Department of
Political Science

RIP Sessions

RESEARCH  IN  PROGRESS  SEMINARS
Winter 2010

 

Wednesday, Jan. 6       12:00 noon - 2:00 pm  KTH-B108
                                         "Managing your academic presence online:
                                         A workshop for graduate students and faculty"
                                 Michelle Dion, Department of Political Science,
                                 McMaster University

 

Thursday, Jan. 28         2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  KTH-732
                                "From Publication to Praxis:  Academics as Transnational
                                          Human Rights Actors"
                                  Matias Margulis, Department of Political Science, McMaster University

 

Wednesday, Feb. 3      12:30 pm - 2:30 pm  KTH-B108
                                        "Preparing for the Academic Job Market"
                                Michelle Dion, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
                                James Ingram, Department of Political Science, McMaster University

 

Thursday, Feb. 11       2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  KTH-732
                                "Varieties of Canadian Nationalism"
                                Govind Rao, Department of Political Science, McMaster University

 

Thursday, April 1         2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  KTH-732
                               "UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES - Examining the impact of tax credit
                                        programs on work in the Canadian independent film and television
                                        production sector"
                                Amanda Coles, Department of Political Science, McMaster University

 

Month  of  March:        Please come out and listen to the Public Policy Job Talks!
                                 (Times and dates to follow).

 

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Michelle Dion is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University.  Social policy, including public education, health, and welfare policy, both reflects and shapes the distribution of economic and political power in a country and therefore has important consequences for both individual and collective well‑being. Michelle Dion's research addresses the ways in which economic and political processes produce different social policy outcomes in the developing world, particularly in Latin America.

 

Matias Margulis is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at McMaster University.  His dissertation, Hunger in a Globalizing World, examines the evolution of the global regulation of agricultural trade and food security since the mid-1990s, with a particular focus on the WTO and the UN system.

 

James Ingram is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University. He works on political theory, especially in its contemporary continental forms, and wrote his dissertation on the possibility of a critical conception of cosmopolitanism.

 

Govind Rao teaches courses in Comparative and Canadian politics in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University. He is completing his doctoral dissertation titled “National Questions: The Roots of Incorporation into Empire in Canada and Austria, 1867-1914”.  It examines how a type of 'permeable nationalism' during Canada's period of initial industrialization contributed to liberal foreign ownership policies.

 

Amanda Coles is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at McMaster University.  Her dissertation examines the role that film and television unions play in the development of policy and regulatory frameworks for the Canadian English-language independent film and television production sector.

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