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October 2026

Film screening: Lights in Dark Rooms

October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm This is a hybrid event In person: 626 Kaneff Tower, York University, Keele campus Zoom: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ynmv9NhrR6GsI1W6dowjOg Lights in Dark Rooms investigates the harrowing reality of fraud factories in Southeast Asia, where human trafficking and weaponized technology fuel a global humanitarian crisis. View the trailer When billions are stolen and […]
21 Oct
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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November 2026

CRS/Tubman Book Launch: Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America

Co-hosted with the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University November 5, 2026 1:00 - 2:30pm (ET/Toronto) This is a virtual event Zoom link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/B8h3NDjKS16QhZnv-BRSHA Guest speaker: Bernadette Ludwig, Assistant Dean, Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, Western Connecticut State University Unwelcome Shores. Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press), Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the […]
05 Nov
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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CRS Seminar: Rights, Protection and Trafficking Vulnerability in the Ukrainian Refugee Response: Evidence from Poland, Romania, Moldova and Spain

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  More information coming soon!
13 Nov
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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CRS/SLST Seminar: Border Drones: Necro-Racial Effects, AI and Futures

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 […]
17 Nov
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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CRS Book Launch: Poor Dad, Rich Daughter: Gender Regimes, Citizenship, and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Post-ISIS Kurdistan

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 […]
24 Nov
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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January 2027

Book Launch: We asked for refugees, we got people instead

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 […]
11 Jan
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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CRS Book Talk: Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs and Refugees at America's Northern Border

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 […]
19 Jan
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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CRS Seminar: Prolonging the Temporary: Female-Headed Syrian Refugee Households on Displacement, Return and Waiting post-Assad

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 […]
20 Jan
10:00 am - 11:30 am
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