The School of Journalism and Communication presents

Reporting from the edge: journalists, trauma and personal security

with Sheila MacVicar

As a foreign correspondent for CBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, and host/correspondent for Al Jazeera, Sheila MacVicar (BJ’77) covered it all — global tensions and terrorism, war crimes and regional strife. Her journalism took her into troubled areas around the world, and earned her numerous accolades — among them, three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. But at what price?

Join MacVicar for a candid and insightful talk about her own experiences in the field, and the growing challenges facing journalists reporting from the edge.

More info: https://carleton.ca/sjc/cu-events/21st-annual-kesterton-lecture/

The Carleton University Commonwealth Student's Association is excited to announce that we will be holding the 2020 Winter Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on February 1st from 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. 

The topic of the meeting will be: Climate Change and the Implications for Economic Development and Food Security in the Commonwealth Community. 

Join student delegates from across the capital region in reaching consensus on pressing issues. There will be debates, discussions and resolutions on these issues, so preliminary research is advised. 

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the event, this conference is a forum at which post-secondary students are able to represent a Commonwealth country and come together to discuss, debate, negotiate, and come to consensus on international issues which impact the Commonwealth community.

Please be advised that SPACE IS LIMITED and that applicants will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.** Note: All registrants must be prepared to present valid student and government issued ID to security upon entering the CHOGM on the Hill event.

For more information on the event and to register for the event, please visit 

https://www.facebook.com/events/800314813727796/

Country Assignment Preference: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUP4lGZsIPnpNVNE-ZeuwGY5jQ3SCM69wh_q1Gd6sMD_M9dw/viewform 

DEADLINE TO REGISTER: January 27th

LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following email: president.cucsa@gmail.com

As part of the Faculty of Public Affairs Research Series, the Jean Monnet Network on EU-Canada Relations is pleased to host a one-day international research conference, Global Economic Relations in the Trump Era and After: Challenges for the EU and Canada.

These are challenging times for the world economy. The so-called liberal international economic order, which was developed in the aftermath of World War II, has become seriously compromised as a result of nationalist economic policies pursued by China, India and the United States under the presidency of Donald Trump. In contrast, the European Union (EU) and Canada continue to support and actively work to maintain an open, rules-based global economic regime.

This international research conference brings together eminent scholars from the fields of political science, economics and law to assess and discuss these trade and investment policy developments. Conference participants will also examine their impact on the global economy’s future as well as identify potential policy options that the EU and Canada, in cooperation with like-minded partners, should pursue in order to prevent global economic closure.

Registration is requested for this policy workshop, please register here: https://carleton.ca/caneunet/cu-events/research-workshop-global-economic-relations-in-the-trump-era-and-after/

This lecture will analyze Vladimir Putin’s views, opinions, and strategies as outlined by him during the Valdai Conference in the fall of 2019. Dr. Piotr Dutkiewicz will also discuss his interactions with the Russian President.

Light refreshments will be served.

Learn more: https://carleton.ca/eurus/cu-events/public-lecture-vladimir-putin-an-algorithm-of-power-with-professor-piotr-dutkiewicz/

Detecting Social Network Effects on Willingness to Pay for Environmental Improvements using Egocentric Network Measures

We are social animals, and how much we care about the environment is likely influenced by those we associate with. However, most nonmarket valuation studies in economics do not consider people’s social ties. This is partly due to the fact that the development of economic models demonstrating the importance of social networks for individual willingness to pay is relatively recent. Theoretical results are largely based on completely mapped social networks, which are generally impossible to map. We explore the use of practical, local network measures.

John Janmaat is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. He currently holds a Regional Innovation Chair in Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability. His current research includes looking for a signature of drinking water quality in housing prices, measuring the willingness to pay for small environmental projects, and examining the opportunities and challenges for agricultural adaptation to climate change in the Okanagan and Cariboo regions of British Columbia. Prof. Janmaat holds an MBA in concentration finance and a PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics and Econometrics.

More info: https://events.carleton.ca/sppa-research-seminar-series-john-janmaat/

All are invited to attend Visiting Professor Katie Cruz (University of Bristol Law School) for a talk on the rights of sex workers.

Over the past 30 years, the demand for sex workers’ rights has gained momentum. In this talk, I apply a Marxist feminist legal approach to the use of rights by sex workers. Liberal legal rights must, I argue, be assessed historically and contextually according to their potential to chip away at the unfreedom (dispossession and dehumanisation) of workers that capitalism tends towards. Using England as a case study I sketch out the possibilities and limits of a particular civil rights strategy (the right to privacy) for limiting sex workers’ unfreedom.

More info: https://events.carleton.ca/within-and-against-the-law-sex-work-marxist-feminism-and-the-politics-of-rights/

The third annual Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture will be delivered by the CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault, award-winning senior correspondent and a host of The National. Please see the attached poster for more details and feel free to circulate it.

Her lecture – The New Frontline – will draw on her extensive experience covering conflict and security issues nationally and internationally.

For details, and to obtain tickets: https://carleton.ca/sjc/cu-events/3rd-annual-peter-stursberg-foreign-correspondents-lecture-with-adrienne-arsenault/

Please see attached for information on an upcoming event being hosted by BGInS.  We are excited to welcome Dr. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz from Loyola University Chicago for Deported but Not Defeated in Mexico City, which is a talk being held on November 13th from 5:30 to 7PM in 2017 Dunton Tower.  An abstract is available in the attached poster.

Please RSVP by e-mailing: bgins@carleton.ca.

Dr. Gomberg-Muñoz is an Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago and her current work involves collaboration with deportee rights activists in Mexico City and anti-deportation organizers in Chicago.  She is the author of two books, Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network (2011) and Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed Status Families (2016), as well as numerous scholarly articles and other writings.

Please see this abstract for more info.

Free one-day student seminar with presentations from leading policy experts, Q&A, and informal discussions. Lunch is included.

Learn more and register here: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/event/ottawa-post-secondary-student-seminar-2-Nov-2019

Room 2017 in Dunton Tower starting at 1:00pm followed by a reception at 2:30pm.

Abstract

The experience of Black Canadians is largely absent from Canadian history books. One of the few employment options open to Black men in the last century was to work as sleeping car porters on Canada’s transcontinental railroads, often for no wages other than tips. Dr. Foster has done extensive research on the harsh lives of these men, and their determination to win respect for their labour. He will explore how their story, which was invisible for too long, forces us to re-examine many underlying assumptions about what constitutes this country’s history. He argues that Canada’s reputation for diversity rests on the shoulders of the porters’ struggles.

Speaker Bio

Cecil Foster is an acclaimed author, academic and public intellectual. Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Buffalo, he is a leading authority on social justice and multiculturalism. His latest book is They Call Me George: the Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Canada.

Learn more: https://events.carleton.ca/shannon-lecture-2-challenging-the-white-mans-country-narrative-how-black-railway-porters-fought-for-civil-rights-equality-and-inclusion/

Political Science Speaker Series Event
Catriona Gold, University College London

In the years immediately following WWII, the travelling American emerged as a hotly-debated domestic and foreign policy concern. Some policymakers sought to consolidate the US’ economic and cultural might by producing and facilitating the travel of ‘desirable’ Americans, e.g. in connection with the Marshall Plan; others were most concerned with curtailing the travel of Americans deemed ‘subversive’. Both approaches came to intersect in the US Passport Office, which during the 1950s and 60s underwent an unprecedented expansion under the controversial directorship of Frances Knight (1955-1977). Drawing upon detailed archival research at the Library of Congress and the US National Archives, this presentation charts how the Passport Office under Knight rose from relative obscurity to become a central arena for — and actor in — these debates, ultimately exerting profound influence on the development of US travel policy and travel itself.

Catriona Gold is a PhD candidate at University College London and a Visiting Scholar at Carleton’s Political Science department. Her current research concerns shifting policy approaches to American citizens’ travel during the Cold War, with a particular focus on the US Passport Office. She is a political geographer and mobility scholar by training, with previous degrees from the University of British Columbia, University College London, and the University of Nottingham. Catriona’s current research and her visit to Carleton are funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council; her PhD fieldwork in Washington DC was facilitated by a six-month fellowship at the Library of Congress, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Learn more: https://events.carleton.ca/ugly-americans-v-passport-ogress-cold-war-travel-policy-and-the-us-passport-office/

Author Meets Readers invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.

About the Book

“Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance” offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges, there is an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a more active role in building social justice and ecological sustainability. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the United States, Europe and New Zealand, this book showcases promising ways forward for civil society actors to engage in governance.

About the Editor: Peter Andrée is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. His research focuses on the politics of food and the environment. He practices, and teaches, community-based participatory research methods.

About the Panel: Peter Andrée will be joined by Moe Garahan (Executive Director of Just Food) and Sarah Berger Richardson (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law).

This event is part of the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival.

Register here: https://carleton.ca/fpa/cu-events/food-system-governance-amr/

Glorious and Free? Making sense of Canadian foreign policy in an era of nationalism, populism and illiberalism

Join iAffairs, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in the Richcraft Hall Atrium for an event that will take a critical look at the foreign policy record of the current administration whilst assessing Canada's place moving forward as an actor on the global stage.

Past foreign policy reports can be found here: http://iaffairscanada.com/2019/2019-trudeau-report-card/

Refreshments provided!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/glorious-and-free-making-sense-of-canadian-foreign-policy-in-an-era-of-nationalism-populism-and-tickets-74283647389

Professor Len Findlay

University of Saskatchewan

Tues. Sept. 24 @ 4pm

1811 Dunton Tower

This talk defends the use of the term “genocide” in the 2019 report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Against claims that the term is a distraction, a case of unfortunate over-reach, or a distortion, Dr. Findlay situates this use of the term in the shift from the Eurocentric to what he calls the Solidarity Humanities. In this shift, disciplines deeply implicated in colonialism on Turtle Island work to decolonize themselves through a radical (and radicalizing) post-colonial understanding and practice of Indigenous-humanistic teaching, scholarship, and political struggle.

Len Findlay is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, former Director of the Humanities Research Unit and founding member of the Indigenous Humanities Group at the University of Saskatchewan.

Co-sponsored by the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of English Language and Literature.

https://carleton.ca/english/cu-events/who-is-free-to-speak-of-genocide-mmiwg-political-discourse-and-the-solidarity-humanities/