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International Conference on Democracy and Its Undoing: South Asia and Its Polities

March 20-21, 2025 | Organised by the Department of Political Science, Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University- AP (Andhra Pradesh) | More information here

Dr. Kurt Annen, Professor of Economics at University of Guelph, will be delivering a keynote address titled, "Democracies over time: A global perspective".

Please see the attached file for the conference schedule. 

The first Global Inequality Research Award was awarded to Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester, for her work on gender inequalities, environmental governance, feminist environmentalism, and environmental inequalities.

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Finnis for her new appointment as One Health Institute Director. Dr. Finnis is an active CIRCLE Member and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph. Dr. Finnis succeeds Dr. Cate Dewey, who was appointed in 2019 as the Institute’s founding Director. Dr. Finnis will begin her appointment in May 2025. 

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan (Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras) is the editor of Women in Contemporary Indian Films and Media: Representations and Responses (Routledge India).

Masters Student Research Funding

CIRCLE offers two awards each of up to $2,500 annually.

Eligibility

Garima Sarkar successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Barriers to Women in Politics: Candidate Selection and Informal Party Politics in India" on September 20, 2024. Garima is graduating from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, at McMaster University. She successfully defended her dissertation in the presence of her examining committee chaired by Dr.

CIRCLE is seeking two (2) graduate student representatives to join its Steering Committee for a duration of 2 years, with the possibility of renewal for an additional term. The Steering Committee advises and oversees the programmatic aspects of CIRCLE (more details below) and meets once in a term. Being part of the SC requires a commitment of about 3-4 hours in a term involving attending meetings and providing input via emails. Visit our website to learn more about CIRCLE. 

The practice of sharing tea cuts across cultural and temporal lines. As a platform for social connection, chaa (Punjabi for ‘tea’) brings people together to soothe difficult conversations, celebrate milestones and share good news. This ubiquitous drink is the inspiration behind Chaa da Cup, a research project by Harnaaz (Naaz) Kaur Grewal-Greeno, MSW, B.Sc.

Aparna Swarup (visual artist, painter and photographer) and Susan Dobson (lens-based artist and professor at the University of Guelph) met in Dobson’s office to discuss photography, art and culture during Aparna’s six-week stay in Guelph. 

Listen to the podcast conversation between Aparna Swarup and Prof. Dobson. 

Read the full podcast transcript.

Read on for an abridged version of their conversation. 

Sunand Sharma came to Guelph to attend a college in a city not different from his hometown, St. Catharines. It was a safe place, one in which he could learn, grow and go on to develop a career as a rising star in student leadership, citizenship and engagement.