2024 Honours Thesis Colloquium

Date

Friday April 5, 2024
10:00 am - 2:40 pm

Location

Event Category

Please join us for the Department of Political Studies 2024 Honours Thesis Colloquium!

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10:00-10:05 AM – Opening Remarks | Kaitie Jourdeuil, coordinator

Panel 1 | 10:05-11:05 AM

Emily Wilson: “The ‘First Victim,’ and the ‘Noble Reconciler,’: National myths, memory, and misremembrance in Austria and Canada” Discussant – Jana Walkowski
Sarah Hamm: “United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Nearly twenty-five years later: Where are the women now?” Discussant – Shola Ogunnubi
Sadie McIntosh: “Assessing the Role of Human Security in Africa’s Natural Resource Governance: An Agential Constructivist Approach” Discussant – Shola Ogunnubi

11:05-11:10 AM – Break (light refreshments served)

Panel 2 | 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM

Ameila Gordanier: “Evolving Narratives of Indigeneity: A Discourse Analysis of Linguistic Changes in Newspaper Media” Discussant – Shola Ogunnubi
Ella Granger: "Genocidal Processes in Authoritarian and Democratic States: the Indigenous vs the Kurds" Discussant – Jana Walkowski
Leonie Saint-Arnaud: "The Proto Genocide of the Uyghurs: In Conversation with Members of the Uyghur Diaspora" Discussant – Jana Walkowski

12:10-12:30 PM - Lunch (light lunch served)

Panel 3 | 12:30-1:30 PM

Lauren Oswald: “Understanding Variations in the Global War on Terror” Discussant – Émile Lambert-Deslandes
Isabela Rittinger: “LGBTQ2S+ Genocide: The Failure of International Law” Discussant – Cindy Cruz
Greg Brown: “Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism” Discussant – Yerin Chung

1:30-1:35 Break (light refreshments served)

Panel 4 | 1:35-2:35 PM

Maddy Ritter: “Reimagined Pathways: Exploring the Role of the Third Sector in the Canadian Basic Income Movement” Discussant – Chelsea Dunn
Adrienne Cross: “Navigating Motherhood in Canada Amidst and Beyond COVID-19's Impact on Social and Economic Realities: Has COVID-19 shattered the contemporary perception of motherhood in Canada by imposing heightened burdens and barriers on mothers' social and economic standings?” Discussant – Cindy Cruz
Jessica Meleca: “A Gendered Analysis of Canadian Childcare Policy Through Media Perspectives” Discussant – Chelsea Dunn

2:35-2:40 PM – Closing remarks | Kaitie Jourdeuil