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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Visiting Researcher in Migration and Diaspora Studies

Migration and Diaspora Studies is delighted to announce that Dr. Zaheera Jinnah will be visiting Carleton during December in order to explore teaching and research collaborations between the University of the Witwatsersrand and Carleton. Dr. Jinnah is an anthropologist and researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at Wits,... More

Friday, December 4, 2015

Exceptional/Exceptionable Space

  “Massive global systems — meta-infrastructures administered by public and private cohorts, and driven by profound irrationalities — are generating de facto, undeclared forms of polity faster than any even quasi-official forms of governance can legislate them — a wilder mongrel than any storied Leviathan for which there is studied... More

Friday, December 4, 2015

#Refugees Welcome Ottawa

by Ajay Parasram In the last week of November, #Refugees Welcome Ottawa (RWO), an ad hoc community group comprised of Ottawa folks from diverse backgrounds and experiences, organized three public events concerned with efforts to relocate tens of thousands of refugees in the coming weeks and months. These events were designed to capture a broad... More

Friday, November 20, 2015

MDS Graduate Student Colloquium

by Daniel McNeil One may have harboured concerns about the potential for screwball comedy before the colloquium and half-jokingly asked, ‘what happens when a literary historian, an architect and a political scientist walk into a bar seminar room? Such concerns were unfounded when the colloquium brought together members of research,... More

Friday, November 20, 2015

Remaking the Middle East: The Long Arab 19th Century

Remaking the Middle East: The Long Arab 19th Century (Poster) (Podcast: Part 1 , Part 2) On November 19, 2015, Dr. Seif Da'na presented the Current events stirring the Middle East which can be discerned most easily as a matter of politics, economic, or culture, but steeped in complexity they are much more. In... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Kobena Mercer Discusses Art and Diaspora at Carleton University

FASS Distinguished Visiting Professor Kobena Mercer (Yale University) spoke with Carleton faculty and students about the tensions, characteristics and contradictions between World Studies and Diaspora Studies. On October 5, Mercer delivered a lecture in Aboubakar Sanogo’s class on African Cinema from 9:30-11:30, followed by a lunch with grad... More

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

MDS Wins Carleton Research Prize Award

October 5, 2015. The Migration and Diaspora Studies Steering Committee has been awarded a Carleton Research Prize Award for building connections across the university that have had a sustained impact both over time and across research programs. As the world’s refugee population has reached crisis proportions, members of Carleton’s Migration... More

Monday, September 28, 2015

Call for membership: Migration and Diaspora Student Society

Carleton University students interested in migration and diaspora studies are invited to join the newly established Migration and Diaspora Student Society (MDSS). Membership is free of charge and applications are now being accepted for the 2015-2016 academic year (see below). The goal of MDSS is to bring together students and alumni from different... More

Monday, September 28, 2015

Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime

Between 23 and 25 September, Carleton University hosted the international workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime.”  This workshop brought together a prominent group of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss the ability of different actors to influence outcomes within the global refugee regime. Here is a link... More

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dr. Daniel McNeil discusses cultural identity and Stuart Hall’s legacy at UBC and SFU

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist and one of the founders of Cultural Studies and the "New Left Review" in Britain. He left a lasting international legacy on discourses on culture, race, identity and media that is particularly resonant at this moment in time. Building on the recent Stuart Hall day... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Mobility & Politics: Categorization and Knowledge Production in Migration Management: Transnational Perspectives

Thursday, September 10, 2015 witnessed the first event of the term in the lecture series: Mobility & Politics: Emerging Trends and Common Challenges in Europe and Canada. Two international visitors presented a joint workshop entitled “Categorization and Knowledge Production in Migration Management: Transnational Perspectives”. Kenneth... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Europe’s Migration and Refugee Challenge: Germany’s Response

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