Conferences
Papers Presented at Conferences
2006 Bose, Pablo S. “Living with Nature and Paving it to Get There: Urbanization and the East Kolkata Wetlands,” New England and St. Lawrence Valley Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meetings, University of Vermont, October 14, 2006.
2006 Bose, Pablo S., Tomoko Miziguchi, Olivia Petrie, Kristin Force, and Pariss Garramone, “The Role and Impact of Discipline-Specific Workshops for TAs,” Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference, University of Toronto, June 15, 2006.
2006 Bose, Pablo S. “Participation and the Ethics of Development-Induced Displacement,” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, June 2, 2006.
2006 Bose, Pablo S. “Between Sonar Bangla and the City of Joy: Neoliberalism, Diasporic Transnational Practices, and the Transformation of the Peri-Urban Fringes of Kolkata,” Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, June 1, 2006
2005 “Imagining Villages and Building Skyscrapers: Urban Development and Diasporic Tastes in contemporary Kolkata,” Canadian Association of Geographers-Environmental Studies Association of Canada Joint Session, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, June 3, 2005.
2005 “Diasporic Communities,
Citizenship, and International Development:
Housing Projects, Ecological Impacts and Population Displacements in Kolkata,
India” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual
Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western
Ontario, June 3, 2005.
2005 “Institutional Requirements and Uses/Abuses of Policy Frameworks to Guide Development-Induced Displacement,” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, June 2, 2005.
2005 “Development, Displacement and Ethics – An Overview,” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, June 3, 2005.
2005 “Living the Way the World Does: Neoliberal Urban Development in Kolkata India, and Diasporic Transnational Practices,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 6, 2005.
2004 “The Politics of Participation,” Ethics of Development-Induced Displacement Workshop entitled “Ethics, Development and Displacement,” Carleton University, October 25, 2004.
2004 “Multiple Displacements: Diasporas and Urban Development in Contemporary Kolkata,” 2nd Annual Centre for Refugee Studies Graduate Student Conference, York University, October 2, 2004.
2003 “Displacement and Development: Roles and Responsibilities of the Public, Private and NGO Sectors” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, June 3, 2003.
2003 “The Rhetoric of Participation and the Reality of Development-Induced Displacement,” Environmental Studies Association of Canada-Canadian International Development Agency Joint Session on “Conflict, Cooperation and Sustainable Development”), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, June 2, 2003.
2003 “International Civil Society, Displacement, and Diaspora,” York Centre for Asian Research and Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop entitled “The Politics of Transnational Ties: Implications for Research, Communities, Policy,” at York University, Toronto, March 7, 2003.
2003 “Development, Displacement and Diaspora: Contesting Identity in a Globalized World,” Canadian Association for Cultural Studies Inaugural Meeting, McMaster University, February 1, 2003.
2002 “Ethical Guidelines and the Narmada Valley Development Projects,” Sixth International Conference on Ethics and Development entitled “Poverty, Corruption, and Human Rights: Ethics of Citizenship and Public Service,” International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), Zamorano, Honduras, June 21, 2002.
2002 “Assessing the Narmada Valley Development Projects,” Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, June 1, 2002.
2002 “Continued Colonialism: Anti-Globalization, Environmentalism and the Currency of the Exotic,” Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, May 29, 2002.
2002 “Resistance to Relocation: Comparative Perspectives on Development-Induced Development in South Asia and Latin America,” Canadian Asian Studies Association/Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop: “Creating and Revitalizing Democratic Institutions: Context and Challenge in Latin America and South Asia,” Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Study, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 19, 2002.
2002 “Who Says We’re Eco-Terrorists? Security and Social/Ecological Struggle in the New(est) World Order,” XVI Graduate Student Conference in Social and Political Thought entitled “(In) Securities,” York University, Toronto, Canada, March 23, 2002.
2000 “US Investment in the Narmada Valley,” Institute of Asian Research Conference entitled “Social Movements, Sustainability, and Politics in South Asia,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 23, 2000.
1998 “First We Fight, Then We Dance: State, Identity and Nationalism in Popular Indian Cinema.” Western Canada Political Economy Graduate Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, April 8, 1998.
2006 Panellist, “Researching Environmentalisms in the Global South” Environment and Culture Series, Rubinstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, October 25, 2006.
2006 Panellist, “Undergraduate Voices, the North-South ‘Classroom Divide’ and the Possible and Probable Futures of Development Studies in Canada” Insight 2006 Canadian National Undergraduate Students Conference in International Development Studies, York University, June 3, 2006.
2005 Discussant, “The Politics of Indian-ness,” York Centre for Asian Research, April 11, 2005.
2005 Panellist, “Identities, Politics and Transnational Environments,” Environment and Culture at York University: A Workshop, March 30, 2005.
2005 “Continued Displacement: Diasporas and Urban Development in Contemporary Kolkata” Seminar Series, York Centre for Asian Research, March 7, 2005.
2005 “Development and Diaspora: Partition, Refugees, and the Politics of ‘Home’,” Centre for Refugee Studies Seminar Series, February 2, 2005.
2004 Facilitator, “Cultural Studies, Communications and Advocacy Group,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Refugee Research Clusters Project Consultation, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, December 10, 2004.
2004 “Development, Displacement and Diaspora: New Townships Along Kolkata’s Eastern Metropolitan Bypass,” Centre for Refugee Studies and Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, April 29, 2004.
2003 Discussant, “Environmental Identities: The Politics of Nature and Place in India,” York Centre for Asian Research, November 24, 2003.
2003 Discussant, “South Asian Religious Diasporas” panel, York Centre for Asian Research Workshop, “Transnational Religious Identities and Politics,” York University, October 23-24, 2003.
2003 Moderator, “Notions of Home,” Academic Forum, “At Home: Living Change,” 9th Annual Eco Art and Media Festival, York University, March 12, 2003.
2002 Moderator, “Anti-Racist Transit Organizing: Climate Change, Racism and Accessibility Panel,” “Redefining Green: Anti-Racist Environmental Justice Conference,” Steelworkers Hall, Toronto, September 25-29, 2002.
2002 Moderator, “Transforming Spaces of Expression,” Academic Forum, “Enduring Freedom of Expression,” 8th Annual Eco Art and Media Festival, York University, March 14, 2002.
2002 “Terror and Transformation: Activism and Action after September 11th” “Explorations in Environmental Studies,” Ph.D. Colloquium Series, Faculty of Environmental Studies, February 18, 2002.
2002 “Activists not Terrorists: Challenges Facing Ecological and Social Justice Struggles After September 11th”. “Planning Transformations” (Faculty of Environmental Studies Speaker Series). Panel entitled “Planning Responses in an Era of Global Conflict” with David V.J. Bell and Gerda Wekerle. February 6, 2002.
2001 Moderator, “Writing as Resistance,” Academic Forum, “Bodies of Resistance: Transforming Communities,” 7th Annual Eco-Art and Media Festival, York University, April 5, 2001.