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SUMMARY:WatPEG Welcome Event: “International Political Economy as a Global Conversation” with special lead-off speaker Dr. Julissa Castro-Silva
DESCRIPTION:The Waterloo Political Economy Group (WatPEG) is hosting a welcome lunch and meet-and-greet. This will be an opportunity for members to connect with other students and academics interested in political economy and chat about the state of the world economy over delicious food and drinks. \nThe event will also include a discussion of “International Political Economy as a Global Conversation”. We are delighted that Dr. Julissa Castro-Silva (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) has agreed to lead off the discussion. She will speak about her latest research on Andean international political economy\, highlighting voices and practices that have traditionally been overlooked and which have shaped the political economy from and/or towards the central Andes. \nWatPEG is open to all faculty\, graduate students and researchers at the University of Waterloo\, Wilfrid Laurier University\, the Balsillie School of International Affairs\, and the Centre for International Governance Innovation\, who are interested in the study of political economy. WatPEG also serves as the Balsillie School’s Global Political Economy research cluster. \nAbout the speaker \nDr Julissa Castro-Silva holds a PhD in International Studies from FLACSO-Ecuador. She is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Previously\, she worked as a specialist at the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a lecturer at the Peruvian Diplomatic Academy. In 2024\, she was awarded the ‘LAC Early Career Scholar Award’ by the International Studies Association (ISA). Her research interests lie in Latin American regionalism\, International Political Economy\, and policy networks. \nThis event is open only to the BSIA and CIGI community\, including all UW and Laurier faculty and students. \nPhoto credit: Canva
URL:https://balsillieschool.ca/event/watpeg-welcome-event-international-political-economy-as-a-global-conversation-with-special-lead-off-speaker-dr-julissa-castro-silva/
LOCATION:Room 1-42\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Global Political Economy Research Cluster
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SUMMARY:The Everynight in Israel/Palestine: Palestinian Construction Labor\, Israeli Economy\, and the Logistical Calibration of Time and Space
DESCRIPTION:This talk presents a historical-anthropological examination of Israel’s reliance on Palestinians from the occupied territories (West Bank and Gaza) as construction workers\, focusing on the long-standing policy prohibiting them from staying overnight inside Israel and the wide-ranging consequences of how this reliance and prohibition interact. Based on an ongoing research project with Yael Berda\, this work contributes to the study of colonial infrastructures\, specifically in relation to racial capitalism and statecraft calibrations between economic interest\, political agenda\, and national ideology. Drawing on archival research and interviews\, this research theorizes the prohibition as a “logistical valve” that correlates multiple colonial infrastructures of population management. The valve enables the efficient extraction of Palestinian labor without limiting “security” measures of surveillance and control. Thus\, the nocturnal prohibition crucially influences Palestinian social and economic life. The presentation provides a historical overview of the logistical valve\, highlighting three critical phases: (i) the late 1960s and early 1970s when the nocturnal prohibition took shape; (ii) the 1980s\, a period when the figure of the Palestinian construction worker became a prominent symbol in Israeli Hebrew culture; and (iii) the policy shift during the first COVID-19 lockdown\, a seemingly exceptional moment that exposed how the occupation structure dynamically aligns with neoliberal economy. The conclusion will contextualize Israel’s policies regarding Palestinian labor since October 2023. \nAbout the speaker \nOmri Grinberg is a political-legal and socio-cultural anthropologist who studies representations of violence\, focusing on the production and circulation of human rights testimonies. His ethnographic and historical research examines dynamics between bureaucratic statecraft and NGO legal advocacy\, and the contested roles of archives in truth-making deliberations. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto\, where he held a Vanier Graduate Scholarship. His work has been published in such journals as Anthropologica\, International Journal of Human Rights\, and History & Memory (forthcoming). Parallel to academic research and teaching\, he works as a consultant with human rights NGOs. \nPhoto credit: Omri Grinberg
URL:https://balsillieschool.ca/event/the-everynight-in-israel-palestine-palestinian-construction-labor-israeli-economy-and-the-logistical-calibration-of-time-and-space/
LOCATION:Room 1-42\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Global Institutions, Diplomacy and Justice Research Cluster
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SUMMARY:On Treason: Alberta Separatism\, Foreign Interference\, and Canada’s Survival in a Revolutionary Age
DESCRIPTION:Born of fraud and the COVID-19 pandemic\, the Alberta separatist movement and its enablers in the quasi-separatist United Conservative Party are engaged in treason against the Canadian people. They wear the obscuring masks of grievance\, but behind those masks are the faces of traitors. On Treason reveals those faces to be a gaggle of hucksters\, conmen\, and megalomaniacal politicians who are enabling our enemies to loosen through disinformation\, covert and overt interference (and possibly worse) our will to self-determination as a nation. \nAbout the Speaker \nPatrick Lennox is a Canadian writer based in Edmonton\, Alberta. For over a decade he worked with Canada’s security and intelligence community in both Ottawa and in Edmonton to counter foreign interference. He first started writing about Canada-US relations twenty years ago\, and has a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. His previous works include At Home and Abroad: The Canada–US Relationship and Canada’s Place in the World\, and An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges and Choices for the Future\, co-edited with Brian Bow. \nPhoto credit: Patrick Lennox
URL:https://balsillieschool.ca/event/on-treason-alberta-separatism-foreign-interference-and-canadas-survival-in-a-revolutionary-age/
LOCATION:Room 1-42\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conflict and Security Research Cluster
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SUMMARY:Northern Defence: the Arctic and Canada's Sovereign Future
DESCRIPTION:Join the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Communitech for a screening of Northern Defence\, an independent documentary by filmmaker and BSIA graduate Dan Herman. \nAs geopolitical tensions rise\, and as melting sea ice opens northern sea routes\,  how Canada safeguards its northern frontier and the vast resources that lie nearby has become a question of immediate if not existential concern. Northern Defence explores this topic in a documentary style\, introducing its audience to the people\, places and companies who are at the forefront of keeping Canada’s sovereignty secure. The film examines Canada’s preparedness to project sovereignty in the Arctic\, and in so doing\, examines how a new generation of domestic defense companies may be at the heart of this sovereignty.  It weaves together perspectives from academic\, military and government officials\, technology companies\, and Arctic residents to reveal how Canada’s sovereignty is at risk and how it can be protected. \nFollowing the screening\, a panel discussion will explore Canada’s Arctic\, questions of sovereignty and security\, and the defence technology ecosystem required to protect Canada’s interests in the North. \nThe discussion will feature Northern Defence producer Dan Herman\, BSIA Director Ann Fitz-Gerald\, and additional guests from the defence and technology sectors.
URL:https://balsillieschool.ca/event/northern-defence-the-arctic-and-canadas-sovereign-future/
LOCATION:CIGI Auditorium\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Transpolitical Spanish-Sahrawi Relations: Migration\, Solidarity & Intimate Aid
DESCRIPTION:The recent humanitarian tragedy in Ceuta has plunged Spain into a political crisis that renders visible the afterlives of its colonial presence in Africa. Indeed\, the sudden arrival of close to 70.000 people to the shores of Ceuta this summer was preceded by another 8000 who had arrived on May 17\, 2021\, following a diplomatic dispute between Spain and Morocco over the pending decolonisation of Western Sahara; a territory currently under Moroccan occupation and listed as one of 17 remaining non-self-governing territories by the United Nations. Although the conflict over the Western Sahara is most often described as “stalled” into a zero-sum game between Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement\, known as the Polisario Front\, from an anthropological perspective\, the conflict is far from paralyzed since the Polisario has been able to sustain its resistance\, socially reproducing its project of Sahrawi nationalism to this day. \nCircular migration between Spain and Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria constitute an increasingly important terrain for the Polisario’s social reproduction. This talk describes how a growing Sahrawi diaspora is intimately connected to the existence of a large network of solidarity with the Polisario Front that has created significant kinship-like ties between Spanish [Castilian\, Catalan\, Andalucian\, Galician\, Basque\, Canarian] and Sahrawi families through humanitarian projects that have fostered hundreds of thousands of Sahrawi children in Spain since 1979\, supported the migration and higher education of thousands of these refugees once they become adults\, and preserved some visibility for the Sahrawi cause within Spain’s public sphere. It describes how the range of citizenship practices currently pursued by Sahrawi migrants overlaps with a highly diverse range of Spanish political agendas that have little in common other than their shared dissatisfaction with a post Francoist establishment. In this way\, the talk explores how Spanish-Sahrawi relations are implicated in the production and reproduction of political imaginaries that aspire to see contemporary European and Northwest African cartographies radically reconfigured. \nAbout the Speaker \nVivian Solana is an Associate Professor at Carleton University’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology in Ottawa\, Canada. Her long-term ethnographic research in Sahrawi refugee camps focused on the forms of female political labor that socially reproduce a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism in exile. At present\, she continues examining the reproduction of Sahrawi nationalism but this time through the lens of intimate Spanish-Sahrawi relations that support a growing Sahrawi diaspora in Spain. Her work can be found published in: American Ethnologist\, LÓuest Saharien\, History & Anthropology\, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review\, The Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East & MERIP.
URL:https://balsillieschool.ca/event/transpolitical-spanish-sahrawi-relations-migration-solidarity-intimate-aid/
LOCATION:Hybrid – Zoom and room 142\, 67 Erb Street West\, Waterloo\, ON\, N2L 6C2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster
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