March 6 – 7, 2024
Level 2, Richcraft Hall
Governance and Public Policy
Informed Citizenship
Stronger Societies
Faculty of Public Affairs graduate students explore all of these ideas in their research and we invite you to learn about these ideas and more.
Join us for one session or the entire conference and participate in a day and a half of research discussions, panel presentations, and professional development workshops.
Program - March 6 and 7
Emerging Perspectives 2024.
Day 1: Wednesday March 6th — 9:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
| 8:30 – 9:10 | Registration | Light Continental Breakfast
Room 2228 |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome | Associate Dean and Event Chair Jonathan Malloy Atrium |
| 9:15 – 10:45 | Simultaneous Graduate Panel Presentations and Q&A
Panel 1: State Power | Room 2220 Discussant: Alex McClelland, Criminology Presentations 1. Unmasking Responsibility: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ottawa Public Health Tweets During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Kyle Cayouette, Department of Law and Legal Studies 2. “Shooting the Distressed”: Exploring Gun Violence within Wellness Checks | Monisha Logan, Department of Law and Legal Studies 3. Mobilizing feminist disability studies to critically examine Canadian income supports | Kendal David, School of Social Work 4. Personal needs are political: Institutional allowances for disabled Canadians | Kendal David and Megan Linton, School of Social Work and Deparment of Sociology and Anthropology Panel 2: Security and Defence | Room 2224 Discussant: Stephanie Carvin, NPSIA Presentations 1. Operationalizing Gender-Intelligence: A New Analytical Discipline for Violent Extremist Tactics | Ori Navoiy, NPSIA 2. Canada’s Voice in the New Space Race | Ola Mirzoeva, NPSIA 3. Starved for choice? A study of Five Eyes military interoperability and its implications for Canadian defence procurement in the digital age | William Richardson, Department of Political Science 4. The Discriminatory regime: Nuclear non proliferation regime’s internal terminators | Alireza Mamdouhi, NPSIA |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Simultaneous Graduate Panel Presentations and Q&A
Panel 3: Monetary Policy | Room 2220 Discussant: TBA Presentations 1. Monetary Policy Surprises in Canada and the Role of Central Bank Communication | Matt Soosalu, Deparment of Economics 2. A Reassessment of US Monetary Policy Spillovers to Emerging and Advanced Economies | Pratap Basnet, Department of Economics Panel 4: Women’s Empowerment in the Global South | Room 2224 Discussant: Lisa Mills, SPPA Presentations 1. Gender Dynamics and Women’s Decision-Making Strategies in Transnational Migrant Households: The Case of Guatemala | Esther Jimenez Atochero, Migration and Diaspora Studies 2. Weaving through crisis: Understanding women empowerment in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh | Fabiha Bushara, Department of Economics |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch
Welcome and Remarks | Dean Faculty Public Affairs, Brenda O’Neill |
| 1:00 – 2:30 |
Panel 5: Ideas | Room 2220 Discussant: Maggie Fitzgerald, Political Economy (Visiting Scholar) Presentations 1. Constrasting Conception of Nature Expressed by the Aesthetics of Nazi and Surrealist Art Ali Yasin, Department of Political Science 2, Land-Class Struggles: A Reconceptualization of Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Colonial Solidarities Fiona Doyle, Institute of Political Economy Panel 6: Canadian Politics | Room 2224 Discussant: Jonathan Malloy, Political Science Presentations 1. Policy Process Theories Related to Agenda Setting for Parliamentarians | Josh Dadjo, SPPA 2. How Participatory Democracy Can Reduce Western Alienation in Canada | Bronwyn Heerspink, SPPA 3. Canada’s Official Languages Act: The Experience of Indigenous Federal Workers | Vanessa Hodge, Department of Political Science 4. Northern Ontario: A History of Industrialization, Labour and Social Reproduction | Derek Patterson, SPPA |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:45 | Presentations
Northern Canada Roundtable Discussion Room 2220 Supporting Community-determined Harvest Economies and Cultural Resurgence | Kahlea Wells, Dr Carola Ramos Cortez, Emmelie Paquette and Moderator Dr Stephan Schott SPPA Panel 7: Canadian State Attitudes Room 2224 Presentations Discussant: Mira Sucharov, Political Science 1. An Alliance of Settler Colonial States: Canada’s Diplomatic and Political Support for Illegal Israeli Settlements | Lama Alsafi, NPSIA 2. Is Polygamy Terrorism? An Analysis of Terrorism Discourses in Canada’s Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act | Ellen Yarr, Department of Law and Legal Studies |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Getting Published (all disciplines)
Dr Erin Tolley, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race & Inclusive Politics, Department of Political Science, Co-Editor, Canadian Journal of Political Science Jonathan Malloy, Department of Political Science |
| End of Day 1 |
Day 2: Thursday, March 7th — 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
| 8:15– 8:45 | Registration | Light Continental Service
Room 2228 |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Simultaneous Graduate Panel Presentations and Q&A
Panel 8: Regulations and Markets | Room 2220 Discussant: Dane Rowlands, NPSIA Presentations 1. Working from Home Under Technological Constraints: A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market in Brazil and Canada during Covid-19 | Flavia Alves, SPPA 2. Policy Scenario Development; A Case in Canadian Aviation | Emma Neale, SPAA 3. Assessing a potential for regulatory capture in the Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation development | Kasia Polańska, SPPA Panel 9: Sustainable Development | Room 2224 Discussant: Graeme Auld, SPPA Presentations 1. Transitioning to Clean Energy: Balancing Economic, Environmental, and Social Factors of Sustainability | Meghan Hembruff, NPSIA 2. Bringing the SDGs Home: Global Sustainable Development Governance and Community Foundation Leigha McCarroll, SPPA |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Professional Development Workshop | Room 2224
Non-Academic Career Paths Speaker: Dr. Rajeev Venugopal, PhD (Political Science, Carleton University) General Manager- International Affairs and Global Business, Canada Post Corporation |
| 12:00 – 1:00PM | Networking Lunch | Room 2228 and Atrium
Conference Close |
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