Politics
Will Kymlicka
The Multicultural Society Is Here
Nationalism, a political order that appeals to many and has taken root in countries around the world, has played a central role in creating a shared sense of belonging required for both democracy and the welfare state to flourish.
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 13 Lessons ㆍ 1 hours 39 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English, 简体中文, Spanish, French
Multiculturalism: adapting to the inevitable transformation.
Ethnic conflicts, constantly generating strife around the world, pose a challenge for both international relations and domestic governance. Professor Kymlicka, who has been researching how this issue can be resolved for the last 40 years, defines the era we live in as an “era of multiculturalism,” with an explosion of diverse minority groups demanding their rights.
Professor Kymlicka’s diagnoses that what we’re seeing is a conflict between multiculturalism and the modern nation-state that we are used to. He says that over the past 200 years, the state has inculcated “a shared national identity … [and a] sense of belonging” to the populace, but now, multiculturalism is challenging the existing concept of a “nation.” Professor Kymlicka, who has been researching “experiments in multiculturalism” to find the solution to this problem, reveals his findings in this lecture series.
Is trusting in minorities “a good gamble to take,” as Professor Kymlicka says? The multicultural society, a force that cannot be refused or stopped, is now upon us. Learn about the world of multiculturalism as you’ve never known before through the six lectures prepared by Professor Will Kymlicka.
Full Bio
Will Kymlicka
- Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at Queen's University, Canada
- Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary
- President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (2004-2006)
- C.B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association (1996)
- Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association (1996)
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Canada and Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest.
A leading academic in the global political science scene, Kymlicka’s research focuses on issues of democracy and diversity, in particular looking at models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies. His books, which suggest how nationalist conflicts can be resolved, have been translated into 34 languages and have reverberated across the globe. He is also the co-director, along with political scientist Keith Banting, of the Multiculturalism Policy Index Project, which monitors the evolution of multiculturalism policies across the Western democracies and contributes to the understanding of state-minority relations. He was awarded the 2021 Pierre Chauveau Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for his accomplishments in the study of multiculturalism.
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