By Catalyst McGill
The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.
In today's episode, we had the privilege of interviewing Sarah Beydoun, the dynamic president of McGill University's Heart for Heart Chapter. This remarkable organization is dedicated to shedding light on congenital heart diseases and mobilizing funds for life-saving surgeries for children in developing regions across the globe.
On today's episode of Candid Conversations, we had the opportunity to interview one of Catalyst's article writers, Waleed Iqbal, to discuss current US politics.
Waleed is a fourth-year Political Science and History student. Being a Pakistani who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, his third-culture upbringing lends itself to where his areas of interest lie: international relations and politics in the Middle East and South Asia, with a specific interest in imperialism in the Global South.
Bienvenue dans Candid Conversations où nous explorons la dynamique complexe des changements démographiques. Dans notre dernier épisode "Populations en transition : Défis et opportunités", nous avons discuté des efforts de la France pour faire face à la baisse des taux de natalité, du dépassement de la Chine par l'Inde en termes de population, ainsi que des défis et des opportunités liés à une population jeune dans les pays en développement.
Welcome back to Candid Conversations where we explore the complex dynamics of demographic shifts. In our latest episode "Populations in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities,", we discussed France's efforts to address declining birth rates, India's surpassing of China in population, and the challenges and opportunities of youthful demographics in developing countries.
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Welcome to Candid Conversations, Catalyst McGill’s International Development podcast. In this episode, we will talk to Professor Bart Édes about his new article “What a world of difference a little foresight could make” and his research on strategic foresight in international development cooperation agencies. Professor Édes is a Professor of Practice at McGill University. He is also the author of Learning From Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption.
You can find Professor Édes’ article and contact information here: https://bigtrendsguy.medium.com/what-a-world-of-difference-a-little-foresight-could-make-58dd722ff20c
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Welcome to Candid Conversations, Catalyst McGill’s International Development podcast. On this podcast, we will explore current issues in international development around the world. This episode, we will be taking a deeper dive into the recent news of the United Nations’ approval of foreign intervention and peacekeeping missions in Haiti.
Sources and Additional Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/02/haiti-un-security-force-kenya-gangs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/12/haiti-crisis-jovenel-moise-gangs-water-way-out
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We spoke with Economics Professor Sonia Laszlo about her recent study on gender norms in Paraguay. We discuss the process of running a lab experiment and the findings of the working paper. We also discuss the significance and challenges of women's economic empowerment.
Professor Sonia Laszlo is an Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University who specializes on applied microeconomic analysis in economic development. Her work focuses on the microeconomics of social policies and their effects on women and women's economic empowerment. She also studies decision-making under uncertainty, namely concerning technology adoption among subsistence farmers. She is a cofounder and executive member of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group and directed this Institute for the Study of International Development between 2016 and 2019. Her most recent work, which we discuss in our conversation, is a behavioral study on norm shifting interventions and beliefs about gender in Paraguay.
You can find professor Laszlo's work and more at https://sites.google.com/site/sonialaszlo.
Candid Conversations is a series where we speak with professors and academics about their research and current topics in development related to their field of study.
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Welcome back to the Candid Conversations podcast, supported by Catalyst McGill and the IDSSA. This week we're continuing with our series looking at the basics of development. On this episode we discuss how international development is measured and what steps the international community has taken to strive for sustainable development.
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Welcome to the Candid conversations podcast, supported by Catalyst McGill and the IDSSA. This semester we’re starting a series where we look at the basics of development. What is the past, present and future of international development? And how does it interact with our society? On this episode, we’re looking broad and asking that big question, so what is international development?
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We spoke with Professor Sarah Turner about her ethnographic fieldwork in Southeast Asia. We discuss the significance of and challenges facing the informal labor economy, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this market, and approaches and strategies to qualitative fieldwork and development practice.
Sarah Turner is a professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University. Her research focuses on everyday livelihoods in Asia, specifically upland ethnic minorities in peninsula Southeast Asia and southwest China, Hanoi small-scale traders and street vendors, and Eastern Indonesia entrepreneurs. She has completed fieldwork in multiple countries in the region and anchors her research and practice in local knowledge and day-to-day realities. Her most recent book, Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands, which was released in 2015 is an ethnography of cross-border dynamics between ethnic minority Hmong communities in Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province. She co-edited a forthcoming book Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands that explores the modern Spice Trade in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands and will be released this year.
Candid Conversations is a series where we speak with professors and academics about their research and current topics in development related to their field of study.
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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.