Winter 2012 Calendar of Events

Graduate Student Conference on Internationalization and Public Policy

January 26th to 27th, 2012
Title: Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy: Investigating Theory, Practice and Challenges
Hosted by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, the Department of Political Science, and the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy.
For more information, please click here.

Graduate Student and Faculty Seminar on Israel-Palestine Conflict

February 7, 2012 (1:00-2:30 pm, MUSC Rm 313)
Title: “The 4th Stage of the Arab Israeli Conflict”
Speaker: Professor Alan Dowty
Dr. Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior Associate for Middle East Studies of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Israel/Palestine (Polity, 2008). Seating is limited; please RSVP to Irene Albl at 905-525-9140 ext. 27556 or globalhc@mcmaster.ca.

Public Forum on the Global Financial Crisis

March 5, 2012 (4:30-5:30 pm, TSH B128)
An opportunity to hear three faculty members discuss developments in the field of global finance. Their brief talks will be followed by questions and discussion. Featuring: William Scarth (Economics), Mike Veall (Economics), Tony Porter (Political Science).

Occupy Symposium

March 20, 2012 (1:30-4:30 pm, KTH-B104)
The IGHC will be partnering with Society for Philosophy & Culture to host a symposium on the Occupy Movement.

For more information, click here.

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Canada's Role in Global Health

2nd Annual McMaster-Brock Global Health Research Forum (co-sponsored by IGHC)
March 22 & 23, 2012
Location: McMaster Innovation Park,
175 Longwood Road South,
Ground Floor Conference Centre,
Hamilton, Ontario

For more information click here.

Fall 2011 Calendar of Events

Inside Out Hamilton

28 October (10:00 am - 12:00 pm in KTH-B108)
Speakers: Dona Geagea, MA and Josh Belick, MA. Both Dona and Josh are graduates of the MA program in Globalization Studies at McMaster
Title: Starting the Conversation: Bringing the Global to the Local through the "Inside Out Hamilton Project"

Two recent graduates of the Globalization Studies MA program, Dona Geagea and Josh Belick, invite the current Globalization MA cohort and other interested faculty and students to an engaging talk on a community project they undertook during their studies. In the summer of 2011, Geagea and Belick were active in the Inside Out Hamilton Action Group. The purpose of this project was to start a conversation around local social issues of inequality by using black and white portrait photography to tell the untold stories of local community members.

Fulbright Visiting Research Chair

31 October (11:30 am -1:30 pm in Skylight Room, Commons Building)
Speaker: Christopher Breu, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University and Associate Professor of English, Illinois State University.
Title: The Insistence of the Material: Theorizing Materiality and Biopolitics in the Era of Globalization

Distinguished Visiting Speaker

29 September (7:30 pm in Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111, McMaster University)
Dr. Philip McMichael, International Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Title: 21st Century Development: Crisis and Renewal

Reception to follow

Spring and Summer 2011 Calendar of Events

Contested Landscapes: Portraits of the Unheard

Dave Heidebrecht is proud announce his upcoming photographic exhibit: "Contested Landscapes: Portraits of the Unheard" in which he explores the G20 protests of one year ago alongside his MRP research project on BC's Sacred Headwaters, which he completed during his studies at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition.

You are cordially invited to attend the opening evening of this exhibit, Saturday June 25, 2011 from 6-9 pm at The Pearl Company, Hamilton (click here for directions).

Exhibit Summary: On the one year anniversary of the spectacle that was the G20 Summit in Toronto last June, Dave Heidebrecht examines and exposes the significant issues that were largely ignored by the pornographic, disaster news gaze of Canada’s mainstream media.  Contrasting urban landscapes of protest with natural landscapes on which protests were focused, Heidebrecht’s portraits of contested landscapes give a voice to the people and issues that went unheard during Toronto’s G20 Summit.  Addressing realms of legitimacy, power, and democracy, Contested Landscapes examines the intersections existing between global and local issues within a Canadian context. Juxtaposing protest portraits with threatened landscapes, Heidebrecht shines light on Northwest British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters, where local First Nations, environmental, and community groups oppose a coalbed methane gas development proposal by Royal Dutch Shell.  Exploring the complex intersections of economic, political, social, and environmental issues that are realities of our current era of globalization, Heidebrecht draws parallels between the Sacred Headwaters and the protest politics surrounding the G20.  In doing so, Heidebrecht connects two physically distant and seemingly unrelated landscapes, asking viewers to consider the many voices of people and issues that all too often go unheard.

McMaster-Brock Global Health Research Forum

Two universities, partnering with the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research present an opportunity to engage health researchers in knowledge sharing and exchange surrounding the current challenges and innovations in global health research. Forum includes dynamic symposia, interactive workshops and networking opportunities.

May 5 & 6, 2011
Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Hamilton, ON

For more information click here.

IGHC Research Collaboration Meeting

A day to renew our familiarity with each other’s research, identify possible research collaborations, and consider strategies for supporting research across the Humanities and Social Sciences around globalization and the human condition.  To assist in this process, the meeting will include a brief presentation on new SSHRC funding opportunities for collaborative research by Pamela McIntyre, a Senior Advisor from the Development Research Office for Administration, Development & Support (ROADS) at McMaster.

For more information, contact Nancy Johnson.

9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Skylight Room, Commons Building

Globalization Research Scholarship Panel

Join 2010-2011 Globalization Research Scholarship Awardees -- Alex Diceanu, Farah Moosa and Dana Mount -- for a panel presentation on their doctoral research.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
2:00-3:30 pm
Location: KTH-732

Winter 2011 Calendar of Events

Brown Bag Lunch Seminars

19 January (12:30-1:30 pm in KTH-B108)
Speaker: Dave Heidebrecht MA, Graduate of the MA program in Globalization Studies at McMaster
Title: Framing the Sacred Headwaters Social Movement: Exploring the Role of the Local and Global in Shaping Place

2 February (12:30-1:30 pm in KTH-B108) - *Postponed to April 13th

16 February (12:30-1:30 pm in KTH-B108) - *Cancelled
Speaker: Dr. Jean McDonald, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition
Title: Governmentalized Borders and Toronto's Sanctuary City Movement

2 March (12:30-1:30 pm in KTH-B108)
Speaker: Dr. Stephen McBride, Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Title: Contested Terrain: Public /Private Authority in International Trade and Investment Disputes

13 April (12:30-1:30 pm in KTH-B108)
Speaker: Dr. Eileen Angelini, Department of Modern Languages, Canisius College, USA and Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies
Title: A Little-known History of Discrimination:The KKK in New England

Distinguished Visiting Speaker

9 March (7:00 pm in Great Hall, University Club)
Dr. Victor Li, Department of English and Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Title: Globalization Without the World: The Allegorical Imperative

Dr. Li’s talk will examine current discourses about globalization, arguing that, far from being direct reflections or unmediated descriptions of the world,  they are selective allegorical interpretations or world-views.  In their desire to provide a comprehensive overview or total picture of our contemporary world, global allegories elide or even forcefully exclude details of the world that do not fit the “truth” of the global they wish to highlight.  The world has to disappear, it seems, for globalization to establish its presence.  Thus, like allegory, globalization uncovers a new landscape of power even as it hides its shaping violence.

Visiting Speaker

22 March (3:00-4:30 pm in KTH-B108)
Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Politics, Open University, UK and author of Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking
Title: Beautiful Dead Bodies: Anti-Trafficking Campaigns and the Conflicts of Mobility in Europe

In this talk, Dr. Andrijasevic will point to the link between sex trafficking and European citizenship by examining several anti-trafficking campaigns launched in post-socialist Europe. She will read the wounded and dead women's bodes central to the campaigns as attempts to stabilize the current political and social transformations in Europe by capturing women within the highly immobile boundaries of the sign "Woman." By contexualizing the campaigns within a larger context of contemporary Europe, Dr. Andrijasevic will argue that anti-trafficking measures normalize a differential regime of mobility through which the EU organizes access to its labour market and citizenship. With its emphasis on criminal organizations and victimized women, the rhetoric of sex trafficking as the new slave trade depoliticizes the debate on migration and labour and closes down the possibility for seeing how migrant women’s mobility presses onto and reshapes citizenship in Europe.

Fulbright Public Lecture

21 March (7:30 pm in MDCL 1110)
Dr. Eileen Angelini, Department of Modern Languages, Canisius College, USA and Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies
Title: Le Chandail de hockey:  The Importance of Maurice Richard to French-Canadians

Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is currently Professor of French at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.  Her Fulbright project, Le Tour de l’Amérique du Nord:  Following the French in North America, examines the cultures and histories of the Francophone regions of Canada and their respective ties to the U.S. (specifically, New England and Louisiana).  Her present talk will  look at the cultural and historical importance to French-Canadians of Maurice “Rocket” Richard -- the legendary Montreal Canadians, reluctant hero and cultural icon who to this day unifies all Canadians in their pride for their national winter sport.

IGHC Co-Sponsored Events

School of Social Work Panel Discussion
February 1 (4:30-6:30 pm in Gilmour Hall Council Chambers 111)
Title: Beyond “Too Asian”: Reflecting on and Reimagining Community and Alliance in the Internet Age

News and Notices

2010-2011 Globalization Essay Prize Winners Announced

Congratulations to Hayden King and Milé Komlen!

Hayden King's paper, The Political Economy of Conservation and the Consequences for Indigenous Peoples was selected as the winner in the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition's 2010-2011 competition for the best PhD essay while Milé Komlen's paper, Binary States: Relationships Between the Welfare State and Private Enterprise, and the Role of Transnational Actors in Shaping Global Social Policy was awarded the prize for best MA essay.

IGHC Graduate Student Kevin Edmonds joins expert panel on TVO's "The Agenda"

12 January 2012 - IGHC graduate student, Kevin Edmonds, joined an expert panel to discuss the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti on TVO's "The Agenda." Kevin travelled to Haiti after working on the Institute for Justice and Democracy’s “November” report which highlights the problems surrounding Haiti’s recent election. The report entitled, “Haiti’s November 28 Elections: Trying to Legitimize the Illegitimate” called for international funding to be withheld from an undemocratic election process. Other panellists who took part in “The Agenda” discussion were Stephen Baranyi, professor of international studies at the University of Ottawa; Laurent Dubois, professor of history and co-director of the Haiti laboratory at Duke University; Alex Dupuy, professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and author of Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700; and Jonathan Papoulidis, senior policy advisor with World Vision.  

You can watch this edition of “The Agenda” here.

Kevin has also written a op-ed piece with Roger Annis about the elections that appears in the Toronto Star as well as a thoughtful article about Haiti that can be found here.

Kevin is currently working with Harvard Law School on a white paper concerning the United Nations failure to protect the Haitian people, as part of the International Periodical Review of Human Rights. The paper will be presented to NGOs, national governments and the United Nations in order to spark discussion regarding the failure to achieve their mandate in Haiti.