Un-mapped: Re-Imagining the Direction(s)

of Development

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WELCOME!We are proud to announce the Third Annual International Development Conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough. This year's theme is: “Unmapped: Re-imagining the Direction(s) of Development”. Our mission is to allow students, academics and development professionals to be exposed to alternative views and see the world in a new way, while encouraging them to reconceive the role they can play in it.

We are thrilled you are able to join us during this We are thrilled you are able to join us during this informative, inclusive and interactive event. We hope that you leave the conference with both an enriching and inspiring experience

Welcome to the International Development Conference 2014! Please make sure you sign up to 4 Panels and 2 Workshops on the sign up sheet by the Registration Table. If the panel you're interested in has already reached maximum capacity, please sign up for an alternative one.

To keep track of the sessions you signed up for you may write them down below:

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2014Time Activity Location8:30 AM Registration + Reception Instructional Centre (IC) Atrium9:15 AM Opening Ceremonies IC 1309:30 AM Keynote Session 1: Ilan Kapoor: “Postcolonialism and Develo... IC 13010:30 AM Panel Session 1: - Development Repackaged: Chinese Initiat... IC 204 - Colliding Worlds: Religion and Faith in De... IC 208 - Looking Ahead: Canada and DFATD in the... IC 21212:00 PM Lunch + International Development Partners Fair IC Atrium + Classrooms1:30 PM Workshop Session 1: - Positionality and Power in Development... IC 202 - Skills for NGO Management IC 208 - Gender-Based Violence & Developmen... IC 2302:30 PM Panel Session 2: - Development Repackaged: Chinese Initiativ... IC 204 - Colliding Worlds: Religion and Faith in De... IC 208 - Looking Ahead: Canada and DFATD in the... IC 2124:00 PM Choice Activities: - Delegates Debate IC 130 - Simulation: Crisis With Regional Focus IC 203 & 204 - Practitioner-Research Engagement: Altern... IC 2085:15 PM Coffee Break IC Atrium5:30 PM Keynote Session 2: Highlights on Youth and Development IC 1306:30 PM 6:30 PM Closing Ceremonies IC 130 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH 2014Time Activity Location8:30 AM Registration + Reception/Coffee/Breakfast Arts & Administration (AA) 1129:30 AM Keynote Session 2: Stephen Brown: ”Undermining Foreign Aid... AA 11210:30 AM Panel Session 3: - People and Sustainability: Indigenous Com... AA 204 - Staying Connected: Information and Commu... AA 205 - Forces to Reckon With: Social Corporate Res... AA 20612:10 PM Gala Lunch Meeting Place1:30 PM Workshop Session 2: - Positionality and Power in Development... AA 204 - Skills for NGO Management AA 205 - Gender-Based Violence & Developmen... AA 2062:30 PM Panel Session 4: - People and Sustainability: Indigenous Com... AA 204 - Staying Connected: Information and Commu... AA 205 - Forces to Reckon With: Social Corporate Res... AA 2064:30 PM Distribution of Silent Auction Prizes/Closing Ceremonies AA 112

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

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DEVELOPMENT REPACKAGED: CHINESE INITIATIVES IN AFRICA Description: This panel explores the logics and motivations surrounding China's development projects in Africa, their relation to broader economic trends globally, and the possible impacts they can have on local communities.

Moderator: Steven Rockel (Associate Professor, University of Toronto)

Panelists: Thembela Kepe (Associate Professor, University of Toronto)Thembela Kepe (Associate Professor, University of Toronto)Gordon Houlden (Director, China Institute, University of Alberta)

COLLIDING WORLDS: RELIGION AND FAITH IN DEVELOPMENTDescription: This multi-faith panel will seek to understand how various religious groups have become involved in projects that are considered development initiatives.

Moderator: Paul Kingston (Director, Centre for Critical Development Studies)

Panelists: Pamela Klassen (Professor, University of Toronto)Pamela Klassen (Professor, University of Toronto)Isabelle Kim (Deputy Director, Development and Peace)Javed Akbar (Vice Chair, International Development and Relief Foundation)

LOOKING AHEAD: CANADA AND DFATD IN THE POST-2015 AGENDA Description: This panel will explore how these strategic shifts reflect the dominant ideologies in Canadian development policy and the relevancy of these changes to how Canada and the world will address the post-2015 MDG agenda.

Moderator: Moderator: Chris Cochrane (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Panelists: Fraser Reilly-King (Policy Analyst, Canadian Council for International Co-operation)Stephen Brown (Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa)

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DELEGATES DEBATE This interactive activity will consist of a rotational series of consist of a rotational series of discussions surrounding media representations of the Global South and development work. This session will be coordinated by a group of senior students in UTSC's International Development Studies Co-op Development Studies Co-op Program: Heather Bruce, Rachel Ginsberg, and Barbara Forbes.

SIMULATION: CRISIS WITH REGIONAL FOCUS

Instead of the Critical Media Activity, delegates can choose to participate in one of two Crisis Simulations organized by the UTSC Simulations organized by the UTSC Chapter of the Model United Nations (MUN).Topic One: The Rwandan GenocideTopic Two: Typhoon Haiyan

PRACTITIONER-RESEARCHER ENGAGEMENT:

ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ENGAGING THROUGH

PHOTOGRAPHY - A CASE FROM CAMBODIA

Led by Phil Skoczkowski

WORKSHOPS

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Ilan Kapoor is Professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. He teaches in the areas of global development and environmental politics, and his research focuses on postcolonial theory and politics, participatory development and democracy, and more recently, ideology critique. He has twenty years of experience as an international development consultant, working with a range of development agencies and NGOs, including CIDA, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, and the UNDP. He is author of The Postcolonial Politics of Development (Routledge 2008), and more recently, Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Development (Routledge 2008), and more recently, Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity (Routledge 2013).

Stephen Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include foreign aid, democratization, and political violence, especially in relation to Sub-Saharan Africa. include foreign aid, democratization, and political violence, especially in relation to Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published widely on Canadian aid policy for academic and non-academic audiences, including in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2007), Canada Among Nations (2007 and 2013), L'aide canadienne au développement (2008), Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas (2011) and Multilateral Development Cooperation in a Changing Global Order (2013). He is the editor of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid (2012) and co-editor of The Securitization of Foreign Aid and Rethinking Canadian (both volumes currently under review). He has Securitization of Foreign Aid and Rethinking Canadian (both volumes currently under review). He has also worked as a staff member or consultant for a number of development-related organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the International Development Research Centre.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PHEAP B. SOCHEAPresident of the Cambodian Indigenous

Youth Association

jessie macalpinestudent that has developed a new

treatment for malaria

Nour Bakhache, Betty Yibrehu,

and Danielle SmallingWINNERS OF THE TORONTO THINKS

GLOBAL HEALTH CASE COMPETITION

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERSMarc LombardoCo-Chair

Maggie HuangCo-Chair

Miranda Dela CruzPProgramming Coordinator

Maris SmartProgramming Coordinator

Mary ShinSponsorship Coordinator

WORKSHOP LEADERSLucie DrabinovaHadi AlaghehbandKatie BresnerMargaret FlynnLiam O’DohertyEmma RichaEmma RichardsonJasmine Lam

PANELISTS AND MODERATORSChris CochraneFraser Reilly-KingStephen BrownDarryl ReedPeter JohnsonCConnie SorioAdrienne LoShashi KantCrispin SmithRoberta Stout

Luke StockingLeslie ChanJeff SchnurrSteve SongLiam O’DohertySteven RockelThembela Thembela KepeGordon HouldenPaul KingstonPamela Klassen

Isabelle KimJaved AkbarJerome Gagnon-Voyer

Diana LeeSponsorship Coordinator

Suvaka PriyatharsanLogistics Coordinator

Anannya DeyLogistics Coordinator

ShiShiromani NegaMarketing Coordinator

Rowena RollonMarketing Coordinator

Becky ZeliksonDelegates Coordinator

Heather RedfernDelegates Coordinator

ADVISORY BOARDPAUL KINGSTONDirector, CCDS

LESLIE CHANProgram Supervisor & Senior Lecturer

BETTINABETTINA VON LIERESAssistant Professor

SANGITA PATELDirectorProgram Management

LIZA ARNASONDirector of Student Life

KWAN HO FOKAccounting Specialist

RALY CHAKAROVAIDS Co-op Alumnus

KATHERINE MACGREGORIDS Co-op Student

HEHEATHER BRUCEIDC 2012 Co-Chair

KIERAN WAYIDC 2012 Co-Chair

VOLUNTEERS

PANELISTS AND MODERATORS

PARTNER’S FAIRUTIHPUNICEFRaising the VillageIntercordia CanadaShelterbox CanadaOxOxfam Canada at UTSCOperation GroundswellUndercurrent/IDS JournalWorld University Services CanadaPAPER KITE Children’s FoundationCanadian World Education Foundation TanzaniaInInternational Development Studies Students’ AsociationUniversity of Toronto Environmental Resource Network

VOLUNTEERSHina HaqThierry NdikumanaDaryl ChungEugene LeePetra LimAndAndrea SherkMarina DouglasHazel QuteishatGlenda OrilaLinda BuiAnika AhmedAnnie HuTTanzeel FatimaShreya MathurAaron FrancisTing-Yi (Elise) ChangBanusha MahendrenJazba Singh Jessica Chan

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SPONSORSSpecial thanks to our sponsors for making this conference possible!

Department of Student Life (DSL)Recruitment Office

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PASSPORT GAMEThis year, our partner’s fair has several different exciting organizations displaying their work. Please visit their booths to learn more about them and how you can getinvolved. You MUST attend at least 4 of these organizations’ booths in order to enter your name in the Raffle Draw. Remember to get their initial under their name!

SCSU IDSSA operationgroundswell

shelterboxcanada

oikocredit intercordiacanada

raising thevillage

cwef tanzania

oxfam utsc

unicef canada

world universityservices canada

university of toronto international health program at utsc

paper kitechildren’sfoundation