Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Updated Cuba Workshop Program



For information on all aspects of the Havana Workshop, see
http://gscis.blogspot.com/2017/03/all-you-need-to-know-havana-workshop.html or the original site at http://gscis.blogspot.com/2016/12/call-for-papers-havana-workshop.html


Updated Program June 17, 2017: ALMOST THERE


Wednesday, July 5
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Registration begins at 5 PM

6. 30 PM Workshop Welcome

Room: Teatro Varona, followed by reception hosted by GSCIS and by Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicos y Sociales (See Advertisement on back cover)

Thursday, July 6
Registration begins at 7.30 AM

12.05 PM – 1.15 PM: Networking lunch for Graduate Students and Young Scholars including Cuban scholars. Older scholars invited as well. Book and journal promotions.
Room: 250 Aniversario


5.30-6.45PM: Panel on IR at Work (Chat with local ambassadors) chaired by Dr. Carlos Alzugaray (Cuba). Theme: What’s Local?
Room: 250 Aniversario

Free evening; enjoy Cuba’s paladares

Friday, July 7

Registration begins at 7.30 AM


Cultural Evening 6.00 PM: An hour of the famous Conjunto Foklórico Nacional de Cuba: Pre-pay at registration,

Saturday, July 8

7.15 PM: Dinner at La Torre restaurant, with Keynote Speaker: Pre-Pay at registration
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PANELS



Thursday 8.15 AM – 10.00 AM: Plenary (TP)
Local Perspectives on IR
Room: Teatro Varona
Chairs:Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner , City University of New
            York
           
Discussant: Antonio Romero, University of Havana
Cuban Approaches to the Study of Diplomacy
            Ambassador Isabel Allende Karán, Instituto Superior
            de Relaciones Internacionales de La Habana
 ‘Local’ IR: Issues of Context and Content
            Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, City University of
            New York
“Local IR: A Latin American View”
            Andrés Serbin, Coordinadora Regional de
             Investigaciones Económicos y Sociales
Mexican Perspectives on IR
            Consuelo Dávila Pérez, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México
Local and Global IR:  Theoretical Contributions from Brazil
            Mariana Kalil, University of Brasilia 
Local IR Theory: A Skeptical Take?
            Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London



Thursday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM: Theory (T1A)
Contentious IR
Room: 300 Aniversario
Chair: Neil Englehart, Bowling Green State University
            Universidade Federal Fluminense
Relocating Imperialism in Global IR
            Neil Englehart, Bowling Green State University
IR: Theorizing the Discipline’s Linguistic Turn
            Gunther Hellman, Goethe Universität
Postcolonial IPE: Venezuelan Oil ‘Relations International’ After Rodolfo Quintero
            Carlos Morreo Boada, Australia National University
Moral Realism, a Chinese IR Approach
            Huang Zitong, Zhejiang University
            Hua QingzhouZhejiang University
Understanding the Linguistic Performance and Identity Construction in International Hegemony through Laclau and Mouffe: Latin America and Discourse Theory
            Diego Hernández Nilson, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Thursday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM: Policy and Practice (T1B)
Immigration Issues and Policies
Room:250 Aniversario
Chair: Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University
Discussant: María Cecilia Costero Gabariño, Colegio de San
             Luis
La migración cubana: cambios y continuidades de los paradigmas migratorios Internacionales (Cuban migration: changes and continuities in international migration paradigms)
            Jesús Arboleya, Centro de Investigaciones de
             Política Internacional, Foreign Affairs Ministry (Cuba)
Immigration with a Vengeance
            Cenk Aygül, Atilim University (Ankara)
Market Fundamentalism and African Migration Tragedies: A Human Security Critique
            Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University (Canada)
Migration in Brazil
            Laís Azeredo Alves, San Tiago Dantas, UNESP-
            UNICAMP-PUC-SP
Mexican Federative Diplomacy and Migrant Rights Advocacy
          Adriana Sietza Ortega Ramírez, Benemérita Universidad
             Autónoma de Puebla
            Rafael Velázquez Flores, Universidad Autónoma
             Baja California
Mexico and the Impact of Remittances with the Arrival of Trump
            Renato Pinto Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma
             de Sinaloa

Thursday 10.15 AM – 12.00 PM: Pedagogy (T1C)
North-South Perspectives on Teaching Students IR
Room:Protocolo
Chair: Dimitri della Faille, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Discussant: Nancy E.Wright, Long Island University
Teaching International Issues in Ohio
            Isis Nusair, Denison University
Teaching and Learning from Southern Students in the North
            Dimitri della Faille, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Western Security Studies: Failing the South
            David S. Sorenson, Air War College
 Orientalizing the Local: Knowledge Production and Student Fieldtrips
            Birte Vogel, University of Manchester  
 Croatian Students’ Interpretation of Bollywood Movies
            Lidija Kos-Stanisic, University of Zagreb
            Viktorija Car, University of Zagreb


Thursday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Theory (T2A)
Local Contributions to Foreign Policy/Strategic Theorizing
Room:300 Aniversario
Chair: Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, City University of
            New York
Discussant: Rafael Velázquez Flores, Universidad
              Autónoma Baja California
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: A Brazilian Approach
            Arthur Murta, University of Sao Paulo
The Role of Non-Material Elements in Shaping Foreign Policy: Turkey, India, South Africa
            Mehmet Ozkan, Turkish National Policy Academy
Sectarian Groups as Foreign Policy Actors: Lebanon
            Ozlem Tur, Middle East Technical University
            Murat Tinas, Gazi University, Ankara
Reading the Iran Nuclear Deal and Cuba Thaw: Making, Taking and Contesting Norms of Appropriateness
            Robert R. Asaadi, Portland State University



Thursday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Policy and Practice (T2B)
Local/Transnational Issues
Room: Protocolo
Chair: David Malet, George Washington University
Discussant: LeonardFwa, Bingham University, Nigeria
Transnational Militants in the Global South: Evolution and Local Adaptation
            David Malet, George Washington University Transnational Epistemic Communities and South-South Cooperation
            Foulashadé Soulé-Kohndu, Sciences Po, Paris
The Role of Large Multinational Agribusiness in the Fragmentation of the State: Transnational Massive Land Investments in Brazil
            Juanamaria Vázquez García, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México
Local Development Practices and Transnational Links in Latin America
             Carolina Cepeda Másmela, Universidad
             Javeriana, Colombia

             Miguel Gomis Balestreri, Universidad Javeriana
           


Thursday 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM: Pedagogy (T2C)
Teaching  IR in the South
Room: 250 Aniversario
Chair: Maria Teresa Aya Smitmans, Diplomatic Academy,
            Chile
Discussant: Isis Nusair, Denison University

Chile and Undergraduate IR: Still Under the Umbrella of Political Science
            Maria Teresa Aya Smitmans, Diplomatic Academy,
            Chile
Teaching Africa in International Relations Academic Programs in Mexico
            Adela Beatriz Escobar Cristiani, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México
            Myrna Rodríguez Añuez,  Benemérita Universidad
            Autónoma de Puebla
The Teaching of International Relations in Mexico: A Radiography
            Roberto Hernández López, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México


Thursday 3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Theory (T3A)
Theoretical Views of the State /State Practices
Room: 300 Aniversario
Chair: Faith I.  Okpotor, University of Delaware
Discussant: Andrés Serbin, Coordinadora Regional de
             Investigaciones Económicos y Sociales
Class and Geopolitical Agency: A Non-Eurocentric and Non-State Centric View of Brazilian State Formation
            Pedro Salgado, University of Sussex
State Formation as an Outcome of The Colonial Encounter: The Case of Iraq 1918-1928
            Aula Hariri, London School of Economics
The Concept of Autonomy: A Latin American Longstanding Innovation
            Élodie Brun, Colegio de México
Gramsci and Latin American IR: A Research Agenda
Leonardo Ramos, Pontifical Catholic University, Minas Gerais
Viewing Electoral Violence in a Postcolonial Constructivist Framework
            Faith Okpotor, University of Delaware
A Theoretical Framework for Unpacking the Resource-Development Conundrum: State Capacity and Historical Institutionalism in Latin America
            Jewellord Nem Singh, Freie Universität Berlin


Thursday 3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Policy and Practice (T3B)
The United States and the Global South
Room: 250 Aniversario

Chair:  Raúl Rodríguez, Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y
             sobre Estados Unidos, University of Havana
Discussant: J. Braveboy-Wagner, City University of New York
Geopolitics of Oil Nationalization: Iran, Mexico and the U.S. Factor
            Mohammad Homayounvash, Florida International
            University
            Arash Reisinezhad, Sciences Po
            Ozum Yesilts, St. Norbert College
China’s Military Development: Challenges for the Trump Government
            Juan Gachuz Maya, Universidad de las Americas,
            Puebla, Mexico
U.S. Trade Policy under Trump: Mexico and The Renegotiation of NAFTA
            Mariana Aparicio Ramírez, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México
Changes in U.S. Relations with Cuba
            Elsada Diana Cassells, Lehman College



Thursday 3.30 PM – 5.15 PM: Pedagogy (T3C)
Contributions of  the South to the Study of IR
Room: Protocolo
Chair: Antonio Romero, University of Havana
Discussant: Birte Vogel, University of Manchester

Theory and Methodology of IR in Mexico: The Contribution of UNAM
             Alfonso Sánchez Mugica, Universidad
            Nacional Autónoma de México
Teaching and Research in IR in Mexico: Assessments from TRIP
            Jorge A. Schiavon, Centro de Investigación y Docencia
             Económicas, Mexico
Turkish Contributions to IR
            Filiz Hatman, Istanbul Aydin University

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Click here for Friday's program http://gscis.blogspot.com/2017/06/fridays-program.html