A Feminist Foreign Policy for Canada by 2042?

When:	Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time:	2:15 pm — 3:30 pm
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.

In 2014, Sweden announced that it was to be the first country to adopt an explicitly feminist foreign policy. The response to this was mixed; it was met with confusion, derision, sneers and, for a few, hopeful optimism. In the light of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s outspoken and widely-publicized commitment to feminism — both personally and in the gender composition of his cabinet — this roundtable asks: what are the possibilities for a feminist foreign policy for Canada?

Panelists:

• Richard Baker completed his PhD in Political Science at Carleton University, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University, and has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on the critical geopolitics of Canada-United States relations, and his current book project explores the role that Canada plays in the US geopolitical imagination.
• Doris Buss is Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She teaches and researches in the areas of international law, women’s rights, global social movements, and feminist theory. She is particularly concerned with how gender equality and women’s rights are framed and contested in different international legal, regulatory, and policy sites.
• Laura Macdonald is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and former Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. Her areas of research cover a range of issues related to global civil society, citizenship struggles, Canada-Latin American relations, and immigration and border control policies.
• Fiona Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, is a leading care ethicist and international relations scholar. She is the author of two books on care ethics (one of which was the winner of the inaugural J. Ann Tickner Book Prize in 2014 and shortlisted for the International Relations Book Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, in 2013), the co-editor of a collection on care and political economy, and the author of several articles on the ethics of care and global issues.
• Sandra Whitworth is Professor of Political Science and is also appointed to the graduate program in Gender, Feminism, and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Whitworth is renowned for her scholarship on feminism, international relations, and politics. In 2012, the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association named her the ‘Eminent Feminist Scholar’ and in 2016, she was named Distinguished Scholar by the International Studies Association-Canada