Dynamics of Global Change Program (DGC) 2012 Graduate Student Workshop

April 9, 2012

The DGC Program is proud to announce the lineup for this year’s Graduate Student Workshop, to be held on Friday, April 13th, 2012. The workshop brings together doctoral students across the university to present aspects of the their research, connected by the overarching theme of exploring the sources, structure, and pace—in short, dynamics—of change.

Two sessions of doctoral student presentations will bookend a lunch hour panel (food provided) addressing the issue of scaling up local innovations. Please note that presentation sessions are open to the public but registration is required to attend the panel.

All sessions will take place at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 108N.

10am – Session A: Transnational Change

Getting to ‘We’: the Political Sociology of International Integration
Speaker: Clifton van der Linden

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: A Transnational Public-Private Partnership to Address the governance Gap in Resource-Rich Developing Countries
Speaker: Patricia Galvão Ferreira

Transforming Education: Organizational Change in a Context of Transnational Families and Youth in Toronto, Canada
Speaker: Naomi Lightman

Who’s Driving This Ship? Systems Thinking for Planet Earth
Speaker: Alicia Grubb

12pm – Lunch and Panel: “Scaling Up: Innovation and Global Change”

Novel bottom-up initiatives that respond to global problems abound. Local communities in various countries invent ways to impose carbon emission reductions on themselves. Physicians create nifty nutritional supplements for undernourished children. Schools develop new modes of on-line teaching. Foundations give small grants to local entrepreneurs in the Global South. A hospital in India pioneers a cheap and effective treatment for cataracts. Yet sooner or later these initiatives face a common problem: how to take a promising local innovation and extend it system-wide in a way that is sustainable. This panel discussion will focus on the challenge of “scaling up.” What are the similarities across fields? What are the differences? And what is the way forward?

Panelists:

Dr. Joseph Wong (Political Science) on biotechnology

Dr. Clare Brett (Curriculum, Teaching and Learning) on online pedagogy

Dr. Stanley Zlotkin (Sick Kids Hospital) on “Sprinkles”

Dr. Matthew Hoffmann (Political Science-UTSC), on climate change

Nigel Biggar (Grameen Foundation) on microfinance

Chair: Dr. Robert Vipond, Department of Political Science

Panel presentations will be followed by audience Q&A

*PLEASE NOTE: A light lunch will be provided so registration is required. Please Register through the Munk Event Site – click here.*

1pm – Session B: Traversing South and North

Scaling up the Right to Education: Shifting Discourse at ActionAid International
Speaker: Bronwen Magrath

Indigenous and Official Securitizations in a Changing Canadian Arctic
Speaker: Will Greaves

“I can send a text. I just don’t know how to write.”: Inspiring Literacy Through Mobile Phones in Rural Bangladesh
Speaker: Kazi Arif Anwar

An Evidence-Based Examination of the Implications of Medical Tourism for Health Care Access and Global Equity
Speaker: Yin-Yuan Brandon Chen

MAIN SPONSOR: Dynamics of Global Change Collaborative Doctoral Program

Date: Friday, April 13, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 108N, North House

CONTACT INFO:

Megan Ball

DESCRIPTION:

Please register for Lunchtime Panel. See below for details. Registration is done at the Munk School Event page – click here.