Event Tag Archives: Hybrid Events

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

The UBC Centre for Migration Studies 2021-22 Speaker Series presents: A Roundtable for Dr. Antje Ellermann’s The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland and the United States Friday, October 15, 2021 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM Pacific Time (PT) Location: Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room), Liu Institute for […]

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

Symposium on the Migration Dynamics of North America Before, During, and After Covid-19 Co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia (Killiam Connection Award program and the Centre for Migration Studies), the Migration Policy Institute’s Transatlantic Council on Migration, the Immigrant Employment Council of British Columbia, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). October 18, 2021 […]

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

Immigrant Integration During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: Government and NGO Plans to Support Integration Success Co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia (Killiam Connection Award program and the Centre for Migration Studies), The Immigrant Employment Council of British Columbia, The Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, AMSSA (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies […]

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

This is a Peter A. Allard School of Law event, held in partnership with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. EVENT DETAILS: Under Canadian law, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has broad discretionary powers to detain non-citizens under immigration law, without a trial or a charge, and without any due process safeguards. There are […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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

As part of the Bridging Divides Project, CMS is hosting a hybrid employment-focused panel addressing issues related to immigrants’ labour market integration, employment services and the future of work. This is a hybrid event. RSVP below to attend this event in-person or online.  Following brief presentations of current research conducted by the speakers, participants will […]

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

CMS is honoured to host an in-person workshop series with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) master weavers and community leaders of the L’hen Awtxw Weaving House, Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George and Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph. The series will take place on 3 consecutive Saturdays (April 20, April 27, and May 4) from 10am-1pm. Participants must be able […]