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Florence Bird Lecture 2025 featuring Jamie Liew – Ghost Citizens: Statelessness and Sociolegal Hauntings
Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 10:00 am to 12:00 am
- In-person event
- Room 2017 in, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- LanaKeon@carleton.ca
The Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University is excited to host the 2025 Florence Bird Lecture on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Carleton University. This year’s distinguished speaker is Jamie Liew, a professor, lawyer, and author, whose work critically examines migration, citizenship, and statelessness. Her lecture, Ghost Citizens: Statelessness and Sociolegal Hauntings, will explore how colonial legacies and legal frameworks render individuals invisible in the eyes of the state.
Join us for this engaging and thought-provoking discussion on the impacts of statelessness and the unseen forces that shape belonging, identity, and legal recognition. The event will feature a lecture followed by a Q&A session and a light lunch, and it is free and open to the public with required registration by Thursday, March 13.
- Jamie Liew is a Full Professor of law at the University of Ottawa and the Shirley Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession. She was a Fulbright Traditional Scholar and visiting scholar at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (2024) and was Director of the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa (2021-2023). She is an expert in immigration, refugee and citizenship law, as well as administrative law and public law. Jamie’s current research examines the meaning of citizenship, legal barriers for stateless persons to obtain citizenship/nationality, gendered implications of Canadian law on migrants, and how Canada’s immigration and refugee system marginalizes those navigating the process. Jamie is the author of Ghost Citizens: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law (Fernwood Publishing, 2024). Jamie’s debut novel Dandelion (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022) was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2023 and won the 2018 Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Her podcast, Migration Conversations, can be found wherever you listen to podcasts and features migrants, lawyers, academics and experts. Jamie holds degrees in law (Columbia University, University of Ottawa), international affairs (NPSIA, Carleton University), commerce and political science (University of Calgary). She was called to the Law Society of Ontario in 2006. After articling at a national full-service law firm in Toronto, Jamie clerked for Justice Douglas Campbell at the Federal Court, was a member of the Issa Sesay defence team at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and was Commission Counsel at the Cornwall Public Inquiry. In 2007, Jamie opened a feminist legal practice with a colleague and practiced in a variety of areas including administrative law. She continues to practice immigration and refugee law today as a sole practitioner. Jamie teaches or has taught Immigration and Refugee Law, Advanced Refugee Law, Public Law and Legislation, Administrative Law, Torts and a seminar courses on Migrant Women and the Law. In the 2024-25 academic year, Jamie will be teaching a new seminar, “Women and the Legal Profession”. A frequent commenter in media, Jamie won the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section 2018-19 Public Engagement Award: Media Relations and also was awarded the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section 2023 Excellence in Research Award. Visit Jamie Liew’s website, www.jcyliew.com, to learn more!
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- 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Lecture & Q&A
- 11:30 – 12:00 PM | Break
- 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Light lunch & informal discussion
- This event will be held in room 2017 of Dunton Tower, which is a wheelchair accessible building and equipped with four elevators. Accessible washrooms are available on-site, and seating accommodations can be arranged upon request. Please visit the Accessibility Guide for Dunton Tower and the Accessible Parking for Visitors for additional accessibility information. If you require any specific accessibility support, please indicate your request in the registration form and/or contact Lana via email: LanaKeon@carleton.ca
This event is free and open to the public; please complete the registration form below by end of day on Thursday, March 13, 2025.