Winter 2013 Calendar of Events

MRP Work-In-Progress Colloquium

May 27, 2013 (10:00-4:00 pm)
Location: CNH 607
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario

• Event Schedule

Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy 2

January 28 to 29, 2013
Location: MUSC CIBC Hall
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario

• Event Poster
• Preliminary Programme
• Registration Website
  

Fall 2012 Calendar of Events

This is Hamilton: After the Steel Rush Second Screening

December 15, 2012 (5:00-8:00 pm)
Location: The Casbah 
306 King Street West
Hamilton, Ontario

• Project Website
  
• Documentary Trailer

This is Hamilton: After the Steel Rush Film Screening

November 24, 2012 (5:00-8:00 pm)
Location: Homegrown Hamilton 
27 King William Street
Hamilton, Ontario

• Project Website
  
• Documentary Trailer
  

Fall Convocation Celebration for the Class of 2012

November 16, 2012 (12:00-2:30 pm)
Location: AGH Design Annex
118 James St. North
Hamilton, Ontario

Workshop on Time and Globalization

October 19 & 20, 2012 (9:00-3:30 pm)
Location: Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
51 Stuart Street
Hamilton, Ontario
For more information click here.

• Film Poster
• Workshop Program

Winter 2012 Calendar of Events

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Canada's Role in Global Health

2nd Annual McMaster-Brock Global Health Research Forum (co-sponsored by IGHC)
March 22 & 23, 2012
Location: McMaster Innovation Park,
175 Longwood Road South,
Ground Floor Conference Centre,
Hamilton, Ontario

For more information click here.

Occupy Symposium

March 20, 2012 (1:30-4:30 pm, KTH-B104)
The IGHC will be partnering with Society for Philosophy & Culture to host a symposium on the Occupy Movement.

For more information, click here.

Public Forum on the Global Financial Crisis

March 5, 2012 (4:30-5:30 pm, TSH B128)
An opportunity to hear three faculty members discuss developments in the field of global finance. Their brief talks will be followed by questions and discussion. Featuring: William Scarth (Economics), Mike Veall (Economics), Tony Porter (Political Science).

Graduate Student and Faculty Seminar on Israel-Palestine Conflict

February 7, 2012 (1:00-2:30 pm, MUSC Rm 313)
Title: “The 4th Stage of the Arab Israeli Conflict”
Speaker: Professor Alan Dowty
Dr. Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior Associate for Middle East Studies of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Israel/Palestine (Polity, 2008). Seating is limited; please RSVP to Irene Albl at 905-525-9140 ext. 27556 or globalhc@mcmaster.ca.

Graduate Student Conference on Internationalization and Public Policy

January 26th to 27th, 2012
Title: Mapping the Global Dimensions of Policy: Investigating Theory, Practice and Challenges
Hosted by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, the Department of Political Science, and the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy.
For more information, please click here.

Fall 2011 Calendar of Events

Fulbright Visiting Research Chair

31 October (11:30 am -1:30 pm in Skylight Room, Commons Building)
Speaker: Christopher Breu, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University and Associate Professor of English, Illinois State University.
Title: The Insistence of the Material: Theorizing Materiality and Biopolitics in the Era of Globalization

Inside Out Hamilton

28 October (10:00 am - 12:00 pm in KTH-B108)
Speakers: Dona Geagea, MA and Josh Belick, MA. Both Dona and Josh are graduates of the MA program in Globalization Studies at McMaster
Title: Starting the Conversation: Bringing the Global to the Local through the "Inside Out Hamilton Project"

Two recent graduates of the Globalization Studies MA program, Dona Geagea and Josh Belick, invite the current Globalization MA cohort and other interested faculty and students to an engaging talk on a community project they undertook during their studies. In the summer of 2011, Geagea and Belick were active in the Inside Out Hamilton Action Group. The purpose of this project was to start a conversation around local social issues of inequality by using black and white portrait photography to tell the untold stories of local community members.

Distinguished Visiting Speaker

29 September (7:30 pm in Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111, McMaster University)
Dr. Philip McMichael, International Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Title: 21st Century Development: Crisis and Renewal

Reception to follow