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Conference program

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

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

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