Writer and educator Stan Chung explored the intersections of identity and culture with IETP workshop participants. Using an indigenous framework, the session considered a critical question: how do we find new connection and consciousness in a time of increasing cultural polarity? How do we create new ceremonies that resist the dominance of globalized mass culture? Participants examined improvisation and attempted to articulate those ceremonies that bridge cultures, deepen empathy, and...

Drawing on selected videos and his recent book, Macho, varon, masculino. Estudios de Masculinidades en Cuba (Macho, Male, Masculine. Studies of Masculinity in Cuba), Dr. Julio Cesar Gonzalez Pages will lead a discussion and debate that considers the links between culture and sport and expressions of violence. Given the importance of culture and sport to both women and men, Dr. Pages argues that these issues must be a focus of the global development agenda. The consumption of culture and sport...

Since independence, growing economic hardship, increasing opportunities for female employment and education, and changing societal attitudes towards female employment and education in combination have facilitated the entry of women into the paid labour force in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi women, both urban and rural, are no longer hesitant to join the paid labor force whenever opportunities arise. Despite the anti-dowry legislation, the dowry system has continued and shifted as a result of...

Those who oppose privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. And yet there are countless cases of successful public services around the world. This talk explores theoretical concepts of what does (and does not) constitute a 'public' service, what makes them 'successful', and why critical research on this topic matters for scholars, practitioners and activists. The presentation draws on extensive empirical research in Asia, Africa and Latin America,...

Some of Bob’s current work includes working on the Siting Process with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and as an Adjunct Professor and Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. Bob also works on a human rights matters and assisting corporations to development partnerships with Aboriginal communities. Bob is a frequent speaker regarding Aboriginal issues and in particular the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is a former CEO of the Assembly of First Nations...

Beverley Baines is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s and cross appointed to the School of Policy Studies and to the Department of Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science. In the 2012 fall term she taught Public Law and Law Gender Equality; currently she teaches Constitutional Law and, in the School of Policy Studies, Law and Public Policy. Since acting as an advisor to some women’s groups during the drafting of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Professor...

Recorded Saturday May 26, 2012 at Queen's University MiniU. Every day seems to bring another contentious story about Canada’s energy supply. Whether we’re discussing new pipelines to the west or into the USA, oil-sands development in Alberta and Saskatchewan, or the creation of wind farms across Ontario, everybody has an opinion. How is it that a country like ours – so dependent upon energy development for our GDP, and such heavy users of energy on a per capita basis – has no strategy for the...

For four traumatic months in the fall of 1969 and the winter of 1970, Queen's campus was galvanized by the Edwards Affair, which plunged the university into the mainstream of Sixties student activism. Allegations of political persecution and Mounties snooping on campus boiled over and resulted in a full-blown inquiry that obliged the whole university to look closely at the liberal values it had long cherished.

The Tunisian revolution had taken the world by surprise. Never before in the history of the modern Arab world had a grassroots uprising toppled an entrenched dictator of Ben Ali's caliber and longevity without recourse to any form of established ideology or political party nor to foreign intervention, which has until recently been bandied about as the only midwife to real democracy in the Arab world. The aim of this talk is to reflect on the making of the Tunisian revolution with particular...

Dr. David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a faculty member in the unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scholar and his work has contributed significantly to numerous fields including geography, sociology, urban and regional planning, and political science.

Dr. David Murakami Wood, Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies is interested in how surveillance is used in multiple urban contexts.