DRAFT CONCURRENT SESSIONS SCHEDULE
CURRENT VERSION (30 SEPTEMBER, 2014)
Saturday, October 18
0830 - 1000
Session A – The experience of intervention
Panel Chair: Lisa Karlborg
Lisa Karlborg - The Soldier-Host Citizen Contract: U.S. Military Doctrine and the Ambivalent
Principles of Host Citizen Protection
Sami Makki - Looking for Best Practices in Crisis Management : a Comparative Analysis of
Standards and Procedures for Civil-Military Integration
Session B – Values, attitudes, and military intervention
Panel Chair: Morten Ender
Charles Kirke - ‘Values and Standards’ as a Command Leadership and Management Tool
Angelle Khachadoorian - What Would Custer Do?: Teaching An Understanding of Tribal Values to
American Military Personnel
Morten Ender - Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Transgender People
Victoria Tait – The Generational Transmission of Gender Stereotyping in CF Combat Arms
Session C – Canadian Peacekeeping in Perspective
Panel Chair: Joshua Libben
Joshua Libben - The Canadian Departure from Peacekeeping: The Role of Strategic Subcultures
in Troop Contributions
Rachel Lea Heide and John Alan Boyd - Preparing for Future Military Humanitarian Assistance
Operations: Canadian and American Perspectives and the Haiti 2010 Earthquake Case Study
Saturday, October 18
1030 – 1200
Session A – Militaries and Innovation
Panel Chair: Maya Eichler
Gary Schaub Jr. - Military Innovation: UAVs in the Canadian Forces
Maya Eichler and Krystel Chapman - Engendering Military Deployment: Female Soldiers and
Military Families in Canada
Ross McGarry – Doing Military Repatriation Research.
Session B – Implications and consequences of military choices
Panel Chair: John DeRosa
James Burk - Military Force and the Defense of Freedom
Srdjan Vucetic - The International Politics of Fighter Jet Transfers
John DeRosa - Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Kosovo
Adeolu Durotoye - International Response to Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
Session C – Security in the Arctic: Developing Whole of Government
Approaches
Panel Chair: Pitseolak Pfeifer
Karen D. Davis - Conducting Research on Impact of Military Operations in Arctic/Northern
Communities: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
Christian Leuprecht - Applying a National Security paradigm to Whole of Government in the
Arctic
Karen Everett & Emily Yamashita - Arctic Security and Sovereignty: A Whole of Government
Approach
Bill Bentley - A Strategy for Developing the Whole of Government (WofG) National Security
Professional
Saturday, October 18
1330 – 1500
Session A – Physical and mental health of military populations
Panel Chair: Isabelle Richer
Isabelle Richer - Physical and mental health correlates of subgroups of alcohol users among
Canadian military personnel: A latent class analysis
Suzanne Lederer, John Kunz, and Matthew McDonough - US Service member views about the
adequacy of wounded warrior units and programs: Results of two surveys
Rebecca J. Hannagan - I believe we are the fewer, the prouder”: Military sexual assault and
resilience from the perspective of female veterans
Megan Therrien and Sébastien Blanc - Validation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory on a
Canadian Military Sample
Session B - 21st Century Values and Competencies I
TIF panel
Session C – Advising for and by the military
Panel Chair: Mark Mayo
Mark C. Mayo - The Theft: Civil - Military Relations in the United States
Sami Makki - Thinks tanks, Academia, civil society and Government agencies: the French Debate
on National Security
Remi Hajjar - Military Advising: a Top Tier or Second Tier Mission?
Eyal Ben-Ari - Legal Advisors in the Armed Forces: Military Lawyers in the Israeli Defence Forces
as Mediators, Interpreters and Arbiters of Meaning during Operations
Saturday, October 18
1530-1700
Session A – F35: What’s new?
Panel Chair: Peter Gizewski
Robert Addinall - The Transformation, or not, of Armoured Vehicle Design, 1992 to 2008
Al Dizboni – F35: A survey of doctrinal and technological implications for Canada
Kerim Ousman – F-35: The missing military-strategic debate
Ugurhan G. Berkok - F-35 Decision: Analytical Notes on Economic Factors
Session B – West Point Cadet Panel
Panel Chair: Remi Hajjar
Session C - Research into practice: working with practitioners & policy makers
Panel Chair: Kerry Fosher
Kerry Fosher - The Tyranny of the Urgent and the Thugs of Things as They Are: Translational
Research in the Marine Corps
Frank Tortorello, Jr. - The Misuse of Quantification in Explaining Stress and Resilience among
United States Marines
Zoe Morrison - Working together: research programme integration and knowledge exchange to
inform policy and practice
Sunday, October 19
0900-1030
Session A – 21st century values and competencies II
TIF panel
Session B – Organizational design, organizational change, organizational
culture
Panel Chair: Irina Goldenberg
Michael Thompson - Paul Hellyer and Canadian Forces Unification, 1964-1968: Lessons on
Change Management and Organizational Design
Irina Goldenberg - Military and Civilian Personnel Collaboration: Results of the Defence Team
Survey
Peter Kasurak - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Army Staff: The Canadian
Army and its Corps 86/96 Studies, 1978-1994
Session C – Considering the impact of military intervention
Panel Chair: Rachel Kerr
Morten Braender - A worthy sacrifice: The latent function of the soldier's death
Joyce Hamilla - Chinese Media Responses to U.S.-Vietnam Security Cooperation
Rachel Kerr - Technological Innovation, Non-Obvious Warfare and the Challenges to
International Law
Sunday, October 19
1045 – 1215
Session A – Consequences of military intervention
Panel Chair: Rebecca Schiff
Rebecca Schiff - Concordance Theory and Pakistan
Paul R. Camacho - Defence and Security in East Africa - Research Notes from Somalia with Initial
Analysis
Philip Leech - The Politics of Recognition: Sub-state actors, opposition groups and transforming
grey areas in the International System
Session B – Military Education
Panel Chair: Brian Selmeski
Grazia Scoppio - Pedagogical and Technological Trends in Higher Education: Implications for the
Education of our Military
Brian R. Selmeski - Mirror, Mirror: studying and teaching US military culture to improve security
cooperation
Patricia Fogarty and Jennifer Tucker - Educating Airmen About Systems Thinking and Civ-Mil
Partnerships
Session C – Selection tools, Competencies, and the Canadian Forces
Panel Chair: Colin Kemp
Colin Kemp - Keeping up with advances in personnel selection testing technology
Francesca Ruscito - The Development of a Competency Dictionary for the Canadian Armed
Forces
Michael Peterson - Branding Pluralism: The Canadian Forces Chaplain Branch and the Quest for
a Visual Identity
Kathy Michaud - Psychological well-being at work: the role of 13 Psychological risk factors