CASID 2026 Conference
June 9 - 12, 2026
Conference Program
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Daily Overview |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
3.1.1: Climate & Environment Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Chair: Aishwarya Bhattacharyya, York University Chair: Christina Frendo, Queen's University Amplifying Rural Youth Voices in Climate Governance: Insights from Andean Communities in the Mantaro Valley, Peru University of Guelph, Canada Heat, Work, and Uneven Protection: Evidence from Toronto and Kerala York University, Canada Recent Trends in Gender-Responsive Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation University of Guelph, Canada Survival strategy, neoliberal burden or resistance? Tracing the evolution of resilience in disaster risk reduction and management University of Ottawa, Canada |
3.1.2: Agriculture & Food Security Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Eric Mensah Kumeh, University of British Columbia Chair: Dr. Kirsten Van Houten, University of the Fraser Valley Palm Oil and Land Conflict: A Case Study of the Lower Aguan Valley in Honduras University of Guelph, Canada The Gender of Delay: Everyday Navigation of the Hunger Safety Net Program in Marsabit County, Kenya York University, Canada The State of Agribusiness: The Politics of Rentier Strategies of Brazil’s Agribusiness (2003 to 2025) 1: Université de l'Ontario français, Canada; 2: University of York, United Kingdom |
3.1.3: Economic Development Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Tka Pinnock, York University Chair: Shreya Ghimire, York University Overcoming Extractivism with Green Industrial Policy? The Role of Development Banks in South America McMaster University, Public Banking Project, Canada Micro and Medium Credit Enterprises (MMCEs) and Poverty Reduction Among Rural Women in Ghana. Brandon University Debunking the Myth of the “Global South” in Trade Politics: Assessing India’s Behavior in WTO Negotiations and the Implications for Other Developing Countries UBC, Canada |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
Break 1 Day 3 |
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| 10:30am - 11:45am |
3.2.1: Governance & Policy Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Sharlene Mollett, University of Toronto Scarborough Chair: Dr. Kirsten Van Houten, University of the Fraser Valley Centering Peace Professionalism as a Resilience-Focused Approach to Peacebuilding and Global Development 1: Saint Paul University, Canada; 2: Conrad Grebel-University of Waterloo, Canada; 3: Civilian Peace Service Canada Pride as Policy: Meritocracy and Its Moral Blind Spots University of Ottawa, Canada Discrepant Integration: Dilemmas of a Global South Location under Neo-liberal Globalism Dalhousie University, Canada |
3.2.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Decolonizing learning and evaluation in practice: A hands-on workshop for practitioners 1: Niyat Pathways, Canada; 2: Habib University, Pakistan |
3.2.3: Gender & Feminist Studies Location: Room A304 Zoom Link #209 [Roundtable] Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Feminist Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Feminist Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean Presentations of the Symposium The role of women farmer-scientist knowledge exchange Using participatory methodologies to analyze gender equity in an institutional context Audiovisual material as a tool for knowledge mobilization |
| 11:45am - 12:00pm |
Break 2 Day 3 |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH & LEARN — Series 3 · Location: Room A301 Zoom Link |
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| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
3.3.1: Meet the Author Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Hidden Politics in the UN SDGs University of Guelph, Canada |
3.3.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Deborah Simpson, Carleton University Chair: Dr. Sumeet Sekhon, Independent Researcher Storytelling and Participant Observation to understand Maya pratices of self-determination from settler colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Autopoiesis and Relationality: A multi-case study analysis of Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in northern Ontario and the Peruvian Andes University of Guelph, Canada Negotiating Civic Identity and Societal Contribution: Vietnamese Scholarship Recipients’ Narratives in a Postcolonial Context University of Ottawa, Canada Togetherness after rupture: Indigenous feminist pathways in Global Reproductive Justice University of Victoria, Canada |
3.3.3: Intersectionality & Justice Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Veronique Plouffe, University of Ottawa Chair: Dr. Kirsten Van Houten, University of the Fraser Valley Addressing the intersectional needs, experiences, and systemic injustices of Kenya's fishing communities by co-producing trauma-informed knowledge 1: Saint Paul University, Canada; 2: University of Waterloo, Canada/PEGASUS Institute; 3: STADA, Kenya; 4: WISE, Kenya; 5: Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), Kenya; 6: PEGASUS Institute; 7: University of Waterloo, Canada/PEGASUS Institute; 8: University of Waterloo / PEGASUS Institute, Canada Between Survival and Thriving: Agency of Global South Disabled Women in Canadian Higher Education Brock University, Canada Solidarité et résistance : Quelles pistes pour une coopération internationale inversée Université Laval, Canada Reframing Togetherness from the Margins: Intersectional Justice, Care, and Development Dalhousie University, Canada |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Break 3 Day 3 |
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| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
3.4.1: Governance & Policy Location: Room A301 Zoom Link #191 [Roundtable] Development Studies & Practice in a Changing Global Landscape Development Studies & Practice in a Changing Global Landscape Presentations of the Symposium TBA TBA TBA TBA |
3.4.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Disrupting Knowledge Hierarchies: Pathways Toward Epistemic Justice Presentations of the Symposium The Cree Way”: producing knowledge through video documentary Localisation as an Epistemic Project: Technocracy, Knowledge Hierarchies, and the Limits of Reform in Humanitarian Aid Reflexive hybridity: toward a critical intercultural competence Accounting for Erasure: Intersecting Gender Inequalities and Colonialism in International Cooperation |
3.4.3: Social movements & resistance Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Jonathan Langdon, St. Francis Xavier University Religion as Infrastructure: Locally Rooted Christian Networks and the Limits of Global Development Frameworks University of Calgary, Canada Diverting cash for murder: The role of Development Finance Institutions in funding violence and land conflicts in Rio Blanco, Honduras University of Ottawa, Canada |
| 4:15pm - 4:30pm |
Break 4 Day 3 |
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| 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Prof. Nwando Achebe, Michigan State University Location: Room A001 Zoom Link This lecture argues that Africa was never “waiting” to be developed. Drawing on historical cases from Mapungubwe, Benin, Idoha, Ogidi, and Ezira/Ochima, it demonstrates that development has consistently encountered complex, functioning systems of governance and knowledge, only to misrecognize, rename, and reorganize them. Rather than addressing absence, development produces it—through the systematic refusal to recognize African authority, particularly that of women. Reframing development as a structure of epistemic and material violence, the lecture calls for a fundamental shift in how knowledge, power, and recognition are understood. |
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| 6:30pm - 11:00pm |
CAAS SOCIAL NIGHT: Dr. Nakanyike Musisi attending Location: Korean Canadian Cultural Centre |
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