{"id":8115,"date":"2025-04-10T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?page_id=8115"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:49:21","slug":"graduate-student-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/graduate-student-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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26th Annual Graduate Student Conference (2026)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Our contemporary world faces a multitude of complex, interconnected, and compounding crises. With the collapse of liberal institutions, militarization, and violent destruction that is spreading across the globe today, another reality might be hard to imagine. Yet humanity’s future remains undetermined. The possibility of profound transformation depends on our collective capacity to imagine and enact alternatives beyond the present order. History is not one-sided: oppression has always been met with resistance. This conference is inspired by radical hope: a philosophy that invites us to see beyond despair as we work towards determining humanity’s collective future.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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25th Annual Graduate Student Conference (2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hyper-Politics and Anxious Identities: Seeking Stability in Volatile Times<\/strong>
March 21, 2025 | Institute of Political Economy (IPE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marking its 25th anniversary, this year\u2019s conference explored the intensifying political polarization and identity-driven anxieties shaping today\u2019s social and institutional landscapes. Under the theme \u201cHyper-Politics and Anxious Identities: Seeking Stability in Volatile Times,\u201d<\/em> the event brought together scholars and practitioners to examine how rising political turbulence, algorithmic culture, and economic precarity are destabilizing traditional structures of meaning and belonging. Our keynote speaker for this years conference was Dr. Rebecca Schein<\/strong> from the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a range of interdisciplinary panels and critical discussions, participants interrogated the affective, material, and ideological dimensions of contemporary volatility\u2014while also asking: what does stability look like, and for whom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, the conference was organized entirely by IPE graduate students, whose commitment and creativity continue to cultivate a space for radical thought, engaged scholarship, and transformative conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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24th Annual Graduate Student Conference (2024)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Confronting \u201cThe Spectre of Displacement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 24th Annual Graduate Student Conference brought together scholars, activists, and community members to critically engage with the enduring and emerging forms of displacement shaping our world today. Guided by the theme \u201cConfronting the Spectre of Displacement\u201d<\/em>, the conference invited participants to interrogate the political, economic, and ecological forces that uproot lives, unsettle communities, and reconfigure borders\u2014both material and imagined. The keynote speakers were Maggie Fitzgerald<\/strong> and Ajay Parasram<\/strong> who spoke on their work the pluriverse, offering considerations and starting points for thinking about the materiality of the pluriverse and the ways in which pluriversality expands understandings of political economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing inspiration from Arturo Escobar\u2019s call to confront global displacements as structural and spectral, panels explored topics ranging from settler colonialism and climate-induced migration to gentrification, land loss, and economic precarity. The conference served as a generative space for building solidarity, reimagining resistance, and centering voices too often sidelined in dominant policy and academic narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This powerful event was made possible by the dedication and vision of IPE\u2019s graduate student organizers, whose efforts continue to expand the critical reach and impact of the Institute\u2019s scholarly community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference (2023)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

(In)Stability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 IPE Graduate Student Conference invited participants to rethink the concepts of stability and instability through the lens of resistance, political struggle, and revolutionary potential. Under the theme \u201c(In)Stability\u201d<\/strong>, the conference challenged casual understandings of these terms and explored how instability\u2014often framed as a threat\u2014can also be a source of disruption, pressure, and transformation within systems of capitalist crisis. The keynote speaker was Heather Dorries <\/strong>(Department of Geography and Planning and Centre for Indigenous Studies at University of Toronto) whose research focuses on the relationship between urban planning and settler colonialism and examines how Indigenous intellectual traditions – including Indigenous environmental knowledge, legal orders, and cultural production – can serve as the foundation for justice-oriented approaches to planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through rich theoretical and experiential discussions, participants examined how revolutionary action can emerge from instability, while also contending with the limits posed by ecological collapse, economic precarity, and political uncertainty. This year\u2019s theme foregrounded the tensions between enduring instability and the need for stable ground to mobilize radical change, asking: can stability be forged not in spite of instability, but through it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by a dedicated team of IPE graduate students, the conference continued its tradition of creating space for critical dialogue and community-building across disciplines and movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26th Annual Graduate Student Conference (2026) 25th Annual Graduate Student Conference (2025) Hyper-Politics and Anxious Identities: Seeking Stability in Volatile TimesMarch 21, 2025 | Institute of Political Economy (IPE) Marking its 25th anniversary, this year\u2019s conference explored the intensifying political polarization and identity-driven anxieties shaping today\u2019s social and institutional landscapes. Under the theme \u201cHyper-Politics and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[117],"class_list":["post-8115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8115\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}