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Please join us for the Department of Political Studies 2025 Honours Thesis Colloquium!

Friday, April 4, 2025

10:00am - 3:20pm

Staff Learning Room at Stauffer Library

Light lunch served

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AGENDA

Opening Remarks – Rachel Laforest, Undergraduate Chair | 10 AM

Panel 1 | 10:05-11:05 AM

• Sydney Robinson: Stakeholder Influence and Policy Outcomes of Climate Legislation: A Case Study of Bill C-12

• Santiago Palacios: NATO’s Burden Sharing Dilemma: What Can Canada Learn from a Latvian Defence Doctrine

• Hugo Savoeda:  New Chains, Same Hands: The reshaping of the world system and South – South relations of dependence

Panel 2 | 11:05-12:05 PM

• Lauren Hood:  Sex: An Object of Desire and Mankind’s Greatest Weapon

• Julian King:  The Chicken or the Egg?: Strategic Culture under Authoritarianism Examined Through the Lens of Vladimir Putin and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

• Cordelia Jamieson:  Roadblocks for Civic Involvement: Gender-Based Geographic Barriers to State-Level Political Candidacy in the Contiguous United States

12:05-12:30 Lunch Break (light lunch will be served)

Panel 3 | 12:30-1:30 PM

• Rachel Starkman:  The evolution of political debates in the United States

• Cara Mackenzie: Democratic Backsliding in India

• Ariana Wilson-Mcdermid: The Influence of Indigenous Cultural Practices on Marine Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparison Between Canada and New Zealand

• Rachel McNeil: HIV/AIDS and Climate Crisis in Africa: Disparities in Governmental Response Between the Global North and the Global South

Panel 4 | 1:30-2:30 PM

• Roan Szucs: A Debate Between Democracy and Her Alternatives

• Janica Arevalo: Combatting Violence Against Women in Canadian Politics

• Cameron Christie: Balancing Act: Canada’s Arctic Strategy and Responding to Great Power Competition

• Gaoxiang Fan: The discourse on Canadian skills: the process of middle-class nation-building and the social and political consequences of rapid immigration policies

Panel 5 | 2:30-3:15 PM

• Yamna Asim:  The Treatment of Hijras Before and After British Colonialization

• Pauli Jacobs: Evolution, Disparities and Service Delivery in Youth Mental Health: A Comparative Case Study of Urban and Rural Ontario

• Lizzie Liteplo: Canada’s Involvement in Overseas Conflict: Navigating International Engagement

3:15-3:20 - Closing remarks – Rachel Laforest