CASID / ACÉDI

Theme:
Development in a new world order”

Location:
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
May 31st-June 2, 2010

Download Abstract Submission Form

Download Panel Proposal Form

Download Travel Grant Application Form

The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) graciously invites you to participate at its 2010 meeting, as part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, at Concordia University. Academics (faculty and students), practitioners, the policy making community, NGOs and community groups are all welcome to attend and participate actively.

This conference aims at exploring a large range of issues that include poverty, the environment, inequity, exclusion, violence, human rights, agriculture, urbanism, health and education. The Conference annually gathers IDS theoreticians and practitioners with an interest in understanding and explaining these issues from an IDS perspective. We particularly seek to include delegates from different disciplines and sub-disciplines – political sciences, anthropology, sociology, economics, women’s studies and geography. CASID expects this conference will stimulate a critical, democratic and constructive dialogue among its participants. As such, we encourage you to submit paper and panel proposals relevant to the theme of this conference.

Please keep in mind that CASID attracts a wide audience and we thus encourage you to relate your specific research and development experiences to more general themes. Papers on geographic areas (Asia, Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe) are also welcome and encouraged. Suggestions for certain themes of interest this year are:

• Revisiting development theory
• Development actors
• Sustainable development and nature resources
• Canadian foreign policy and international cooperation
• Women, gender and development
• Culture and development
• Explaining poverty, solutions to poverty (health, education, revenue and employment)
• Democratic development and human rights
• Security issues
• Fragile and failed states
• Youth, children and childhood
• Economic growth and development

This year we will organize several joint panels with other societies. If you are interested in a joint panel please indicate it in the paper proposal form.

• Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
• Canadian Anthropology Association (CASCA)
• Association for Non-Profit and Social Economy Research (ANSER)
• Canadian Association for Social Work Education (CASWE)
• Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)
• Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA)
• Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC)
• Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA)

Abstract submissions (300 words) should be sent in by December 21st 2009. The abstract should include a description of your object of study, your theoretic frame, your methodology of research, your conclusions and how this research or experience relates to larger development issues. If your paper is accepted, you will be expected to send in an integral version of your paper before the conference. All papers will be evaluated by a CASID conference committee and acceptance emails will be sent out in early February.

You must be a CASID member in good standing to present a paper or panel at the conference. All presenters must also register in the congress. Registration begins in March 2010. Travel grants will be available to CASID panel participants (see travel grant form). You must fill out and submit the form before the due date to be eligible for a travel grant.

In early February 2010 more information will be sent out on the conference (registration, accommodations, etc.) through the CASID listserve. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me.