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2014-2015

Fall 2014

Date, Time, Location	Event Details
September 18 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Program Orientation & Information Session Dr. Stephanie Bangarth Director of Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations
October 2 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Dan Jorgensen Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology, Western University. "First Phones in Last Places: Mobility and Cell Phone Use in Papua New Guinea” Download Presentation
October 23 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Mandy DeVaulFetters (Psychology), Dr. Melissa Fellin (Anthropology) and Dr. Julianna Beaudoin (Anthropology) Life After MER
October 30 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Sarah Beth Keough Associate Professor of Geography, Saginaw Valley State University. “Migration into Fort McMurray, Alberta: Implications for Urban Planning and Social Capital in a Resource-Dependent Community” Download Presentation
November 13 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. UCC Chambers Council	Journeys of Migration 2014 International Week Event Collaborative MER & London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership Event Watch Presentations Here: Naeema Farooqi, Joseph Jilitovich, Ola Lawal, Dr.Hongfang Yu and Marc Forrat
November 19 11:45-12:45 p.m SSC 4161	Annika Hinze Political Science, Fordham University. "The Second Generation in Berlin and Istanbul: Turk-Germans Seek Their (Urban) Identity" Collaborative Event with the Local Governance Seminar Series, Political Science, Western. Watch Talk Here
November 27 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Chris Anderson Associate Professor,Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University. “Telling Tales: Canadians and Asylum Seekers, Then and Now” Download Presentation Download Paper
December 4 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr.Beatriz Mamigonian Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. "Between Legal Reasons and Political Considerations: The Rights of Africa-Born Freedpersons to Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil in Atlantic Perspective” Collaborative event with the Department of History, Western.

Winter 2015

Date, Time, Location	Event Details
January 15 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Erica Lawson Associate Professor, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University. “The Production of Racial Knowledge in Canadian Immigration Policies: The Case of Brandon Huntley”
January 22 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Gisele Hauser French Languages Services System Navigator, Addiction Services of Thames Valley/Services de toxicomanie de Thames Valley. “Mental Health and Addictions: let’s talk about it?”
February 5 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Jenna Hennebry Director, International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), Wilfrid Laurier University. "Re/Producing Vulnerability Post-Palermo: A Comparative International Analysis of Women Migrant Workers" Collaborative Event with the Department of Sociology, Western.
February 26 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Andrew McLaughlin MITACS Senior Research Intern for the Dreamcatcher Project, University of Waterloo, PhD Candidate “Refuge amongst Friends: The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and theUnderground Railroad” Collaborative event with First Nations Studies, Western.
March 5 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Jennifer Long (Anthropology) and Dr. Christopher Stuart Taylor (History) Life After MER
March 12 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Joseph Mensah Professor,Department of Geography & Department of Social Science, York University. “The African Presence and the Nation-Immigration Dialectic in Canada Exploring the Intersections of Identity, Culture, and Belonging” Download Presentation View Published Paper
March 26 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. UCC Council Chambers	Tasneem Jamal Author "Where the Air is Sweet"
April 9 8:30 a.m - 6:45p.m UCC McKellar Theatre	Graduate Student Conference Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration and Settlement For Further Details Click Here