{"id":803,"date":"2015-08-07T01:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?page_id=803"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:30:39","slug":"podcasts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/research\/podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Syrian Refugee Crisis in Historical Context<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This recent lecture by Professor Rachad Antonius<\/a> of the Universit\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al provides an insightful overview of Syria\u2019s history as it relates to present events. The Jesuit Refugee Service in Canada <\/a>and St. Monica\u2019s Parish in Montreal organized this lecture to raise awareness among sponsorship groups about the geopolitical forces at work in the Middle-East from the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century until today which created the circumstances that led to war and forced many Syrians to flee their homeland since 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/span>Cette conf\u00e9rence r\u00e9cente du Professeur Rachad Antonius<\/a> de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al apporte un survol \u00e9clair\u00e9 de l\u2019histoire de la Syrie en lien avec les \u00e9v\u00e9nements pr\u00e9sents.  Le Service j\u00e9suite des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s au Canada<\/a> et la paroisse St. Monica\u2019s \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al ont organis\u00e9 cette conf\u00e9rence pour sensibiliser les groupes parrains aux forces g\u00e9opolitiques dans le Moyen-Orient du d\u00e9but du 20e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle \u00e0 nos jours cr\u00e9ant les circonstances qui ont conduit \u00e0 la guerre et qui ont forc\u00e9 plusieurs Syriens \u00e0 fuir leur patrie depuis 2011. (La vid\u00e9o est en anglais seulement)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Averting Violent Extremism<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, the Intercultural Dialogue Institute of Ottawa and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women organized an international workshop on Feb. 4-5, 2016<\/strong> with support from MDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall goal of the interdisciplinary workshop was to assess the viability of the religious literacy approach in ameliorating the attractiveness of violent extremism for vulnerable youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podcasts and videos from the workshop are available here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, and the politics and poetics of diasporic communities<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

29 February 2016.<\/strong> CKCU interview<\/a> with Daniel McNeil, Associate Professor of History and Carleton University’s strategic hire in Migration and Diaspora Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remaking the Middle East: The Long Arab 19th Century<\/a> (Part 1<\/a>) (Part 2<\/a>)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Current events stirring the Middle East can be discerned most easily as a matter of politics, economic, or culture, but steeped in complexity they are much more. In order to explain the rise of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), the Syrian refugee question, the Palestinian Uprising, and the failure of the Arab Uprisings, this lecture reconstructs the regional history. It traces the roots of these events to the early 19th century (with emphasis on specific significant historical moments throughout since 1811 e.g, 1948 Palestinian Nakba, the late 1970s expansion of neoliberalism). It argues that the existing accounts of the regional historical accounts do not explain the political present or the unfolding geopolitical regional order. As such, and in order to explain the current geopolitical conditions, identify the root causes of the current events and their possible outcomes, a reconstruction of the regional history is essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture on 19 November 2015<\/strong> addressed the following interrelated topics:
\nThe Rise of ISIL: Why ISIS?
\nThe Syrian Refugee Question.
\nThe Palestinian Question and Colonial Zionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emma Bider: History of Black Freedom<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Emma Bider is a Journalism and African studies student at Carleton University. Here’s what she had to say about her intriguing Podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This podcast was an attempt to use my journalism training in an academic setting and a challenge to myself to explain complex ideas through a medium that often relies on simplicity to gets a point across. What made the combination successful was my decision to find a more playful way of explaining my thesis while still exploring issues in-depth. In essence, I decided to produce a “story about a story.” I presented the national identity of Canada as a historical narrative that excludes the stories of Black people. The audio medium allowed me to take listeners on a journey through space and time in a way that was a little more engaging than your everyday essay.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. James Milner at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n