Conference Program
Friday, October 2nd
4:00 – 7:00pm
On Site Registration
Rm: 210 Beveridge Arts Centre
6:00 – 7:30pm
Opening Reception - Wine and Cheese
Acadia Art Gallery
(Current Exhibit Guerrilla Girls)
7:00 – 9:00pm
Acadia University 2009 H.T. Reid Lecture
Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC Radio
Acadia Festival Theatre
Saturday, October 3rd
8:00 – 12:00pm
On Site Registration
Rm: 210 Beveridge Arts Centre
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel A: Canadian Electoral Systems
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jennifer Smith, Dalhousie University
Alex Marland, Memorial University
“Newfoundland and Labrador’s House of Assembly”
Louise Carbert, Dalhousie University
“Recruiting and Training Women for Leadership”
Hugh Mellon, Kings University College UWO
"The Harper Government and Electoral Apportionment"
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel B: African Responses to Contemporary Crises
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: David Thomas, Mount Allison University
Deborah Simpson, University of New Brunswick/St. Thomas University
“Crisis or Consolidation?: South African Politics in 2008/2009”
Carolyn Bassett, University of New Brunswick
“Framing the Global Economic Crisis in South Africa”
Landry Signe, Université de Montreal
“Policy and Institutional Response to the Global, Financial and Economic Crisis in Africa”
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel C: “Crisis” and “Exception” in Political Theory
Rm: 237 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Greg Pyrcz, Acadia University
Mauricio Suchowlansky, University of Toronto
“Spectacular Tumulto”
Matthew Flanagan, University of New Brunswick
“Rousseau and Crisis”
Loralea Michaelis, Mount Allison University
“Rosa Luxemburg on the Crisis of Disappointment”
Leonard Ferry, University of Toronto
“An Essential Function of Authority: The Insufficiency of Salience”
10:30 – 10:45am
COFFEE - Second Floor Beveridge Arts Centre
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel A: Caste, Gender and Human Rights
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Stefan Morales, Acadia University
Fraser Harland, Mount Allison University
“A Case Study of Port Elgin’s All-Female Village Council”
Anne Lemesurier, Acadia University
“Rights Under Threat: The Symbolic Targeting of Human Rights Defenders”
Meghan Flawn, Acadia University
“Analyzing the Caste System Consciousness and its Prolonging Effects on Urban India”
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel B: Worlds Apart: Crisis, Life and Governmentality
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Geoffrey Whitehall, Acadia University
Matt Risser, University of Waterloo
“Global Governance and the State of Exception”
Marc Doucet, Saint Mary’s University
“Human Security and Human Life”
Julian Reid, Kings College London
“The Disastrous and Politically Debased Subject of Resilience”
Jerome Klassen, University of New Brunswick, Saint John
"Afghanistan and the Crisis of Empire"
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel C: Challenges to the State in Canada
Rm: 237 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Lori Turnbull, Dalhousie University
Thomas Bateman, St. Thomas University
“The Decline of Human Dignity in Canadian Charter of Rights Jurisprudence”
Daniel Salée, Concordia University
“Indigenous Peoples and the State in Quebec: The Legacy of the Oka Crisis”
Markus Sharaput, Lakehead University
“Capacity and Rigidity in the Canadian State”
Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University
"Immigration Crises, Challenges and Changes at Multiple State Levels"
12:15 – 1:30pm
LUNCH - Garden Room - Irving Centre (KCIC)
1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel A: Environmental Crises and Democracy
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Bob Boardman, Dalhousie University
George Gonzalez, University of Miami
“The Role of Urban Sprawl in the Economic, Energy and Climate Crises”
Soren Bondrup-Nielsen and Steve Mockford, Acadia University
“The Need for Ecological Literacy in the Political Arena”
Leo Elshof, Acadia University
“Climate Change and Education: Moving Beyond the Crisis Discourse”
1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel B: Crisis in Canadian Federal Parliamentary Government
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University
Jennifer Smith, Dalhousie University
“The Federal Government’s Proposed Senate Reform: A Crisis in the Making?”
Lori Turnbull, Dalhousie University
“Is There a Crisis of Ethics in the Parliamentary System?”
Tom Urbaniuk, Cape Breton University
“Changing Theories of Parliamentary Government”
1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel C: Culture, Difference and Time
Rm: 237 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Alexandra Dobrowolsky, St. Mary’s University
Dan Pfeffer, Queen’s University
“Multiculturalism and Time”
Remi Leger, Queen’s University
“Canadian Content and the Political Theory of Multiculturalism”
Monica Trevino, McGill University
“Brazil’s Affirmative Action Policies”
3:00 – 3:15pm
COFFEE - Second Floor Beveridge Arts Centre
3:15 – 4:45pm
Panel A: Governing Food, Water and Wine
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Andrew Biro, Acadia University
Malcolm Grieve, Acadia University
“Passing the Bottle: the Wine Policy Community in Nova Scotia”
Trygve Ugland, Bishop’s University
"Solutions in Search of Problems: Organizational Reforms in Canadian Food Safety Policy"
Melanie Hientz, Carleton University
“The Precarious Role of Crisis in Public Advocacy Over Bulk Water Exports”
Stefan Morales, Acadia University
"The Politics of Soil: Intrications of Science, State and Farm."
3:15 – 4:45pm
Panel B: Students, Pedagogy and Crisis
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Jim Guy, Cape Breton University
Steve Holloway, St. Francis Xavier University
“Student Isolationism or Activism”
Laura Thompson, Acadia University
“ ‘Crisis’ in Social Studies Education”
David Thomas, Mount Allison University
“Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire and Contemporary African Studies”
3:15 – 4:45pm
Panel C: Why Information Matters
Rm: 237 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Phyllis Rippeyoung, Acadia University
Jason Roy, Université de Montreal
“Why Information Matters: Political Information Heterogeneity and Voting in Canada”
Andrea Lawlor, McGill University
“Identity Crisis: Canadian Voters and Left-Right Self-Placement”
Melanee Thomas, McGill University
“Gender, Generation, and Political Engagement in Canada”
Edward Koning, Queen’s University
“Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Significance”
6:00pm – Twilight
APPSA Banquet Dinner and Award Ceremony
Keynote: Peter Dauvergne, UBC
Title: Governing Out of the Consumption Crisis
Port Restaurant and Pub
Sunday, October 4
8:00 – 9:00pm
On Site Registration
Rm 210 Beveridge Arts Centre
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel A: Governing Global Health and Life
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Julian Reid, King’s College London
Robert Huish, Dalhousie University
“How Cuba Emerged from a Socio-Economic Disaster to Become a Global Health Power”
Mario Levesque, University of Western Ontario
“Flushing Public and Environmental Health Away: Have We Not Learned From the Walkerton, Ontario Water Tragedy?”
Paul Foley, York University
“The Privatization of Global Governance and New Environmental Certification in Atlantic Canada”
Geoffrey Whitehall, Acadia University
“The Monster’s Hope: After-Affect of Pre-emption”
9:00 – 10:30am
Panel B: Crises in Contemporary Canadian Politics
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Ian Stewart, Acadia University
Byron Sheldrick, University of Guelph
“The Cadman Affair and the Limits of Parliamentary Democracy”
John Duncan, Trinity College, University of Toronto
“Death from Above and Below in the Afghan Trap”
Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University
“The Canadian Parliament and the War on Terror”
10:30 – 10:45am
COFFEE - Second Floor Beveridge Arts Centre
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel A: Politics and New Media
Rm: 234 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Cynthia Alexander, Acadia University
Tamara Small, Mount Allison University
“Why Canadian Politicians Twitter”
Fenwick McKelvey, Ryerson/York University
“The Political Activity of the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group”
Jon Saklofske, Acadia University
“Virtual Revolutions: Evaluating the Digital Humanities Manifesto”
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel B: The Body and Aesthetics
Rm: 236 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Florian Bail, Dalhousie University
Sarah Wiebe, University of Ottawa
“Whose Body in Crisis? Mapping Unknown Harm in Aamjiwnaang”
Chris Bourne, Concordia University
Title TBD
Joanne Wright, University of New Brunswick
“Choice Feminism on Implant Surgery: Uncovering Hobbes’s Legacy”
10:45 – 12:15pm
Panel C: Crisis and Stability in the Developing World
Rm: 237 Beveridge Arts Centre
CHAIR/DISCUSSANT: Rachel Brickner, Acadia University
Nathan Allen, University of British Columbia
“Reforming the Executive Branch in Indonesia”
James Brittain, Acadia University
“Stabilizing Reactionism in Latin America”
Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt, St. Mary’s University
“Criminal Governance, Corruption, and Power: The Fujimori Regime (1990-2000) in Peru”
12:15 – 1:30pm
Business Lunch - Acadia Room - Irving Centre (KCIC)
