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Arts & Letters 2011

Two thousand and eleven was a year of opportunities, challenges, and change for the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts. We’re happy to share some of the news from the past year with you in Arts & Letters, the alumni newsletter for the Faculty of Arts. The newsletter highlights the accomplishments of some of our alumni, faculty research, and much more.

It’s an exciting time for the Faculty of Arts, and the department of Political Science, as we continue to pursue opportunities that will be instrumental in positioning uWaterloo Arts on the global stage.

Past & Upcoming Events

Faculty in the News

Carin Holroyd & Bessma Momani

Japan's Rescue of the IMF

(January 6, 2012)

Andrew F. Cooper

Middle Powers Can Punch Above Their Weight

(November 4, 2011)

Heather Roff & Bessma Momani The Tactics of Intervention: Why Syria will Never be Libya

(October 25, 2011)

Heather Roff & Bessma Momani The Morality of Robotic Warfare

(October 5, 2011)

Eric Helleiner

Should We be Feeling More Secure

(September 24, 2011)

Anna Esselment

Plenty of Potential Candidates for Top Job

(August 23, 2011)

Department News

New Publication for Hochstetler - The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

Kathryn Hochstetler has published an article on "The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil" in the December 2011 issue of Studies in Comparative International Development.

Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

CIGI Chair and Professor of Political Science Kathryn Hochstetler and BSIA PhD student Manjana Milkoreit are attending the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The COP meets from November 28-December 9 in Durban, South Africa. They are part of the CIGI delegation, and also conducting research for Hochstetler's SSHRC-funded grant to study the role of emerging powers in climate change negotiations.

Helleiner & Momani Contribute to Brookings High-Level Panel on FSB Governance

The Brookings-led panel of 14 of the world’s top financial stability experts features former finance ministers and central bank governors from Colombia, Spain, Thailand and Uganda, and includes CIGI Chair in International Political Economy Eric Helleiner and CIGI Senior Fellow Bessma Momani. Read More

Professor Boychuk - The Canada Health Act and Public Health Care: Disease or Cure?

Gerard Boychuk will be speaking at Mount Royal University- The Canada Health Act and Public Health Care: Disease or Cure? on Thursday, November 3rd at 2 pm in the Moot Court Room (EA 1031)

Professor Hochstetler Speaking at Sciences Po, Paris

Kathryn Hochstetler will be delivering two presentations on the role of emerging powers in global environmental politics in early November. At a international symposium on ecological debt at Sciences Po in Paris, she will speak about whether the rise of emerging powers like Brazil, India, and China affects understandings of ecological debt. At the conference "Human Rights and the Global Economy" at the New School in New York City (http://newschool.edu/cps/human-rights-global-economy/), she will present a paper on Climate Rights and Obligations of Emerging States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gtcTOZCS14

Professor Kitchen Wins Prestigious Ontario Early Researcher Award

Veronica Kitchen was awarded a 2010 Ontario Early Researcher Award www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ERA080211_waterloo_bd.asp for the project Integrated counter-terrorism institutions in comparative perspective. The award is one of 13 awarded to the University of Waterloo and the only one awarded to a researcher in Arts. Dr. Kitchen is studying counter-terrorism units in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to help us to understand how officials from different parts of the domestic security bureaucracy work together, and what effects this co-operation has for society. The research includes studies of best practices, ethical trade-offs, and will contribute to understanding the benefits and pitfalls of the disintegration of the boundaries between policing and security and domestic and international. The five-year grant will also fund opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student research and research assistance, and will include an outreach project involving high school students in a domestic security simulation.

Political Science Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

Anna Esselment

Assistant Professor

BA (McMaster), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (UWO)

Daniel Henstra

Assistant Professor,

Director of Master of Public Service Program

BA (Windsor), MA (UWO), PhD (UWO)

Heather Roff

Assistant Professor

BA (Arizona), MA (Wisconsin) MA (Colorado), PhD (Colorado)

Hongying Wang

Visiting Associate Professor

BA (Peking), MA (Ohio), MA (Princeton), PhD (Princeton)