Event Category Archives: Research Group

Dr. Carl Knappett: Mobility, Creativity, and Social Change in the Ancient Aegean

Mobility, Creativity, and Social Change in the Ancient Aegean Friday, March 25th, 2022 3:00pm -4:30pm — Pacific Time (PT)  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. Free & open to the public. To […]

The Guitar in the Ceiling with Susan McDonald & Meer Mahmoud

  “The Guitar in the Ceiling” with Susan McDonald & Meer Mahmoud Monday, March 28, 2022 10:30am — Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Online via Zoom Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies Community-University Partnerships [Abstract] The Guitar […]

The Power of Narrative Storytelling: How podcasts as an arts-based practice enhance solidarity and social activism in adult education

This presentation emerges from a podcast hosted by the Centre for Migration at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2021. In this discussion, we explore how podcasts offer a unique and often under-researched arts-based medium that can be used as a form of creative expression to tell stories, build dialogue, and create solidarity.

Afro-Chinese and Sino-African Media Flows in the Digital Space: A Story of Asymmetrical Proportions with Dani Madrid-Morales

Afro-Chinese and Sino-African Media Flows in the Digital Space: A Story of Asymmetrical Proportions Friday, April 29, 2022 11:00 am – 12:15 pm— Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Online via Zoom Free & open to the public. To register, fill out the RSVP form below. Abstract Starting in the mid-2000s, Chinese State- and privately-owned media companies […]

Workshop: Public Views of Immigration and Diversity: Causes and Consequences for Policy

Workshop: Public Views of Immigration and Diversity: Causes and Consequences for Policy In cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ottawa Office Location: Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The workshop is by invitation only. However, the afternoon session from 2:30 – 4:30pm is open to the public and will be held in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism

Join the department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) on November 3 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Slavenka Drakulić in conversation with Professor emeritus Peter Stenberg, moderated by Dr. Markus Hallensleben. This talk is co-organized by the UBC CMS Narratives Research Group. Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VMfSwDErS5qeNVdSyfRVHw There […]