Events

Tuesday November 10, 2026 11:30 am - 1:30pm EST This is a virtual event Zoom: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/95215972537 JOIN US FOR A DISCUSSION WITH AUTHORS PROF. RANABIR SAMADDAR & PROF. PAULA BANNERJEE ON THEIR RECENT PUBLICATIONS: THE CITY AS THE SOUTHERN QUESTION AND A MANIFESTO FOR OUR URBAN FUTURE. “Humanity's urban future will depend on the way […]

November 13, 2026 1:00-2:00pm (ET/Toronto) This is a hybrid event In person: 626 Kaneff Tower, York University, Keele Campus Zoom: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/K5fyHDkeTpatqV03OpqlBQ Guest Speaker: Kiril Sharapov, Chair in Forced Migration, Edinburgh Napier University  Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted widespread warnings of mass trafficking, abuse and exploitation among people fleeing the war. Yet research across Poland, […]

November 17, 2026 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Location: S701 Ross (in person event), Keele campus, York University Guest speaker: Özgün Erdener Topak, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science at York University Drones have rapidly emerged as central components of expanding digital border surveillance apparatuses. This talk demonstrates how European drones produce necro-racial effects across Mediterranean borderzones, particularly […]

Tuesday November 24, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm (ET/Toronto) This is a virtual event Zoom: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/junBV8MlR4WwE71U59tmZg Guest speaker: Kaziwa Salih, CRS Visiting Scholar Poor Dad, Rich Daughter provides a comprehensive analysis of women’s entrepreneurship in post-ISIS Kurdistan, Iraq. It examines the experiences of Kurdish women entrepreneurs from the perspective of the complex matrix, which includes historical […]

January 11, 2027 2:00pm - 3:30pm (ET/Toronto) This is a virtual event Zoom link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/AltcvGWuSK6Er0nKiY2tbw Guest speaker: Bronwyn Bragg, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge and CRS affiliated scholar Prof. Bragg's new book "We asked for refugees, we got people instead: Refugee placemaking in Canada" will be published in […]

January 19, 2027 1:00 - 2:30pm (ET/Toronto) This is a virtual event Zoom link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/i_V2-GJ8TV-szr7PmI87xg Guest speaker: Reece Jones, Writer and Professor of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa When an ordinary man is thrust into the dangerous world of smuggling at America’s northern border, he is forced to risk his […]

Wednesday January 20, 2027 10:00am - 11:30am (ET/Toronto) This is a virtual event Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/OHFWYvhPTEilS3fOGEZ5jQ Guest Speaker: Jasmin Lilian Diab, Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University and CRS affiliated scholar This study explores the migration decisions and lived experiences of female-headed Syrian refugee households in Lebanon amid evolving […]