InSight: The Canadian National Students' Conference in International Development Studies

The InSight Conference is a national, student-run conference for undergraduates interested in international development studies. InSight runs alongside the meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) during the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The 2007 conference will run from May 31 to June 3, 2007 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The theme of InSight1 2007 is “Linking the Local and the Global”. We are interested in examining the connections between and among the two levels.

The aim of the InSight Conference is the exploration of the unique perspectives and contributions of undergraduates in the field of International Development Studies. InSight's most basic goal is the enrichment of the student's learned and lived experience.

Our hope is to build a community of IDS undergraduates, within which we may augment both the depth and breadth of our studies through the generation of a shared purpose; coming together to exchange – and create – information, skills, resources and knowledge; undertaking our own development initiatives; and the building of student partnerships.

More broadly, the purpose of the conference is to investigate the tension between theory and practice, and academics and action, in development and its study. In this, InSight is committed to the undergraduate voice, energy, creativity and idealism.

The InSight Conference takes place each year at the location of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, alongside the annual meeting of the [Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID)]2. Conference delegates are encouraged to attend CASID sessions to see what graduate students and other academics in their field are talking about.