CASID 2026 Conference
June 9 - 12, 2026
Conference Program
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: Room A302 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
1.1.2: Health & Wellbeing Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Aishwarya Bhattacharyya, York University Burning Inequalities: Exploring Women’s Health Experiences During Events of Extreme Heat in Peri-Urban Pakistan York University, Canada Examining the health system capacity for non-communicable disease care in the context of climate change in the Philippines University of Waterloo, Canada Global Warming and the Dangerous Skin Diseases among Rural Citizens: Does Injustice Governance Matter? Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Industrial Pollution and Health Issues among Rural Citizens: Does Injustice in Financial Assistance Matter? Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
1.2.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Probing perspectives on artificial intelligence and development: The process and results of student projects in an international development qualitative research methods course Presentations of the Symposium Undergraduate student insights Teaching assistant insights Course instructor insights Graduate student mentor insights |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
2.1.2: Agriculture & Food Security Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Leandro Vergara-Camus, Université de l'Ontario français Patriarchy, Masculinity, Femininity, and Politics of Inheritance in Zimbabwe, c.1950s-present. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Why agency matters for engendering food security and rebuilding legitimacy in multi-scale cocoa governance University of British Columbia, Canada Fisheries Governance in the Philippines: A Constellation of Goals, Instruments, Actions and Their Implications to Power Relations and Policy Direction Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Canada; College of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Mindanao State University, Marawi City, Philippines |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
2.2.2: CASID- Connecting with Our Members Workshop Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Membership Committee Workshop Tka Pinnock |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
2.3.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Prof. sutapa chattopadhyay, St. Francis Xavier University Chair: Dr. Sumeet Sekhon, Independent Researcher Decolonizing development: reflections on a 30 year career Carleton University, Canada Bridging Traditional Project Management and Sustainable Development in Global Development Project Delivery: A Conceptualization-Oriented Review University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom Myopic Machines: Large Language Models and the Pluriverse University of Guelph, Canada The Colonial Grammar of Development: A Decolonial Critique University of Toronto, Canada |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
2.4.2: Decolonization & Knowledge Location: Room A302 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Christine Gibb, University of Ottawa Chair: Lina Aburas Awadalla, Univeristy of Ottawa Disability-Inclusive Methods of Data Collection in Doctoral Research: Unpacking a Visually Impaired Investigator's Research in Nigeria University of Ottawa, Canada Beyond the Developed–Developing Divide: Indigenous Knowledge, Social Movements, and Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development Brandon University, Brandon, MB |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
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 |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
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 |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
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 |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
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 |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
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) |