Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster for “Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti” with Dr. Cécile Accilien. Dr. Accilien’s talk will delve into the complexity around simplistic disaster narratives surrounding Haiti by providing historical and cultural context. It will further consider how ensekirite in its various forms […]

Free

CMS Community Luncheon

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Welcome (back)! CMS is thrilled to invite you to the first Community Luncheon of the 2024-25 academic year. Come and join us at the C.K. Choi building for lunch and captivating conversations among CMS affiliates, both familiar and new faces! Whether you’re a CMS faculty member, student, staff, visiting scholar, community partner, or simply intrigued […]

Free

The Connected Past: A Workshop in Network Science for Humanities Students

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join the CMS Mobilities Research Group for a two-day training session in network science aimed at humanities graduate students. Run by members of The Connected Past (TCP), an international research community dedicated to the study of network science and theory in archaeology and history, the workshop will offer: An introduction to network research and how it has been […]

Free

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies with Jean Beaman

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for the second event in our Speaker Series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, featuring Jean Beaman. She will present her talk, “Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plural Societies.” This event will be held in a hybrid format. Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM in Dodson Room. The lecture will start at […]

Free

The Crash of the International Student ‘Market’: Causes, Consequences, and the Future of Canadian Higher Education

Online/Virtual Event

Join us to discuss the impact of recent policy changes on international students in Canada and how they intersect with colonial dynamics and the future of higher education. For decades, Canadian higher education turned to international student recruitment to make up for stagnant public funds. However, growing public concern that international students were competing for […]

Free

CMS Community Luncheon

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CMS is thrilled to invite you to its quarterly Community Luncheon on November 19, 2024. Come and join us at the C.K. Choi building for lunch and captivating conversations among CMS affiliates, both familiar and new faces! Whether you’re a CMS faculty member, student, staff, visiting scholar, community partner, or simply intrigued by what we […]

Free