Event @ Carleton: Symposium on The Governance of Seeds and Food: Taking Stock
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Where: 2017 Dunton Tower Please join us October 27th, for a day-long symposium in honour of our Visiting Professor Harriet Friedmann. The symposium celebrates Professor Friedmann’s work and the work of the USC on seed and food governance. The symposium’s participants include members of the USC, The Coady International Institute, Just Food Ottawa, and faculty and students from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Please RSVP to political_economy@carleton.ca. A program for the symposium can be found here . |
Event @ Carleton:International Symposium on Intersectionality and Migration
October 28, 2016 at 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM
Keynote speakers: Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton University) & Luin Goldring (York University) Exhibition: Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Johannesburg’s little Mogadishu by Salym Fayad and Nereida Ripero-Muñiz Wine & Cheese Book launch (5:30 – 7:00 p.m.): Gender and Multiculturalism: North-South Perspectives (Kwazulu-Natal University Press, 2016) Featured authors / speakers: Gopika Solanki, Jill Vickers and Daiva Stasiulis The continuous (re)construction of multiple social identities which informs migrants’ everyday experiences in host countries has been poorly understood in some forms of migration and diaspora studies, while richly explored in others. While there is an expansive literature on migrant domestic workers and caregivers that carefully analyses intersectionality in both power relations and social identities that structure their experiences of migration, studies of labour migration in regions like southern Africa have tended to regard the experience as temporary and male dominated. When aspects of gender have been included in some literatures of labour migration these have been limited to one-dimensional models of understanding sectoral conditions, effects of migration on family life or economic outcomes. Little attention has been paid to how migrants’ multiple identities, informed by class, age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, and citizenship status have interested and affected their choices and experiences of work. This symposium aims to provide a critical understanding of how social identities shape migrants’ work experiences in South Africa and Canada. Click here => program to view our schedule and presentation topics.Please note that this event is free, and that there will be lunch and coffee breaks provided throughout the day. Please pre-register at the link below. This will help us to determine the food and refreshment quantities required for the event.
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African, Caribbean and Black Health Forum
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This event is for ACB Community Members and Service Providers who are also members of the ACB Community. We invite the community so share ideads about the Health Zone you want. Saturday, October 29th, 2016 Richelieu-Vanier Community Centre Dinner and refreshements provided. Please contact us for child care, special dietary needs or more information. |
Invitation to meet Inter Pares international counterparts from India and West Africa
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When: Tuesday October 18th 7:00-9:00pm Where: Inter Pares office, 221 Laurier Ave East Format: Sharing stories and discussion Language: This event will be bilingual, with discussion primarily in English RSVP: If you can come, or if you have questions, please contact Jack Hui Litster: jack@interpares.ca You are invited to an engaging discussion on agroecology, women’s leadership, access to land, and the power of bringing farmers from different parts of the world together. Come hear from women leaders from Inter Pares counterparts the Deccan Development Society (India), the West African farmers’ movement COPAGEN. To find out more about some of our past collaborations with these two organizations, please see: https://interpares.ca/news/ |
Reminders
Obama and Kenya: Book Launch and Film ScreeningWhen: Friday, October 14, 2016 – Thursday, January 01, 1970 African Film FesitvalWhen: Friday, October 14, 2016 – Saturday, October 22, 2016 “The Story of a Pump: Life, Death and Afterlives within an Urban Planning of ‘Divide and Rule’ in Nairobi, Kenya”When: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 – Thursday, January 01, 1970 |
