TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
A Conference organized by the Institute for the Study of International Development
McGill University
Thomson House Ballroom
30-31 March 2023
30 March 2023
Opening Remarks
3:15pm
Roundtable – Trends and Prospects in Development
3:30pm-5:00pm
Michael Brown, Professor of Practice, ISID, McGill University
Neil Buhne, Professor of Practice, ISID, McGill University
Timothy Hodges, Professor of Practice, ISID, McGill University
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Professor of Practice, ISID, McGill University
Chair:
Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Director, ISID, McGill University
31 March 2023
Panel 1 – Migration and Displacement
9:00am-10:30am
“The Afterlives of Refugeehood: Transgender Refugees, the Politics of Refusal, and the Sex Worker Movement of 1970-1990 in Kolkata, India”
Sarah Nandi, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, McGill University
“Paradox of ‘Alternatives’? Illiberal Effects of ‘Alternatives to Immigration Detention’ in Japan”
Kazue Takamura, Senior Faculty Lecturer, ISID, McGill University
“Through the Localization Looking Glass: Seeing Subaltern Power in the Refugee Regime”
Merve Erdilmen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, McGill University
Megan Bradley, Associate Professor, ISID and Department of Political Science, McGill University
James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Chair and Discussant:
Luna Vives, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal
Coffee Break
10:30am-10:45am
Panel 2 – Forms of Presence: Living Archives of Palestinian Displacement
10:45am-12:30pm
Diana Allan, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and ISID
Cynthia Kraichati, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Ariane Lorrain, M.A. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Chair and Discussant:
TBC
LUNCH
12:30pm-1:30pm
Panel 3 – Politics and Development
1:30pm-3:00pm
“Decolonising Humanitarian Action: An Applied Approach”
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, ISID Professor of Practice, McGill University
“Small Parties, Big Organization:
Islamic Political Parties and Mobilization in Pakistan (1947-2023)”
Bilal Shakir, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, McGill University
“Pro-Abortion and Anti-Gender-based Violence Movements in Argentina:
The Politics of Feminist Coalition-Building”
Rose Chabot, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, McGill University
Chair and Discussant:
TBC
Coffee Break
3:00pm-3:15pm
Panel 4 – Economy, Land, and Development
3:15pm-5:00pm
“Collaborative Learning between Impact Investors and Small and Medium Enterprises: Sustainability-Driven Knowledge Creation in Global Value Chains”
Tommaso Ferretti, Assistant Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa Paola Perez-Aleman, Associate Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
“Sending Money Home: The Mixed Impact of Remittances on Development and How Policy can Empower Remittance-Receivers”
Charlotte Mines, DSO M.A. Student, Department of Political Science, McGill University
“Mapping Changing Access to Land and Water in Deforestation Frontiers of the Gran Chaco”
Olivia del Giorgio, Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, McGill University
Patrice Matthews, M.Sc. Student, Department of Geography, McGill University
Yann le Polain de Waroux, Assistant Professor, ISID and Department of Geography, McGill University
“Norm Shifting Interventions and Beliefs about Gender Norms: a Behavioral Study in Paraguay”
Sonia Laszlo, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University
Carolina de Miranda, Fundación Capital
Franque Grimard, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University
Tania Insfrán, Independent Researcher
Thomas Kokossou, Department of Economics, McGill University
Laura Mor’inigo, Fundación Capital
Jim Warnick, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill Uinversity
Chair and Discussant:
Juan Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University
Reception to Follow
