{"id":5197,"date":"2024-01-15T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=5197"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:10","slug":"authoritarian-echoes-syrian-refugee-lifeworlds-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/authoritarian-echoes-syrian-refugee-lifeworlds-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarian Echoes: Syrian Refugee Lifeworlds in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><strong>Format:<\/strong>&nbsp;In-person only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Brief Description: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are Syrian refugees\u2019 lifeworlds constituted in relation to their lives in Syria and their experiences as refugees in Canada? This talk presents ongoing research into Syrian refugee lifeworlds in Ottawa that inquires into how authoritarian echoes shape Syrians displacement, settlement, and visions of their future.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/content\/university\/media\/press-releases\/2023\/fulbright-scholar\/_jcr_content\/pagecontent\/textimage_copy_copy_\/image.img.png\/1685550349740.png\" alt=\"Samer Abboud, PhD, associate professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies in the Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious 2023-2024 U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/strong><b>Speaker:&nbsp;<\/b>Samer Abboud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Brief Bio:<\/strong> Samer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is the Fulbright Chair of North American Politics at Carleton University during the Winter 2024 term and the author of the forthcoming book <em>Managing Syria\u2019s Conflict: Enmity and Punishment as Illiberal State-Building <\/em>(Columbia University Press).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Save the date for future events in the Speakers Series<\/strong>* (all on Mondays from 12pm to 1:30pm):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 February 2024: Malini Guha, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 March 2024: Laura Madokoro, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Full details of titles and abstracts for upcoming events to follow shortly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-5197","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-01-22T12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-01-22T13:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"RB","cu_event_meeting_room":"2420R","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5197\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}