Questioning Boundaries: A Political Economy Conference

Cultural Shifts, Daniel Tubb and Emma Lui
Last Modified: April 4, 2008
Issue: February 2008

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The Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University is holding its 9th annual graduate studies conference this week. In coming weeks, Cultural Shifts will be posting a selection of papers from the event.

If you are in Ottawa, Canada, and would like to attend, the conference details are below. The event is open and free to the general public .

QUESTIONING BOUNDARIES: The Political Economy of Access, Control and Representation

Carleton University, Arts Faculty Lounge, 2017 Dunton Tower
Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 8:30AM - 4:30PM

8:30AM Breakfast

8:45AM Opening Remarks

9-10:30AM Intellectual Property Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates and Sex Dolls

An inquiry into factors influencing Canadian policies related to pharmaceutical patents
Jason Wenczler, Political Economy
Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
Jim Dooley, Political Economy
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
Elizabeth Record, Political Economy
North American Integration and Copyright Policy: The Case of Canada
Blayne Haggart, Political Science
Discussant: Eliot Che, Political Economy

10:45-12:15PM Blurring the Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy

The Internationalization/Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti
Ray Silvius & Neil Burron, Political Science
Networks of Power: The World Water Council in Global and Local Contexts
Emma Lui, Political Economy
Spatial Strategies in the Policing of Protest: The Liberal Democratic State and the Contestation of Public Space
Andrew Crosby, Political Science
Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 Emeutes in France
Irina Mihalache, School of Journalism and Communication
Discussant: Daniel Tubb, Political Economy

12:15-1:15PM Lunch

1:15-2:45PM From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy

Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
Rachel Ariey-Jouglard, Political Science
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so new political imagination of spatially-bound identity
Christopher Alderson, Political Economy
Discussant: Benjamin Christensen, Sociology

3:00-4:30PM Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace

Networks of Struggle: Towards Dynamic Place-Based Unions in the Era of Work-Well-Fare
Matthew Lymburner, Political Economy
From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship Rights in Canada
Mary Rita Holland, Public Policy
Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace
Lesley Vaage, Canadian Studies
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
Mathew Nelson, Political Science
Discussant: Berrak Kabasakal, Political Economy

4:30PM Wine & Cheese

Sponsored by: Dean of Graduate Studies and Research; Dean of Public Affairs; Departments of
Geography, History, Law, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology; Graduate Students’
Association; Institute of Political Economy; School of Public Policy and Administration.

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Emma Lui is interested in human rights that are not normally considered human rights such as the right to water and the right to food. She is also interested in how international trade laws impact human rights and the environment.
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