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The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (CDTS) was established in 2005 as a hub of excellence that enhances undergraduate and graduate life at the University of Toronto by speaking directly to students' experiences of migration and diaspora through an interdisciplinary lens drawn from both the social sciences and humanities. The work of the CDTS is comparative, qualitative and historically driven, and provides policy insights on pertinent issues in the world today.

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2012-13 UPCOMING EVENTS

 

GENOCIDAL MASSACRE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, ASIA, AND THE AMERICAS

Workshop Sponsored by:
Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies  &  Department of History
University of Toronto

Saturday 29 September 2012
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street, Room 100A

This day long interdisciplinary workshop on the subject of “Genocidal Massacre in Early Modern Europe, Asia, and the Americas” is being held in connection with a planned new volume of essays under that name and edited by Bindu Malieckal and Pablo Garcia Loeza.  Four of the volume’s ten authors (Pablo García Loeza, Bindu Malieckal, Su Fang Ng, & Amrita Sen)  will be coming to Toronto in order to present their findings in a workshop setting.  Three members of the University of Toronto History Department (Heidi Bohaker, Melanie Newton, and Nhung Tran) will also make presentations on related themes in their own research.

This will be an interdisciplinary and cross cultural discussion of genocide which deliberately moves the discussion out of the twentieth century and European/Western contexts that shape so much of current research.   We plan the presentation of papers in two morning sessions, and then a couple of panel discussions in the afternoon to consider comparatively both historical and theoretical issues. The first panel will aim to identify comparative themes between different papers, and the second panel will take a step back in order to consider the language that is and can be used around genocide in the pre-modern period and in contexts that may be either distinct from or only indirectly related to European and/or colonial powers.

The list of CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

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FOODWAYS: DIASPORIC DINERS, TRANSNATIONAL TABLES AND CULINARY CONNECTIONS

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Chinese vs. Italian, Oil on Panel, 2011, by Bryce Vinokurov

Please join us for the 2012 Annual Conference of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
Thursday October 4 - Sunday, October 7, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference abstract submission and registration site
Conference Blog
Facebook
Twitter

Click here for more information on the conference

GUEST LECTURE SERIES 2012-13

All lectures are open and free to the public. They will take place at JHB100A (ground floor) at the Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 or JHB318 (same building).

Anjali Prabhu
Associate Professor of French
Wellesley College
"Africa Watch: 'Good' and 'Bad' Spectatorship"
Thursday, September 20th
1:00-3:00 pm at JHB100A

Graham Denyer Willis
Visiting Researcher
Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (São Paulo, Brazil)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Surviving a World of Violence: The Everyday of Police in Brazil"
Wednesday, September 26th
3:00-5:00 pm at JHB100A

Professor Debjani Ganguly
Director of Humanities Research Centre
Australian National University
"Hypermediated Deathworlds: New Wars, the World Novel and Exorbitant Witnessing"
Wednesday, October 3rd
4:00-5:30 pm at JHB100A

Michaeline A. Crichlow
Associate Professor of Sociology
Duke University
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
3:00-5:00 pm at JHB100A

Daniel C. Barber
Faculty Fellow
The Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
"Conversion Remains: Achievement and Diaspora"
Wednesday November 7, 2012
3:00-5:00 pm at JHB318
Co-sponsored with Department for the Study of Religion, U of T

Dennis Rodgers
Professor of Urban Social and Political Research
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
"The Vagrant, the Migrant, and the Delinquent: Life trajectories after the gang in Nicaragua"
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
3:00-5:00 pm at JHB318

Erica James
Assistant Professor
History of Art and African American Studies
Yale University
"After Caliban"
Thursday, January 31, 2013
1:00-3:00 at JHB100A

Claudio Lomnitz
Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology
Columbia University
On the Origins of the "Mexican Race"
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:00-6:00 at JHB100A

Gil Anidijar
Associate Professor in MESAAS and Department of Religion
Columbia University
"Christian States"
Friday, April 5, 2013
1:00-3:00 at Boardroom AP 246, 19 Russell Street
Co-sponsored with Department of Anthropology

NEW Zsuzsanna Vidra
Central European University, Budapest
"Roma Migration: A glance at the situation of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe and in Canada"
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
2:00 - 4:00 at JHB100A

METHODS CAFE 2012-13

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.

All lectures are open and free to the public. They will take place at JHB100A (ground floor) at the Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George, Toronto ON M5R 2M8.

 

Simon Coleman
Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
"In, Of, and Beyond Diaspora: Studying the Redeemed Christian Church of God"
Friday, October 12th
10:00 am-12:00 pm
JHB room 100a

Robert Zacharias
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
"Wither the Nation?: Mennonite Writing on the Shifting Ground of Canadian Literary Studies"
Friday, November 23rd
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
JHB room 100a

Andrea Muehlebach and Tania Li
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
"The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy"
Friday, November 30th
2:00 - 4:00 pm
JHB room 100a

At the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, scholars and students explore the profound implications of vast global movements of people, ideas and things. The Centre brings U of T’s strengths in the humanities and social sciences to bear on questions of migration, diaspora, homelands and belonging across different ethnicities and cultures. Comparative, qualitative and historically-driven in their approaches, our experts provide critical insights on policy issues affecting multicultural societies.

Your gift will help the Centre to play an influential role on the transnational stage in advancing multicultural literacy through education, research and outreach.

If you wish to donate to the Centre, please visit https://donate.utoronto.ca/cdts

Thank you

JOB POSTINGS

Sessional Lecturer Positions

Fall 2013

DTS402H – Advanced Topics in Diaspora and Transnational Studies (Human Trafficking, Migration and Human Rights) (at St. George Campus)

 

Course Instructor Positions

Winter 2014

DTS300H - Research Design for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
(at St. George Campus)
DTSB02H - Introduction to Diaspora and Transnational Studies (at UTSC Campus)

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Please contact us at cdts@utoronto.ca for the bookings.

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