Events at: Place of Many Trees, Liu Instiute for Global Issues

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 […]

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

Troubling Borders and Melancholic Subjectivity: European Welcome Culture in the ‘Order of the Border’ with Dr. Marie Sandberg Friday, November 19, 2021 2:00 – 3:15pm 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. […]

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

Abdoulaye Kane is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. His teaching and research interest is on the transnational practices of Haalpulaar migrants in Europe and the United States and their impacts on the sending communities in the Senegal River Valley.

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 […]

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

The UBC Centre for Migration Studies Speaker Series 2021-2022 presents: The Global Governance of Migration: Towards a ‘Messy’ Approach Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:45 – 2:15 PM— Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, 6476 NW Marine Drive, V6T 1Z2. For directions and parking, see here. […]

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

Drawing Threads: Comics, Graphic Reportage, and Mass Migration Friday, May 27, 2022 10:45 am – 12:15 pm— Pacific Time (PT)  Location: Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The event will be held in the Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room) at The Liu Institute for Global Issues: 6476 NW […]

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 […]