Past Seminars

YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series 1997-2008

 

The York Centre for Asian Research, the York Centre for International and Security Studies, and the Centre for Study of Korea at the University of Toronto present:

Roundtable with Ted Lipman, Canadian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Thursday, 30 October 2008

3-4:30pm, Room 280 York Lanes

Participation in this roundtable is limited to university faculty and students.
Ted Lipman joined the Canadian Department of External Affairs in 1976 and his first assignment in Asia was to the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, 1977-80. Since then he has had a variety of assignments in China, including serving as Canada's first Trade Commissioner in South China (1982-85), Canadian Consul General in Shanghai (1995-99) and Minister, Canadian Embassy, Beijing (1999-2001). He has also served in the United States on three occasions; UN General Assembly, Consul and Trade Commissioner, New York City and Canadian Consul in Pittsburgh. Ted Lipman's most recent assignment abroad was as Executive Director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (2001-2004).

 

YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series

Canadian Policy Towards Bangladesh: How Does the North Look at the South?
Zaglul Haider

Thursday, 16 October 2008
2:30-4pm, Room 280 York Lanes
Zaglul Haider is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and a Research Fellow at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. His most recent published book is The Changing Pattern of Bangladesh Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Mujib and Zia Regimes.

This seminar will investigate the ways that Canada, one of the key partners of the industrial north and a key commercial power of the world, looks at Bangladesh, one of the least developed countries of the world. The central argument of the presentation will be that Canadian approach towards Bangladesh has been different during different phases of recent history. Professor Haider will further discuss the Canadian/Bangladeshi relationship with respect to issues of immigration, human rights, governance, and military and non-military bilateralism. Professor Haider will conclude by providing potential solutions to improve relations between the two countries.

 

The Centre for Refugee Studies and the Centre for International and Security Studies present:
The Challenges of Decommissioning 90,000 Ex-combatants in Southern Sudan
William Deng Deng

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
12:30-2pm, Room 305 York Lanes
William Deng Deng, a Sudanese refugee to Canada, is a long time CRS friend and a graduate of York's African Studies program. He graduated with degrees in political science and environmental studies. He began working with the UN in Rwanda to initiate environmental rehabilitation with returning refugees and now works to negotiate with and re-integrate rebel fighters into society. He has recently been appointed Chairperson of the South Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Commission.

Friends are invited to a welcome reception at CRS (3rd Floor York Lanes) after the talk, at 2pm.

YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series

The Old and New Practices of Humanitarianism, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Ritu Mathur

Wednesday, 8 October 2008
2:30-4pm, Room 280 York Lanes

Ritu Mathur is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. She is a Researcher with the York Centre for International & Security Studies. The title of her PhD dissertation is The International Committee of the Red Cross and Humanitarian Practices of Arms Control and Disarmament. She is engaged with both traditional and critical security studies literature in addressing the problems of arms control and disarmament, humanitarianism and peace.

The dichotomy between the old and new practices of humanitarianism, arms control, and disarmament (ACD) respectively opens a space for exploring the historical relationship between the fields of humanitarianism, arms control, and disarmament. This relationship is articulated in discourses constituting actors with particular identities, expertise, and security practices. A study of the effects of these practices explicates the ethical and political tensions involved in humanitarian practices of arms control and disarmament.

McLaughlin College & the Centre for International and Security Studies present:

Current Challenges of the Canadian Forces
Lieutenant-General (Retired) George E.C. Macdonald, CMM, MVO, CD

Monday, 6 October 2008
12-1:30pm, Room 140 McLaughlin College
Lieutenant-General (Retired) George E.C. Macdonald, served for 38 years in the Canadian Forces, and following his retirement he joined CFN Consultants, focusing on defence and security. His final position in the Forces was Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from 2001 to 2004, following three years as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of NORAD. Initially, LGen Macdonald spent several years as an operational fighter pilot. He has commanded at the squadron, base/wing, and air division level. Throughout his career, he held many leadership positions in Ottawa, and has served with NATO forces in Germany and Norway, and with North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in both Winnipeg and Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also held the position of Director of Operations in the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat in the Privy Council Office. In his last position as Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, LGen Macdonald was the senior resource manager for the Department of National Defence and was responsible for strategic planning. Because of this experience, he realizes the challenges faced by Canadian Forces in attempting to meet their objectives in Afghanistan and other parts of the world.

YCISS SSHRC/OGS Workshop: Workshop for Graduate Students Seeking Assistance on Scholarship Proposal Writing

Thursday, 25 September 2008
2:30-4:30pm, Room 372 York Lanes (YCISS Library)
This workshop is designed to assist students in writing winning scholarship proposals for SSHRC and OGS. All YCISS students are invited, and new students are particularly encouraged to attend. Non-YCISS students are also welcome.

Three senior students who have won funding will present on techniques that have won scholarships in recent years. There will also be a question/answer period, as well as an opportunity for students to edit or discuss their own proposals. Please bring a draft copy of your research proposal or at least an idea of what you would like to write on.

The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Political Science is 14 October 2008.
The OGS deadline for Sociology is 6 October 2008.

The SSHRC deadline for Sociology is 20 October 2008.
The OGS deadline for Anthropology is 17 October 2008.

The SSHRC deadline for Anthropology is 31 October 2008.
The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Social and Political Thought is 13 October 2008.
The OGS deadline for Women's Studies is 7 October 2008.

The SSHRC deadline for Women's Studies is 17 October 2008.

The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Humanities is 27 October 2008.

 

Distinguished Critical Thinkers in World Politics Seminar Series

Compassionate Resistance: Mapping Transnational Solidarity in the Age of Empire
Simona Sharoni, Professor of Women’s Studies, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Wednesday, 10 September 2008
4-5:30pm, Room 305 York Lanes

Dr. Simona Sharoni is an internationally-known feminist scholar, researcher and activist. She holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and is the author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance, (Syracuse University Press, 1995).

Dr. Sharoni has conducted research and has written extensively on gender dynamics, militarization, and on the politics of resistance, in Israel, Palestine, and the North of Ireland. In addition to putting the final touches on the 2nd edition of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, she is currently working on three major projects: the first is grounded in the concept of “compassionate resistance”, which she coined. The second project highlights the struggles of veterans to recover their humanity and is tentatively titles “de-militarizing masculinities,” and the last project explores the contemporary feminist pedagogy.

 

Private Security Companies and Stability Operations: Presence, Prospects, and Problems
Christopher Spearin
Dr. Christopher Spearin is Chair of the Department of Security and International Affairs at the Canadian Forces College. Dr. Spearin's research concerns change in militaries, global security governance, non-state actors, mercenaries, the privatization of security, and Canadian foreign and defence policy.

Stability operations cover a number of areas including humanitarian and development assistance, security sector reform, and humanitarian demining. Many different types of actors are involved in these areas, the most recent newcomer being the international private security company (PSC). In recognizing the PSC presence in stability operations, the talk will strive to investigate a number of questions: What are the characteristics and composition of these companies? What sort of tasks do they perform in stability operations? Why are PSCs interested in these tasks and why do clients wish PSCs to conduct them? What problems exist in handing over these important tasks to the private sector? What might the future bring in terms of PSC involvement in stability operations? Exploring these questions will place into sharp focus the potential impact and controversial nature of these companies and how, in a related manner, the dynamics of and the relationships forged in contemporary stability operations are changing.

Thursday, 24 April 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and the York Centre for Asian Research present:

Current Situation in Sri Lanka and Getting a Peace Process Back on Track
Angela Bogdan, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives

High Commissioner Angela Bogdan, a York alumnus, has been a member of Foreign Affairs Canada since 1984 and has served in different postings around Europe, including the Canadian delegation to NATO. She has been serving as High Commissioner to Sri Lanka since 2006. She will be discussing the current situation in Sri Lanka focusing on how to get the peace process back on track. She will be outlining the situation, why it collapsed, and the prospects for peace in the near future. She will also provide insights on Canada’s approach and strategic interests in Sri Lanka. This will be followed by a discussion where High Commission Bogdan will solicit ideas and views from the faculty and graduate students in attendance.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

"Quasi-Track Two" Diplomacy: A Realistic Analysis of the Geneva Process in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Amira Schiff, Faculty at the Conflict Management and Negotiation Program, Political Studies Department, Bar-Ilan University
Amira Schiff specializes in International Relations; Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution theories; the Israeli Palestinian peace process and the peace process in Cyprus. She is faculty in the program on Conflict Management and Negotiation and in the Political Science department in Bar- Ilan University and is a visiting scholar at the YCISS. Her recently published PhD. dissertation focused on prenegotiation processes in the Israeli Palestinian peace process and in the Cyprus Conflict. Her recent article: "Pre-negotiation and its Limits in Ethno-National Conflicts: A Systematic Analysis of Process and Outcomes in the Cyprus Negotiations" is forthcoming in International Negotiation, 2008. Her current research focuses on Track Two theory. Another work which is currently under process concerns a comparative research of the Readiness theory.

This article seeks to contribute to the theoretical development of the unofficial diplomacy theory, through an examination of the assumptions underlying models and concepts relating to unofficial diplomacy as applied to the process leading to the drafting of the Geneva Accords. This process, was represented to the public in October 2003 as an act of unofficial diplomacy, and is defined in the literature as an act of track two, or specifically, hard track two diplomacy. This study examines whether the process is consistent with current definitions of unofficial diplomacy, and suggests that the Geneva process constitutes a distinct type of unofficial activity which its unique features may have significant implications on the peace process.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Annual York-Noor Lecture Series 2007-2008 and
the Centre for International and Security Studies present

“Uncle Sam and Osama: Reflections on Islam, Empire, and Justice”

Dr. Farid Esack, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

Monday, 7 April 2008
12:00 noon-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Subalternity
Nalini Persram

Nalini Persram is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at York University. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Social and Political Thought program. Her current courses focus on postcolonial thought. She is hoping to offer courses in the future relating to empire and political thought, and modernity and the postcolonial. She has acquired degrees in music, political science, international relations, and international politics. She has also recently released an edited collection titled Postcolonialism and Political Theory.
This paper examines some of the most influential ways the concepts of "subalternity" and "the subaltern" have been worked through the literature in the field of postcolonial studies.
Tuesday, 1 April 2008

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

A Prison Within a Prison: Security Certificates and Entrenchment of the Exception
Mike Larsen
Mike Larsen is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University, and a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. He has previously published “Incarcerating the Inadmissible: KIHC as an Exceptional Moment in Canadian Federal Imprisonment”, Number 45 in the YCISS Working Paper Series. His doctoral research deals with the governance of security through the fostering of vigilance in a post-September 11 context.

This paper explores the processes through which a state of exception can become embedded within the framework of established institutions, and discusses the implications of such normalization. The paper is based on an ongoing study of the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre (KIHC) - a unique facility constructed on the grounds of Millhaven Federal Institution in 2006 to detain individuals subject to security certificates. I begin by briefly introducing the KIHC facility and current security certificate laws, and outlining several theories on states of exception, with an emphasis on Ericson’s concept of counter-law. Building on this material, and using KIHC as a case study, I explore the tension that exists between a state of general exception and the continued presence of legal checks on state power. I argue that the result of this tension is the increasing emergence of exceptional policies and spaces alongside or within ‘normal’ institutions and legal regimes - a development that simultaneously entrenches the exception and blurs the boundaries of the ‘normal’.
Thursday, 13 March 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Iran’s Foreign Policy

Panel

Dr. Bahador Aminian, Dean, School of International Relations, Tehran

Dr. Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, Tehran

Dr. Hossein Pourahmadi, Associate Professor, Economics and Political Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

Mr. Mohammad T. Hosseini, Senior Expert in Nuclear Issues

Wednesday, 12 March 2008
3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 390 York Lanes

Terror, Deterritorialization, and the Unmaking of State Power: Producing Landscapes of Violence in the Mozambican “Civil” War

Libby Lunstrum, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, York University
In this talk, I use the apartheid South African-backed Mozambican “civil” war as a window through which to investigate the relation between violence, terror, and deterritorialization, focusing in particular on the territorial underpinnings of the dissolution of state power. During the height of the Mozambican war in the 1980s, countless rural residents were terrorized out of their villages. Drawing on interviews with survivors and witnesses of the conflict, I show how the South African-backed rebel organization Renamo (Mozambican National Resistance) attempted to bring down the Mozambican state largely through strategies of deterritorialization. Through this investigation, I work to expand theories of deterritorialization, first, by showing how the link between territory and terror offers a cautionary tale to be read against more celebratory accounts of deterritorialization. Second, as Renamo’s goal was to disarticulate state, territory, and citizenry—rather than rearticulate them in any positive sense—this case calls into question the (seemingly necessary) relation between deterritorialization and reterritorialization.
Thursday, 6 March 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

What are the Real Reasons for Canada's War in Afghanistan?
Mike Skinner
Michael Skinner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, York University, and a Researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS). His doctoral research compares the international missions in Guatemala and Afghanistan.

In the summer of 2007, YCISS researcher Michael Skinner joined Afghan-Canadian Hamayon Rastgar on a tour of Afghanistan. During Skinner's five week visit, they travelled through five provinces - Kabul, Parwan, Bamiyan, Wardak, and Ghazni. Rastgar travelled further, during his three
month stay - north to the cities of Kunduz and Mazar-i Sharif, and south to Kandahar City. Skinner and Rastgar listened to the stories of working class Afghans, students, academics, and opposition political leaders.

Canadian political, military, and business leaders tell Canadians there are at least four reasons why Canada is at war in Afghanistan: retaliation for the 9/11 attacks; Canadian security; Afghan development and security; and the liberation of Afghan women. Many Afghans argue these are hollow excuses. Skinner examines these arguments in comparison to the geopolitical and economic reasons many Afghans believe Canada is really at war in their home.
Thursday, 21 February 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 280 York Lanes

‘In-and-Out’: The Paradox of Political Violence
Mark Ayyash
Mark Ayyash is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University, and a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. He has previously published “The Appearance of War in Discourse”, which appears this month in Constellations. He is currently writing a dissertation on the relationship between political violence and social relations.

This paper outlines a paradox underpinning the American neoconservative ‘in-and-out’ plan for the Iraq War. I first discuss the manner in which the paradox unraveled the neoconservative discourse from within by means of its Clausewitzian conception of war. This will serve to launch an exploration of the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence itself. By examining some of the works of contemporary political and social theorists, the paper highlights (1) the difficulty of separating politics from violence or violence from politics, and (2) the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. The paper concludes with some preliminary thoughts on how we can theorize political violence by drawing on some insights from Jacques Derrida’s “Force of Law”, and proposing a concept of ‘forceful legitimacy’.
Thursday, 24 January 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Contemporary Issues in Arms Control and Disarmament

Ambassador Marius Grinius, Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 390 York Lanes

Monday, 3 December 2007

11:00 a.m., 372 York Lanes

The Directorate of Public Policy at the Department of National Defence is currently conducting its 2007-2008 recruitment campaign for the Policy Officer Recruitment Programme. We plan to visit your University in the coming weeks to discuss both this Recruitment Programme, and the other opportunities that the Department of National Defence provides for young scholars though the Security and Defence Forum (SDF).

The Policy Officer Recruitment Programme is a five-year programme designed to recruit and develop talented Policy Officers to meet the unique demands of the defence policy environment. Policy Officers work in areas such as policy development, strategic analysis, international security policy and parliamentary affairs, and may also be assigned to other organizations within National Defence Headquarters, such as public affairs or strategic intelligence. They research a broad range of issues, deliver oral briefings, and prepare reports, analyses, speeches and other types of written material.

Candidates must have a Master's degree in history, political science, international affairs, public administration (with a clear focus on public policy, governmental affairs or international relations) or a related discipline. They must also have experience in researching and writing on subjects related to defence, security and/or government policy at the graduate level, and be proficient in English or French.

The SDF is mandated to develop a domestic competence and national interest in defence issues of current and future relevance to Canadian security. Through this forum, the Department of National Defence funds a series of awards, both scholarships (M.A., Aboriginal, Ph.D, Post-Doctoral), and internships, to foster interest in and knowledge of security and defence issues among young Canadian scholars.

The Directorate of Public Policy will send a representative to your institution on Monday, 3 December 2007 at 11:00 a.m. to discuss these opportunities with any potential applicants, and field any questions that interested students might have. We look forward to seeing you there!

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and

The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies present a joint workshop

Getting Out! How to End a Military Intervention?

Discussants:

Robert Latham, Director YCISS

David Mutimer, Deputy Director YCISS

General Helge Hansen (German Army, ret.)

Thursday, 21 November 2007

12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., CCGES, 230R York Lanes

The Colloquium on the Global South, co-sponsored by the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) and the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS), proudly present the panel:

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? ASSESSING CANADA'S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN

Wednesday, 14 November 2007
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Organizer & Chair: Ricardo Grinspun (Economics)
Panelists: Adeena Niazi or Asma Faizi (Afghan Women’s Organization), James Clark (Toronto Coalition to Stop the War), Michael Skinner (Ph.D Candidate in Political Science, YCISS), Steve Cornish (CARE Canada)

The federal government claims that Canada’s role in Afghanistan is to help Afghans rebuild their country as a stable, democratic and self-sufficient society, and that Canada’s “3D” approach – defense, development and diplomacy – is contributing to that goal. This session will critically assess such claims. Can a military mission bring peace to Afghanistan? What happens when
humanitarian and development aid become tied to political and military ends? How can Canada help strengthen human rights and the status of women and children in Afghanistan? Should Canada’s policy be untied from U.S. strategic interests? Can Canadians play a positive role in Afghanistan?

Free and no registration required. All are welcome to attend!

Haunting Military Masculinities: The Challenge of the Gendered, Ethnic, and Sexual Stranger

Victoria Basham, Research Associate, York Centre for International and Security Studies
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol

Victoria’s doctoral research focused on how military personnel negotiate social diversity issues and policies within the British armed forces. In this seminar, she argues that despite the Ministry of Defence’s overt attempts to attract more women, ethnic minorities and lesbian, gay, and bisexual citizens to the forces, a closer examination of military diversity policies reveals the salience of normative (mis)understandings of social identity that facilitate stereotypes and mythologies about non-white/non-heterosexual/non-male corporealities. Drawing on qualitative research with members of the British military, she demonstrates how women, ethnic minorities, and gay personnel can become simultaneously hypervisible as members of these specific social groups yet invisible as individuals, undermining their ability to have their contributions recognised and making them vulnerable to harassment and discrimination. Whilst this can lead to an ambivalent existence for many personnel, she concludes that their presence also troubles the military’s fragile hegemonic identity as one shaped by white, heterosexual notions of masculinity.

Thursday, 8 November 2007
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Covering the Story: The Challenges Facing an Arab Reporter in Israel and the Palestinian Areas – an Insider’s Perspective

Khaled Abu Toameh
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning Israeli- Arab journalist specializing in Palestinian affairs. He writes for The Jerusalem Post, U.S. News & World Report, and occasionally for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Abu Toameh also works as a producer for Swedish and Danish TV and has made a number of documentaries for the BBC. In addition, he serves as a consultant on Palestinian affairs to several media outlets. Over the years his articles have appeared in The Sunday Times, The Daily Express, The Jerusalem Report, The New Republic, and Al-Fajr.

Khaled has an exceptional ability and the right contacts to uncover breaking stories. He was one of the very few journalists to predict Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 PA elections. This is a unique opportunity to hear in-depth, behind-the-scenes analysis by a highly respected and well-connected journalist reporting on one of the world’s most contested regions. A question-and-answer period will follow his remarks.

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 372 York Lanes

The Trend of U.S. Policy toward Southeast Asia in the Context of Current East Asia Cooperation and its Implications for China

Hui Li , Research Associate, York Centre for International and Security Studies, B.A. (Beijing Institute of Business), M.A. (University of International Relations, Beijing)

His research interests include: Southeast Asia; Australia; East Asia cooperation; Asia-Pacific security; China’s foreign policy. He is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and has made short-term work visits to Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Pakistan. Currently he is a visiting scholar at YCISS sponsored by the China Scholarship Council.

Tuesday, 2 October 2007
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 390 York Lanes

YCISS SSHRC/OGS Workshop: A Workshop for Students Seeking Assistance on Scholarship Proposal Writing
This workshop is designed to assist students in writing winning scholarship proposals for SSHRC and OGS. All YCISS students are invited, and new students are particularly encouraged to attend. Non-YCISS students are also welcome.
Three senior students who have won funding will present on techniques that have won scholarships in recent years. There will also be a question/answer period, as well as an opportunity for students to edit or discuss their own proposals. Please bring a draft copy of your research proposal or at least an idea of what you would like to write on.
Thursday, 27 September 2007
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 390 York Lanes

The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Political Science is 15 October 2007.
The OGS deadline for Sociology is 17 October 2007.

The SSHRC deadline for Sociology is 22 October 2007.
The OGS deadline for Anthropology is 26 October 2007.

The SSHRC deadline for Anthropology is 2 November 2007.
The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Social and Political Thought is 22 October 2007.
The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Women's Studies is 26 October 2007.

Human Security for an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives
Dr. Robert Lawson, Senior Policy Advisor, Human Security Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

The Ottawa Convention: Reflections on Ten Years of Mine Action
in conjunction with, V. Tony Hauser's photography display:
Living with Landmines
The York Centre for International and Security Studies in cooperation with V. Tony Hauser, one of Canada’s most prominent portrait photographers, will be hosting a photography exhibit at York in September. The exhibition is titled “Living with Landmines” and is to be presented in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the International Landmines Agreement and will be touring universities across the country. The exhibit is composed of 17 nearly life-size portraits of children who have suffered the consequences of landmines, each accompanied by a statement describing the child. To complement this exhibit YCISS has invited two landmines experts to present on the landmines ban.
Leon (Lee) Sigal - Dr. Sigal is Director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the SSRC in New York, and has also served in the US State Department. He recently published Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics, and we are asking him to speak on that theme at the seminar.
Robert (Bob) Lawson - Dr. Lawson is Senior Policy Advisor, Human Security Policy Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada. He was a member of the Canadian team negotiating the Ottawa Convention, and then spent several years in the office of the Landmines Ambassador working on its implementation and universalisation. Dr. Lawson also co-edited To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. We are asking him to reflect on those experiences at the seminar.
Monday, 17 September 2007
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes
Living with Landmines Photography Exhibit on Display:
Monday, 17 September 2007, Vari Hall Rotunda
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 - Friday, 21 September 2007, Scott Library Reading Room

Guerilla Diplomacy

Daryl Copeland
Daryl Copeland is a Canadian diplomat who has held postings abroad in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand, and Malaysia. Among his assignments in Ottawa he has worked as deputy director for international communications, director for southeast Asia, senior advisor, public diplomacy, and director of communications services. From 1996-99 he was national program director of the CIIA in Toronto and editor of Behind the Headlines. In 2000, he received the Canadian foreign service officer award.

Friday, 13 April 2007
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Department of Political Science, York University present:

Iran and the Politics of Crisis

A roundtable discussion on the transformation of Iran’s nuclear program into an international crisis as it bears on US-Iranian relations, politics inside Iran and the US, global military policy, and the regional dynamics of the Middle East.

Sabah Alnasseri, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, York University

Khashayar Hooshiyar, Ph.D Candidate, Contract Faculty, Department of Political Science, York University

Robert Latham, Director, Centre for International and Security Studies, York University and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor, History and Near Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto and Chair, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto-Mississauga
Thursday, 29 March 2007
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

Sources of Conflict in South Asia
Zaglul Haider, Research Associate, York Centre for International and Security Studies
Zaglul Haider completed his Ph.D in Political Science at Clark Atlanta University, USA. His research interests focus on: Foreign policy, security, conflict resolution, regional cooperation, foreign aid, governance, development, and military politics. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. His most recent published book is: The Changing Pattern of Bangladesh Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Mujib and Zia Regimes.
Haider argues that South Asia is a fragmented zone that historically failed to develop a sense of regional identity. Bilateral relations between most of the countries are defined by mistrust, misunderstanding, and antagonism. The primary issues of conflict in South Asia are political, economic, and security issues. Politically the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan, the Ganges water dispute between India and Bangladesh, and the Tamil issue between India and Srilanka stranded inter-state relations in the region. Economically Indian domination over the South Asian economies created suspicion of Indian hegemony among the small states of the subcontinent. Finally nuclearization of India and Pakistan unleashed a nuclear Cold War in South Asia.
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 372 York Lanes (YCISS Library)

       

The YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security present:
The G8 as a Forum for Canadian Foreign Policy of Organized Crime
Amandine Sherrer, Haute Ecole de Sciences Politiques, Paris
Amadine Scherrer is a candidate for the Ph.D in International Relations of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris and an External Research Associate of the Nathanson Centre. She is in Canada in the winter and spring of 2007 to expand her existing research on the G8 as a forum for member states to elaborate and coordinate law and policy on transnational organized crime. The specific focus of her seminar is whether and why Canada does or does not use the G8 as a context or process for foreign policy and for general juridical policy around organized crime. She will also comment on any specific Quebec involvement in Canada’s G8 participation as regards transnational crime in general and organized crime in particular.
Monday, 26 March 2007
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 207 Osgoode Hall Law School

Terrorism and the City: Urbanism since 9-11

Jason Burke, Researcher, York Centre for International and Security Studies

Terrorism is an ancient phenomenon that in its present form is threatening the way of life for people in cities around the world. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon, cities seem to have undergone a profound transformation as a result of the proliferation of makeshift security measures and the decentralization of services. Urbanism has been under attack physically, socially and economically by the threat of terrorism. Some of these changes are having a negative impact on the urban environment therefore it is important for planners and city officials to devise positive urban design initiatives for the purpose of reducing the effects of a potential terrorist act while maintaining the positives of urbanity. The impact of the US embassy in Ottawa on the merchants of Sussex Drive is used as micro-scale case study.

Jason Burke is a visiting MSc student from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research Interests focus on: Effects of terrorism on urban planning, terrorist threat and public space and emergency management schemes for cities.

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The African Studies Saul Graduate Seminar and the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) present:
AFRICOM/AFRICAPLAN: THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA?
A Roundtable Discussion
Participants: Ryerson Christie, Ph.D candidate Political Science and YCISS; Pablo Idahosa, African Studies; Robert Latham, Director, YCISS; Michael Skinner, Ph.D candidate Political Science and YCISS; Centime Zeleke, Ph.D Candidate, Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought
Recently, Africa has seen a new wave of U.S. soldiers landing on the continent for training and other missions. The recent events in the Horn, where Ethiopian troops overthrew the Islamists in Somalia, with clear US logistical and combat support, are evidence of a wider presence and influence. As many Africans look to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s independence, others are perturbed by what they see in its willingness to become a staging point for US military operations in Africa, aiding the US establishment of AFRICOM: the proposed US regional military command that will cover all of Africa (expected to be fully operational by September 2008).
This roundtable will address the implications of drawing Africa into the so-called War on Terrorism; the securing of strategic resources like oil; and the expanding role of China in the region. It will also consider more generally what this might mean for development, human security, and conflict throughout Africa.

Tuesday, 6 March 2007

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Centre for Refugee Studies present:

Why Small Solutions will Solve Africa’s Big Problems

Rebecca Tinsley

Rebecca Tinsley is a former BBC television reporter and is now a freelance journalist. Her special interests include genocide and Africa. For 9 years she ran the Bosnian Support Fund. She founded a lobbying group focusing on Darfur after visiting the refugee camps there in 2004 (www.WagingPeace.info) and is now building a boarding school for 600 girls in Rwanda. She also ghost writes speeches, does election monitoring, is on the Human Rights Watch committee, and is trustee of the Carter Centre’s European base.        
Monday, 26 February 2007
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

The YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security present:
Exploring the Relationships between Transnational Relations and Transnational Law as Fields of Study
Robert Latham, Director, York Centre for International and Security Studies, and
Craig Scott, Director, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
The directors of two York research centres with complementary mandates will discuss the nature of “the transnational” in two fields that are central to their respective programs, international relations (YCISS) and law (Nathanson Centre). Professors Latham and Scott will comment on whether these fields need to have a transnational dimension thoroughly integrated in both empirical and normative senses, and, if so, how. Partly in order to explore how the two centres could collaborate in future years, Latham and Scott will also explore how transnational relations and transnational law might interact in how each is understood.
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Doctrines in International Criminal Law and Individual Responsibility for Various Forms of Support for Transnational Terrorism
Payam Akhavan, Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Professor Akhavan teaches and researches in the areas of public international law, international criminal law, and transitional justice, with a particular interest in human rights and multiculturalism, war crimes prosecutions, UN reform, and the prevention of genocide.
Monday, 12 February 2007
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., Room 107, Osgoode Hall Law School

Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of Europe's Frontiers
Ruben Zaiotti, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Law and International Relations, University of Toronto
Friday, 9 February 2007
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 390 York Lanes

Security and State Sovereignty in a Transboundary Space: Mozambique and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Elizabeth Lunstrum, Administrative Fellow, The MacArthur Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 280 York Lanes

The Reintegration of Child Soldiers: Assessing the Psychological and Social Impact of War in Northern Uganda
Jeannie Annan, Psychology Intern, Bellevue Hospital Centre, New York
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 280 York Lanes

Religion, Culture, and Violence(s): Conflict Prevention from Coastal B.C. to the Punjab
Karenjot Bhangoo, Director of Mediation, Training & Education (Los Angeles County Bar Association)
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 280 York Lanes

In the Shadow of the Razor Wire: Security and Fear in Post-Conflict Urban Violence
Dr. Gabriela Torres, PhD SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Windsor
Tuesday, 9 January 2007
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 280 York Lanes

Global Justice, Local Controversies: The International Criminal Court and the Sovereignty of Victims
Kamari Maxine Clarke, Associate Professor, Yale University
Kamari M. Clarke is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and research scientist at the Yale Law School. Over the years Clarke's research has ranged from studies of social and religious movements in the United States and West Africa to related transnational legal movements, to inquiries into the cultural politics of power and justice in the burgeoning realm of international tribunals. She is the author of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Networks (Duke University Press, 2004), and Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Politics of Blackness (Duke Press, 2006) and Justice in The Making: The International Criminal Court and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights, (forthcoming), a book on the emergent international human rights regime. By using examples from United Nations preparatory commissions for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Non Governmental Organizations engaged in ICC organizing, and controversies over the legal classification and management of violence, she argues that to understand human rights movements as they are taking shape in West Africa and elsewhere, is to understand the ways that local knowledge travels and is incorporated into third world democracies and neoliberal state projects.
Thursday, 23 November 2006
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 390 York Lanes

Critical Problem-Solving in Global Spaces: The Case of Small Arms and Human Insecurity
Keith Krause, Professor, Political Science
Institut universitaire de hautes etudes internationales, Geneve
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Before joining the Graduate Institute of International Studies faculty in 1994, Keith Krause was Associate Professor at York University (Toronto) and Acting Director of the Centre for International and Security Studies. His research interests focus on three areas: arms transfers and arms control (in particular small arms), concepts of security and multilateralism, and global governance. Current research concentrates on state-formation and insecurity, the reconceptualization of security, and transnational civil society mouvements. He is Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey. His published work includes Arms and the State, a co-edited volume, Critical Security Studies.
Wednesday, 8 November 2006
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Verney Room, S674 Ross Building

Strengthening the Weak: Canadian Support in Developing the Afghanistan National Development Strategy
Colonel Mike Capstick, former Commander of the Canadian Strategic Advisory Team in Afghanistan
Col Capstick attended school in Montreal until joining the CF in 1975. He enrolled under the Officer Candidate Training Plan and graduated from Artillery Officer Classification Training in Gagetown in February 1977. He served as a junior officer in both the 1st and 2nd Regiments, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in Germany and Petawawa. He commanded G Battery, 3rd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in Shilo Manitoba from 1986 to 88. He has also served in a number of operational, personnel and doctrine related staff appointments in Land Force Command Headquarters, National Defence Headquarters and in Land Force Western Area. Col Capstick assumed command of 3rd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (RCHA) in July 1991 and transitioned to command 1 RCHA upon the amalgamation of the two units in July 1992. This period included command of the Regiment and the Nicosia Sector in the United Nations Force in Cyprus. On promotion to Colonel in July 1997 he assumed command of the Canadian Contingent of the NATO Stabilization Force (CCSFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Col Capstick is a graduate of the IG (Field) Course, the Infantry Company Commander's Course, the British Joint Warfare Course, and both the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College and Canadian Forces Command and Staff College. He participated in the Army Officer Degree Programme and graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2001. In July 2005 he was appointed to command the Strategic Advisory Team-Afghanistan in Kabul.
Wednesday, 4 October 2006
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 390 York Lanes

YCISS SSHRC/OGS WORKSHOP: A WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS SEEKING ASSISTANCE ON SCHOLARSHIP PROPOSAL WRITING
This workshop is designed to assist students in writing winning scholarship proposals for SSHRC and OGS. All YCISS students are invited, and new students are particularly encouraged to attend. Non-YCISS students are also welcome.
Three senior students who have won funding will present on techniques that have won scholarships in recent years. There will also be a question/answer period, as well as an opportunity for students to edit or discuss their own proposals. Please bring a draft copy of your research proposal or at least an idea of what you would like to write on.
The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Political Science is 16 October 2006.
The OGS deadline for Sociology is 18 October 2006.
The SSHRC deadline for Sociology is 24 October 2006.
The OGS deadline for Anthropology is 27 October 2006.
The SSHRC deadline for Anthropology is 3 November 2006.
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

“What is your Story?”: An Israeli-Palestinian Two Narrative History Project
Professor Eyal Naveh, Tel-Aviv University
Professor Naveh will discuss a unique project aiming to write a history text book of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by two separate narratives that will appear next to each other in the same book. He will analyze the idea, discuss the efforts and experience of the teams, and illuminate the difficulties and challenges of the project started more than four years ago.
Thursday, 21 September 2006
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Bi-National Planning Group Brief: A Continental Approach to Defence and Security

Captain (N) J.J.R.R. Bergeron, Canadian Forces
Captain (N) Richard Bergeron is Co-Director of the Bi-National Planning Group (BPG), Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The BPG was established post September 11, 2001 with an agreement signed by the United States Secretary of State and the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of enhancing military cooperation between the two countries through bi-national military planning, surveillance and support to civil authorities. After obtaining his bridge watchkeeping certificate in October 1980, Captain (N) Bergeron became an Antisubmarine Warfare Director. As a junior officer he served in various positions at sea aboard HMC Ships Saskatchewan, Nipigon, and Yukon. He also served aboard the French frigate Montcalm for a two-year tour in Toulon, France. In 1987, following a year-long Combat Control Officer course, Captain (N) Bergeron was appointed as Combat Officer of Margaree and the Commissioning crew of HMCS Halifax. Subsequently, he served as Operations Officer of the fifth Canadian Destroyer Squadron before attending the Canadian Forces Command and Staff Course in National Defence Headquarters as Executive Assistant to the associate Assistant Deputy Minister (Personnel) 1996-97. Captain (N) Bergeron commanded HMCS Ottawa from 1998 until 1999, during which he deployed to the Arabian Gulf as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battle Group for a six-month period. Following his command, Captain (N) Bergeron attended the U.S. Naval Command College in Newport, RI. He graduated in June 2000 and subsequently completed a Graduate Degree in Arts in the International Relations program at Salve Regina University before joining the Navy Warfare Development Command in Newport, R.I. as an exchange officer. In 2003 Captain (N) Bergeron returned to Canada and assumed the functions of Director NDHQ Secretariat in Ottawa, where he served until July 2005.

Captain Pamela W. McClune, JAGC, United States Navy
Captain Pamela McClune is Co-Director (Acting) of, and Legal Advisor to, the Bi-National Planning Group (BPG), Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The BPG was established post September 11, 2001 with an agreement signed by the United States Secretary of State and the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of enhancing military cooperation between the two countries, through bi-national military planning, surveillance and support to civil authorities. In April 1983, Captain McClune received a direct commission in the United States Navy Reserve. From 1983 until 2001, she served as a claims attorney, general attorney and staff judge advocate in several Reserve units, including units supporting the Office of the Judge Advocate General; Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific; Commander, Naval Forces Korea; and U.S. Space Command. In 1991, during Operation DESERT STORM, she served 7 months on active duty as Director of Legal Assistance at Naval Legal Service Office, San Diego. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Captain McClune was mobilized on October 1, 2001 in support of Operation NOBLE EAGLE and served as Deputy Legal Advisor, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) for two years. She joined the BPG as Legal Advisor on December 1, 2003; and she became U.S. Co-Director (Acting) in February 2006. Captain McClune is admitted to practice law in the States of Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas (inactive) and in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Tuesday, 11 April 2006
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m., 390 York Lanes

The Soldier, Social Citizenship, and the City: Geographies of War Work and Welfare

Deborah E. Cowen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Social Science, Atkinson Faculty, York University

Deborah Cowen is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University in the Division of Social Science, Atkinson Faculty, working with Dr. Leah Vosko. Her research investigates geographies of citizenship in relation to the changing relationships between national and social security. Deborah's doctoral dissertation investigated military work and citizenship since the post-WW2 period in Canada. This research was concerned with the military as a social welfare/workfare institution, and as an important actor shaping norms and geographies of citizenship at multiple scales. More recently she has begun to investigate the implications of contemporary national security policy for conditions of precariousness in Canada and the US, with a focus on port security and port work. Deborah has published in journals including Antipode, Social and Cultural Geography, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Citizenship Studies, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. She is co-editing a forthcoming collection titled: ‘War, Citizenship, and Territory’ with Emily Gilbert, and has a manuscript based on her dissertation research under development for publication.

Wednesday, 29 March 2006
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

Seeing, Knowing, Representing: Images of Contemporary Security

Michael Dartnell, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, York University

In “My New York,” Zhang Huan wears a suit of beef to underline the marginality of Chinese artists. This paper argues that such excess, shock, and marginality parallel international security in a world marked by war, suicide bombings, inequality, AIDS, and environmental threats. In this context, information is mediated by conventions of representation set in wealthy nations. The result is notions of security that are shaped by representation, aestheticized by structures of communications, and perceived in a contested terrain of representation.

Monday, 13 March 2006
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Talk and Documentary Screening: Narrative and Arts-Based Strategies for Conflict Mediation: A Case Study from the Brcko District School Desegregation Process, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Heather Hermant, MES Graduate, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

International Security and the Politics of Information: The Global Monitoring of Nuclear Tests

Dr. Robert Latham, Visiting Fellow at the Transnationalism Project of the University of Chicago
Tuesday, 31 January 2006

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

Resisting Hegemony, Embracing Multilateralism: Canada and the US-Iraq War

Dr. W. Andy Knight, Professor, University of Alberta
Tuesday, 24 January 2006

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

New/Human Security in 21st Century: How New? How Human?

Dr. Timothy Shaw, Professor of Commonwealth Governance & Development and Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Tuesday, 17 January 2006

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 280 York Lanes

Empire and the Global City: Perspectives of Urbanism after 9/11
Roger Keil, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Research Associate, Canadian Centre for German & European Studies
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The York Centre for International and Security Studies, and the York Centre for Asian Research present:
Japan: A Stabilizer in East Asia
His Excellency Sadaaki Numata, Japanese Ambassador to Canada
Ambassador Numata graduated in 1966 from Tokyo University with a Bachelor of Laws. Upon joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was sent to University College, Oxford, England, where he obtained his Master of Arts in philosophy, politics, and economics. He served in the Japanese Embassy in London from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1976, he served in the Ministry in Tokyo, dealing with economic cooperation and then North American affairs. In 1976, he was posted to the Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in 1978, he was assigned to the Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he served as the politico-military officer until 1982. Upon his return to Tokyo, he served as Director, First International Organizations (GATT) Division, Economic Affairs Bureau. In 1984, he was appointed Director, Japan-US Security Division, and in 1985, Director, First North America Division, both in the North American Affairs Bureau. In 1987 and 1988, he served in Geneva, Switzerland, as Deputy Japanese Representative to the Conference on Disarmament. From 1989 to 1991, he was Deputy Head of Mission at the Japanese Embassy in Canberra, Australia. After serving for three years as Deputy Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, he was appointed in 1994 as Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Head of Mission, at the Embassy in London. In 1998 he returned to Tokyo as Foreign Ministry Spokesman/Director General for Press and Public Information. In February 2000, he was appointed Ambassador to Pakistan, where he served until October 2002. From January 2003 to December 2004, he was Ambassador in charge of Okinawan Affairs.
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 280 York Lanes

Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War: Transnational Feminist Knowledge Production, Empire's Bodies, and the New World Disorder
Anna Agathangelou, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, York University

Anna M. Agathangelou (Ph.D, Political Science, Syracuse University) is an assistant Professor at York University, Toronto. Author of the Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation-States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Agathangelou is currently working on a book project with L.H.M. Ling (New School) tentatively titled, Seductions of Empire: Complicity, Desire, and Insecurity in Contemporary World Politics. Agathangelou’s research interests include feminist and postcolonial theories, empire and globalization, critical security studies, the global political economy of sex and race, militarization of social relations, as well as feminist postcolonial pedagogies and epistemologies. Currently she is the ‘conversations’ editor for International Feminist Journal of Politics as well as on the editorial board of Globalizations. Agathangelou’s geopolitical area of focus is the Middle East and Europe and her publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, American Political Science Review, Cyprus Review, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Journal of Public Affairs Education on Social Equity and Public Affairs Education as well as various anthologies. She also writes and has published poetry in Greek and English.
Monday, 24 October 2005
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Painting the Spaces of Feminism: Drifting with the Flâneuse
Janet Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts

Janet Jones is a painter who is interested in cultural theory and art criticism. Her paintings, which investigate the spaces of the postmodern city in relation to feminist geography, the techno-sublime, and Situationism, have been exhibited across Canada, in New York, England, Germany, and France. She received her MFA from York University, Toronto, and her Ph.D from New York University in the area of art theory and criticism. She has been a visiting artist and has given papers on painting internationally, in France, England, Russia, China, Cuba, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Wednesday, 19 October 2005
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 372 York Lanes

The York Centre for International and Security Studies, the York Centre for Asian Research, and the South Asian Studies Program present:
Decentralizing the Peace Process: People to People
Dr. Sandeep Pandey, Co-founder of Asha for Education
Dr. Sandeep Pandey is a leading authority on education, water rights, Indo-Pakistan peace and denuclearization. In 2002 he received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership. Dr. Pandey will be speaking in various public forums in Toronto and Ottawa on the role of education in catalyzing socio-economic change. He will also provide his views on NGO’s and the important role they play in delivering support to marginalized communities.
Chair: Sergei Plekhanov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University
Ritu Mathur, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Political Science, York University
Monday, 17 October 2005
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., 280 York Lanes

YCISS SSHRC/OGS WORKSHOP: A WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS SEEKING ASSISTANCE ON SCHOLARSHIP PROPOSAL WRITING
This workshop is designed to assist students in writing winning scholarship proposals for SSHRC and OGS. All YCISS students are invited, and new students are particularly encouraged to attend. Non-YCISS students are also welcome.

Three senior students who have won funding will present on techniques that have won scholarships in recent years. There will also be a question/answer period, as well as an opportunity for students to edit or discuss their own proposals. Please bring a draft copy of your research proposal or at least an idea of what you would like to write on.

The SSHRC/OGS deadline for Political Science is 18 October 2005.
The OGS deadline for Sociology is 17 October 2005.
The SSHRC deadline for Sociology is 26 October 2005.
Wednesday, 28 September 2005

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., 372 York Lanes (YCISS Library)

Disengagement and its Regional Rationale and Implications
Professor Asher Susser
Head of the Dayan Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Middle East History, Tel Aviv University
Professor Asher Susser earned his Ph.D at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at TAU. He also headed the Center from 1989 to 1995 and has taught for over twenty-five years in the University’s Department of Middle Eastern History. Professor Susser’s research and teaching at TAU has focused on Modern Middle Eastern History, Religion and State in the Middle East, and Arab-Israeli issues, with special reference to Jordan and the Palestinians. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and Brandeis University, and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Professor Susser is the author and editor of seven books, the most recent of which are: Jordan: Case Study of a Pivotal State (2000) and Six Days-Thirty Years, New Perspectives on the Six Day War (Hebrew) (ed.1999). His most recent articles have been on “The Decline of the Arabs” (2003), “Between Iraq and the Palestinians – Israel’s Fateful Choices” (2004), “Israeli-Jordanian Relations, 1948-2004” (Hebrew-2005), and “All in the Family – Generational Continuity in Jordan” (2005). He is presently engaged in the writing of a new book on Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East, which focuses on the Arab predicament and its impact on Israel and its place in the region.
Tuesday, 20 September 2005
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Women in Situations of Armed Conflict: Case Study on Justice and Survival

Indai Lourdes Sajor, Visiting Professor, OISE, University of Toronto

Indai Lourdes Sajor is an internationally renowned human rights defender and educator in the field of women's human rights. She was regional director of Asian women's human rights institutions for the past decades bringing Asian women's participation in UN world conferences in Vienna, Cairo, Copenhagen, and Beijing. She also documented the testimonies of Filipino and Asian comfort women for their war time sufferings. From 1998 to 2001, Sajor served as co-convener of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery, a landmark initiative that recognized sexual slavery as a crime against humanity under international law and humanitarian law. In 2001, Sajor organized a conference in the Hague on Justice and Accountability: Obstacles and Strategies toward International Justice, Peace and Security after September 11. Much of her career has been devoted to articulating and training others to defend women's human rights throughout Asia and Africa and to documenting women's human rights violations in conflict situations. She has published articles and books related to women rights in situations of war and armed conflict. She is a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow 2002-2003 working on a project entitled Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique.
Tuesday, 12 October 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Societies of Control and the Securitization of Identity
William Walters, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
William Walters is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University. He has recently co-edited (with Wendy Larner) Global Governmentality (Routledge 2004), and co-authored Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration (Routledge, forthcoming, 2005) (with Jens Henrik Haahr). He is currently researching international anti-illegal immigration programmes.
Thursday, 2 December 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Governing Peace: Rationalities of Security and UNESCO's Culture of Peace Campaign

Suzan Ilcan and Lynne Phillips, Professors, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor

This presentation interrogates the relationship between governance and peace, and explores how campaigns for peace are being developed on global scales. We analyze how UNESCO's Culture of Peace programme governs peace through 'global rationalities of security.' These rationalities - embodied in programs of action, training and capacity-building schemes, and information-sharing practices - are geared towards investing in people in ways that individualize them and govern their conduct in the future. Campaigns for 'a culture of peace' attempt to make particular individuals and groups responsible for acquiring certain kinds of values of 'peace' and 'security.'  In light of the current wars, violence, and conflicts that besiege lives and livelihoods, the processes of governing peace force us both to question the contradictions that inhabit global peace efforts and to offer alternative thinking about peace.

Thursday, 27 January 2005
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon, 305 York Lanes

When Right is Might: Unpacking Straussian Ministrations in the Latest Age of Empire
W. Thom Workman, Professor of Political Science and Director of International Development Studies, University of New Brunswick

W. Thom Workman teaches social philosophy, political economy and international relations theory at the University of New Brunswick. Publications include "Tragic Reading of the Thucydidean Tragedy" (International Studies, 2001) and "Social Torment: Globalization in Atlantic Canada" (Fernwood Books, 2003). "When Right is Might" explores aspects of the Straussian justifications for American foreign policy, especially the tendency to naturalize the growth of empires. In particular, it critiques the Straussian reading of the ancients, especially their treatment of the so-called Athenian thesis, for its failure to grasp the oppositional intellectual temper of antiquity when it came to conduct of the Persian and Athenian empires. The counsels of antiquity remind contemporary intellectuals of the importance of sustained critical inquiry grounded both immanently and transcendently.
Wednesday, 9 March 2005
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

The Accidental Citizen: Making and Unmaking Citizenship in the War on Terror
Peter Nyers, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University

Peter Nyers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University. His research focuses on the international politics of refugee and migration movements and their implications for state sovereignty, political identity, and human agency. He has conducted extensive research on global social movements for refugee and migrant rights, with a particular focus on the campaigns initiated and directed by non-status migrants themselves. He has published articles in Citizenship Studies, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Refuge, and Third World Quarterly. His book on refugee political subjectivity, Rethinking Refugees, is forthcoming from Routledge.

Thursday, 17 March 2005
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Women and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: Barriers and Prospects
Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Ph.D Candidate, York University

Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims is a Ph.D candidate at York University. Her dissertation focuses on women, peace and security issues in Afghanistan. In the summer of 2003, Cheshmak worked in Afghanistan training women’s NGOs and government officials in gender/human rights and peace building advocacy.
Thursday, 24 March 2005
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Woman Must Die: Erotica, Gender, and Collectiveness in Jewish Narratives of the Middle East Diasporas

Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla

Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla is a Truman Scholar and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and she teaches at the Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Dr. Lapidot-Firilla received her Ph.D. in the Social Sciences from the University of Durham, (U.K) and her B.A. in Jewish History and the History of the Middle East from Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Lapidot-Firilla’s research focuses on various aspects of religion, politics, gender and identity conflicts, with an emphasis on Turkey. Prior to joining the Truman Institute, Dr. Lapidot-Firilla  taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center of Near East Languages and Cultures, and took part in various research groups on gender, religion and politics in the eastern Mediterranean.

Her recent publications include "Dancing with Wolves: Turco-Iranian Relations in Perspective," in Moshe Gammer (ed.) The Caspian Region. A Re-emerging Region Vol. I. (NY: Routledge, 2004), pp.104-118; and "Civil Equity and the Battle of Turkish Women over Public Spaces," in Ofra Bengio (ed.) Women in the Middle East between Tradition and Change. (Tel Aviv University, 2004).  Her text-book on Turkish History from 1945 is currently under review and at present she is writing a book on American Informal Diplomacy and the Near East Relief in Anatolia after the First World War.
Wednesday, 6 April 2005
2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Co-Sponsored by The Centre for Jewish Studies.

The Department of Political Science, The York Centre for International and Security Studies, and
The International Secretariat for Human Development & Democratic Governance, York University present:

Solidarity, Patriarchy, and Empowerment: The Story of the Contemporary Women's Movement against Liquor in India

Professor Rekha Pande, University of Hyderbad, India

Rekha Pande has been involved with Women's Issues for more than two decades. She is the Co-Editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics and is a Member of the Core Advisory Group, Sensitization and Capacity Building Towards Eliminating Child Labor, MCR-HRD Institute, Government of Andhra Pradesh. She is also the Member of the National Resource Group of the Mahila Samakhya Programme (Education for Women's Equality), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Professor Pande has authored two books, (with Sub hash Joshi), Gender issues in the Police (2000) and Succession Struggle in the Delhi Sultanate (1990) and has published articles in both History and Women's Studies in Journals both in India and abroad.

Professor Pande's presentation will discuss the women's movement against liquor in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The movement has been described as one of the most extraordinary social uprisings of contemporary India, and occurred when rural women sought to address what they viewed as one of the root causes of widespread domestic violence: government policy on liquor. What started as a small local movement quickly spread across the entire state. Professor Pande's work is based on interviews with over one thousand women involved in the movement. The struggle against liquor is important in many respects, in part because of the efforts by activists to make links across issue areas and the extent to which it challenged notions of political apathy, especially amongst rural women. Despite the hurdles, the movement achieved considerable success especially in the face of a recalcitrant state.
Thursday, 25 March 2004
12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Informalization and Insecurity in the Global Age: "Human Security Communities" as Units of Analysis in the Study of Human Security Issues

Professor Kinhide Mushakoji, The Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies, Japan
Professor Mushakoji is an internationally recognized expert in globalization, human security, and human rights issues. He has served as Vice President of International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), Member of the Board for the Asian Cultural Forum on Development (ACFOD), President of Peace Center of OSAKA, and President of Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (Hurights OSAKA). Professor Mushakoji has also written numerous journal articles and books that have been published in both Japanese and English. His latest manuscript is called Introduction to Human Security and was published by Kokusaishoin in 2003.
Wednesday, 24 March 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 372 York Lanes (YCISS Library)

Framing the Debate over Biotech Foods: The Political Ecology of Genetically Modified Food Aid

Jennifer Clapp, Trent University

Jennifer Clapp is an Associate Professor in the International Development Studies and Environmental and Resource Studies Programs at Trent University. She is author of Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (Cornell, 2001) and Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea (MacMillan, 1997). She has also published a number of articles and book chapters on issues related to the global political economy and the environment, and she is an associate editor of the journal, Global Environmental Politics. Her forthcoming book (co-authored with Peter Dauvergne) is tentatively titled: Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (MIT Press).

Tuesday, 23 March 2004

12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The UN, the US and Iraq: Implications for Canada?

Dr. David Malone, President of the International Peace Academy
Dr. Malone became President of the International Peace Academy in 1998 after a long and distinguished career with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade which saw him serve as Director General of the Policy, International Organizations, and Global Issues Bureaus. From 1992-1994 he was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations where he chaired the negotiations of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the UN General Assembly consultations on peacekeeping issues. Earlier assignments saw him representing Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council and being stationed in Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan. Dr. Malone has published extensively on peace and security issues and his most recent book is The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century. He also regularly writes commentary for the International Herald Tribune and the Globe and Mail.
Thursday, 11 March 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Human Security, Corporate Accountability and the Regulation of Trade and Investment
Penelope Simons, University of Toronto Law School

Penelope Simons has an LL.M. and Ph.D in International Law from Cambridge University. She obtained her LL.B. from Dalhousie Law School and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1996. She practiced corporate and commercial law at McCarthy Tétrault , and subsequently worked in the nongovernmental sector on peace and disarmament issues. She was a member of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (Harker Mission), appointed by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, that investigated slavery as well as links between oil development in Sudan and violations of human rights. Dr. Simons is involved in two major research projects that examine governance and policy concerns regarding the human rights implications of the extraterritorial activities of multinational corporations. In April, she will be taking up a position as a lecturer in law at Oxford Brookes University, U.K..
Wednesday, 10 March 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

York University's Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts; the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy; tthe York Centre for Practical Ethics, McLaughlin College; the SSHRC-sponsored York Tri-Centre Ethics and International Intervention Project; and the York Centre for International and Security Studies present:

The US, the UN and IRAQ: Ethics, Empire and International Law

Jan Kavan

Jan Kavan was president of the 57th session of the UN General Assembly (2002-2003) and is a member of the Czech Chamber of Deputies.

Monday, 8 March 2004

2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Verney Room, S674, Ross Building
Reception following in the Political Science Lounge

Point of Decision: Indonesia in 2004

Randolph Mank, Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia
Randolph Mank joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1981. He has held a number of posts in Ottawa and abroad during his career, starting with a six-month assignment as Third Secretary for consular affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Athens in 1982. His next posting was to Stockholm from 1983-1985, where he was responsible for political-economic, consular and cultural affairs, as well as for tourism promotion. His third foreign assignment was to Indonesia from 1988-1990, where his responsibilities included political economic, consular, cultural, and immigration affairs. After two years of Japanese language training in Ottawa and Yokohama from 1990-1992, he took up the position of Head of the Parliamentary Relations programme at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. On returning to Ottawa in 1996, he was named Deputy Director of the Japan Division. In 1999, Mr. Mank was appointed Director of the Policy Planning Divisiori, with responsibility for advising on broad directions and priority-setting in Canadian foreign policy. In this capacity, he played a role in the foreign policy review process launched in the 2002 Speech from the Throne. He also headed the Canadian Foreign Minister's G8 Secretariat for four years, including during the 2002 Canadian G8 Presidency. Mr. Mank presented his credentials to President Megawati Soekarnoputri on September 4, 2003.

Thursday, 4 March 2004
 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Challenges of Identity:  An Israeli-Arab Engages the Politics of Nationalisms and Peace

Ali Yahya, Ambassador
Ambassador Yahya was the first Israeli-Arab ambassador to Finland and served as a Coordinator and Advisor for the Special Projects Department for the Middle East and the Peace Process. He was formerly a teacher of Arabic and Deputy Director General of Ulpan Adiva, Natanya and also held lecture positions at the National Security College, the Senior Police Officer's College, the Open University, and the Education Department Tel Aviv University, in Arabic and Arabism. Ambassador Yahya has been a member of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (Arabic Television and Radio Programs) and the Lapid Movement for Learning the Lessons of the Shoah (Holocaust). He has also been recognized by numerous national and international organizations for his efforts including the Knesset Speaker's Prize for quality of the environment, the Histadrut prize for co-existence, and the US Congress award for the promotion of peace through culture and language. Most recently, he has served as Chairman of the Board for Central Galilee College, the Arab Institute, and the Abraham Fund. Ambassador Yahya is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace.
Monday, 1 March 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Dangerous claims? Risk, Rights, and B elonging in Conflict over Land Claims
Professor Eva Mackey, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University
Eva Mackey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her main research interests concern cultural politics, power, modernity and tolerance. She has carried out research in Canada, Australia and the US. Her publications include the book House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada (Routledge 1999 and U of T Press 2002), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. This paper is based on her current research project on conflict about land claims in Ontario and New York State.
Wednesday, 11 February 2004
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Canadian Mercenaries? Issues for Canada to Consider in the Management of International Private Security Companies
Christopher Spearin, Research Associate, Centre for International and Security Studies
Tuesday, 11 March 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The UN, the US and Iraq
David Malone, President of International Peace Academy, New York
David Malone has been President of the IPA since 1998, while on leave from the Canadian Government. He served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, chairing negotiations of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the UN General Assembly consultations on peacekeeping issues. Mr. Malone also represented Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and related bodies. He is a Senior Associate Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa. Some of his publications include "Iraq: No Easy Response to 'The Greatest Threat'," American Journal of International Law, Vol. 95 (2001) and Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (eds.) Lynne Rienner, (2000). More recently he published two further volumes - Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, co-edited with Yuen Foong Khong) and From Reaction to Conflict Prevention: Opportunities for the UN System (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, co-edited with Fen Osler Hampson). He is currently at work on a book surveying the UN Security Council in the post-Cold War era and writes commentary regularly for the International Herald Tribune and for the Globe & Mail.
Thursday, 6 March 2003
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon, 305 York Lanes

Canada and the Middle East Peace Process: Carving a Niche in a Crowded Field
Michael Molloy, Special Coordinator, Middle East Peace Process (GXD)
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Michael Molloy has served as Director General, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and as a member of the Canadian Delegation to the Refugee Working Group Multilateral Peace Process from 1992-1996. From 1996-2000, Mr. Molloy was the Canadian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan. He will be speaking under Chatham House Rules.
Tuesday, 4 February 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Against the Boundless Vision: Reflections on the Misappropriation of the Ancients in International Relations Thought
Thom Workman, Associate Professor of Political Science, UNB
Monday, 27 January 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

North Korea: The Neverending Crisis
Erich Weingartner, Human Security Research Fellow and YCISS Research Associate
Tuesday, 21 January 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Corporate Funding, Arms Proliferation and Human Suffering: The Case of the Sudan
Ms. Jemera Rone, Counsel for Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world.
Event is co-sponsored by:
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Atkinson Certificate in Anti-Racist Research and Practice
Graduate Environmental Studies Student Association
York Center for Human Rights and Equity
York Center for International and Security Studies
York Center for Refugee Studies
Ethics in Development Induced Displacement Research Project
Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
Wednesday, 15 January 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., York Senate Chamber, North 940 Ross Building

Saving Souls: Querying the Macro-Political and Religiously Motivated Aid to Displaced Persons in Sudan
Kevin DeJesus, M.A. Candidate in Environmental Studies, York University and Researcher, Centre for International and Security Studies
Tuesday, 7 January 2003
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Reflections on Afghanistan
Lieutenant Colonel Pat Stogran, Commanding Officer of the Troops in Afghanistan
Friday, 29 November 2002
2:30-4:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

The Consulate General of Japan in Toronto, the Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, and the York Centre for International and Security Studies present:
PAC5 Security Cooperation among Five Allies in the Pacific Rim
Hisayoshi Ina, Columnist & Member of the Editorial Board of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The Nikkei), Tokyo.
Hisayoshi Ina is a diplomatic and security writer. His Kazamidori (Weather Cock) is one of the most popular columns in the Nikkei. He received the 1998 Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize (Japanese version of the Pulitzer Prize). He has also contributed to monthly magazines, including Gaiko Forum (Foreign Policy Forum) and Foresight. His subjects include foreign policy issues -- the U.S.-Japan security relations, situation in the Korean Peninsula and Sino-Japan relations -- and domestic politics in Japan. His journalistic career includes four years in the Nikkei's Washington D.C. bureau as chief political correspondent and, subsequently, research of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Foreign Policy Institute. He also worked for the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington D.C. where he researched the confidence building measures. He has authored a monograph, A Multilateral Approach for the Pacific (Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1993) and co-authored, Redefining the Partnership: The United States and Japan in East Asia (University Press of America, 1998). He teaches at Aoyama Gakuin University, lecturing on media and international relations to students of the School of International Politics and Economics of the university. He started working for the Nikkei in 1976 after receiving a B.A. in Political Science from Waseda University in Tokyo.
Monday, 25 November 2002
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Munk Centre for International Studies
North House - Room 208N
1 Devonshire Place

 

Regional Immigration and Dispersal: Lessons from Small and Medium Sized Urban Centres in British Columbia

Margaret Walton-Roberts, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Monday, 25 November 2002
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in South Asia
Sarahh Bokhari
Ms. Bokhari holds an M.Phil in Defense and Strategic Studies and an M.Sc. in International Relations specialising in the nuclearisation of South Asia, confidence building measures, peace, etc. She has published on these subjects, has worked with the Foreign Office of Pakistan, and has represented Pakistan at various international forums. Ms. Bokhari is currently a free-lance research scholar, peace activist, and member of the Pugwash movement.
Monday, 4 November 2002
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Latin American Security and its Implications for Canada
Colonel Ian Nicholls, Commanding Officer, Permanent Executive Secretary, Conference of the American Armies
Wednesday, 16 October 2002
2:30-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Politics of Acknowledgement: An Analysis of Uganda's Truth Commission
Joanna Quinn, Ph.D Candidate, McMaster University
Monday, 7 October 2002
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Russia: Domestic & Foreign Issues in the Wake of September 11
Vladimir Lukin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (Lower House of the Russian Parliament)
Former Professor of History and former Ambassador of Russia to the United States
Wednesday, 11 September 2002
11:00-12:00 p.m, 390 York Lanes

Afghanistan - Protection and Politics: Case Studies from the Field
Annette Ittiq, DFAIT Human Security Fellow, York Centre for International and Security Studies
Dr. Annette Ittiq is an area specialist and humanitarian aid worker with extensive project management experience in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. She has undertaken assignments with Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran, and Afghan IDPs and returnees in Afghanistan for various UN agencies and NGOs, including UNICEF, UNOCHA, World Food Program, UNDP, the World Bank, and the International Rescue Committee.
Tuesday, 2 April 2002
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

US Foreign Policy on the Move since September 11
David M. Malone, President, International Peace Academy
Dr. David Malone is a former Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. Prior to his UN posting, foreign assignments took him to Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. Since 1998, he has been President of the International Peace Academy.
Monday, 18 March 2002
3:00-4:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Problem of Terrorism in International Law: Fragmentation, Globalization, Legitimacy
Michael Dartnell, Research Associate, York Centre for International and Security Studies
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Social Relations, Persecution and Mass Murders: A Research Agenda in Comparative Genocide
Frédérick-Guillaume Dufour, York University
Fred Dufour is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at York University and a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. His research interests include the epistemology of social sciences, the political history of the Criminalization of Genocide, and social theory of persecution and genocide. He has recently published a book on Jürgen Habermas entitled Patriotisme constitutionnel et nationalisme. Sur Jürgen Habermas (Liber, 2001). Fred Dufour is also a member of the York Centre for German and European Studies and York Centre for Jewish Studies.
Tuesday, 27 November 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Inscribing the American Body Politic: Martin Sheen and Two American Decades
David Mutimer and Simon Philpott, York University
Looking at the US through Martin Sheen's seminal roles as Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now and Democrat President Bartlett in the West Wing, this seminar asks if the American dream of a world in its own image, an image distorted by Vietnam, is revivified in the Bartlett White House. Foreign policy, gender, class, and racial issues are explored.
Simon Philpott is Coordinator of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania and author of the recently published, Rethinking Indonesia: Postcolonial Theory, Authoritarianism and Identity (2000). He is currently researching western media representations of Asia.
David Mutimer is Assistant Professor of Political Science, York University and Acting Director of York Centre for International and Security Studies. His research interests include international relations, critical security studies, non-proliferation, and European security.
Tuesday, 13 November 2001
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Human Rights in Comparative Perspective: Notes on American, Canadian, and Chinese Approaches
Pat Sewell, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Brock University
James Patrick (Pat) Sewell is External Associate, YCISS; affiliate, McMaster Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition; and Professor Emeritus of Politics, Brock University. This past year he participated in the Gerstein Advanced Research Seminar under the aegis of YCISS and served as Programme Director, CIIA-Hamilton. His most recent book is Multilateralism in Multinational Perspective (2000).
Tuesday, 16 October 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Making a Difference: A Personal Reflection on the Life and Leadership of Lester B. Pearson
Anne Pearson, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo
Wednesday, 28 March 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Asian Pacific Maritime Security and China's Maritime Strategy
Professor Guoxing Ji, YCISS Visiting Associate
Monday, 26 March 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Cyborg Soldiers & Militarized Masculinities
Cristina Masters, Centre for International and Security Studies and the Department of Political Science, York University
Tuesday, 20 March 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Challenges of Peacekeeping: From Theory to Practice
Major General Ross, Director General of International Security Policy
Wednesday, 14 March 2001
2:30-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Abject Class/Violent Feminism
Shannon Bell, Department of Political Science, York University
Monday, 5 March 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Collective Identities and Peace-Making in the Middle East
Asher Susser, Middle East History, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, 13 February 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?
Thomas Homer-Dixon, University of Toronto
Tuesday, 30 January 2001
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Informal Discussion on Canada's Foreign Policy
Randolph Mank, Director of the Policy Planning Staff
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Thursday, 12 October 2000
2:00-3:30 p.m., 372 York Lanes

Perception and Reality in the New Middle East: Prospects for Israeli/Palestinian Reconciliation
Ambassador Michael Bell, Ambassador of Canada to the State of Israel
Tuesday, 26 September 2000
2:30-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

New Media and De-spatialized Politics
Michael Dartnell, Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Wednesday, 22 March 2000
12:30-3:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Societies
A discussion with defence officials from Central and Eastern Europe
Tuesday, 21 March 2000
2:00-4:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes
In cooperation with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the York Post-Communist Studies Program.

Migration, Refugees and Security in the 21st Century
Dr. Daniel Warner, Deputy to the Director for External Relations and Special Programs, Graduate Institute of International Studies
Monday, 20 March 2000
12:30-3:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes
In cooperation with the Centre for Refugee Studies.

Emancipation or Intoxication? Foucault, Aztec Ontology, Sun Tzu and the US War on Drugs
Kyle Grayson, Department of Political Science, York University
Tuesday, 7 March 2000
12:30-3:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Wight, Waltz, and Wendt: Looking at IR Theory's Recent Historiography
Michael Griesdorf, Harvard University
Wednesday, 1 March 2000

Forum on Humanitarian Intervention: Revisiting Yugoslavia
Chair: Elizabeth Dauphinee, Department of Political Science, York University
Wednesday, 2 February 2000
12:30-3:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

The Privatization of War: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Mercenary Armies in the 1990s
Kim Richard Nossal, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
Monday, 24 January 2000
12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes, York University

Applied Ethics and Practical Utopianism in International Relations
Peter Penz, Professor of Environmental Studies, Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes
In cooperation with the Centre for Refugee Studies.

Understanding Russia: A Little Less Hubris, A Little More Humility
Anne Leahy, Diplomat-in-Residence, York University
Anne Leahy joined the Department of External Affairs in 1973 and until recently was Canada's Ambassador to Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Uzbekistan (1996-99). From 1993-96, Ms. Leahy was Ambassador to Poland and from 1992-93, she was Director General of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Wednesday, 17 November 1999, 4:00 pm, 305 York Lanes. Reception to follow.
In cooperation with the Dean of Arts, York University.

Current Developments in Cambodia: What Role for Civil Society?
Prince Norodom Sirivudh and Dr. Kao Kim Hourn
Prince Norodom Sirivudh is advisor to King Sihanouk, and Chairman of the Board of the Cambodian Institute of Cooperation and Peace (CICP). He was formerly Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia.
Dr. Kao Kim Hourn is Executive Director of the CICP and is a member of the Supreme National Economic Council of Cambodia.
Monday, 15 November 1999, 12:30-2:00 p.m., 390 York Lanes

Revisiting Asian Values
Professor Masashi Nishihara, Professor of International Relations, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka-shi, Japan
Monday, 8 November 1999
In cooperation with the Department of Political Science and the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies.

The Australian Approach to the 'Somali Syndrome'
Robert Patman, Visiting Professor, University of Toronto
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

NATO Briefing Team
Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 12:30-2:00 p.m., 305 York Lanes

Peace and Security in East Asia
A seminar with three visiting North Korean scholars: Dr. Cha Jong, Dr. Ri Song Man, and Dr. Ri Kwang Nam
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 2:30-4:30 p.m., 390 York Lanes

The Changing Nature of War, Peace and the Refugee Regime
Howard Adelman, Professor of Philosophy, York University
Tuesday, 5 October 1999, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
In cooperation with the Centre for Refugee Studies.

YCISS Roundtable on Intervention in the Balkans
Professor Howard Adelman and Professor Edgar Dosman
14 April 1999

Globalization and the Politics of Global Environmental Governance
Mat Paterson, Keele University, UK
7 April 1999

Global 'Vietnamization': The Post-Cold War Context of Security in Developing States
J.D. Kenneth Boutin, Centre for International and Security Studies
6 April 1999

Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Societies
A discussion with defence officials from Central and Eastern Europe:
Mr. Beno Arnejcic (Slovenia)
Lieutenant Colonel Jaroslav Balaz (Slovak Republic)
Colonel Gennady Gladkov (Russia)
Colonel Jaroslav Kuca (Slovak Republic)
Major Vladimir Opanasjuk (Ukraine)
22 March 1999
In cooperation with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the York Post-Communist Studies Programme.

Canadian Arms Control and Disarmament Policy: Norms and Non-Proliferation
Allen Chong, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Associate
10 March 1999

Investment Civilization: Mutual Funds and the Cultural Underpinnings of Neoliberal Financial Orthodoxy
Adam Harmes, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for International and Security Studies
2 February 1999

A Briefing on NATO
Dr. John Barrett, Chief Speech Writer, Policy Planner, and Communique Writer, of the Secretary General of NATO
21 January 1999

Why the Bad Guys Keep Winning: Elections and Peace-Building in Post-Dayton Bosnia
Timothy Donais
Timothy Donais is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University and a Researcher at the Centre for International and Security Studies. In 1996 and 1997, he served as an elections supervisor in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Most recently, he worked as the OSCE's press and media development officer for northwest Bosnia.
12 January 1999

Analyzing the Past and Future of APEC
Professor Vinod K. Aggarwal

Vinod Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Business and Politics". His most recent publication is a co-edited volume entitled "Asia Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC".
30 November 1998

The New Europe, the Balkans, and NATO
His Excellency Bozo Cerar, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia
18 November 1998

Peacemaking and the Repatriation of Refugees in Bosnia
Professor Howard Adelman, Department of Philosophy, York University
18 November 1998

Post-Nuclear Test Security in South Asia: A Chinese Perspective
Dr. Liu Xuecheng, Senior Fellow, China Center for International Studies, Beijing
21 October 1998
In cooperation with the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies.

The Moscow Meltdown: Causes and Consequences of the Financial-Political Crisis in Russia
Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Deputy Director, Institute for Central/East European and Russian Area Studies
Professor Henryk Flakierski, Division of Social Science and Department of Economics, York University
Professor Robert Johnson, Department of History, University of Toronto, Director, Centre for Russian and East European Studies
Professor Jonathan Nitzan, Department of Political Science, York University
Professor Sergei Plekhanov, Department of Political Science, York University Coordinator, Post-Communist Studies Programme
Professor Orest Subtelny, Departments of History and Political Science, York University
20 October 1998

Dangerous Places: Narratives of Disaster and Contemporary War Tourism
Debbie Lisle, Department of International Relations, Keele University
8 October 1998

Mongolia, its Neighbours, and the World
His Excellency Mr. Rinchinnyamin Amarjargal, Minister for External Relations, Mongolia
28 September 1998
In cooperation with the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies.

The UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court: Utopia Unlimited?
David M. Malone, Director General of the Global and Human Issues Bureau in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

Realism and the Athenian Empire: Reviving the Classical Approach
Robert Farkasch, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
22 October 1997

Through the Gates of a Silk Town
Feng Xu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, York University
18 November 1997

The Islamist Movement and the Middle East Peace Process
Professor Meir Litvak, Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
27 November 1997

Canada's Asia Pacific Security Outlook, 1997-98
Professor Brian Job, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia
14 January 1998

Security Politics in the Middle East at the Turn of the Century: An Israeli Perspective
Dr. Gideon Gera, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University
20 January 1998

Peacebuilding, with Special Reference to Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Graham, Former Canadian Ambassador, Senior Advisor for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and Senior Election Advisor for the OSCE in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
25 February 1998

Forum on Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist Societies (Roundtable Discussion with Eastern European Defence Officials)
LtCol. Wlodzimierz Kozlowski, Ministry of Defence, Poland
Cpt. Tibor Babos, Ministry of Defence, Hungary
Col. Michal Pruzinsky, Slovak Military Academy, Slovak Republic
3 March 1998
Co-sponsored by the York Post-Communist Studies Programme (PCSP). In cooperation with the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (AUCC).

Security and Intelligence in the Post-post Cold War World
Professor Reg Whitaker, Department of Political Science, York University
17 March 1998

State Formation and State Transformation in the (Arabian/Persian) Gulf
Professor Joseph Kostiner, Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
25 March 1998

Meeting with Dr. T. Bayarmagnai, Senior Researcher, The Institute for Strategic Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
29 May 1998
In cooperation with CSCAP-CMC and the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies.