Events

CMS Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow Writing Retreat

October 26, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 231
Book Discussions

Age and Immigration Policy in Canada: Roundtable Discussion

October 27, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room
Book Discussions

Book Talk: Urban Indigenous Assemblages

November 5, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2026-27 #2, Talks, Webinars

Producing Precarity: Transnational labour, Multinational Capital, and Complicit Governance Go Rural on the Canadian Prairies

November 23, 2026 | 11:45 AM - 1:50 PM
roomC.K. Building, Room 120
Speaker Series 2026-27 #2

Afternoon Coffee Chat with Dr. Jennifer Hyndman

November 23, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Conferences

2027 Bridging Divides Conference

May 10, 2027 | 12:00 AM - May 12, 2027 | 11:59 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Talks

Borders, Migration, and Multilevel Citizenship in the E.U. and U.S.

October 6, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomFasken Classroom, Room 122 and Virtually
Talks

Humanitarian Fictions: Narrative, Power, and the Politics of Refugee Reception

September 21, 2026 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)

Morning Coffee Chat with Dr. Rawan Arar

September 21, 2026 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomC.K. Choi 231
Community Luncheons

Open House Community Luncheon

September 18, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomGateway Building, 2240
Panel Discussions

World Refugee Day 2026

June 22, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
room312 Main
Workshops

In‑Depth Interviewing and Coding for Migration Research: A Full‑Day Graduate Workshop

June 10, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room

Migration Data Challenge 2026: Final Showcase

May 29, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline via Zoom
Conferences

2026 CMS Migration & Integration Conference

April 27, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Talks

Pacific Ontological (In)security in the Shadow of Trump’s Deportation Agenda

April 9, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Talks

Moving Markets: Mobility, Memory, and Urban Transformation in London and Hong Kong

April 1, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)

Migrant Farmworker Awareness Week | Intersectional Injustice in Canada’s Food System

March 30, 2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Talks

Reframing Avant-Garde Networks in Exile: A Decolonial Approach to Editing Wolfgang Paalen’s Literary Writings

March 24, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomOnline
Talks

Affective Orders of Forced Migration: (Auto-)Ethnographic Insights into Affective Practices in the Accommodation of Young Refugees in Austria

March 18, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 997

Migration and Transnational Media Practices: The Case of Chinese Immigrants in Australia

March 16, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

Post-Soviet Brides in the China Dream: Marriage, Migration, and Geopolitics Across Borders

March 12, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225
Panel Discussions

Heated Rivalry: Immigration, Safety, and Queer Belonging in Canada

March 6, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
roomOnline via Zoom

Afternoon Coffee Chat with Margarita Mondaca

March 2, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 231
Speaker Series 2025-26 #4

Addressing Health Inequalities in Racialized and Socioeconomic Disadvantaged Areas in Sweden

March 2, 2026 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Workshops

Media Training for Researchers

February 25, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Webinars

Canada’s Changing Immigration Landscape: Top five things to watch out for in 2026

February 5, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomOnline

Afternoon Coffee Chat with Delphine Nakache

February 2, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2025-26 #3

The Regularization Maze: How Canada's Temporary Migration System Manufactures Precarity

February 2, 2026 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

January 19, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351

Professional Development Event with Settlement Sector Practitioners

January 12, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room

Professional Development Event with Lily Grewal

December 1, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room
Talks

Climate Migration and the Right to a Healthy Environment: Legal Developments and Future Directions

November 28, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees

Afternoon Coffee Chat with Ming Chen

November 24, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Speaker Series 2025-26 #2

Exclusion By Design: Migrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status with Ming Chen

November 24, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Conferences, Workshops

CMS-Sector Research Collaborations Day 2025

November 12, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
roomCreekside Community Recreation Centre
Workshops

Workers’ Workshops on Migrant Experiences in Platform and Remote Work

October 27, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Workshops

Workers’ Workshops on Migrant Experiences in Platform and Remote Work

October 25, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2025-26 #1

The Enduring Effects of Deterrence Border Regimes with Helena Zeweri

October 6, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Talks

Breaking Barriers for International Medical Graduates: How Disaggregated Data Can Address Systemic Discrimination

September 22, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomOnline
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon: Welcome back!

September 16, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Conferences

APSA Pre-Conference | Narrative and Text Analysis in the Study of Migration and Citizenship

September 10, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
roomPonderosa Commons Ballroom
Film Screenings

Film Screening: Threads of Time

August 15, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMuseum of Vancouver
Exhibitions

Closing Reception | Weaving Belonging: Stories from Unceded Territories

July 10, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Conferences

World Refugee Day Symposium—Afghan Women: Resisting, Redefining, and Reclaiming

June 20, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)

Migration Data Challenge 2025: Final Showcase

May 29, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline
Conferences

CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes

May 1, 2025 | 9:00 AM - May 2, 2025 | 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Panel Discussions

Revisioning Newcomer Settlement and Integration from the Ground Up

April 24, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomOnline
Panel Discussions

From Policy to People: Unpacking the Immigration Landscape in Unsettled Times

April 16, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square Theatre
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

April 3, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

White Columns on Turtle's Back: Classics, Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory Here and Now

March 31, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomBuchanan C203

Professional Development Event with Lily Grewal

March 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre 158
Workshops

Analyzing Text Data with DiscoverText

March 7, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2024-25 #4

“Otherness” and the Politics of Sanctuary: Exploring the History of Refuge Over the Long Twentieth Century with Laura Madokoro

March 3, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Book Discussions

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

February 28, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees

Professional Development Event with Zahra Esmail

February 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre 158
Workshops

Race and Migration Studies: A Research Journey with Jennifer A. Jones

February 10, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K Choi Building
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2024-25 #3

Organizing for Inclusion? Race-Making and the Quest for Immigrant Rights in the U.S. South with Jennifer A. Jones

February 10, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

January 28, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Workshops

Media Training Workshop

January 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K Choi Building

Professional Development Event with Patrick MacKenzie

December 2, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre 158
Talks

Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China's Email-Order Brides with Dr. Monica Liu

November 27, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Book Discussions

Ingat: An Anthology by Migrant Domestic Worker Creatives in Hong Kong

November 22, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomC.K. Building, Room 120
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

November 19, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Panel Discussions, Workshops

CMS-Sector Research Collaborations Day 2024

November 13, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square, HSBC Hall
Panel Discussions

The Crash of the International Student ‘Market’: Causes, Consequences, and the Future of Canadian Higher Education

November 6, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomOnline

Welcoming Together: Musqueam-YVR Collaboration on Refugee Reception

October 31, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 231
Workshops

Afternoon Coffee Chat with Jean Beaman

October 28, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Recording Available, Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2024-25 #2

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies with Jean Beaman

October 28, 2024 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Workshops

The Connected Past: A Workshop in Network Science for Humanities Students

October 2, 2024 | 10:00 AM - October 3, 2024 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

September 24, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien

September 19, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 726
Talks

Archives of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History with Anjali Arondekar

September 18, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCecil Green Park House
Workshops

Anjali Arondekar Workshop – Educate, Agitate, Organize: Trans/Queer/Caste

September 17, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBUTO 323
Speaker Series, Speaker Series 2024-25 #1

Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North with Andrew S. Rosenberg

September 16, 2024 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Exhibitions

Weaving Belonging: Stories from Unceded Territories

July 22, 2024 | 5:00 PM - August 1, 2024 | 7:30 PM
roomClinton Park Field house
Conferences, Talks

The End of Migration as We Know It: Studying and Opposing Regimes of Dehumanization with Nina Glick Schiller

May 15, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Conferences

International Research Conference 2024 with Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Social Sciences

May 15, 2024 | 8:30 AM - May 16, 2024 | 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

April 24, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Workshops

Weaving Workshop Series with Chief Janice George and Elder Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph

April 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM - May 4, 2024 | 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Building, Room 120
Talks

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

March 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Place of Many Trees
Speaker Series

Speaker Series | "Migrant Occupations: Practices of Freedom?" with Miriam Ticktin

March 11, 2024 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)

Professional Development Event | A Conversation with Olga Stachova

March 8, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

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

March 7, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room

CMS Grad Fellows Symposium 2024

March 1, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room
Film Screenings

"Safe Haven" Film Screening

February 29, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual
Talks

History and Symbol in Africa and China Relations with Duncan M. Yoon

February 29, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomGreen College Coach House

Perspectives on Immigrant Employment and the Future of Work (Panel Discussion)

February 26, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Talks

Grad Student Power Hour: Ziwen Mei

February 15, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 231
Panel Discussions

Harmony in Action: Bridging Communities at UBC

February 8, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 726
Speaker Series

"Migration as Debt" - Talk by Willem Schinkel

February 5, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:15 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

January 29, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

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

January 15, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225

(Mobilities Group Event) Could we laugh colonialism away? Using Egyptian comics to confront the colonial histories of its ancient past

December 4, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomHybrid
Panel Discussions

‘Citizen Alien’ or ‘Alien Citizen? Dialoguing lived citizenship through collaborative autoethnography

November 29, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomZoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64659585332?pwd=aFZKY0VNUnJnOTRmM0dhdHFLQVlPZz09

A Multi-Sector World Café to Promote the Mental Health of Refugees in BC

November 28, 2023 | 11:45 AM - 4:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Talks

Grad Power Hour: Temitayo Olarewaju

November 23, 2023 | 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 997
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

November 8, 2023 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Speaker Series

The Dangers of the Immigrant Integration Paradigm with Adrian Favell

November 6, 2023 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)
Talks

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

October 27, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225

CMS-Sector Research Collaborations Day

October 26, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
roomCreekside Community Center
Talks

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

October 17, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225
Speaker Series

"Repertoires of Redemption: Migration, Asylum, and Religion in the Era of Involuntary Immobility" - Talk by Jaeeun Kim

October 16, 2023 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 225

Professional Development Event: A Conversation With Anastasia Chyz-LeSage

October 12, 2023 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 997
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

September 11, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351

(Hybrid) Dr. Shahram Khosravi at CMS International Research Conference

April 25, 2023 | 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Conferences

Inaugural CMS International Research Conference with Queen's University Belfast

April 25, 2023 | 12:00 AM - April 26, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues

(In-Person) CMS Grad Fellows Symposium 2022-2023

April 18, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room

Book Launch for the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

April 14, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Seminar Room 997

Shanty Towns, Indigenous Mobilities and Marrón (Brown) Experience: Contested Formations of Race in the City of Buenos Aires

April 5, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute, Case Room 132
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

April 4, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby

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

April 3, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351

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

March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351

'Our Indigenous Cousins' or Settlers-R-Us? Pacific Migration to Indigenous Places with Alice Te Punga Somerville

March 27, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute, Case Room 132
Research Creation

Becoming Neighbours

March 25, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomHybrid

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

March 23, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomChoi Building, room 120

Institutional Power and Migrant Family Disadvantages in the Nordic Welfare State with Camilla Nordberg

March 21, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 231

UBC History Book Launch: The Boundaries of Ethnicity

March 20, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Third World Influences on Fourth World Anti-Colonialism: Land and/as Solidarity

March 9, 2023 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomChoi Building, room 120
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

March 7, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby

Rethinking Migration and Mobility in Human History

March 7, 2023 | 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline

The Contribution of Freedom of/Access to Information Requests to a Liberatory Perspective of Public Administration: Examining the Forms, Spaces, and Levels of Power

March 2, 2023 | 2:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomLiu Institute, Case Room 132

Sharing Insights: The Lived Experience of Syrian Refugees in Canada

February 28, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomOnline

Borders and Nation-Building in Early U.S. Travel Writing

February 28, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Transnational Living and Indigeneity as Everyday Sherpa Reality

February 16, 2023 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomLiu Case room 132

(In-person) Grad Student Power Hour: Aram Bajakian

February 13, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomChoi Room 231

Careers in Migration and Integration: A Provincial Government Perspective Q&A

February 2, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomChoi Building 120

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

February 1, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

January 27, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby

(In-person) Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Shereen Leanne

January 23, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomChoi 231

Ziegler Lecture: Max Czollek, “Radical Diversity and Deintegration”

January 19, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speaker Series

Beyond Implementation: The Negative Consequences of Bureaucratic Innovation and Cooperation

January 18, 2023 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Speaker Series

Climate Change, Domestic and Foreign Investment, and Migration in Ghana

December 7, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Talks

What Does It Mean To Be An "Immigrant" Entrepreneur in Racialized Societies: An Exploratory Study of How Racism Influences Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Yijia Zhang

December 5, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351

Scholarly Resettlement in Canadian Higher Education: Supporting Afghan Scholars, Students and Activists at Risk

November 30, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Case room 132

Migration & Indigeneity: Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths

November 29, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 351
Speaker Series

Carceral Politics of LGBTQ Asylum and the Feminist Revolution in Iran

November 28, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room

Research-Creation in Migration and Diaspora Research at criticalMediArtStudio (cMAS)

November 24, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Bridging the Gap between Migration Policy and Practice

November 23, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi building 351
Talks

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Robert Straughan

November 22, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Workshops

Fall Workshop Series – Racialization and settler complicity: The complicated interface of migration, colonization, and Indigeneity in Canada

November 18, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

November 17, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby
Talks

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

November 15, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomThe Place of Many Trees
Exhibitions

No Zone: Poetry of the Border-lands

November 8, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Speaker Series

Reconsidering the Origins of Assimilation Theories

November 7, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism

November 3, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomHybrid

Wandering Words: Confronting Multilingualisms, Ancient and Modern

November 2, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBUCH C 203
Talks

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

November 1, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 231
Panel Discussions

Paradigm Shifts in Immigration Detention: Structural Change and the Power of Hope

October 27, 2022 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
roomFarris Hall
Speaker Series

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

October 25, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Workshops

Fall Workshop Series – Racialization and settler complicity: The complicated interface of migration, colonization, and Indigeneity in Canada

October 21, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Centre for Migration Studies Launch Party!

October 14, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Workshops

Fall Workshop Series – Racialization and settler complicity: The complicated interface of migration, colonization, and Indigeneity in Canada

September 23, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Research Creation

Meet the winners: CMS International Art Competition 2022

September 22, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Canada-US Border Issues and Impacts post-Covid

September 21, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

(In-person Workshop) Diversity Work as Organizational Learning

June 3, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

(Hybrid) Drawing Threads: Comics, Graphic Reportage, and Mass Migration

May 27, 2022 | 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues
Talks

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

May 18, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Talks

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

April 29, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Panel Discussions

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

April 28, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Speaker Series

Amanda Cheong: What’s “Vital” About the Registration of Vital Events?

April 7, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
roomLiu Boardroom 316
Talks

Grad Student Power Hour on "Exploring Systemic Barriers to Economic Security of Racialized Newcomer Women and their Overcoming Strategies"

April 5, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Speaker Series

Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou: The Global Governance of Migration: Towards a ‘Messy’ Approach

March 31, 2022 | 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues

Coffee Hour with the CMS Grad Mentor in Residence: Rima Wilkes

March 29, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

The Guitar in the Ceiling with Susan McDonald & Meer Mahmoud

March 28, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

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

March 25, 2022 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues
Speaker Series

Dr. Abdoulaye Kane: Villages gone digital: Villages’ WhatsApp groups and Migrants’ New Forms of Intervention in Sending Communities

March 3, 2022 | 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues
Talks

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Sonja Aicha van der Putten

March 1, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

February 28, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby
Talks

Public Talk by Colin Browne: "What is Thinkable is Also Possible: Surrealists on the Northwest Coast"

February 17, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower, Room 997
Talks

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Saguna Shankar

February 16, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Recording Available, Talks

Ethnic Identity as a Strategy for Dealing With Uncertainty Darfurian – Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel as a Case Study with Dr. Lisa Richlen

February 11, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Recording Available, Talks

Extending the reach of academic research through photovoice: The Lived Experience of Aging Immigrants project with Dr. Sharon Koehn

February 7, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Recording Available, Talks

Re-storying Higher Education: Toward Indigenous Resurgence & Settler Decolonization with Dr. Shauneen Pete

February 4, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Research Creation

To Create the Conditions for Listening: Sound Stories as Research Method with Gabriele Woolever

January 28, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Virtual Talk with Dr. Renae Watchman "Indigenous Literary Presence in Europe"

January 28, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Between Loss and Recovery: Cross Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia with Dr. Amila Buturovic

January 28, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Panel Discussions, Recording Available

Radical Diversity: An International Discussion of Transformative Narratives from an Indigenous, Jewish and Immigrant Perspective

January 20, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

December 7, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby
Recording Available, Speaker Series

Modern Slavery and Constructions of Undocumented Vietnamese Migration in the UK with Dr. Tamsin Barber

November 30, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Sami New Media and Digital Games with Dr. Outi Laiti

November 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Recording Available, Talks

The Co-Created Story Project with Andrea Solnes and Diana Jeffries

November 23, 2021 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Louisa-May Khoo

November 22, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351
Talks

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

November 19, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues
Recording Available, Talks

‘Less than human’: Examining the Representation of Refugees through the Lens of Decoloniality with Dr. Roger Bromley

November 18, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

(In-person) Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Gabriele Woolever

November 15, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomLiu Boardroom 316
Recording Available, Speaker Series

Migration and Pandemics with Dr. Chinmay Tumbe

November 9, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Panel Discussions

Radical Diversity: An International Discussion on Colonial Practices, Structures and Discourses, and Strategies to Disrupt them

November 4, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Conferences

Symposium on Immigrant Integration During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: Government and NGO Plans to Support Integration Success

November 1, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square Theatre

Virtual Talk with Dr. Nancy Clark: “Working Across Cultures – Language, Family and Refugee & Immigrant Mental Health”

October 22, 2021 | 9:30 AM - October 23, 2021 | 12:30 PM
Talks

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Mathias Kruse

October 21, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomLiu Boardroom 316
Workshops

David Plamondon and Jayde Gravel: Indigenous Representation and Self-Representation in Board Game Culture "Pe Metawe Board Game Workshop"

October 20, 2021 | 1:00 PM - October 22, 2021 | 2:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

October 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby
Speaker Series

Genetics and Memorials: People and their Remembrance in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Sicily with Dr. Martin Carver

October 19, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Conferences

Symposium on the Migration Dynamics of North America Before, During, and After Covid-19

October 18, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square Theatre
Talks

Virtual Talk with Dr. Lars Richter “Playing Manitoba – A German Board Game and the Need for New Stories”

October 15, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker Series

Roundtable for Dr. Antje Ellermann’s The Comparative Politics of Immigration

October 15, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomPlace of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues

Postmigrant Narratives: Author reading and discussion with Zafer Senocak on “Berlin - The Capital of the Fragment

October 14, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Recording Available, Talks

Migration without Mobility: Vietnamese Migrants in Russia with Dr. Lan Anh Hoang

October 13, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Talks

Winnetou, White Innocence, and Settler Time with Dr. Maureen Gallagher

October 8, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Recording Available, Talks

Are participatory arts-based methods culturally safe? with Dr. Caroline Lenette

October 7, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom

Drew Hayden Taylor's "Searching for Winnetou" (2018): Film Screening & Conversation with Director

October 4, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Panel Discussions, Recording Available

Migration & Citizenship Section Pre-Conference

September 29, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Recording Available, Talks

How Ancient DNA Revived Ancient Migrations in Archaeology with Dr. David W. Anthony

September 24, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline via Zoom
Community Luncheons

Community Luncheon

September 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
roomC.K. Choi Lobby
Talks

Reverse Diaspora: The “Brazilians” in West Africa with Dr. Antje Ziethen

September 16, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomHybrid

2021 Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival presents: "The Good Daughter"

September 10, 2021 | 12:00 AM - September 19, 2021 | 11:59 PM

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Natasha Damiano

July 22, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Maria Cervantes

July 8, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Caitlyn Yates

June 24, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Anne-Cécile Delaisse

June 10, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Migration Grad Student Power Hour: Lisa Brunner

May 28, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Book Launch

April 30, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Jelena Todorovic - Behind the Mythological Curtain

April 21, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Divergent Patterns and Experiences of Integration: Findings about Chinese and Indian Immigrants in Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Singapore

April 16, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

MAP's In Focus Lecture Series - Canadian Refugee Law: Who does it protect?

April 15, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Amila Buturović - Between Loss and Recovery [CANCELED]

April 14, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop Keynote - Prof. Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)

April 14, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop Keynote - Prof. Myria Georgiou (LSE)

April 13, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Storytelling as Research Roundtable: Unsettling Narratives

April 9, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Regina Römhild - Other Europes in moments of post-otherness

April 8, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Storytelling as Research Roundtable: Postmigrant Narratives

April 7, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Grace Peña Delgado - Mexico's New Slavery

March 29, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Audrey Macklin - Re-Settler Society

March 8, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Nikhar Gaikwad - The politics of South-South migration

March 4, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Susanne Wessendorf - Social exclusion, symbolic boundaries and convivial labour

February 26, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Hannah Alarian - Local suffrage increases citizenship acquisition

February 22, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Claudia Moatti - On the road: Mobility and social differentiation

February 19, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Denise L. Spitzer - Situating Intersectionality in Migrant Health

February 10, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Nicholas De Genova - Viral Borders

January 29, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

When Local Meets Transnational: Reciprocal Effects of Immigrants Circulating between Hong Kong and Canada

January 26, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

When Local Meets Transnational: Reciprocal Effects of Immigrants Circulating between Hong Kong and Canada

January 19, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Refugees and Borders Webinar

December 5, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Breaking Down Barriers: WUSC UBC Webinar

December 4, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Asha Kaushal & Bethany Hastie - Bordering the pandemic

December 1, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Louisa May Khoo - Governing difference

November 18, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Markus Hallensleben - Deconstructing Eurocentric politics of belonging

November 12, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Lynne Pearce - Rethinking the road

November 6, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Suzanne Huot & Anne Delaisse - "Rencontres culturelles: Améliorer l'inclusion au sein des espaces francophones minoritaires"

November 3, 2020 | 11:50 AM - 1:50 PM

Xiaojun Li - Corrective info & public attitudes toward immigration

October 29, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Storytelling for Change Film Screening

October 27, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Yang-Yang Zhou - Prolonged social contact...local prejudice in wartime settings

October 23, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck - Immigration detention in an age of COVID-19

October 22, 2020 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Dan Hiebert - Canadian migration during and after the pandemic

October 16, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Kate van Orden - Songs in unexpected places

October 5, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Mimi Sheller - Mobility justice, climate migration ...pandemic (im)mobilities

September 25, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Matthew Wright - Immigration and the American ethos

September 16, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Virtual Event: Social Participation Opportunities for Immigrants

July 21, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Online Conference: Postmigrant Aesthetics

June 24, 2020 | 8:50 AM - 12:30 PM

CANCELLED: Prof. Anna Purkey, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

March 19, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAllard School of Law Room 106

Paper Workshop - Dean Catherine Dauvergne

March 13, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAllard School of Law, Room 111

Research Talk - Claire Adida

March 12, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomBuchanan Penthouse

Research Talk - Rahsaan Maxwell

March 5, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomBuchanan C403

Omolade Femi-Ajao Talk

March 2, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Research Talk - Margaret Peters

March 2, 2020 | 12:15 AM - 2:00 PM

Research Talk - Erik Bleich

February 27, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
roomSeminar Room - Buchanan Penthouse

Biz Nijdam Talk

February 25, 2020 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Partisan Effects of Immigration Threat on Citizenship Norms: Evidence from the UK, US, and Germany with Sara Goodman

February 3, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomBuchanan C403

Cluster Party

January 27, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College
Workshops

Experimental Evidence and Community-Relevant Knowledge Workshop at S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

January 16, 2020 | 9:00 AM - January 17, 2020 | 4:00 PM
Talks

Knowledge "transfer" as sociocultural and sociomaterial practice: Immigrants expanding engineering practices in Canada with Hongxia Shan

January 13, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi 351