14th Annual Grad Conference – Political Economy: Works in Progress

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m

Room 2203 Dunton Tower

 

9:00      Welcome and morning snacks

9:15      Richard Girard, (MA, Political Economy, 2003), Research and Communications Coordinator, Polaris Institute

 

9:35      Panel 1:  Place, Space and Resistance

            Defending Shawville:  small places, big questions, Lyndal Neelin

            Building an Engaged University:  The River Building as a Physical Reflection of Carleton

            University’s Civic Responsibility, Christina Muehlberger

            Saving Space for Place:  Municipal Cultural Planning as a tool for resisting the making of placeless space in cities, Ben Dick

 

10:45    Morning Break

11:00    Panel 2:  Development, Postcolonialism, Postdevelopment
            Alternatives to Development:  With or Against Modernity?, Michael Bueckert

            CIDA and Mining-NGO Partnerships:  Common-Sense Development?, Erin Callary

            Becoming the Postcolonial State, Ajay Parasram

 

12:05    Lunch will be served

 

1:10      Daniel Tubb (MA, Political Economy, 2009), PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Carleton University

1:30      Panel 3:  Capital, Carbon and Cables

              Exporting the Internet:  US Communications Hegemony and Global Governance, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

             Towards a political economy of the insurance industry:  between Veblenian institutionalism and theory of regulation?, Mathieu Charbonneau

             Understanding Canada’s Push for Carbon Capture and Storage:  Environmental Stewardship or Business as Usual?, Darrin Cohen

2:35     Afternoon break

 

2:50     Panel 4:  Communities, States, Globalization
             Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State in a Global Era, J.Z. Garrod

             The evolution of third-party actors in Canada’s agricultural migrant labour regime, Chris Miller
             Insecure Ontario:  Exploring the Role of the State in Community Food Security, Steve Piazza

4:00    Closing remarks

Sponsored by the Institute of Political Economy, Faculties of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and Public Affairs

 

Everyone Welcome