The Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University will be hosting its 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Who’s Got the Power? Locating Power in Times of Social Change” on Monday, February 27th, 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.