Conferences

The conferences are held once or twice a year and are intended to present and discuss recent work by experts in the field of migration and/or racism in Canada and internationally. They are open to everyone.

Conferences planned for the year 2019-2020

SEPTEMBER 30TH 2019

10:00am - 13:30pm

Opening conference & COMIR'S official launch 2019-2020 (bilingual)
Les recours aux catégories ethniques pour étudier le racisme : une sociologie de l'ethnicisation ou une ethnicisation du social ?
Lecturer: Mustapha El Miri, LEST/CNRS, Aix-Marseille
University of Ottawa - SMD 129

OCTOBER 31TH 2019

11:30am-1:00pm

Conference (in French)
Racisme structurel. Le cas des crimes racistes dans la France contemporaine (1970-2000)
Invitée: Rachida Brahim, LAMES/ CNRS, Aix-Marseille
Discussant: Leïla Benhadjoudja, U. d'Ottawa

University of Ottawa - FSS 5027, in partnership with the CIRCEM

NOVEMBER 27TH 2019

15:30pm - 7:30pm
Film screening and discussion (bilingual)
« Exils » et « Des solitudes », short movies by director Marouane Tlili With the director
Facilitator : Sonia Ben Soltane, Ottawa U.
LABO, 60 Waller street, room LBO1201

JANUARY 28TH 2020

11:30am - 1:00pm
Conference (in French)
L’enfant migrant en droit : d’abord enfant ou seulement migrant?
Lecturer : Sylvie Saroléa, professor at the UCL's Faculty of Law and lawyer at the Nivelles bar
Université of Ottawa - FSS 7035

FEBRUARY 7th 2020

9:00am - 5:00pm
Graduate Conference (bilingual)
Converging Perspectives on Migrations and Racisms: COMIR's Graduate Conference
University of Ottawa - FSS 4004

MARCH 26th 2020

5:30pm - 7:30pm
Journal publishing : Sociologie et sociétés (in French) Sociologies de la race et du racisme

Participants: Brieg Capitaine, UQO, Manuel Salamanca Cardona, U. McGill & Stéphanie Garneau, U. d'Ottawa

University of Ottawa - FSS 4006, in partnership with the CIRCEM