Who’s Got the Power? Locating Power in Times of Social Change

The Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University will be hosting its 18^th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Who’s Got the Power? Locating Power in Times of Social Change” on Monday, February 27^th, 2017 in Room 2017 Dunton Tower. We invite you to attend!
Download conference program here.

Please find the schedule below:

9:00 am – Breakfast

9:15 am – IPE Director’s Remarks from Professor Cristina Rojas

9:30 am – Panel 1: Concentrations of Power

• Heyin Hailey Ren, Communication Studies – Challenge or Solution: Privacy Concerns on Cloud Concentration
• Garrett Halas, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Israel as a Hegemon of Global Pacification
• So Youn (Annie) Kim, Master’s Student, NPSIA – TTIP: Subversion of Public Interest by Private Corporate Interest
• Emily Quaile, Master’s Student, Political Economy – The Politics of Apolitical: The Neoliberal Bank of Canada
• Michael Ofosu-Anim, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Neoliberalism in Ghana; a Miracle or a Mirage
• (Discussant: Sara Rose Taylor, PhD Student, Balsillie School of International Affairs)

11:20 am – Coffee Break

11:35 am – Panel 2: Transitions & Power in Labour

• Tyler Paziuk, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Leveraging Difference: Noncitizen Workers, Trade Union Revitalization, and Revolution in South(ern) Africa.
• Chris Fairweather, Master’s Student, Political Economy – “Left” Nationalism, International, and the Global Working Class
• Sabrina Wilkinson, M.A. Communication Studies – Canada’s Contemporary Press System: Journalistic Employment in the Digital Age
• (Discussant: Maggie FitzGerald Murphy, PhD Student, Carleton University)

12:45 pm – Keynote Address

1:15 pm – Lunch

1:45 pm – Panel 3: Inequalities in an Urban Setting

• Jennifer Lawrence, Master’s Student, Political Economy – The Three-Tiered Crunch: Examining the Impacts of Intergovernmental Downloading on Municipalities within Canada’s Federalist Context
• Çağlar Dölek, Visiting Scholar, Law and Legal Studies – “Urban Renewal” as Police Project: On the Contested Dynamics of the War on the Poor in Turkey
• Taras Matkovsky, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Cast Them Away: How Sporting Mega-Events Affect Urban and Suburban Living
• (Discussant: Sarah Phinney, M.A. Political Economy, Carleton University)

3:15 pm – Coffee Break

3:30 pm – Panel 4: Power, Ideology & Resistance

• Hembadoon Iyortyer Oguanobi, Master’s Student, University of Ottawa – Encountering Powerlessness as Performance
• Carter Vance, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Win the Battle, Lose the War: Gramsci, Hegemony and the Greek Crisis
• Xiao (Alvin) Yang, PhD Candidate, Kassel University – Hidden Power and Ideologies: A Critique on the Theoretical Discourse of Regional Integration
• Jack Smye, Master’s Student, Political Economy – Lessons from the Modern Prince of Iran
• (Discussant: Brigitte Belanger, PhD Student, Carleton University)

5:00 pm – Closing Remarks

6:00 pm – Off-site social event

No registration is required for this free event. If you have any questions, get in touch with the organizing committee by emailing ipecarleton@gmail.com.