The first conference that TIPEC has helped sponsor was titled 'Globalization and Its Discontents: Re-embedding the Economy in the 21st Century' held at Trent on October 12-14, 2001. The conference featured a keynote address by Philip McMichael (Cornell University) as well as presentations by Kathyrn Bezanson (Brock University), Silvia Caicedo (IDRC), Harriet Friedman (University of Toronto), Sulley Gariba (Development Associates, Ghana), Gerry Helleiner (University of Toronto), Judith Marshall (Steelworkers Humanities Fund), James Orbinski (former head of Medecins sans Frontiers) and various Trent faculty. On August 24-25, 2002, TIPEC hosted its second workshop titled "Rethinking Economic Nationalism: Political Economy and National Identities". Along with economic liberalism and Marxism, economic nationalism has been long recognized as one of the most important schools of thought within the field of international political economy (IPE). And yet, this perspective has received much less attention and has been analytically confused within scholarly literature for most of the 20th century. This workshop brought together leading scholars who have begun finally to sharpen the analytical concept of economic nationalism by defining it as a facet of national identity (rather than as a variant of realism or an ideology endorsing a specific set of policies). The papers presented explored the diverse ways in which national identities shape economic policy and processes, and they often challenged the conventional wisdom that economic nationalism is an outdated ideology by demonstrating the enduring, and even heightened, economic significance of national identities in this era of economic liberalization and globalization. The paper presenters at the workshop included: Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School), Maya Eichler (York), Leah Greenfeld (Boston), Patti Goff (Utah), Derek Hall (Trent), Eric Helleiner (Trent), Klaus Muller (Free University Berlin), Andrei Tsygankov (San Francisco), Meredith Woo-Cumings (Michigan). Revised versions of these papers have appeared as a book. Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel, eds. Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).