Balsillie School of International Affairs Graduate Student Conference 2011

It will celebrate the opening of the BSIA’s new campus by bringing together graduate students, scholars and practitioners from a diversity of disciplines and countries in order to showcase innovative research and to encourage dialogue on pressing challenges and opportunities in the field of Global Governance. The BSIA invites applications for participation in the conference from graduate and post-

doctoral students in all relevant disciplines, in particular from students in the Global South. The BSIA is committed to ensuring a diversity of perspectives in the discussions, and will prioritize financial support for successful applicants from the Global South. The theme of the conference, Imagining Global Governance: Change and Continuity, is in-tended to capture the growing maturation of global governance in both theory and practice, as well as the difficulties and optimisms of the road ahead. Reflecting on the past, present and fu-ture of global governance it is critical to ask questions about the discourses and silences of the field, the shifting power and roles of emerging and waning actors, the spirit of global consensus if any exist, and the nature of the ‘global’ in Global Governance.