Author Meets Readers | Canada in the Global Refugee Regime
Thursday, November 26, 2026 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- In-Person event
- Irene’s Pub Restaurant , Ottawa , ON , K1S 3W4
- Cost: Free
- In-Person event
- Irene’s Pub Restaurant , Ottawa , ON , K1S 3W4
- Cost: Free
- Full details here
Professor Dominique Marshall will speak at the event, along with Gauri Sreenivasan, Professor James Milner, and Nathan Benson
Dominique Marshall is Professor of History at Carleton University. She teaches and researches the past of social policies, children’s rights, humanitarian aid, disability and technology, refugees, and the extraction of natural resources. Her current SSHRC funded research is on the role of Oxfam in Canadian transnational history 1943 – 2003. She helps coordinate the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid and the Carleton University Disability Research Group. She is a Co-Investigator of the Partnership Local Engagement Refugee Research Network where she is a member of RLO Archives Working Group; of the Humanitarian Archives Emergency; the Learning with and from the global South: Young women and girls with disabilities create networks for change; the xDX project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada’s Design Heritage; and of the teaching website Recipro: the history of international and humanitarian aid.
Gauri Sreenivasan (she/elle) is the Co-Executive Director at the Canadian Council for Refugees, and a leading policy advocate and strategist for human rights, equity and a thriving planet. Gauri brings over 30 years of experience working in leadership roles across civil society, Parliament Hill, and with academia and researchers to build alliances for change on Turtle Island and around the world. She was most recently Policy and Campaigns Director for Nature Canada. Gauri also worked for 15 years at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) as a senior analyst and team leader, as the Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Official Opposition, and as a Policy and Research Director at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
James Milner is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He is currently Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network.
He is also Co-Chair of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, and Canada’s first De Mello Chair.
He has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy, meaningful refugee participation and the politics of asylum in the global South. He has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters.
Nathan Benson is Strategy at Pathways International, where he helps to shape and execute the organization’s vision for transformative change and contributes to key projects and partnerships such as the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative and the Resettlement and Pathways Diplomacy Network.
Nathan joined Pathways International (then the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub) in 2016 as the National Director of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, and later spearheaded the organization’s dedicated knowledge team as Legal and Research Director. In this role he led the organization’s engagement in global policy forums and research partnerships, including a partnership with the Columbia University Global Policy Initiative to help inform the development of the UN Global Compact on Migration.