CASID 2026 Conference
June 9 - 12, 2026
Conference Program
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Daily Overview |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
4.1.1: Climate & Environment Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Wilfrid Laurier University Chair: Christina Frendo, Queen's University Paradoxes in International Climate Cooperation: Feminist Climate Justice Reflections to Global North-South Complex Project Organizing Université Laval / Chaire Claire-Bonenfant - Femmes, Savoirs et Sociétés Integrating social equity in climate risk and vulnerability mapping for locally led adaptation: Insights from the Philippines International Rice Research Institute, Philippines Waste as Shield: How Informal Settlements Transform Waste into Flood Defense System University of Western Ontario, Canada |
4.1.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Prof. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University Chair: Dr. Deborah Simpson, Carleton University Decolonization under the guise of internationalism: A case study of postcolonial Mauritius Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius Colonized by My Brother: How colonialism has evolved over space and time into everyday practices and institutions University of Guelph, Canada Decolonizing The Curriculum: The Use of First Language as a Medium of Instruction University of Applied Management, Ghana, Ghana |
4.1.3: Economic Development Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Alicja Paulina Krubnik, McMaster University, Public Banking Project Chair: Tka Pinnock, York University The Unipolar Monetary and Financial Order and Caribbean Development Eastern Connecticut State University, United States of America Effectiveness of employment programs to improve labour market outcomes for youth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa University of Ottawa, Canada Tourism in Morocco: Understanding Development Through Colonial Modernity University of Ottawa, Canada |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
Break 1 Day 4 |
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| 10:30am - 11:45am |
4.2.1: Governance & Policy Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Feminist International Assistance Policy in Practice Presentations of the Symposium Shifting Discourses and Changing Priorities: How the Third Sector Adapted the Language of their Grant Applications in an Era of Feminist Foreign Policy Ambiguous and ambivalent. Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy in Peru. Feminist Foreign Policy as the Impetus for Shaping New National Priorities? Third Sector Advocacy and Renewed Commitments to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment From Policy to Practice: How FIAP Interacted with Local Realities in Three National Contexts: A Cross Case Analysis of Colombia, Haiti, and Jamaica/CARICOM |
4.2.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Co-Creating Knowledge with and from the Global South: Young Researchers Reflect on Research Praxis Presentations of the Symposium Research engagements with women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam A young disabled researcher's perspective on knowledge co-creation Autistic experiences in research production in the Global South Challenges and possibilities for decolonial disability praxis Epistemic struggles in Global South knowledge production |
4.2.3: Gender & Feminist Studies Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Prof. Vida Shehada, Centennial Advancing Gender Justice: Transforming Masculinities Through a Global Community of Practice 1: University of the Fraser Valley, Canada; 2: University of Calgary, Canada Inequality of Opportunity and Gendered Pathways of Social Mobility in West Africa: A scoping review University of Ottawa, Canada Gender and Development in Ghana: The double burden of paid work and cultural expectation on Ghanaian women. Brandon University, Canada Global Infant Feeding Policies and Literature: Decolonizing Knowledge and Centering Maternal Realities in Canada and Nigeria University of Ottawa, Canada |
| 11:45am - 12:00pm |
Break 2 Day 4 |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
CLOSING LUNCH |
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| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
4.3.1: Governance & Policy Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Crisis or Transformation? Rethinking the Future of Aid in a Changing Global Order York University, Canada International Development Volunteerism in Nepal: A Grassroots Ambassadorship for Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy? York University, Canada Capitalist development in the neoliberal era: The dialectic of progressive liberalism and authoritarian Populism Saint Mary's University, Canada Donor Politics and Power in EU Development Cooperation Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic (Czechia) |
4.3.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Prof. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University Chair: Prof. sutapa chattopadhyay, St. Francis Xavier University Evaluators resisting regression: Moving from Accountability to Repair 1: Habib University, Pakistan; 2: Niyat Pathways, Canada Theorizing Translocal Social Movement Learning St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Decolonising pedagogical praxis in higher education: Engaging with perspectives from Rabindranath Tagore 1: Independent Researcher, Canada; 2: Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Spain; 3: Independent Researcher, USA |
4.3.3: Internationalization & Globalization Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Prof. Adam Sneyd, University of Guelph Chair: Dr. Kirsten Van Houten, University of the Fraser Valley Globalization and Technological Innovation in Emerging Economies: Examining Non-Linear Threshold Effects and the Moderating Roles of Institutional Quality and Human Capital. 1: Datalink Institute; 2: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; 3: University of Ghana, Legon; 4: Pure City International; 5: University of Applied Management; 6: University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic (Czechia) The right to contest global capitalism? Why the anti-globalization movement has shifted transnational advocacy to the United Nations human rights system. University of British Columbia, Canada Enablers and Barriers to Internationalization: Perspectives of Faculty Members from a State University in the Philippines Romblon State University, Philippines |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Break 3 Day 4 |
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| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
4.4.1: Governance & Policy Location: Room A301 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Jasmin Hristov, University of Guelph Chair: Chris Little, York University Aporia in the Resource State: Public Responsibility, Climate Governance, and Canadian Legitimacy n/a, Canada Accounting for Reparations or Repackaging Colonial Debt? Analysis of the COP28 Loss and Damage Fund and the Politics of Sustainability Finance University of Guelph, Canada Politics of Insults: A Threat to Constitutional Democracy in Ghana University of Applied Management, Ghana, Ghana When Accountability Works? A Comparative Study of Voluntary and Mandatory Human Rights Standards for Responsible Enterprise and Inclusive Resource Governance. University of Ottawa, Canada |
4.4.2: Internationalization & Globalization Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Ghadir Salame, University of Ottawa Chair: Dr. Jonathan Langdon, St. Francis Xavier University The SDGs are Political and Increasingly Contested: A Truly Independent Scientific Commission Can Help 1: University of Guelph, Canada; 2: Managing Partner, Stratech Group Reframing Agency and Transformation in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy Saint Paul University, Canada The Rise of China in Global Politics: Implications for EU Member States University, Czech Republic (Czechia) |
4.4.3: Economic Development Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Eric Mensah Kumeh, University of British Columbia Chair: Prof. Vida Shehada, Centennial The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Its Potential in Reducing Unemployment in Ghana. Brandon University, Canada Has promoting economic growth in developing countries harmed their environmental sustainability? BRANDON UNIVERSITY, Canada Selling Jamaica: Craft and the Re/production of Uneven Development York University, Canada |