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Friday, May 11

Friday, May 11

All panels will be held in the Centre for Ethics conference room, room 200, Gerald Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place. 
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The Keynote Address will be held in room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street. 
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9:30: Refreshments
 
9:50: Opening remarks
 
10:00-12:00: (Panel 1) Negotiating Boundaries of Belonging
Discussant: Professor Stanka Radović (English, University of Toronto)
  • Mary Jo MacDonald (Philosophy, Queen’s University): “On the Democratic Boundary Problem: Using Lottery to Create Democratic Boundaries" 
  • Arjun Sawhney (Philosophy, Queen’s University): “Robot Citizenship” 
  • Alex R. Steers-McCrum (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center): “Self-Determination After the Deluge”
  • Hilda Loury (Philosophy, San Francisco State University): “Immigration Exclusion and Cultural Preservation"
Chair: Cait Power (Political Science)
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch
 
1:00-2:30: (Panel 2) Redistributive Justice and the Global Economy
Discussant: Professor Kanta Murali (Political Science, University of Toronto)
  • Ivan Ozai (Law, McGill University): “International Tax Competition and the Ethics of Burden Sharing”
  • Dr. Anthony Sealey (Political Science, University of Toronto): “New Old Politics: The Globalization of Political Economies and Popular Support for Redistribution in the Postindustrial Democracies, 1990-2012”
Chair: Taylor Putnam (Political Science)
 
2:30-2:40: Break
 
2:40-4:10: (Panel 3) Localizing the Global: Concepts and Practices
Discussant: Professor Margaret Kohn (Political Science, University of Toronto)
  • Jonathan Morgan (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Crafting a New Capitalism: Materiality as Praxis”
  • Clémence Nasr (Political Theory, Université libre de Bruxelles & Paris Institute of Political Studies): “The First Signs of a Relocalized Society”
  • Galen Watts (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University): “’Spiritual but not Religious’ Millennials in Canada: Liberal Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community”
Chair: Daniel Sherwin (Political Science)
 
4:10-5:00: Break and relocation to room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building
 
5:00-7:00: (Keynote Address) “Of Scribes and Tribes: On Globalization and its Discontents”
Professor Bernard Yack (Politics, Brandeis University)
Location: Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100, 170 St. George Street
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7:00-9:30: Conference Reception, Brewhaha, Lower Level, 39 Prince Albert Street
Saturday, May 12

Saturday, May 12

All panels will be held in the Centre for Ethics conference room, room 200, Gerald Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place. 

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10:30: Refreshments

 

11:00-12:30: (Panel 4) Limits of Liberal Imagination

Discussant: Professor Robert Vipond (Political Science, University of Toronto)

  • Andrew Jones (York University): “Globalists, Gamergate, and Groyper: A History of the Alt-Right”

  • Simon Sihang Luo (Indiana University, Bloomington): “Memorizing the Past: Understanding the Missing Link in Judith Shklar’s ‘The Liberalism of Fear’”

  • Adriana Farias (Political Science, McGill University): “Twitter and Institutional Change: The Legacy of Populist and Pluralist Discourses in Venezuela”

Chair: Hamish Russell (Philosophy)

 

12:30-1:30: Lunch

 

1:30-3:00: (Panel 5) The Local and the Global: Frameworks and Practices of Resistance

Discussant: Professor Neil ten Kortenaar (English, University of Toronto)

  • Alexander Sarra-Davis (English, University of Toronto): “A World of I’s: Surveillance, Complicity, and the Politics of World Literature in The People of Paper”

  • Benjamin Bilgen (Developmental Studies, York University): “Kurdish Group Dance as Negotiated Political Resistance in Turkey”

  • David Semaan (Political Science, University of Alberta): “(Re)Imagining Contemporary Middle Eastern Masculinities: Decolonizing Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities”

Chair: Zak Black (Political Science)

 

3:00-3:10: Break

 

3:10-4:40: (Panel 6) Techniques of Global Governance

Discussant: Dr. Mara Marin (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Associate, University of Toronto)

  • Binfan Wang (Political Science, University of Toronto): “A Confucian Law of Peoples—Mencius’ Thought on Global Justice”

  • Dr. Igor Shoikhedbrod (Political Science, University of Toronto): “Beyond Welfare Nationalism and Liberal Transnationalism? Habermas vs. Streeck and the Future of the European Monetary Union”

  • Mohammad Nur Nabi (Political Science, McGill University): “Redefining Weak State Strategy in the Globalized World: Bangladesh's Dexterity towards the India-China Power Politics”

Chair: Dr. Anthony Sealey (Political Science)

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