Political Economy Grad Conference 2018 #PECOcon2018

• In-person event
• 2017 , Dunton Tower , Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

The 19th Annual Institute of Political Economy’s Grad Conference is scheduled to take place on March 2, 2018.

The title of this year’s conference is “Learning to Forget, Learning to Remember: rethinking silence in space, place and memory”. The title reflects the interest in exploring the intersections of space, place and memory and the use of silence as a tool of maintaining and disrupting ideas of power and belonging.

Conference Program

9:00 am – Light Breakfast

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

9:30 am – Panel 1: Conversations on work and well-being

• Discussant: Chris Fairweather, Master’s Student, Political Economy
• Carter Vance, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “Problems of Jurisdiction and Political Mobilization in Relation to Basic Income”
• Megan McGoey-Smith, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “Alienation and Multi-Level Marketing: A Contemporary Analysis of Marx’s Theory of Alienation”
• Meg Lonergan, PhD Student, Law & Legal Studies, Specialization in Political Economy: “I can’t get no satisfaction: Affect, Good Objects & Commodity Fetishism”

10:40 am: Coffee Break

10:55 am- Panel 2: Re-thinking Silences in Geography and Environment

• • Discussant: Katalin Koller, PhD Candidate, Geography & Environmental Studies, Collaborative PhD in Political Economy
  • Breanna Denton, Master’s Student, Public Policy and Administration: “Remembering the Connection: an Exploration of The Relationship Between Urban Renewal and Public Housing Through The Razing of Africville and Development of Uniacke Square”
  • William Felepchuck, PhD Student, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies: “Racial Necrogeographies and Unsettling Silences: The Life and Death of 19th Century Burial Places in Ontario and Virginia”
  • Meghan Graham, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “Salmon Kin: Disrupting Industrial Fish Farming and Re-Establishing Reciprocity in Human-Salmon Relations”

12:05- Lunch

1:00 Keynote Speaker: Megan Rivers-Moore, “Sex and The Single Guy: Conceptualizing (Hetero)Sexual Migration.”

1:30- Panel 3:Uncovering Marginalized Voices

• • Discussant: Maggie FitzGerald Murphy, PhD Candidate, Political Science, Collaborative PhD in Political Economy
  • Sarah Wade – West, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “Theorizing “the leak” In Security Studies: The ‘network of leaking’”
  • Jesse Whattam, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Immigration Detention in Canada”
  • Caglar Dolek, Sociology, Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy: “Historical imagination through Literary Critique: Subversive Stories From Early Republican Turkey”
  • Lauren Montgomery, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Specialization in Political Economy: “The Economics of Violence: Understanding the Role of Sexual Assault Survivors & Activists in Disrupting the Corporatization of Universities.”

Coffee Break: 3:00 pm

3:15- Panel 4: Confronting Narratives and Knowledges

• • Discussant: Michael Chiarello, PhD Candidate, History
  • Nick Favero, Master’s Student, Political Economy: “On the Limits of Identity”
  • Emily Putnam, PhD Student, ICSLAC: Emma Nishimura: Reconstructing Moments of Silence in a “Geography of Space”
  • Kelsey Perrault, PhD Student, ICSLAC: “Remembrance and Difficult Knowledge: Unsettling Comforting Narratives at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights”
  • Andrew Costa, PhD Student, Law & Legal Studies : “Remembering and Forgetting at Canada 150: The Legal Structuring of Memoryscapes”

4:45 Closing Remarks

6:00 pm Post Conference Social- Arrow and Loon 99 Fifth Ave (directions),

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