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(In-Person) Grad Student Power Hour: Fiana Kawane

Poetic Economies: Calcutta Writers Workshop and Sari-bound Poetry Books By Fiana Kawane PhD Candidate in the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia Speaker Bio  Fiana Kawane (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the Department of English Language and Literatures, UBC, and a Killam doctoral scholar. Her dissertation reads lyric poetry […]

(In-Person) Grad Student Power Hour: Monica Manlin Cai

To come, to stay: Migration decision-making of Chinese international students in (imaginary) Canada By Monica Manlin Cai PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Speaker Bio  Monica Manlin Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is a student fellow at the […]

Inaugural CMS International Research Conference with Queen’s University Belfast

Inaugural CMS International Research Conference April 25-26, 2023 Liu Institute, Place of Many Trees – University of British Columbia, Vancouver Keynote: Dr. Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)   CMS is thrilled to announce our first annual International Research Conference at UBC on April 25-26 in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast. Designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogues among graduate students and early […]

“Repertoires of Redemption: Migration, Asylum, and Religion in the Era of Involuntary Immobility” – Talk by Jaeeun Kim

Please join us for the first event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. RSVP below for event, or event+lunch Abstract When the Trump Administration made Christian refugees an exception to its “Muslim Ban,” pundits wondered if this would require the government to assess who were real Christians. Does the state have the right […]

The Dangers of the Immigrant Integration Paradigm with Adrian Favell

Please join us for the second event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. RSVP below for event, or event+lunch Abstract How does the dominant North Atlantic conception of “immigrant integration” work to reproduce colonial and Eurocentric ideas of multi-racial progress? Adrian Favell presents his recent work in critical migration studies, which underlines how […]

Overtourism and Culture in Europe: The Resident Gaze with Dr Guillem Colom-Montero

CMS Mobilities Research Group presents “Overtourism and Culture in Europe: The Resident Gaze – A Talk by Dr Guillem Colom-Montero”.  RSVP for this talk below.  Abstract In the last decade, the growing numbers of tourists has become a social, environmental and political issue in many destinations globally, leading to a ‘radical change in the perceptions […]

“Migration as Debt” – Talk by Willem Schinkel

Please join us for the third event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. This is a hybrid event. Abstract In this talk, Willem Schinkel seeks to contribute to ongoing ways of rethinking what ‘migration’ is, and how ‘migration studies’ is implicated in it. The context of his topic is EU-ropean registration, problematization, and […]

Weaving Belonging: Stories from Unceded Territories

We are delighted to invite you to a series of events with artist Aaniya Asrani, focusing on understanding our relationship to belonging on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples as part of the Belonging in Unceded Territory project. Workshop – July 22, 2024, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Storytelling Session: The […]