Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Diversity, Art and the Academy: The Revolution Will Be Live

Why did Carleton’s special film screening and Q&A on the roots of hip-hop culture attract such a diverse audience, which included students and faculty, poets and artists, Muslim and Indigenous activists, as well as fans of 70s music who heard about the event on CBC radio? Because it’s 2016 Because hip-hop culture was born in... More

Saturday, February 13, 2016

New TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies

MDS has a new TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies: Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu! To learn more about Tiffany’s fascinating research on diasporic identities and the ‘intra-migrant economy’, as well as her striking depictions of graffiti art and convivial cultures in South Africa, please visit this article on the Carleton University... More

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

360 Memoires: The Children of Migrants

On Thursday, December 3, MDS and the Bachelor in Global and International Studies (BGInS) brought a team of academics and activists  to Carleton in order to explore issues of migration, belonging, and citizenship in contemporary Europe. Migration has become the focus of many headlines throughout the world. In Europe, the ongoing arrival of... More

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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Thursday, September 24, 2015

A Symposium on the Iranian Baha’i Refugee Movement to Canada, 1981-1989

Monday, September 21, 2015 In the 1980s, Canada was the first country to accept large numbers of Baha’i refugees from Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Although this refugee program successfully settled approximately 3,000 refugees, and later served as a model for a wider settlement of approximately 10,000 Baha’i refugees in 25... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Re-Theorising Skilled Migration

Mobility & Politics: Re-Theorising Skilled Migration. Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Dr. Parvati Raghuram, Reader in Human Geography at the Open University, UK, presented a talk entitled “Re-Theorising Skilled Migration”.  "Skills offer one of the most important passports to mobility in the contemporary world. As a result, skilled migration... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Master Class with Prof. Gil Loescher

Master Class with Prof. Gil Loescher On 22 September, Carleton graduate students had the opportunity to meet informally with Gil Loescher, hear about the process that led to UNHCR in World Politics, how the book was received, and discuss how this process and work relates to their own research. Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor... More

Friday, September 11, 2015

Graduate student information/brainstorming pizza lunch

The Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative at Carleton organized a graduate student information/brainstorming lunch on Thursday 17 September 2015. Members of the MDS steering committee joined the open conversation. Following is a summary of ideas/future projects that were discussed (in no particular order): Creating a Wordpress blog, where... More

Friday, August 28, 2015

Call For Papers: MDS Graduate Colloquium

Call For Papers: Graduate Student Colloquium in Migration and Diaspora Studies MDS is planning a Graduate Student Colloquium in Migration and Diaspora Studies to be held on Friday November 27, 2015. If you are interested in presenting your Migration and Diaspora Studies related research, please send a proposal (Title + 350 words abstract +... More

Friday, August 21, 2015

Council of Ontario Universities features Dr. Milner’s work

Adriana Bond has written an article titled "When Exile Drags On" featuring the work of Dr. James Milner's in the Council of Ontario Universities' Research Matters... More

Friday, August 21, 2015

MDS affiliated graduate student writes an article for the “Embassy”

MDS affiliated MA student Krystyna Wojnarowicz has written an article for the "Embassy" in which she discusses Canada's commitment to refugee resettlement from Syria. Wojnarowicz recently received support from MDS for doing field work in Italy for her MA thesis and is currently doing an internship with UNHCR. Syria: Distance should not mean... More

Friday, August 7, 2015

MDS has a Podcasts page!

MDS now has a podcasts page featuring recorded talks during MDS events as well as various other presentations by our faculty... More

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Dr. James Milner at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford

Dr. James Milner recently spent 5 weeks at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford. Following are the podcasts and PPT slides from two talks he gave during his visit: “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime” - 5 May 2015: Podcast PPT Slides “Understanding Global Refugee Policy” - 29 April 2015: Podcast PPT Slides... More

Monday, May 11, 2015

VI Annual Latin America and the Caribbean Conference – Carleton University

The VI Annual Latin America and the Caribbean Conference took place between April 16 & 18, 2015 at Carleton University. The central theme of this year’s conference was: Latin America and the Caribbean: Mirrors and Mirages. The theme Mirrors and Mirages invites us to reflect on the pluriversality of past and current conditions in... More

Monday, April 13, 2015

Stuart Hall Day

  On April 9, 2015, MDS and the World Studies Reading Group held a series of free public events commemorating the work, legacy and continuing influence of Stuart Hall. The first half of the day began with a screening of the award-winning film on the Komagata Maru incident, Continuous Journey (Ali Kazimi, 2004), followed... More

Monday, April 13, 2015

Temporary Labour/Permanent Exclusion

On Thursday April 9, 2015, Bethany Hastie gave a public lecture titled “Temporary Labour/Permanent Exclusion: The Entrenched Inequality of Migrant Work in Canada and the EU” at Carleton University's Senate Room. Hastie discussed how Canada and several EU member states have experienced an increased use and expansion of temporary migrant labour... More

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Power and its political, social and architectural structures

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi was born in New York and has lived in Harare and Johannesburg since the early 1990s. She is a painter, video artist and filmmaker who divides her time between studio work and navigating the field of art as social practice. Her work investigates power and its political, social and architectural structures.... More

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Flux and Flow: Explorations of Movement and Change

March 28, 2015. Carleton's Art History Graduate Students' Society with the support of the Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative successfully held the third annual Art History graduate student conference: Flux and Flow: Explorations of Movement and Change. Movement and change are qualities inherently found in art and its history; an exploration... More

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Mobility & Politics. Emerging Trends and Common Challenges

March 19, 2015 Professor Dr. Hans Dieter Laux presented on “Population Change, Migration and the Demographic Future of Germany within the European Union”. The public lecture was held from 2:30-4:30pm in the Senate Room (Robertson Hall Room 608), at Carleton University. More information is... More

Sunday, March 22, 2015

The 21st Annual Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium: Pasts Echoing Presents: Historians as Performative Collaborators

An Interdisciplinary Symposium in History, March 5-7, History Department, Paterson Hall. The Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is one of the longest running history graduate conferences in Canada. Since 1995, graduate students in the History Department at Carleton University have organized this annual colloquium in which master’s and... More

Sunday, March 22, 2015

CUAG Panel Discussion: Art and Memory in Lebanon and Diaspora

“Beirut’s Green Line” (2015) (left) and “Origins of the Green Line” (2015) (right) by Johnny Alam CUAG held a free public discussion organized in conjunction with their current exhibitions, Akram Zaatari: All is Well and Art on a Green Line with curator and artists Johnny Alam, TD Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies, Vicky... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

Metropolis Professional Development

Metropolis organized another successful professional development session between Dec. 8-13, 2014 in Ottawa. A networking reception and public lecture with Mr. Bela Hovy, Chief of Migration, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) was held on  Monday December 8, 2014 6pm – 8:30pm at the Novotel Hotel in Ottawa. The... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

Art on a Green Line

MDS is proud to support the exhibition Art on a Green Line at the Carleton University Art Gallery curated by Johnny Alam, TD Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies. Announced to 80,000 worldwide subscribers through  Art & Education, the exhibition  features transnational Lebanese contemporary artists representing Beirut's separation line... More

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Call for Event Funding (deadline April 5, 2015)

The Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative welcomes applications from faculty and graduate students from any discipline that support events and activities (such as interdisciplinary conferences, seminars, talks, short films, and artistic installations) that will: facilitate discussion and dialogue amongst members of Carleton’s MDS community.... More

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