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Date: Thursday, 05/June/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
3.1.1: Feminist Perspectives
Location: SJA-349E
Chair: Rebecca Tiessen
 

The contribution of feminist institutionalism to the study of transitional justice processes in Southern contexts

Safo Musta

University of Ottawa, Canada



WPS in the Digital Age: Investigating AI and International Cybersecurity Policy

Holly Cass Ferron

University of Ottawa, Canada



Can feminist aid and mining extractivism be reconciled? Exploring Canada’s role in Peru

Véronique Plouffe

University of Ottawa, Canada

3.1.2
Location: SJA-482C
 

The Power of Oral Story Telling for International Development

Nancy Christine Edwards1, Diana Kaliza2

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: University of Toronto

3.1.3: Focus on Africa
Location: SJA-494F
Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
 

Vulnerability by design: The role of data-driven needs assessment tools in refugee protection

Roda Siad

McGill University, Canada



Decolonizing Development through Migration, Digitalization, and Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mohammed Ibrahim Gariba2, Grace Addo-Donkoh2, Samuel Amponsah Odei1, Labaran Murtala Gariba3, Esther Addo-Donkoh4, Emmanuel Ebo Arthur2, Nigisti Araya2

1: University of Hradec Kralove; 2: University of Pardubice, Ghana; 3: Graduate School, University for Development Studies; 4: Datalink University



Motorcycle taxis and the app-ification of informal labour in East Africa

Joshua J Ramisch1, Everlyne B Obwocha2, Zaveria W. Maina2

1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: Independent Scholar



Decolonizing Intellectual Capital Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Migration and Digitalization

Grace Addo-Donkoh1, Labaran Murtala Gariba2, Solomon Gyamfi1, Esther Addo-Donkoh3, Gariba Sabiu Mohammed1, Mohammed Ibrahim Gariba1, Dr. Mohammed Marzuq Abubakari4

1: University of Pardubice, Ghana; 2: Graduate School, University for Development Studies; 3: Datalink University; 4: University of Applied Management, Ghana

10:00am
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10:30am
Break 1 Day 3
10:30am
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12:00pm
3.2.1: Focus on Pedagogy
Location: SJA-349E
Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
 

Colonial Amnesia and Fragmented Narratives: The Importance of Beginnings and Foundations in Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists

Alexandra Hannah Wilson

University of Ottawa, Canada



The Epistemic Landscape of Expertise: Canadian Undergraduate International Development Studies Reading Lists and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Alexandra Hannah Wilson

University of Ottawa, Canada



Shaping an Image of International Development in the 21st Century: The Perspective of Metamodernism

Mohammad Muaz Jalil

University of Ottawa, Canada



Student Perceptions on the Integration of Indigenous Content in the Undergraduate Curriculum in the School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS) at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa)

Rhiannon Dominique Careri

University of Ottawa, Canada

3.2.2: Accountability, International Financial Institutions, and International Law
Location: SJA-482C
Chair: Vida Shehada
 

Jumpstarting Evolution: the necessary restructuring of international law, demonstrated and proven by the International Court of Justice's handling of the Royal Dutch PLC versus the Olgae community legal battle

McKayla Lee Kennedy

University of Alberta, Canada



EU Development Cooperation: a Human Rights Game?

Petra Bezdekova1,2

1: University of Alberta; 2: Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic



Stripping immunity from the World Bank: The experiences of Honduran small farmers in seeking justice for harms.

Karen Janet Spring

University of Ottawa, Canada



International law, feminism and international development- the exception.

Vida Shehada

Centennial, Canada

3.2.3: Focus on Africa II
Location: SJA-494F
Chair: Rebecca Tiessen
 

Partisanism, ethnic chauvinism and the state of democracy in Africa

Gallous Asong Atabongwoung

Academia Sinica, Taiwan



Transculturation and African Development; What we miss when we believe in a one-sided story

Segun Fatudimu

University of British Columbia, Canada



Xenophobia: A paradox of togetherness in South Africa

Gallous Atabongwoung

Academia Sinica, Taiwan



African Tradition and Real Utopias: A Pluriversal Model of Development in Chinua Achebe's Dead Men's Path

Onyeka Emeka Odoh

University of Calgary, Canada

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Day 3
1:30pm
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3:00pm
3.3.1
Location: SJA-349E
 

Borderless Solidarities: Transnational Trauma, Mental Ecologies, and Diasporic Resistance in Bangladeshi-Canadian Feminist Movements

Chair(s): Mustahid Husain (University of Toronto, Canada)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

As above

Nahida Sobhan1, Fahim Quadir2
1Bangladesh High Commission in Canada, 2Queen's University

3.3.2: Livelihoods
Location: SJA-482C
Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
 

Knowledge System Dynamics in Andean Native Potato Production

Charlotte Potter, Silvia Sarapura

University of Guelph, Canada



Inclusion without Formalization? Digital Services, Formalization and Livelihoods in the Informal Plastics Recycling Sector: Evidence from Maputo, Mozambique

Chris Huggins

University of Ottawa, Canada



From Perception to Practice: How Labour Policies Affect Agricultural Development

Emily Wilson

York University, Canada



Land Tenure Systems and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Ethiopia

Abdella Abdulkadir Abdou

Brandon University, Canada

3.3.3: Focus on India
Location: SJA-494F
 

Examining women's empowerment and dietary diversity among the small livestock farmers in India

Hom Nath Gartaula1, Kishor Atreya2,3, Anisha Sapkota4, Deepali Chadha5, Prama Mukhopadhyay5, Ranjitha Puskur6

1: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines; 2: School of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; 3: Department of Watershed Management and Environmental Science, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal; 4: Independent Researcher, Kathmandu, Nepal; 5: IRRI, Bhubaneswar, India; 6: IRRI, Hyderabad, India



A Comparative Analysis of Low-Fee Private Schools and Elite Schools Teachers’ Working Conditions, Teaching Contracts, and Recruitment Practices in India

Garima Jha

Western University, Canada



Leveraging Public-Private Collaboration for Quality Education: The Case of India

EMON NANDI

TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, INDIA

3:00pm
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3:30pm
Break 2 Day 3
3:30pm
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5:00pm
3.4.1
Location: SJA-349E
 

Rethinking the “Agrarian Question” Through Cross-Regional Comparative Analysis

Chair(s): Patrick Clark (St. Mary's University, Canada)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

"Embedded Neoliberalism" and the Resugence of Agricultural Cooperativism in Peru

Patrick Clark
St. Mary's University

 

Producer Well-Being in the Face of Production Squeezes in the Costa Rican Coffee Sector

Marcela Ortiz Imlach
York University

 

The Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Ugrahan and the Agrarian Question in India

Paramjit Singh
York University

3.4.2: Economic perspectives
Location: SJA-482C
Chair: Brian Mahayie Waters
 

The Nobel Prize in Economics as Policy Brokerage in International Development

Ajibola Adigun

University of Alberta, Canada



Confronting asymmetric power in economic decision-making

Jodie Leanne Thorpe

Wageningen University, Netherlands, Institute of Development Studies, UK



Financement social et solidaire et réduction de la pauvreté multidimensionnelle : le cas du microcrédit au Burkina Faso.

Nassirou Kabré

Université d'Ottawa, Canada



The African Development Strategy: how does it need to evolve?

Oghenefejiro Mejire

University of Ottawa, Canada

3.4.3
Location: SJA-494F
 

Social organising, resistance and a collective politics of care in the aftermath of COVID19

Chair(s): Masaya Llavaneras Blanco (DAWN, Huron University College), Damien Gock (DAWN, Western Sydney University)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Building a Care System in Argentina: Transformative Potential and Persistent Challenges

Cecilia Fraga1, Corina Rodriguez2
1CIEPP, Argentina, 2DAWN; CIEPP/CONICET Argentina

 

Organizing from the Heart: Migrant Domestic Workers’ Resistance in Malaysia during the Covid-19

Liva Sreedharan, Yen Ne Foo
Independent

 

Are we still in this together? From a period of Shared Global Precarity to a New Era of Structural Violence and Localised Crises

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco1, Damien Gock2
1DAWN, Huron University, 2DAWN, Western Sydney University

6:00pm
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9:00pm
Closing session (informal): Location TBD

 
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