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Meet the winners: CMS International Art Competition 2022

Virtual Ceremony for the CMS International Art Competition 2022 Thursday, September 22, 2022 11:30 am – 12:30 pm— Pacific Time (PT) Location: Online via Zoom Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Please join us to celebrate the winners of the 2022 international art competition in a virtual […]

Witnessing Empire’s Bordering Practices: Afghan American Diasporic Politics in the Aftermath of Withdrawal

Witnessing Empire’s Bordering Practices: Afghan American Diasporic Politics in the Aftermath of Withdrawal Helena Zeweri Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Abstract: Based on preliminary and ongoing ethnographic research and community advocacy, this talk examines an emergent set of critiques around empire that […]

“Indians From All Directions” – Transnational Imperial Refraction and Settler Colonialism

“Indians From All Directions” – Transnational Imperial Refraction and Settler Colonialism  The CMS Migration & Indigeneity Research Group is delighted to invite you to its first in-person speaker event in fall 2022. Speaker: Ajay Parasram (Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies & Department of History, Dalhousie University) Abstract: In this presentation, I am concerned with […]

Wandering Words: Confronting Multilingualisms, Ancient and Modern

In this multilingual roundtable, we interrogate the interplay of ancient and modern languages in scholarship on the ancient Mediterranean world. We consider the challenges of crossing between ancient and modern from a variety of viewpoints: the challenges of studying ancient languages through the lenses of their modern counterparts, the transitions between Anglophone and non-Anglophone worlds […]

Reconsidering the Origins of Assimilation Theories

Reconsidering the Origins of Assimilation Theories Aryan Karimi Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Sociology Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Abstract: Classic, segmented-, and neo-assimilation theories explain intergroup relations. They, respectively, draw specific attention to ethnic pluralism, to the possibility of downward mobility into the underclass, and to […]

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 […]

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Robert Straughan

Do Canadians view immigrants as competitors for jobs? Robert Straughan PhD Student, Political Science, UBC Tuesday November 22, 12-1 PM C. K. Choi Building – Room 351 [ Bio ] Robert is a PhD student in Political Science. His research focuses on comparative politics, public opinion, and political behaviour related to migration. He is especially interested […]

Bridging the Gap between Migration Policy and Practice

Thea Bracewell is a Policy Practitioner Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and joins UBC from her main role as a Senior Policy Analyst at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Herfellowship research focuses on the intersection between genderequality and migration integration policies and programming in Europe. During this informal […]

Carceral Politics of LGBTQ Asylum and the Feminist Revolution in Iran

Carceral Politics of LGBTQ Asylum and the Feminist Revolution in Iran Elif Sari Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Abstract: What does the ongoing “Women, Life, Freedom” revolution in Iran have to do with migration, borders, and (im)mobility? Drawing on activist […]

Migration & Indigeneity: Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths

Join this CMS Migration & Indigeneity Research Group event in conversation with Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin! Bio: Born in Moose Factory Ontario, Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moosonee, and also with her mother in Ottawa, a warrior of the Residential school system. Jules is a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, […]