2023 FPA Emerging Perspectives Graduate Conference

Panel 1: Public Policy in Canada
RB2220
Discussant: Frances Woolley, Economics
Chair: Aleksander Bracken, EURUS

Presentations

1.       User Pay System Canadian Aviation – Emma Neale, School Public Policy and Administration
3.       Monetary Policy Transmission in Canada – Matt Soosalu, Department Economics

Panel 2: Impacts of Economic Inequality
RB2224
Discussant:  Dane Rowlands, NPSIA
Chair: Fabiha Bushra, Department of Economics

Presentations

1.      Integrating Urban Affordable Housing and Sustainability Policy – Kyla Wills, School of Social Work
2.      Commodity Boom Effect on Sexual Violence – Nataly Tofilis, Department of Economics
3.      Covid-19 and the Inequality in ICT Access: Evidence from Labour and Banking in Brazil  – Flavia Alves, School of Public Policy and Administration

Panel 3: Ethics of Technology
RB2220
Discussant: TBC
Chair: TBC

Presentations

1.       Evaluating Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technology – Gerry Kanter, School of Public Policy and Administration
2.       Abjection and Identity in an Online Drug User Forum – Maia Wenger, Department of Law and Legal Studies
3.       The Ethics of AI in Migration Governance – James LeGallais, Department of Political Science 

Panel 4: Agriculture and Food
RB2224

Discussant: TBC
Chair: Rachel McNally, Political Science

Presentations

1.       The Many Shades of Regenerative Agriculture – Danielle Matta, Institute of Political Economy
2.       Economic Impact of Agriculture Workers during the Pandemic – Michael Tate, Department of Economics

Scholars at Risk: Impacts of the Ukraine and Russian War

Moderator: Jeff Sahadeo, EURUS

Speakers:

• Ilya Kononov, T. Shevchenko (Luhansk National) University
• Olya Sotska, Graduate Student, EURUS

1.       Power and Influence in Decision Making in NFP Organizations – Shane Norris, School of Public Policy and Administration
2,      Follow the Money: A Study of Gift Acceptance Policy and Practice at Canadian Universities – Ellen Doty and Tanya Rumble, School of Public Policy and Administration
3.       Political Ties of Private Foundations and the Influence on Granting – Christopher Dougherty, School of Public Policy and Administration

Panel 6: Media and the Public Sphere
RB2224
Discussant: Chris Dornan, School of Journalism and  Communication
Chair: TBC

Presentations

1.       Government of Canada Social Media Monitoring | Function as a Measure of Public Environment – Carly Dybka, School of Journalism and Communication
2.       The Politics of Heckling: Comparative Analysis of Mediatization of Question Period (CAN and GB) – Sena Aydoner, Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs
3.       Studying Media Fandom as Part of the Public Sphere – Elena Kaliberda, School of Journalism and Communication
4.       Investigating how FB and Google Influence the Discourse Surrounding Public Policy – Blue Miaoran Dong, School of Journalism and Communication

Panel 7: Memory
RB2220
Discussant:  Mira Sucharov (PSCI)
Chair: Aishaan Joshi

Presentations

1.       Making Sense of Chaos: Comparative Study of Memory 90’s Russia and Kazakhstan – Nicholas Morrison, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
2.       The Potlatch is Memory – Casey Pender, Department of Economics
3.       Memories of the Gulag from the Perspective of the Periphery – Dmitry Prokoptsov, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Panel 8: Post Colonial Theory and Practice
RB2224
Discussant: Philip Kaisary, Law and Legal Studies
Chair: Fatima Touray

Presentations

1.       Diasporic Youth and Redefining Diasporic Identity – Eamama Daniyal, Migration and Diaspora Studies
2.       International Relations and Refugees: Towards Care-full Scholarly Engagement with Complex Participants – Salma El Refaei, Department of Political Science
3.       On Indigenous Inclusion: Reconciliation and Higher Education in Canada – Daniel Scholte, Department of Law and Legal Studies
4.       Prison and Resistance: From Subaltern Perspectives – Mohammed Jahirul Islam, Department of Law and Legal Studies

Speakers:
David Lafferty, FGPA
Karim Abuawad, FGPA

Panel 9: Gender and Sexuality
RB2220
Discussant: Lara Karaian (Criminology)
Chair: TBC

Presentations

1.       Examining Supervision Outcomes in Relation to Human Services Workers in Settings Addressing Violence against women – Margaret Janse van Rensburg, School of Social Work
2.       To Make a World Vampires, Visionary Fiction and Queer of Colour Utopias – Diksha Kale, Department of Law and Legal Studies
3.       The Rainbow After the Storm: Experience of LGBTQ Ukrainian Migrants Following Russian Invasion – Audrey Gauthier, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies 

Panel 10: Foreign Intervention & (Aid)
RB2224
Discussant: David Hornsby, NPSIA
Chair: Rachel McNally

Presentations

1.       An Examination of Political Factors Shaping Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment – Bingjun Tang, Department of International Affairs
2.       The Unintended Consequences of US Military Aid to Africa: An analysis of Democratic Decline in the Lake Chad Region – Olusegun Ofongo, Department of International Affairs

Cross Discipline Publishing Practices: Moving from a Consumer of Research to a Producer of Research

• Professor Zhiqi Chen, Economics
• Professor Randall Germain, Political Science
• Professor Evelyn Maeder, Criminology and Criminal Justice