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ANNOUNCEMENT

Collaborative Masters and Doctoral Program in
Diaspora and Transnational Studies

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NEW DISCOVER DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM AT U of T Scarborough

http://webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca/admissions/viewbook/stv/soc.html

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METHODS CAFE

The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto cordially invites you to our research methods colloquium series, Methods Café.  Unlike other speaker series, this colloquium will highlight not the content but the methods of some of the best scholarly research in the field.

Methods Cafe introduces participants to a variety of innovative research methods in a casual, interactive environment. This series is dedicated to establishing an interdisciplinary approach to conducting research. Please read below for a full list of our speakers.

Fridays 12 to 1pm  *  Refreshments provided *
Jackman Humanities Building, 3rd floor, room 318
This series is free and open to the public.

September 25 
Ian Hacking, "Making Up People"
           
October 16     
Courtney Jung, "Critical Liberalism: The Methodology of Critical Political Theory"
           
November 6    
Michelle Murphy, "Topography, Origami, Technoscience"
           
December 4    
Ato Qauyson,  "Strangers in Canton: The African Trading
Community in Guangzhou, China"
           
January 15       
Bonnie McElhinny, "Archiving Intimacy: The Politics and
Pragmatics of Investigating Colonial Interventions into Filipino
Child-rearing Practices"
           
February 12    
Ruth Marshall, "Suspending Disbelief in Africa: Researching Religion at the Limits of Social Scientific Reason Alone" 
           
March 5          
Joseph Carens, "Thinking Normatively About Immigration:
Negotiating the Tensions Between Feasibility and Fundamental Critique"
           
March 26
Alissa Trotz, "Violence, Displacement, Memories"

Please contact Theofanis Verinakis at theo.verinakis@utoronto.ca or Esther de Bruijn at esther.debruijn@utoronto.ca for further information.

 

2009-2010 Guest Lecture Series

All lectures to take place at the Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street
First Floor Conference Room 100A
4:00 – 6:00 pm

*Refreshments provided*

Monday, October 5
Francesca Trivellato
Department of History
Yale University
The 'Jewish' Bill of Exchange:
A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism

 

Tuesday, December 1
Kamari Clarke
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Fictions of the Justice: The ICC and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan
Africa

Thursday February 25 CHANGE OF DATE
William Mazzarella
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New Media in India

 

Thursday, March 25
James Ferguson
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
What Comes after the Social? Toward a New Anthropology of Distribution

 

Wednesday, April 28
Saskia Sassen
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
Title TBA

Please contact Prof. Kevin O’Neill kevin.oneill@utoronto.ca at for further details.

 

JOB POSTINGS

Course Instructor
Fall and Spring Terms 2009-10
(September – April)

The Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies Program seeks 1 Course Instructor for the following courses:

DTSB01H - Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
DTSB02H - Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies II

Both courses are offered at UTSC.
More details on the position.

Teaching Assistantships

DTSB02H3 Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies I
(UTSC campus)
Click here for more details.

 

CONFERENCES

The Commodification of Illicit Flows:
Labour Migration, Trafficking and Business

 

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Friday, October 9- Saturday, October 10, 2009
Robert Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Services Centre
214 College Street, Third Floor

For more information on the conference click here.

 

 

The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature

 

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Presented by The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Cambridge University Press
University of Toronto, Sept  18-21, 2008
William Doo Auditorium, New College, 45 Willcocks Street

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay

Thursday, March 6 – Sunday, March 9, 2008
March 6 at The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place
March 7-9 at St. Michael’s College
81 St. Mary Street, Charbonnel Lounge
Click here for the Conference Program with abstracts and speaker biographies.

 

TOP OF CLASS OF 2007/08

Roda Mohamed, Prof. Ato Quayson, Alex Ginnan, Dr Rima Berns-McGown and
Manjot Sanghera

Manjot Sanghera and Prof. Ato Quayson
Top of Class in DTS202H5S at UTM campus

Prof. Ato Quayson and Roda Mohamed
Top of Class in DTSB02H3 at UTSC campus

Prof. Ato Quayson and Alex Ginnan
Top of Class in DTS200Y1 at St. George Campus