Event Category Archives: Borders

Dr. Marie Sandberg: Troubling Borders and Melancholic Subjectivity: European Welcome Culture in the ‘Order of the Border’

Troubling Borders and Melancholic Subjectivity: European Welcome Culture in the ‘Order of the Border’ with Dr. Marie Sandberg Friday, November 19, 2021 2:00 – 3:15pm Location: Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room), Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, 6476 NW Marine Drive, V6T 1Z2. For directions and parking, see here. […]

Canada-US Border Issues and Impacts post-Covid

CMS Borders Research Group, Speaker Series Speaker: Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Topic: Canada-US Border Issues and Impacts post-Covid Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm— Pacific Time (PT) Location: Case Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Hosted by the UBC CMS […]

Fuzzy Borders: Bureaucracy, Brokerage and the India-Pakistan Border

Fuzzy Borders: Bureaucracy, Brokerage, and the India-Pakistan Border The CMS Borders Research Group is very pleased to announce the final event for this term’s Speaker Series, organised in association with the Centre for India and South Asia Research. ‘Fuzzy Borders: Bureaucracy, Brokerage and the India-Pakistan Border’ by Dr. Natasha Raheja is a conversation on the author’s upcoming book From Minority […]

Beyond Implementation: The Negative Consequences of Bureaucratic Innovation and Cooperation

Beyond Implementation: The Negative Consequences of Bureaucratic Innovation and Cooperation Angie Bautista-Chavez Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies Arizona State University Co-organized by the CMS Borders Research Group and UBC Latin American Studies Group Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Abstract: Through an analysis […]

Enemies of Empire: Commerce and Confinement in Colonial India, Burma and Siam, 1914-1920 with Dr. Renisa Mawani

CMS Borders Research Group is excited to present the first event of the Borders Group Speaker Series with Dr. Renisa Mawani (Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories & UBC Professor of Sociology). RSVP below for this talk.  Abstract In this talk, I examine how colonial officials sought to redraw and control maritime and land-based borders […]

An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration: A Literary Case Study from the Indian Ocean with Dr. Nikhita Obeegadoo

CMS Borders Research Group is excited to present the second event of the Borders Group Speaker Series with Dr. Nikhita Obeegadoo (Assistant Professor in Languages and World Literatures at UBC Okanagan). RSVP below for this talk. Abstract The island of Mayotte is an overseas department of France, wrenched away from the Comoran archipelago in 1975. This act […]

“Safe Haven” Film Screening

CMS Borders Research Group is thrilled to present a virtual film screening of “Safe Haven”, a film directed by Peabody Award winning filmmaker Lisa Molomot.  RSVP below for this virtual event. SAFE HAVEN | Directed By: Lisa Molomot | Produced by: Alison Mountz Film Synopsis SAFE HAVEN weaves together the powerful stories of U.S. war […]

Exodus: Russian Repression and Social ‘Movement’ with Lisa Sundstrom

CMS Borders Research Group is thrilled to present a talk by Lisa Dr. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom titled Exodus: Russian Repression and Social ‘Movement’.  RSVP below for this event.  Abstract What does it mean when a social movement has to physically relocate to continue its advocacy? This “movement” of movements has been underway since Russia’s invasion […]

Creative Resistance Against Australian Border Violence: The Politics of Shared Philosophical Activity with Omid Tofighian and Elahe Zivardar

CMS Borders Research Group is thrilled to host Omid Tofighian and Elahe Zivardar for a talk titled “Creative Resistance Against Australian Border Violence: The Politics of Shared Philosophical Activity“. This talk is co-sponsored by Green College and Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies RSVP for this talk below. Abstract This talk introduces the […]