Event Category Archives: Research Group

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 & 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, […]

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 […]

Migration & Mental Health: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion for Healthcare Providers & Settlement Workers

Please RSVP below. Migration & Mental Health: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion for Healthcare Providers & Settlement Workers Film to be screened virtually: The World is Bright (Ying Wang, 2019). Link to film will be provided upon registration. Time and place of panel discussion: MOSAIC headquarters, February 1, 2023, 6-7:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm); […]

Rethinking Migration and Mobility in Human History

RETHINKING MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN HUMAN HISTORY A book launch for the edited volume Homo Migrans: Modeling Mobility and Migration in Human History, in conjunction with the Green College Leading Scholars Series, Moving On: New Research on Migration, Borders, and Health and the Mobilities Research Group at the Centre for Migration Studies. Date: Tuesday, March 7, […]

Broken Angel: Film Screening + Filmmaker Q&A with Jules Arita Koostachin

Broken Angel Film Screening + Filmmaker Q&A with Jules Arita Koostachin  Please RSVP below   Join us for a screening of the feature film, Broken Angel, written and directed by Jules Arita Koostachin (PhD, UBC Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice). Dr. Koostachin will be in attendance for an engaging Q&A after the film, moderated […]

Becoming Neighbours

Becoming Neighbours Workshops 2023 Saturday, March 25 9:00 am – 12:00 pm UBC Robson Square and on Zoom Becoming Neighbours is a 5-part community-engaged dialogue series, organized by Kinbrace Community Society and Worn Words Media. Each interactive workshop explores one of Kinbrace’s time-tested values to unpack the complexities of these practices in communities of forced displacement. The series includes panels (refugee […]

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 […]