Each year, the UBC Centre for Migration Studies, in partnership with a collaborating university, hosts its Research Conference on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The conference invites submissions from faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate student affiliates of the CMS and its partner institution and includes an internationally recognized scholar as the keynote speaker.

Partner institutions