"The 2012 French Presidential Elections: France at the Crossroads"
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 29, 2012 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
As France prepares to elect its next president in late April/early May 2012, the French find themselves interrogating fundamental aspects of their political institutions, society, and place in the world: a series of political scandals have incited accusations of abuse of executive authority; rising unemployment amidst the global recession have inspired criticisms of France’s social model and economic future; and the current European Union sovereign debt crisis has challenged French international leadership. This roundtable brings together three specialists of France to discuss the stakes in what many are calling the most important French election cycle in a generation.
Timothy Smith is Professor of History at Queen’s University and author of _France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980_ (2004); Jack Veugelers is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and a leading specialist of immigration and the far right in contemporary France; Paul Cohen is Director of the Centre for the Study of Francea and the Francophone World at the University of Toronto.
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