CASID 2026 Conference
June 9 - 12, 2026
Conference Program
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: Room A304 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
1.1.3: Social Movements & Resistance Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Steffi Hamann, York University Chair: Mariam Sène, University of Ottawa Whose Voices Count? Marginalized Groups and Participation in Community Benefit Agreements in Ghana McMaster University, Canada Survival, Conversion, and Belonging: Missionary-Led Development and Marginalized Hindu Bhil Communities in Rural Pakistan York University, Canada (Mis)use of Climate Finance and the Politics of Development Aid in Bangladesh University of New Brunswick, Canada |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
1.2.3: Migration & Diaspora Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Rita Dhungel, University of the Fraser Valley Chair: Chris Little, York University ‘Coerced’ Carers?: Examining the temporality and conditionality of citizenship and legal status for care workers with forced migration backgrounds York University, Canada Relational Agency in Resettlement: Afghan Women Navigating Care, Space, and Belonging University of Ottawa From Global Skills to Local Barriers: Skilled Immigrant Women, Agency, and Integration in Canada York University, Canada |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
2.1.3: Migration & Diaspora Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Practitioner & Research Perspectives Presentations of the Symposium Listening to Women Migrant Workers: Policy Gaps and Gendered Challenges in Canada’s Temporary Labour System Harvesting Freedom: Systemic Challenges and Lived Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada Transnational structural disempowerment and spaces for worker agency among Guatemalan migrant farmworkers in Canada |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
2.2.3: Migration & Diaspora Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Christine Gibb, University of Ottawa Chair: Lina Aburas Awadalla, Univeristy of Ottawa Guatemalan temporary migrant farmworkers in Canada, developmental possibilities and the viability of smallholder agriculture in communities of origin York University, Canada Reciprocity, Generosity, and Control: The Politics of Humanitarianism in Colombia’s Response to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis McGill University, Canada The Role of Digitalization and Institutional Quality in Shaping Immigrant Social Capital and Urban Neighbourhood Revitalization. 1: Pure City International; 2: Datalink Institute; 3: University of Ghana, Legon; 4: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; 5: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; 6: University of Applied Management |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
2.3.3: Gender & Feminist Studies Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Chair: Dr. Rita Dhungel, University of the Fraser Valley Chair: Mariam Sène, University of Ottawa Reworking Empowerment: Women’s NGOs and the Global-Local Politics of Development in Amman, Jordan York University, Canada Beyond Gender Binaries: Colonial Legacies and Transgender Persons Vulnerability in the face of 2022 floods in Pakistan University of Ottawa, Pakistan The PEKKA Model: Social Entrepreneurship as Collective Action and Political Voice in Indonesian Women’s Empowerment York University, Canada Does Women's Participation in Politics and Income Inequality Affect Social and Economic Well-Being? Insights from Sub-Saharan African Countries 1: University of Ghana, Legon; 2: Datalink Institute; 3: Pure City International; 4: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (Czechia); 5: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (Czechia); 6: University of Applied Management |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
2.4.3: Social Movements & Resistance Location: Room A304 Zoom Link Education Under Attack: Scholasticide, Research Destruction, and Resilient Internationalism in Gaza Presentations of the Symposium Restriction to Destruction: Research and Higher Education in Gaza Scholasticide and Resilience: Education as a Site of Survival in Gaza. Working With Palestinian Institutions: The Palestine Research Cluster as a Model for Ethical International Cooperation |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
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 |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
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 |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
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 |
| 10:30am - 11:45am |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
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 |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
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 |