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

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

MDS awards two inaugural TD Fellowships during its 2014 Annual Welcome Event

The Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative held its annual welcome event on October 21, 2014. The event brought together Dr. John Osborne, the Dean of FASS, and Dr. André Plourde, the Dean of FPA, as well as faculty members, and graduate students from across the university who are interested in transnationalism (broadly defined), and... More

Friday, October 17, 2014

Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, Two Views on the Postcolonial @ Carleton University

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

We’re on Facebook, Like us!

Migration and Diaspora Studies Facebook Page... More

Friday, October 10, 2014

Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Welcome Event

The Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative is holding its annual welcome event on Tuesday, October 21st from 4-6pm at the Carleton University Art Gallery. This free event will include refreshments, a welcome speech, the presentation of two TD Fellowships in Migration and Diaspora Studies, and lively and inclusive discussions about the exciting... More

Friday, October 10, 2014

MDS is now on Twitter!

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Monday, September 29, 2014

Andrew Gayed wins a TD Travel Grant award to Present at Oxford University.

–written by Andrew Gayed, MA Art History candidate  Last winter I was invited by Oxford University to talk about Middle Eastern Contemporary Art and the political work that is being produced by artists from the North American Diaspora. Being asked to speak at Oxford for the March 2014 Refugee Voices conference certainly came as... More

Monday, September 29, 2014

Niel Scobie wins a TD Travel Grant award

Niel Scobie, a second year Master’s student in Music and Culture at Carleton University, has won a TD Travel Grant award to attend an academic conference in the United Kingdom. Scobie's thesis will profile Jamaican-Canadian hip-hop musicians as examples of the cultural and musical hybridity in Toronto and other cities across the country;... More

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