9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote Address: Globalization, Human Rights and the Non-relativity (or Objectivity) of Ethics

• Janet Keeping, President, Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break (Evans Room)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Sessions 1 and 2

Session 1: The (Im)migrant Experience (Evans Room)

• Allison Fedorkiw (Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations), Karibuni: A Documentary Investigating the  Immigrant Experience through a Franco-African Case Study [Abstract]
• Kenji Kaneko (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University), Studying the Situation of Foreign Migrants between Taiwan and Japan [Abstract]
• Jou-juo Chu (National Chung Cheng University) and Pi-hsia Sun (National Sun Yat-Sen University), Globalization, Human Rights and Social Exclusion: Marital Migrants in Taiwan [Abstract]

Session 2: Transnational Human Rights Issues (Scotia Bank Millling Area)

• Regan Boychuk (Independent scholar, Canada), Canada's Role in the Globalization of Torture: Post-WWII Prohibitions, Made-in-Canada Innovations, and the Spread of No-touch Torture [Abstract]
• Onyeka Kingsley Osuji (University of Exeter), Multinational Enterprises and Protection of Human Rights - Non-financial Reporting as an Option [Abstract]
• Biagio Zammitto (Independent scholar, Belgium), The Duty to Protect against Human Rights Violations Committed Abroad by Transnational Companies and Their Subsidiaries [Abstract]

12:30 PM -1:30 PM Lunch

1:30-3:00 Sessions 3 and 4

Session 3: Enhancing Human Rights (Evans Room)

• Caesar Apentiik (University of Calgary), A Framework for Mobilizing and Strengthening Access to Justice in Ghana: Opportunities and Challenges [Abstract]
• Masiya Tyanai (Trinity College), Promoting Human Rights in a Globalizing World: Testing the Smart Sanctions Tool in Zimbabwe [Abstract]
• Pertti Saariluoma, Sacha Helfenstein, and Johanna Maksimainen (University of Jyvaskyla), People Net against Poverty [Abstract]

Session 4: Economic Issues and Human Rights (Scotia Bank Millling Area)

• Evaristus Oshionebo (University of Manitoba), The World Bank, Natural Resource Extraction, and Human Rights in Africa [Abstract]
• Adugna Lemi (University of Massachusetts Boston), Do Official Development Aid and Foreign Direct Investment Promote Good Governance in Africa? [Abstract]
• Krishna Mani Pathak (Heidelberg University), Poverty and Hunger in the Developing Countries: The Ethical Dimensions of Global Economy and Human Survival [Abstract]

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break (Evans Room)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Sessions 5 and 6

Session 5: Globalization: Problems and Prospects (Evans Room)

• Rab Paterson (International Christian University), Creditors in Competition: Chavez and the Bank of the South versus the IMF [Abstract]
• Makarand Gulawani (MacEwan College), Warana Rural Cooperatives in India: A Response to Globalization [Abstract]
• Browne Onuoha (University of Lagos), Globalization and the Commercialization of Humanity: The State, Trafficking in Persons and Human Rights Challenges in Africa [Abstract]

Session 6: Education, Knowledge, and Awareness (Scotia Bank Millling Area)

• Aigul Kulnazarova (Tama University), Human Rights Education and Democracy in the 21st century: Special Focus on Asia [Abstract]
• Kwong-leung Tang and Miao Yi Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Human Rights Consciousness among Welfare Recipients in Hong Kong [Abstract]

7:00 PM Dinner (TBA - off campus) [Note time change from 6:30 PM]