Canada and the World: Will Anyone be Listening?

When:	Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time:	10:00 am — 11:15 am
Location:	Richcraft Hall, Second floor conference rooms
Audience:	Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty
Cost:	Free

This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada, 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.

What will Canada’s international relations look like 25 years from now, and will the world care about how Canada undertakes its international relations? One speaker will offer remarks from the vantage point of Canada’s engagement with one of three other parts of the world (Africa, Russia, and America), while the other speaker of the pair will offer reflections on whether Canada will be relevant to Africa, Russia and America. This unique format is thus organized to foster a true feeling of dialogue between the participants.

Presenters:

• Chris Brown is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Program Director of the Bachelor of Global and International Studies at Carleton University. He specializes in the politics of Africa, and has worked in Botswana and Ghana as a local government policy advisor and development planner.
• Elizabeth Cobbett is a lecturer of international relations and international political economy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communications Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Cobbett completed her doctoral dissertation, ‘South Africa in the New World Order: Power, Finance and Society,’ in 2012 at Carleton University, and has continued to research in the area of the political economy of global finance within the African context since then.
• Piotr Dutkiewicz is currently co-director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also a former Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton. Dutkiewicz has published on the politics of Eastern Europe and Eastern European society, state and administration in Eastern Europe, and social change in Russia. He was also the Director of four large scale projects in Russia, funded by Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Canadian International Development Agency).
• Randall Germain is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is known for his scholarship in the field of international political economy, international relations, global governance, and finance. He has published extensively on issues related to these fields, including as co-editor of the Routledge/RIPE series in Global Political Economy (2000-2007).
• Fen Hampson is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. In 2014, The Hill Times recognized Hampson as one of the top 100 most influential Canadians in Canadian foreign policy, reflecting his expertise in the areas of Canadian foreign policy, global governance, international organization, international negotiation, and conflict resolution and analysis. He has authored and co-authored 10 books and edited and co-edited 26 volumes on various subjects relating to these broader research topics.
• Melissa Haussman is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. She teaches and researches in the fields of American politics and comparative North American politics. Her research questions have been linked together by the common theme of women’s access (or lack thereof) to political power in North America.
• Ray Silvius, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg, is interested in how rising non-Western political economies influence the global political economy. Using a heterodox and historical lens to explore international political economy and international relations, Silvius’ work has focused specifically on the interstices of Russian state projects and post-Western notions of the global political economy.