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Day One (March 18)
8:30-9:00
Arrival and Registration
9:00-9:15
Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introduction of Conference Theme
- Dean Antonia Maioni, Faculty of Arts
- Sonia Laszlo (Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University)
- Erik Kuhonta (Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University)
9:15-11:00
Panel 1: Corruption
- Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale). Corruption and Development: Cross-Border Law Enforcement and Domestic Institutional Reform
- Paul Heywood (University of Nottingham). Managing, not solving: on the challenges of combating contemporary corruption
- Sarah Muir (CUNY). Corruption as a Key Category of Civil Society
- Panel Chair: Manuel Balán (McGill)
11:00-11:15
Health Break
11:15-12:15
Academic Keynote Address
- Prof. Pranab Bardhan (Berkeley). A Global Agenda for Labor in the Face of Inequality and Populism
12:15-1:30: Lunch break
1:30 – 3:15
Panel 2: Environment
- Michael Brown (McGill). UN Mediation of Natural Resource Conflicts: Reflections of a UN Mediator About Policy Implementation in Challenging Local Governance Settings
- Arun Agrawal (U Michigan). Social Protection and Climate Resilience.
- Kathryn Hochstetler (LSE). Green vs. Green: Community Responses to Electricity Installations in Brazil and South Africa
- Louis Hotte (U Ottawa). Foreign Conflicts and OECD Fish Catches
- Panel Chair:Timothy Hodges (McGill)
3:15-3:30: Health Break
3:30-5:15
Panel 3: International Organizations
- Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (ISID and MSF). Multicentric governance: involving communities in governing humanitarian action
- Nitsan Chorev (Brown U). Bargaining in the Shadow of Power: The Conditions of Possibility for Developmental Foreign Aid
- Alex Mutebi (African Development Bank)
- Panel Chair: Jennifer Welsh (McGill University)
5:15- 5:30: Closing Remarks by the Right Honourable Joe Clark
5:30-6:30: Reception
Day Two (March 19)
8:30-9:00
Arrival and Registration
9:00-9:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks:
- Introduction by Erik Kuhonta (Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University)
9:15-11:00
Panel 4: Democracy
- Rachel Beatty-Riedl (Northwestern). Democratic Breakdown in Sub-Saharan Africa: Pathways of Autocratization
- Sanjay Ruparelia (Ryerson). Transitions to and regressions from democracy: reflections on India and China
- Poulami Roychowdhury (McGill University). Claiming Rights while Despising the State: How Perceptions of State Failure Condition Democratic Practice
- Panel Chair: Robert Greenhill (Global Canada)
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:15
Policy Keynote Address
- Jim Brumby (World Bank). The Age of Governance.
12:15-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-3:15
Panel 5: Migration and Refugees
- Dean Yang (U Michigan). Migration Policies for Development
- Lamis Abdelaaty (U Syracuse). Explaining State Responses to Refugees
- Martina Tazzioli (U Swansea). Refugees, data and debit cards. Rethinking control, freedom and autonomy in the Greek migration laboratory
- Panel Chair: Diana Allan (McGill)
3:15-3:30 : Day Two Closing Remarks: Professor Sonia Laszlo