British Columbia Poltical Studies Association
2015 Annual Conference Program - Simon Fraser University - West Mall Centre
THURSDAY, MAY 7
8:30-9:00
Coffee & Registration - West Mall Lounge
9:00-10:30
1a - IPE
WMC 3210
Discussant:
Paul Rowe, TWU
Mark Froese
Canadian
U College
Muhammad Atif Kahn
McGill
Brian Murata
SFU
10:30-11:10:45
10:45-12:15
Coffee - West Mall Lounge
2a - IR
Martin Gaal
WMC 3210
Discussant:
Alex Moens, SFU
2b - Canadian
WMC 3250
Discussant:
Josh Gordon, SFU
12:30 -1:30
1:30-3:00
3a - IPE/Pub Pol
WMC 3210
Discussant:
Robert Crawford,
UBC
3b - Theory
WMC 3250
Discussant:
Matt James, Uvic
Linda Elmose
Mapping the Scope of Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements:
Implications for 21st Century Multilateralism
The Political Economy of Regionalization in the Middle East and North Africa:
Problems and Prospects
Navigating the Blackened Waters: The Future of Canada’s Oil Economy in a
Changing International Environment
Identity and Foreign Policy: Accounting for the Perception of ‘Role’ in Neoclassical
Realism
Okanagan Rethinking Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada’s Place in the World: Elements of
Coll
a Canada/Asia Strategy
USask
Allan Warnke
VIU
Derek Cook
TRU
Stephen Elliott-Buckley,
CUPE
et al
Lunch - West Mall Lounge
SFU, PSA, and the early years…
Bill C-51 and the Threat to Tenure from the Federation of Post-Secondary
Educators in BC
Working Vulnerable: Exploring Precarity and Intersectionality in 3 Sectors in the
Public Services
Steve McBride
McMaster Constitutionalizing Austerity: Taking the Public out of Public Policy
Peter Prontzos
Langara
The Greek Crisis
Qinghua Yi
SFU
Rethinking Representative Claim: Counter Claim and Its Implications
Cara Camcastle
SFU
Modern Liberalism and Environmentalism
Sabina Singh
UVic
Beyond the nation: democratisation and the politics of dispensation
3:00-3:15
3:15-4:30
Coffee - West Mall Lounge
4a - Canadian
Kelly Blidook
Memorial Representation in Action: Observing Canadian MPs at Home and in Ottawa
Matt James
UVic
Stephen Phillips
Langara
Duncan Low
SFU
Michael Oram
SFU
Vincent Hopkins
SFU
WMC 3210
Discussant:
Gerry Baier, UBC
4b - Urban/Pub Pol
WMC 3250
Discussant:
Catherine Murray,
SFU
Evaluating Redress Culture from the Standpoint of Democratizing Citizenship
Reflections on the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in Australia and its
Lessons for Canada
The Marquee Tourism Event Program: Does the Implementation of Creative City
Policies Advance or Hinder Artistic Creativity in the Professional Arts Sector
The Capacity of Calgary’s Growth Machine: An Analysis of the City of Calgary’s
Policy Capacity as a Growth Machine
Revisiting Policy Entrepreneurship: Incentives, Policy Sectors, and State Capacity
4:30-5:00 WMC3250 BCPSA - Annual General Meeting
5:00-8:00
No Host - Informal Drinks & dinner at Club Ilia - Located in the Conerstone Bldg (east side of campus)
www.clubilia.com
FRIDAY, MAY 8
8:30-9:00
Coffee - West Mall Lounge
9:00-12:15
BC Political Science Articulation Meetings - WMC 3253
9:00-10:30
5a - Canadian/theory Susan Kim
WMC 3250
Chair:
Andrew Heard, SFU
UVic
Consuming like a Colonizer: Uncovering Scientific Colonial Power/Knowledge in
the Modern Food System
A Paradox of Engagement? Struggles for Reproductive Justice in Canada’s
Chemical Valley
Sarah Weibe
UVic
5b - IR
Douglas Ross
SFU
The Tragedy of the Nuclear-Armed Great Powers
WMC 3210
Discussant:
Nancy Teeple
SFU
Conceptualizing Offence-Defence Theory for 21st Century Nuclear Deterrence
Stepphen Elliott-Buckley,
CUPE
Seychelle Cushing
SFU
Hero? Traitor? Threat. The Impact of Snowden on Canada's Cyber Security
10:30-11:10:45
10:45-12:15
Coffee - West Mall Lounge
6a - Urban
Mark Friesen
WMC 3250
Shaughnessy Sturdy
Discussant:
Kevin Ginnell, Douglas
Brian Butt
6b - IR
WMC 3210
Chair:
Douglas Ross, SFU
SFU
SFU
SFU
Metropolitan Governance: Democracy and the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth
Strategy
From Government to Governance: The City of Toronto’s Role in Immigrant
Settlement Service Coordination since the Canada-Ontario Immigration
Agreement
Pulling Together: Assessing Regional Governance and Planning in the St. John’s
City-region
Érick Duchesne
Laval
Motives in Allocating Food Aid
James Busumtwi-Sam
& Rina Kashyap
SFU
The UN and the 'Mainstreaming' of Human Security: An Institutional Perspective
Anil Hira
SFU
Climate Change Adaptation: A Challenge without a Framework
12:15 -1:30
Lunch - West Mall Lounge
Keynote speaker
Kennedy Stewart
House of
Commons/SFU
The Political Scientist as MP
Brendan Boyd
UVic
The effect of California’s example on climate change policy in BC
Pepperdine
The Causes of Voting and Turnout for the 2002 Aboriginal Treaty Negotiations
Referendum in British Columbia, Canada
SFU
Chasing the Dollars in BC Municipal Elections
1:40-3:00
7a - BC/Pub Pol
WMC 3250
Joel Fetzer
Discussant:
Cara Camcastle, SFU
Patrick Smith
7a- Comparative
WMC 3210
Round Table on UK Election
Jeanette Ashe
Douglas
Stephen McBride
McMaster
Stephen Phillips
Langara
3:00-3:15
3:15-4:30
Coffee - West Mall Lounge
8 - Canadian
Round Table on BC & Canadian Politics
WMC 3210
Kevin Ginnell
Douglas
BC Politics
Chair: Derek Cook,
TRU
Hamish Telford
UFV
Canadian Politics
List of Participants
Name
Jeanette Ashe
Affiliation
Douglas
Email
Gerry Baier
UBC
geraldbaier@gmail.com
Kelly Blidook
Memorial
kblidook@mun.ca
Brendan Boyd
Uvic
bboyd@uvic.ca
James Busumtwi-Sam
SFU
jbusumtw@sfu.ca
Brian Butt
SFU
bhbutt@gmail.com
Cara Camcastle
SFU
ccamcast@sfu.ca
Derek Cook
TRU
dcook@tru.ca
Robert Crawford
UBC
robert.crawford@ubc.ca
Seychelle Cushing
SFU
scushing@sfu.ca
Érick Duchesne
Laval
erick.duchesne@pol.ulaval.ca
ashej@douglascollege.ca
Stephen Elliott-Buckley CUPE
sbuckley@cupe.ca
Linda Elmose
Okanagan Coll
LElmose@okanagan.bc.ca
Joel Fetzer
Pepperdine
joel.fetzer@pepperdine.edu
Mark Friesen
SFU
mark_friesen@sfu.ca
Mark Froese
Canadian U College
mfroese@cauc.ca
Martin Gaal
USask
martin.g.gaal@gmail.com
Kevin Ginnell
Douglas
kginnell@sfu.ca
Josh Gordon
SFU
jga75@sfu.ca
Andrew Heard
SFU
aheard@sfu.ca
Anil Hira
SFU
ahira@sfu.ca
Vincent Hopkins
SFU
vrhopkin@sfu.ca
Matt James
UVic
mattjame@uvic.ca
Muhammad Atif Kahn
McGill
muhammad.atif.khan@mcgill.ca
Rina Kashyap
SFU
rkashyap@sfu.ca
Susan Kim
UVic
kimsusan@uvic.ca
Duncan Low
SFU
djlow@telus.net
Steve McBride
McMaster
mcbride@mcmaster.ca
Alex Moens
SFU
moens@sfu.ca
Brian Murata
SFU
bmurata@sfu.ca
Catherine Murray
SFU
murraye@sfu.ca
Michael Oram
SFU
moram@sfu.ca
Stephen Phillips
Langara
sphillips@langara.bc.ca
Peter Prontzos
Langara
pprontzos@langara.bc.ca
Douglas Ross
SFU
douglasr@sfu.ca
Paul Rowe
TWU
paul.rowe@twu.ca
Sabina Singh
UVic
sabina@sabinasingh.com
Patrick Smith
SFU
psmith.sfu@gmail.com
Kennedy Stewart
House of Commons/SFU
kennedy.stewart@parl.gc.ca
Shaughnessy Sturdy
SFU
s_sturdy@hotmail.com
Nancy Teeple
SFU
nteeple@sfu.ca
Hamish Telford
UFV
hamish.telford@ufv.ca
Allan Warnke
VIU
allan_warnke@hotmail.com
Sarah Weibe
UVic
swiebe@uvic.ca
Qinghua Yi
SFU
qyi@sfu.ca