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The UBC Po litical Science Graduate Student Association will host their annual confere nce on Friday\, May 5\, 2023 from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm and Saturday\, May 6 f rom 10:45 am to 3:30 pm.
This year's conference features an exciting lineup of presentations covering diverse topics\, ranging from extraterrest rial life to right-wing memory politics.
The keynote address will be delivered by UBC Political Science Professor Nazmul Sultan and titled\, Gandhi and Empire: A Reconsideration.
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Based on guidance from the Pr ovincial Health Office\, UBC has the following protections in place to mini mize the spread of COVID-19:
While masking is no longer required by UBC\, we highly encourage our guests to wear a mask when they are attending our in-person events.
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Please RSVP he re to attend either in person or via Zoom.
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[acco rdions collapsible=true active=false][accordion title="Thomas Calvié"]Thoma s Calvié is an MA student in the department of Political Science. He holds a Joint Honours B.A in Political Science and International Development Stud ies from McGill University. Originally from France\, Thomas’s field of inte rest is International Relations but more specifically his work is at the in tersection between international human rights and environmental justice. In this sense\, he is currently exploring emerging non-state actors in global politics and their role\, capacity\, and duty in the promotion of internat ional norms. Beyond this\, his areas of interest include Latin American pol itics\, international law\, transitional justice and quantitative research methods.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active =false][accordion title="Richard Foster"]Rick is an MA student in the Depar tment of Political Science at UBC. He studied his B.A. in Philosophy\, Poli tics and Economics at the University of York before coming to UBC. He is pr imarily interested in democratic theory\, and in particular\, he is current ly studying the role which wealth plays within democratic systems. This int erest has led him to use his time at UBC to engage with empirical work to d evelop a deeper understanding of the channels of influence used by socio-ec onomic elites. After completing his thesis\, Rick will be starting a D.Phil . in Politics at the University of Oxford to continue his research.[/accord ion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordio n title="Elijah Garber"]Elijah Garber is an MA student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He studies political theory and is interested in theories of power\, prefigurative politics\, Latin American p olitics\, Latin American political thought\, the intersecting theory and pr actice of social movements\, and the political theory of race. Before arriv ing at UBC\, Elijah completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto\, where he studied Political Science\, History\, and Philosophy. H e is currently working on his MA thesis.[/accordion][/accordions]
[ac cordions collapsible=true active=false][accordion title="Mo Gasmi"]Mo Gasmi is an MA student in the department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Born and raised in Vancouver\, he completed his underg raduate degree at UBC. He studies comparative politics and is interested in political institutions and the way they function within authoritarian cont exts – specifically\, he studies whether deliberative institutions can func tion as a tool for garnering legitimacy and disseminating information. His research interests extend to formal theoretical models and survey experimen ts.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=fals e][accordion title="Philippe Granger"]Philippe Granger is an MA student\, o riginally from Montréal\, Québec. He holds a bachelor's degree in internati onal relations and international law from the Université du Québec à Montré al\, where he also obtained a certificate in Indigenous studies. Beyond his studies\, Philippe is also a journalist for Radio-Canada\, the LGBTQ+ maga zine Fugues and the music webzine Sorstu.ca. Torn between art and politics - two fields he often likes to confuse - Philippe dreams to become a writer and was a finalist for the Radio-Canada Short Story Prize in 2021 for his short story Rum & Coke. He is actively involved in lowering the voting age to 16 in Québec and is expected to publish a book on the matter next year.[ /accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=false][a ccordion title="Kael Kropp"]Kael Kropp is an MA student in Canadian Politic s\, originally from Edmonton\, Alberta. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degr ee with Honors in Political Science from the University of Alberta\, where he was the university’s 2021-2022 Killam Fellow (Fulbright Canada). He unde rtook his Fulbright award at the State University of New York\, where his r esearch focused on comparative Canadian-U.S. medical assistance in dying po licy. Kael holds a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to fund his Master's t hesis research\, which explores the spatial politics of urban golf courses in settler-colonial cities. His research interests intersect urban governan ce\, public administration\, and the spatial politics of land development a nd planning. He is completing his Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill Univ ersity commencing fall 2023.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions col lapsible=true active=false][accordion title="Michael Lenko"]Michael is an M A student\, focusing on international relations and mixed methods research. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Simon Fraser University\, graduating wit h an honors degree in Political Science\, and holds a minor in internationa l security. His research interests are in Russian foreign policy\, separati sm in the former Soviet Union\, and the use of text analyses methods.[/acco rdion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accord ion title="Yongzheng (Parker) Li"]Yongzheng (Parker) Li is a Ph.D. Candidat e at the Department of Political Science at the University of British Colum bia (UBC) and a current fellow at the Centre for Chinese Research\, Institu te of Asian Research at UBC. Prior to his graduate studies\, Li completed h is BSc. in Global China Studies from the Hong Kong University of Science an d Technology. Li's research lies at the intersection of comparative politic s and international relations\, with a regional focus on China and Africa. He follows a mixed-method approach and utilizes survey experiments\, panel data analysis\, and interviews in his research. Li's dissertation\, titled "Three Essays on the Perception of Chinese and American Economic Activities in Africa\," examines the influence of individual-level interaction and po licy framing on public perception. His research has received different fell owships and scholarships\, including the UBC 4-Year Fellowship\, Charles CC -Sophia Wong Fellowship\, and the President's Academic Excellence Initiativ e Ph.D. Award at UBC. Apart from his academic pursuits\, Li has worked at G LOCAL\, a policy think tank based in Ottawa\, which strives to empower resi dents in Canada to become globally aware and locally engaged. Currently\, L i is working as the Special Projects Coordinator at the Graduate and Postdo ctoral Studies office at UBC.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions co llapsible=true active=false][accordion title="Eden Luymes"]Eden Luymes is a political science MA student at the University of British Columbia and is passionate about environmental policy and climate justice. She holds underg raduate degrees from the University of British Columbia\, with Honours in P olitical Science with International Relations\, and from the Paris Institut e of Political Studies (SciencesPo). Her research focuses on climate justic e and the influences of neoliberalism and neocolonialism in global climate governance.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true act ive=false][accordion title="Vaishnavi Panchanadam"]Vaishnavi (she/they) is an MA student in political theory from Ottawa\, Ontario. She graduated with an honours degree in political science from UBC in May of 2022\, and was a warded the political science gold medal\, and the Jean Laponce Memorial Pri ze for best honours thesis upon graduation. Her research interests include the theory and politics of decolonization\, borders and migration\, and int ersectional praxis. Vaishnavi's undergraduate research has appeared in the UBC Journal of Philosophical Inquiries. Vaishnavi's research interests have also led them to pursue non-profit work as a writer and podcast host for S carlet Udaan – a global youth organization advocating for an intersectional /structural approach to analyzing gender-based violence. Vaishnavi is also a trained classical dancer and continues to train and perform alongside the ir studies.[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true act ive=false][accordion title="Katherine Poole Lehnhoff"]Katherine Poole Lehnh off is an MA student in the Department of Political Science at UBC\, where she also completed her BA in International Relations. She is originally fro m Guatemala. In between her BA and MA\, she worked at the European Commissi on in Luxembourg in the health security unit dealing with COVID related mat ters. Her areas of interest are varied\, including drug trafficking in Lati n America\, artificial intelligence\, international development and more re cently\, the political economy of chocolate. Her current research interest is the study of the cocoa supply chain\, more specifically on voluntary sus tainability standards by chocolate manufacturing companies around the world \, what is commonly known as “bean to bar.”[/accordion][/accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordion title="Hanne Schäfer"] Hanne Schäfer studies European politics from different angles and sites. Sh e completed her Honors Bachelor of Arts in European Studies at Maastricht U niversity and is currently an MA student in the UBC Political Science Depar tment. Locating herself in the interspace between political theory and comp arative politics\, her interests revolve around historical references to co ntemporary societies\, focusing on German and European memory politics. Whe re do definitions of and national narratives come from? What implications d o they have? How do we draw the boundaries of societies? These are the sort of questions she would ask you in a conversation. Looking forward\, Hanne is awaiting an employment term at a Vancouver-based immigration law firm an d writing her MA thesis on German partisan memory politics and immigration. [/accordion][/accordions]
Although previously included as part of our schedule\, we have unfortunately had to cancel the after-party at Koer ner’s which was set to take place tomorrow Saturday\, May 6.