"The Ecology of Economic Thought"

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"The Limits to Certainty and the Metaphysics of Infinitude"

Speaker:

Nandita Badami, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of California at Irvine.

Discussants: 

Venus Bivar, Lecturer, Department of History, York University.

Kristoffer Ekberg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology.

"Writing the History of Ecological Economic Thought"

Speakers:

Antoine Missemer, Researcher, CIRED Paris.

Marco Paulo Vianna Franco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.

Discussants: 

Julia Nordblad, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University.

Matthias Schmelzer, Historian, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

"Critiques of Growth in Historical Context"

Speaker:

Matthias Schmelzer, Historian, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Discussants:

Roman Gilmintinov, PhD Candidate, Duke University.

Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and Capitalism, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute.

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"When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and its Discontents"

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Speakers:

Émilien Fargues, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.

Audrey Macklin, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies; Chair in International Human Rights Law, University of Toronto.

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"Struggle to Belong: Immigration Policies and Experiences of Temporariness in Canada"

Speaker:

Danièle Bélanger, Professor of Geography; Canada Research Chair in Global Migration Processes, Laval University.

Chair:

Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Sociology, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa.... Read more about Canada Seminar

"Does Racial Justice and Reconciliation Require Moving Beyond the Problem of Whiteness?"

Speaker:

Rima Wilkes, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Non-Conventional Capitalism: Fracking, the Tar Sands Industry, and Peak Oil"

Speaker:

Troy Vettese, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of History, New York University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton 
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

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"Pluralism in a Historic Context: Challenges and Opportunities in North America"

Speakers:

Pluralism's Imperialism: Legality Difference on Turtle Island
Aaron Mills, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Constitutionalism and Philosophy McGill University.

African Americans and Racial Incorporation: Preindustrial Urban Roots
Joe Trotter, Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice, History Department, Carnegie Mellon University.

“He Couldn’t Have A Life:” State Violence as Slow Violence in the Post-Civil-Rights Era
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of History, Duke University.

Black Women, Internationalism, and Afro-Asian Solidarity in the 1930s
Keisha N. Blain, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh. President of the African American Intellectual History Society.

Keynote Lecture:

Earl Lewis, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan, and Former President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

From Pluralism to the Clash of Civilizations: Re-racializing Global Disorder and Reframing Immigration at the End of the Cold War
Penny Von Eschen, William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History, University of Virginia.

Language, Race, and Nation: Haitian Immigration and Quebec in the 1970s
Sean Mills, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Canadian and Transnational History, University of Toronto.

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"Multiculturalism vs Interculturalism: Municipal Governance and Double Binds in the Era of Super-Diversity"

Speaker:

Bob White, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Montreal.

Chair:

Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

Elimi(Nation): Canada’s “Post-Settler” Embrace of Disposable Migrant Labour

Speaker:

Daiva Stasiulis, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University.

Chair:

Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

Contact:

Helen Clayton 
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Rethinking the Pro- and Anti-Immigration Dichotomy: Contingencies and Complexities in Why Canada is an Immigrant ‘Welcoming’ Country"

Speaker:

Vic Satzewich, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University and Past-President of the Canadian Sociological Association.

Chair:

Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Canada's Federal Election Roundtable"

Speakers:

Edana Beauvais, Visiting Democracy Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

David Eaves, Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Veronica Kitchen, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Karyn Pugliese, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University. Assistant Professor of Journalism, Ryerson University.

Christopher Sands, Senior Research Professor & Director of the Center for Canadian Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Benjamin Zyla, Associate Professor, School of International Development & Global Studies, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton 
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Why Immigration is a Solution, Not a Problem in Atlantic Canada: Beyond Us, Them, and Other"

Speakers:

Howard Ramos, Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University.

Yoko Yoshida, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University.

Chair:

Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

Contact: 

Helen Clayton 
Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

Immigration and Citizenship Policies in Canada and France: a “Civic Turn”?

Respect for the “Values of the Republic” as a Prerequisite for Immigrant Integration in France

Speakers:

Myriam Hachimi Alaoui, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Le Havre Normandie, IDEES-Le Havre (UMR 6266 IDEES – CNRS), French Collaborative Institute on Migration (CI Migration).
Janie Pélabay, FNSP Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), CNRS (UMR 7048).

The Dark Side of Canada’s Naturalization Regime: Failing the Most Vulnerable?

Speakers:

Delphine Nakache, Associate Professor of Law, University of Ottawa.
Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa.

Chair:

Yossi Harpaz, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University.

Discussant:

Saskia Bonjour, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Amsterdam.

Workshop co-sponsored by the Fonds France-Canada pour la Recherche, Ministère de lʼEnseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de lʼInnovation, République française.

Contact:

Helen Clayton Canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Beyond Multiculturalism and Secularism: A Relational Approach to Diversity and Inclusion"

Speaker:

Dr. Pascale Fournier, President and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Contact: 

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"Indigenous Peoples' Issues in Canada in 2019"

Speaker:

Mariame Aboubakrine, Chair, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
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"Legal Ambiguities and Indigenous Land Rights: Case Studies of the Muskrat Falls Megadam and the Dakota Access Pipeline"

Speaker:

Colin Samson, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

Chair:

Ronald Niezen, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and of Arts, McGill University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

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