CONFERENCE AGENDA

Rooms: Regent Room

              Heritage Room

              Rosedale Room

6:00 - 7:00pm     Cocktails & Welcoming Remarks at CIGI

Ramesh Thakur, CIGI Distinguished Fellow and Conference Co-Chair               

7:00-9:00pm        Reception at CIGI

                                Keynote speaker - MJ Akbar, Editor-in-Chief, Covert Magazine

8:00-9:00 am       Breakfast in Regent Room

9:00-10:30 am    

Session 1:            Globalization and Accountable Global Governance 

(Heritage)               Chair: Ramesh Thakur, CIGI

• - Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick),"Global Governance, Accountability and Civil Society
• - Pamela Mbabazi (Mbarara University of Science and Technology), "Civil Society and Accountability in the Commonwealth"
• - Saied Ameli (University of Tehran), "Civil Society and Accountability in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Which Good Governance and for What Purpose?"
• - Peter I. Hajnal (University of Toronto), "Civil Society and G8 Accountability."
• - Mawaki Chango (University of Syracuse) "Accountability through Civil Society in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,"

Session 2:            Global Society - Inevitable? 

(Rosedale)              Chair: Alla Glinchikova, Russian Academy of Sciences

• - Ren Xiao (Fudan University), "Understanding Civil Society in China"
• - Tasansu Turker (Ankara University), "State-motivated Civil Society in Turkey: The Inevitability of an Oxymoron."
• - Anand Kumar (Jawarhalal Nehru University), "South-Asian Context of Global Civil Development."
• - Edgardo Lander (Universidad Central de Venezuela), "The Discourse of Civil Society and Current Decolonization Struggles in Latin America,"
• - Alla Glinchikova (Russian Academy of Sciences), "‘Sovereign Democracy' as a new national ideology in Modern Russia. From ‘civil' to ‘sovereign'."

10:30-11:00 am  Break Regent Room

11:00- 12:30pm

Session 1:            Globalization and National Autonomy 

(Heritage)          Chair : John Forrer, The George Washington University

• - William D. Coleman (McMaster University), "Contemporary Globalization, Technology and Cultural Autonomy."
• - Diana Brydon (University of Manitoba), " Nation-State Autonomy: How Globalizing Processes Complicate the Concept,"
• - Luk Van Langenhove (UNU-CRIS), " Regionalism as a Response of States to Globalisation,"
• - Ragayah Haji Mat Zin (University of Kabangsaan) "Does Globalization Restrict Malaysian Policy Space in Poverty Eradication?"

Session 2:            Peoples' Movements, Popular Culture, and Populism: Can Civil Society Civilize Globalization? 

(Rosedale)           Chair: Josephine C. Dionisio, University of the Philippines

• - Sarah Raymundo (University of the Philippines), " Seeing Through Globalization's Visual Economy,"
• - Nicole Curato (University of Birmingham), "Disciplining Populism through Discursive Democracy,"
• - Grazielle Furtado Alves da Costa (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) "Between ‘Just Warriors' and ‘Beautiful Souls' - Gender and Security in Colombia
• - Jonathan Mafukidze (African Migration Alliance), "Migration, Gender and Narratives of Victimhood: Perspectives, Perceptions and Experiences of Zimbabwean Migrants and their South African Hosts in Pretoria and Thohoyandou."

12:30 - 2:30         Lunch in the Regent Room

Keynote Garth le Pere, Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogue in South Africa

2:30 - 4:00

Session 1:            Transnational Crime and The Global War on Terror: Security Perspectives from the Caribbean 

(Regent)            Chair: Jessica Byron, University of West Indies

• - Dana Marie Morris( University of West Indies), "Regulating the Elusive: The Impact of the Globalization of Finance on Caribbean Security,"
• - Lucy Eugene(University of West Indies), "Money Laundering Development and the Role of International Institutions in Providing an Acceptable Regulatory Framework,"
• - Suzette Haughton (University of West Indies), "Globalisation and Transnational Crime: An Anglophone Caribbean Perspective,"
• - Jessica Byron (University of West Indies), "Rethinking Regional Security Governance in an Age of Global Terror: The Case of CARICOM."
• - Rodrigo Álvarez (FLACSO), "The Security Sector Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean"

4:00 - 4:30pm    Break - Regent Room

4:30-6:00pm   

Session 1:            The Relevance of the National in Transnational Collective Action in the South 

(Regent)                               Chair: Jorge Heine, CIGI

• - Marisa von Bülow (University of Brazil), «The Paradox of the Rise of Transnationalism and the Relevance of National Claims,"
• - Enrique Peruzzotti (Di Tella National University), "Domestic Advocacy Networks and Global Governance Regimes: Mobilising Children's Rights in Argentina after the Convention of the Rights of the Child."
• - Ricardo A. Gutierrez (San Martin National University), "Global Production, Local Protest, and Diplomatic Conflict: The Uruguay River Pulp Mills Projects."

6 :00-7 :00            Annual General Meeting

7:30-9:00pm         Dinner- Regent Room

                                Keynote: Jorge Heine, CIGI Distinguished Fellow

8:00-9:30 am       Breakfast - Regent Room

9:30- 11am         

Session 1:            Terrorism in the Context of Contemporary forms of Transnational Violence

(Heritage)               Chair: Ramesh Thakur, CIGI

• - Ram Rattan Sharma (Jawarhalal Nehru University), "Terrorism in the Context of Contemporary Forms of Transnational Violence,"
• - Paul James (RMIT), "Deferral of Exterminism in the Global Imaginary." (registered)
• - Zhang Jiadong (Fudan University), "Terrorism: Implications in a Globalized World."
• - Rekha Chowdhary (Jammu University), "Terrorism and Political Movement: A Case Study of Kashmir,"
• - William Coleman( McMaster University), "Security, Militarism and Empire: Reflections on the Writings of Chalmers Johnsons."
• - SD Muni (Institute of South Asian Studies) "Globalization and South Asian Insurgencies,"

Session 2:             Cross-Border Exchange: An Examination of Human and Arms Trafficking

(Rosedale)              Chair: Ken Epps, Project Plougshares

• - Kristen Foot (University of Washington), "Actors, Activities, and Online Networks in the Anti-Human Trafficking Movement,"
• - Dorcas Onigbinde (ACCORD), "Arms Trafficking in West Africa: Civil Society's Contributions to Security Reforms,"
• - Matiu Adejo, (Bennu Statte University), "The Failure of Development and rise of Brain-drain and Human trafficking in Global Setting: The Sub-Saharan African Situation."

11:00-11:30   Break - Regent Room

11:30-1:00pm

Session 1:            Globalization and Uncivil Society

(Regent)                 Chair: Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick

• - Garth le Pere and Brendan Vickers (Institute for Global Dialogue) - "Globalization and Uncivil Society: The African Connection."
• - Marlon Anatol (University of West Indies) - "The Possibility of Developing a Sustainable Developing Economy in Trinidad and Tobago despite the Present State of Affairs re: Globalization and the Influence of Drug Trafficking on the Local Economy."
• - Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun (Benson Idahosa University), "China-Africa Economic and Trade Relations vs. Bretton Woods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Its Implications for Human and Environmental Security."
• - Ajay K. Mehra, (Jammia Millia Islamia), "Old Revolution, New Context: Maoism in a Globalizing India."

1:00-3:00pm  Lunch in the  Regent Room

End of Conference