Institute of Political Economy Annual Graduate Student Conference: Confronting “The Spectre of Displacement.”

• In-person event
• 482 , MacOdrum Library , Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• IPEgradconf@gmail.com

The Institute of Political Economy will be hosting an in person event for this year’s annual graduate student conference. This event is open to the public, but registration is required [complete form below].

The title of this year’s conference is “Confronting “The Spectre of Displacement.” The title reflects the ubiquity of displacement in everyday life. Although displacement is most often understood as peoples displaced from their lands, displacements are also occurring in urban communities and virtual worlds; through changes in labour relations and capital flight; and along political polarities, to name a few examples.

Keynote Speaker: Visiting Professor, Dr. Maggie Fitzgerald (University of Saskatchewan). Maggie FitzGerald joined the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan in July of 2020. Her research program engages two related areas. The first focuses on global ethics and international political theory, with an emphasis on decolonial ethics, normative and critical international relations theory, and feminist political economy. Her second strand of research centres on governing norms and the ways in which institutions and governments are (co)constitutive of values. Linking these two areas of research are feminist political theory and feminist ethics, and particularly the ethics of care. Her work has appeared in journals such as Ethics and Social Welfare; Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, & Social Justice; International Journal of Care and Caring; and Journal of International Political Theory. She is the author of Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics (Bristol University Press, 2022).

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University). Ajay Parasram is a transnational multigenerational byproduct of the British empire, with roots in South Asia, the Caribbean, and unceded Coast Salish, Mi’kmaq, and Algonquin territories. He was an editorial board member of the Leveller Newspaper in Ottawa from 2010 – 2015 and enjoyed long ideologically charged walks originating at Mike’s Place and meandering along the Rideau Canal until the early mornings. He sells his labour as an Associate Professor cross appointed to the departments of International Development Studies, History, and Political Science at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). He is the author of Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka (Manchester University Press, 2023) and the co-author (with Alex Khasnabish) of Frequently Asked White Questions (Fernwood Publishing, 2022).

Conference Schedule:

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Breakfast & Coffee

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Opening Remarks by Traditional Helper Elaine Kicknosway and Acting IPE Director Dr. Susan Braedley

Elaine Kicknosway (Qwe/she/her) is Swampy Cree through her biological mother from Amisk Lake and her biological father’s side is from Buffalo Narrows SK. She is a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan, and is Wolf Clan. She is a Sixties Scoop Survivor and returned home in 1996. She has been a long time community advocate in the areas of child welfare, MMIW2SG, healthy families, and Indigenous Wellness that include spaces for the LGBTQ2S+. Elaine is an Indigenous trauma informed Counsellor, a Blanket exercise facilitator and trainer, Indigenous full spectrum doula, indigenous death Doula, Traditional dancer, singer, drummer and is the Cofounder of The Sixties Scoop Network and carrier of ceremonial teachings.

9:45 am – 11:00 am

Panel 1 – Mobilities

Ariel Becher (Carleton University, PhD Student, Sociology & Political Economy) | Social Reproduction Theory and Class Struggle In and Against Climate Crisis

Josée Lalonde (Carleton University, MA Candidate, Political Economy & Latin American and Caribbean) | Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All’: The use of hyper-precarity in labour migration

analyses

Jes MacVicar (Carleton University, MA Student, Political Economy) | Colonizing in the “Public Interest”: the Canadian state’s pursuit for pipelines and the criminalization of Indigenous resistance

Tristan Nathaniel (Carleton University, MA Candidate, Political Economy & Latin American and Caribbean Studies) | Non-Immigration: How Parole Process and Dead-end Visas Create Contradictions

11:00 am – 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Panel 2 – Accumulation

Taylor Welsh (Carleton University, MA Student, Political Economy & Work and Labour) | Colonial Primary Accumulation: Mill Point/Culbertson Tract

Michael Khalil (Carleton University, MA Student, Anthropology) | Stolen Homes: Green Imperialism and Displacement in Occupied Palestine

Rachel Woods (Carleton University, MA Candidate, Political Economy & Climate Change) | Behind the Blue Curtain: Decoding the UN Water Conference, Financial Influences, and Covert

Agendas

Veronique Dryden (Queen’s University, PhD Candidate, Global Development Studies) | Financialization of Land and Urban Displacements in Makati City, Manila

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Panel 3 – Identities

Mads Baker (York University, MA Student, Social and Political Thought) | The Spectre of (anti)Blackness: Haunting as a Portal into Black Ontology

Andrii Hrynko (University of Saskatchewan, MA Student, Political Studies) | Ukrainian newcomer(s) in Canada: Looking at time-bound status and identity

Wahi Mohamed (Carleton University, MA Student, Anthropology) | Multiculturalism and Settler Logics: Construction of the Internal Other

Gobind Dhugee (Carleton University, MA Student, Political Economy & Work and Labour) | Cultural, Technological, and Economic Dependence and Iran’s Auto Industry: the Struggle to Break Free

2:45 pm – 3 pm

Break

3 pm – 4:15 pm

Keynote Speeches + Q&A

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Closing Remarks

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