on "Research on Immigration and
Citizenship"

Quebec City February 1998 "Quatre variations sur je, nous, ils"

Ottawa, October 1998 "Du gouvernment à la gouvernance"

Boston, September 1998 " How not to govern a multinational society"

Vancouver, November 1998 " Switzerland: a model for Canada?"

Vancouver, September 1999 "Moving people or moving borders?"

Milan, October 1999 " 50 years of IPSA: from transcending
borders to transcending chapels?"

Los Angeles, March 2000 ISA "Sovereignty and referendum"

Ottawa, May 2000 " Canada Hundred Years from Now: a
federation of nations?"

Quebec City, July 2000. CPSA " In Defense of Territorial
Revisionism: Referendum and Boundaries"

Quebec City, August 2000 IPSA " Simulation of a separation
within separation referendum in Quebec"

Quebec City, August 2000 IPSA "Returning to Babel"

Vancouver, September 2001 IES "Politics and the Law of
Babel"

Vancouver, October 2001, " Canada's Two
Federal Systems"

Kingston, Military College November 2001, "Transfering
Sovereignty and Changing International Borders. Vox
Populi or Vox Dei? The Ethical Choice"

Kingston, Queen's, November 2001 "On the Ranking of Multiple
Collective identities"

Grenoble, November 2001 " La protection des langues
minoritaires à l'heure de la mondialisation

Ottawa, March 2002 " la gouvernance du français au Canada en
trois ou quatre lois"

Paris, May 2002 "Getting to the Ethnic Within the Self:
Measuring the Minority Effect"

Toronto, June 2002 " Redrawing Canada's Provincial
Boundaries: the utopian and the academic in comparative
perspective"

Lille, September 2002 "La protection d'une langue minoritaire en cinq ou six lois"

Vancouver, December 2002 "Testing the Arieti effect"

Aix en Provence Sept 2003 "Norms and the Transfer of Territories"

Winnipeg June 2004 "Minority Languages and Globalisation

Ottawa, September 2004 "Beyond the case study. Etnicity and the missing Ts of typology and theory"

'Paris, March, 2005 "Language, Freedom, and Boundary: The Canadian Diversity Dilemma"

Ottawa, April 2005 "Protecting a Minority Language: Principles and Exceptions"

Montreal March 2006 "Billes ou aquarelles: Les langues et la Declaration de l'UNESCO de 2005 sur la diversiteculturelle"

Vancouver December2008 "190 odd sovereignty referendums 1791-2008"

Ottawa June 2009 "Francophonie nord américaine et mondialisation"

Ottawa June 2009 "The Soveregnty referendum: a typology"

Toronto September 2009 "The Quebec and Scotland referendums in comparative perspective"

Montreal October 2009 "Walls or Frontiers:Ui Possidetis and its alternatives"

Quebec May 2010 "Comparaison internationale du referendum quebecois de 1980 aux autres referebdums de souverainete".