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2016-2017

	FALL 2016 *~ Beforehand refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in SSC 5230 ~*
September 22 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	MER Orientation Session - Dr. Mark Cleveland Professor of Consumer Behavoir and Director, Collaborative Graduate Program, Western University "MER Information and Orientation Session" Click here for more information. Click here to view the slides from Dr. Cleveland's presentation.
October 6 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Joanna Quinn Associate Professor Political Science and Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Western University "Instrumentalizing Ethnicity to Prevent the Formation of Thin Sympathy and Reconciliation Among By-Standers and Outsiders in Uganda" Click here for more information.
October 20 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Francisco Rico-Martinez FCJ Refugee Centre, Canadian Council for Refugees "Equity for Precarious Migrants in Canada" Click here for more information.
November 3 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Kristyn Frank Statistics Canada "Cultural influences across time and space: How salient are source-country characteristics in immigrants’ economic and social behaviour?” Click here for more information.
November 17 4:00 - 5:30 p.m SSC 5220	Dr. Ravi De Costa Associate Professor, Associate Dean Research, York University "Who are Indigenous peoples in the modern world? The role of colonial histories and state practice in defining Indigeneity." Click here for more information.
November 24 4:00 - 6:00 p.m UCC 315	Journeys of Migration This year’s Journeys of Migration event will tell the story of refugees who have made London their home. Presented in partnership with the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre, and Pillar Nonprofit Network. Click here for more information. Click here to register.
December 8 TBA	Dr. Alison Mountz Professor (Canada Research Chair in Global Migration), Balsillie School of International Affairs + Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier, "The Geopolitics of Asylum as Global Intimate” Click here for more information.
	WINTER 2017
January 19 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Mark Cleveland Dancap Private Equity Professor of Consumer Behavior, MER Director, Western University "Ethnicity, Identity, Acculturation, and Consumer Behavior in the Global Era" Click here for more information. Click here to view the slides from Dr. Cleveland's presentation.
February 9 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Franca Iacovetta Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scaroborough "Reframing Multiculturalism: Women’s Community-based Pluralism in the International Institute Movement, 1940s-1970s" Click here for more information.
March 9 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Karen Pennesi Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western University "Where are you from?” and “What kind of name is that?”: Obligatory Conversations and the Regulation of Belonging in Canada" Click here for more information.
March 23 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Ted McDonald - CANCELLED Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick “Immigrant and Refugee Arrival and Retention in New Brunswick: an analysis using linked provincial Medicare records” Click here for more information.
March 30 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Monica Boyd Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto "Racial and Generational Hierarchies in Home Ownership: What Do We Know and Where We Are Headed" Click here for more information.
April 7 11:00a.m. –5:00 pm SSC 5220	2017 Mer Graduate Student Conference "Migration in Uncertain Times" Click here for more information. Click here to watch the keynote address.