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Conference on Subethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora
September 12-13, 2003
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N

The conference was sponsored by: The Dr. David Chu Distinguished Leaders Program, University of Toronto; Robert F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada; Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Department of Sociology, University of Toronto; Centre for Urban and Community Research, University of Toronto; and York Centre for Asian Research, York University.

Immigrants of Chinese descent comprise a significant segment of the population of Toronto, and other world cities outside of China, referred to as the Diaspora. Diasporic Chinese originate from different countries or cultural areas of the same country. They may immigrate at different times, with a range of backgrounds. The goal of this conference was to understand their relationships to each other in the diasporic location. For program information, click here. For papers and authors, click here.

A conference for junior scholars entitled The European Union's Eastern Englargement: Surveying the Social and Economic Divides was held at the Munk Centre for International Studies from February 7 to 10, 2002. The conference featured senior graduate students and young faculty from Europe, Canada and the United States. It was generously sponsored by the Joint Institute for German and European Studies, the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, the Centre for International Studies, MCIS, the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Program, the Department of Political Science and the Connaught Fund for International Symposia. The opening address was given by Professor Stephen Holmes (NYU) and the closing address was given by Professor Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Colorado at Boulder).


Reinventing Society In a Changing Global Economy
Sponsored by the Sociology Department, University of Toronto, and the R.F. Harney Program
March 8-10, 2001

"Reinventing Society in a Changing Global Economy," held at the University of Toronto, and organized by Professors Raymond Breton and Jeffrey G. Reitz, featured presentations by a number of internationally-known scholars, including Albert Breton, Peter Beyer, Francis G. Castles, Stephen Castles, Andre Drainville, John A. Hall, Ronald Inglehart, Jane Jenson, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Francois Nielsen, Louis W. Pauly, Jeffrey G. Reitz, James Rinehart, Thomas Schott, Sheila Slaughter, Lowell Turner, Axel van den Berg, and Frank Webster.

It resulted in the publication of Globalization and Society: Processes of Differentiation Examined (Praeger, 2003).

Harney Lecture Series 2010-2011

April 11, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
Event co-sponsored with the Intercultural Dialogue Institute

Tozun Bahcheli
"Turkey: Running West, Heading East?"

Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 108N
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Tozun Bahcheli is professor of political science at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has written widely on ethnic conflict in Cyprus, secessionist conflicts in divided societies, Greek-Turkish relations and selected Turkish foreign policy issues. During 1995-1996 he was senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Greek-Turkish Relations Since 1955 (Westview Press, 1990) and co-editor of De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty (Routledge, 2004). Among his recent publications is ‘The Justice and Development Party and the Kurdish Question’ (co-authored with Sid Noel) in Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey; Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue, ed. Marlies Casier and Joost Jongerden (Routledge, 2010).

For more details on this lecture, please refer to the event poster.


March 31, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
Matthias Koenig
"Religion and immigrant integration: Intergenerational trends among Turks in Germany"

Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 108N
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Matthias Koenig is professor of sociology/sociology of religion at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and currently holds the Hannah Arendt Visiting Professorship in German and European Studies (DAAD) at the University of Toronto.

Having studied at the Universities of Hamburg, Princeton, and Marburg and having worked at UNESCO's division of social sciences, Paris, he holds a Master and a Doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Marburg as well as a habilitation in sociology from the University of Bamberg.

Recent Publications include International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity (ed. with Paul Bramadat, Montreal: McGill/Queen's University Press 2009); Religionskontroversen in Frankreich und Deutschland (ed. with Jean-Paul Willaime, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition); Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies (ed. with Paul de Guchteneire, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007); articles in academic journals such as Acta Sociologica, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Compass, and Zeitschrift für Soziologie. He was also the founding editor of UNESCO's International Journal of Multicultural Societies (IJMS) (now entitled Diversities).

February 3, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
Gerard Bouchard
"Managing Ethno-Cultural Diversity: What is Quebec Interculturalism?"
The webcast for this event is now available on the Munk School of Global Affairs website.

Munk School of Global Affairs, Campbell Conference Centre
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Historian and sociologist Gerard Bouchard is a lecturer in the Departement des sciences humaines at the Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Dynamics of Collective Imaginary.

His research covers social, demographic and cultural history and human genetics. Through the creation of the BALSAC register, he initiated an array of research programs in sociology, demographics, ethnology and human genetics (population genetics and genetic epidemiology). The collaboration stemming from his research led to the establishment in 1972 of the Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations (IREP), which Professor Bouchard headed until 1998. His current research focuses on the collective imaginary. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

In 2007, Prof. Bouchard was named, together with Charles Taylor, as Co-President of Quebec's Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodement reliees aux differences culturelles (CCPARDC).

Professor Bouchard is the author and co-author of 250 scientific articles and over 30 books, including La construction d'une culture (1993), La nation quebecoise au futur et au passe (1999), Dialogue sur les pays neufs (1999), Genese des nations et cultures du nouveau monde : Essai d’histoire comparee (2000), Les deux chanoines (2003) and La culture qudbecoise est-elle en crise? (2007). He has also published two novels, Mistouk (2002) and Pikauba (2005).

Dr. Bouchard is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Leon-Gerin awarded by the Quebec government (1993) and the 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. He is a member of the Academie des lettres du Quebec and the Royal Society of Canada. He is also the recipient of the Chevalier medal of the Legion d’honneur de France.

This event is co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Studies.

January 27, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
Mary C. Waters
"Chinese Exceptionalism: Using Structure and Culture to Explain Second-Generation Chinese Success"

Upper Library, Massey College
University of Toronto
4 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

MARY C. WATERS is the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She specializes in the study of immigration, inter-group relations, the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, and the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity.

Her most current publications are The Next Generation: The Children of Immigrants in Europe and North America (co-edited with Richard Alba), (New York University Press, 2010); Inheriting the City: The Second Generation Comes of Age (with Jennifer Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf), (Harvard University and Russell Sage Press, 2008); and The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 (with Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow), (Harvard University Press, 2007). She is also author of Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Harvard University Press, 1999, paper ed. 2001). This book won five scholarly awards including the Mira Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society, the Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, the Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, the Best Book Award of the Section on Race and Urban Politics of the American Political Science Association, and the Best Book Award of the Center for the Study of Inequality of Cornell University.

Waters’ work has been supported by the Russell Sage, Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, W.T. Grant, and MacArthur Foundations as well as by the Foundation for Child Development and the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association in 1993. In 2003-2004 she was named a Walter Channing Cabot Faculty Fellow for “eminence in history, literature or art," in 2005 she was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, in 2006 she was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2010 she was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences

This event is the keynote lecture for the 4th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference (January 27-28)

November 18, 2010 (2 - 4 pm)
Siobhan Mullally
"Diversity, Multiculturalism and Gender: Emerging Issues"

108N Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Siobhan Mullally is Senior Lecturer (Faculty of Law) and Co-Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at the University College Cork, Ireland. Dr Mullally has published widely in the fields of human rights law; immigration and refugee law; gender and law. She is currently the Director of an IRCHSS funded three year project: Gender Equality, Multiculturalism and Religious Diversity in Contemporary Ireland.

Dr Mullally has worked as an adviser and consultant on gender, migration and human rights to UN bodies and to international NGOs in Timor-Leste, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kosovo. In 2009, she was appointed to a fact-finding mission of the International Bar Association, to inquire into judicial independence and the rule of law in Pakistan. Her report A Long March to Justice:A report on judicial independence and integrity in Pakistan was published by the International Bar Association, Human Rights Institute in 2009. In 2009, she also participated in a Law Society / Connect Ethiopia Rule of Law project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in partnership with the Ethiopian Commission on Human Rights. Dr Mullally served as Chairperson of the Irish Refugee Council from 2006-8, and was a member of the Board of Directors from 2008-9. She is the Irish representative on the Odysseus European network of experts on Asylum and Migration Law.

Among her recent publications are the book, Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism (Hart, Oxford, 2006), and 'Migrant Women Destabilising Borders: Citizenship Debates in Ireland' in Cooper D, Grabham E (eds). Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location (London: Routledge; 2009). For more details on Dr Mullally’s research and publication please see her website at the University College Cork.

November 5, 2010 (2 - 4 pm)
Patrick Weil
"Contemporary Transformation of Citizenship Law"

UC161 University College
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle, Toronto ON

Patrick Weil is a Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School, and a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil’s work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, and Church States law and policy. His most recent publications are How to be French? A Nationality in the Making since 1789, (2009, Duke University Press), “Why the French Laicite is Liberal, Cardozo Law Review, June 2009, Vol. 30, Number 6, 2699-2714 and (with Son-Thierry Ly), “The Anti-racist Origins of the American Immigration Quota System.” Social Research, Volume 77, Number 1 (Spring 2010) pp.45-79.

Professor Weil has worked extensively with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and preparation of a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. He also holds an appointment as Professor at the Paris School of Economics.

 


October 21, 2010 (2 - 4 pm)
Arthur Sweetman
“Quality of Education in Immigration Source Countries: Ramifications for Canada's Labour Market”

208N Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Arthur Sweetman is Professor of Economics and inaugural Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources at McMaster University. A native of Montreal, Sweetman was most recently director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. His research interests are health economics, labour economics, and microeconometrics. In 2010, he edited Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, with Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, and Christopher Worswick (McGill Queen's University Press), a volume to which he contributed “Immigrant Children in Elementary School: An International Perspective” (257-81). Other publications include Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up, eds. Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang (2009, McGill Queen's University Press), and “A New Source of Immigration: The Canadian Experience Class” (2010, with Casey Warman), Policy Options politiques, 31 (7): 58-61.

Professor Arthur Sweetman at the  Munk School of Global Affairs

 

September 21, 2010 (2 - 4 pm)
Richard Moon
"Putting Faith in Hate: Religion as the Source and Subject of Hate Speech"

208N Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Richard Moon is Professor of Law at the University of Windsor. He teaches both private and public law courses. His research focuses on freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and religion, and the structural aspects of constitutional rights protection. His current research concerning religious freedom is funded by a general grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 1994 he was awarded the first University of Windsor Humanities Research Fellowship. From 2003 to 2005 he was the President of the Canadian Law and Society Association. In 2009 he was awarded the University of Windsor Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching.

For more information on Professor Moon's research and publications, please visit his website at the University of Windsor.


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Professor Moon lectures at the Munk School of Global Affairs

Harney Lecture Series 2008-2009

Daniele Joly
"Women of Muslim Background: Their Participation in Civic and Political Life in Britain"
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 2-4 p.m.
Munk Centre 108N

Daniele Joly is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick, UK. CRER focuses on the experience of people from minority ethnic groups in the UK and Western Europe. Joly’s personal research interests are in the fields of asylum regimes, ethnic relations, and Muslims in Europe. The lecture presents preliminary findings arising out of her “sociological intervention” (according to Alain Touraine's methodology) with women of Muslim background in Britain. Recent books include Black and Britannity (2001), Global Changes in Asylum Regimes (2002), International Migration in the New Millennium (2004), Muslims in Prison (2005), and Riot: What France Can Learn from the UK (L'Emeute - ce que la France peut apprendre du Royaume-Uni, Paris: Denoel, 2007).

HARNEY LECTURE SERIES 2007-2008

Jock Collins
"Globalisation and Immigration and Settlement Policy in Australia"
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 2-3:30 p.m.
Munk Centre 108N


Jock Collins is Professor of Economics, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. His research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society, a field in which he has published since 1974. His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic precincts and tourism, and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment. He is the author or co-author of nine books, the most recent being Bin Laden in the Suburbs: criminalizing the Arab other (with Scott Poynting, Greg Noble, and Paul Tabar). He is also the author of over 50 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters. His work has been translated into French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese, and Italian. Jock Collins has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, Sweden, and the US and has been a consultant to the OECD, ILO, and the Australian and NSW governments.

Harney Lecture Series 2002-2005
List of Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Tanya Basok "International versus Citizenship Rights: The Case of Mexican Migrant Workers in Canada," March 17, 2005. Dr Tanya Basok is Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Justice at the University of Windsor. The Centre serves as a forum to provide information and research exchanges related to a wide range of social justice issues: health, sexuality, racism, literacy, poverty, and gender inequalities, as well as the legal, environmental, and cultural challenges of restructuring, the global economy, and international development. Professor Basok’s current research project, funded by SSHRC, explores discourses surrounding the construction and reconstitution of boundaries of citizenship by the labour community in Canada and the US. Her publications include: “Post-National Citizenship, Social Exclusion and Migrants Rights: Mexican Seasonal Workers in Canada,” Citizenship Studies (2003); “Mexican Seasonal Migration to Canada and Development: A Community-Based Comparison,” International Migration (2003); Tortillas and Tomatoes: Mexican Transmigrant Harvesters in Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2002). Click here for her web page.

Jacques Bertrand "Ethnicity and Conflict in Indonesia," November 7, 2003. Jacques Bertrand is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, and the Munk Centre for International Studies. His current research focuses on nationalism and ethnic conflict in Southeast Asia. Recent publications include Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia, Cambridge University Press, 2003; "Legacies of the Authoritarian Past" Religious Violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands," Pacific Affairs 73.1 (2002); and "Language Policy in Indonesia: The Promotion of a National Language Amidst Ethnic Diversity," in Language and Conflict in Asia, edited by Brown and Ganguly, MIT Press, 2002. Click here for Professor Bertrand's web site.

Irene Bloemraad "Political Institutions, Ethnic Elites, and the Civic Engagement of Immigrants: A Comparison of Canada and the United States," November 9, 2001. Irene Bloemraad is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. Her work studies the nexus between immigration and the political system. Her forthcoming book Becoming a Citizen examines immigrants' acquisition of citizenship and participation in the United States and Canada. For more information on Professor Bloemraad, visit her web site.

Catherine Dauvergne "And yet we are not saved: Hegemony and the Global War on Human Trafficking," November 9, 2005. Catherine Dauvergne holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law and is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law. Her book Humanitarianism, Identity,and Nation: Migration Laws of Australia and Canada was released by UBC Press in 2005. For Professor Dauvergne's web site, click here. For a copy of her paper, click here.

Don DeVoretz "Brain Drain: Gain, or Circulation?" February 8, 2002. Professor Don DeVoretz is Director of the Centre for Research on Immigration, and Integration in the Metropolis, and Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University. His primary research interest is an assessment of the economics of immigrants. See Don DeVoretz and John Ma, Triangular Capital Flows Between Sending, Entrepot, and the Rest of the World Regions, Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants, edited by Jeffrey G. Reitz (San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2003). For more information, click here to view his web site.

Thomas Faist "We are all 'Republican' now: Citizenship in Germany," January 28, 2005. Thomas Faist is Visiting Professor German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, and Political Science Department, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He directs the International Study Programme in Political Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany, and is director of the Centre for Study on Migration, Citizenship, and Development (COMCAD). His research focuses on international migration, ethnic relations, social policy, comparative politics, and transnationalism. Click here for his web site.

Nancy Foner "What's New about New York's New Immigrants?" October 4, 2002. Nancy Foner is the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America, City University of New York. She is author of From Ellis Island to JFK, which won the 2000 Theodore Saloutos Book Award. See also "Response to 'Forum: Old and New Immigrants: On Nancy Foner's From Ellis Island to JFK'," Journal of American Ethnic History 21(2002): 102-119. For Professor Foner's web site, click here.

Gary Freeman "Political Science and Immigration: Policy Types and Modes of Politics," March 21, 2003. Gary Freeman is Chair, Department of Government, University of Texas. Professor Freeman specializes in the politics of immigration, comparative social policy, and politics in western democracies. His most recent writing has been directed at understanding the form of immigration politics in different countries and explaining the integration strategies employed by countries as they grapple with immigrant populations. He is currently working on the question of the linkage between immigration and the welfare state, especially the impact of ethnic and other forms of diversity on the solidaristic foundations of social policies. See a copy of his paper by clicking here. To view his web site, click here.

James S. Frideres "New Faces, New Challenges: Performance and Expectations of Immigrant and Native-born Youth," September 14, 2001. James Frideres is Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice President (Academic), University of Calgary, and Editor of Canadian Ethnic Studies. His research interests include aboriginal people in Canada, immigration and integration, social impact assessment, and ethnic relations. For more information on Professor Frideres, view his web site.

Steven Gold "The Israeli Diaspora: Perspectives on Emigration, Adaptation, and Return," February 6, 2004. Dr. Steven J. Gold is Professor of Sociology and Acting Chair of Sociology, Michigan State University. He is also Chair, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section. Professor Gold has published widely in the areas of international migration and ethnic economies, including The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society, co-edited with Ruben G. Rumbaut (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2002); "Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration," in Gender and US Immigration: Contemporary Trends, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). His recent book, The Israeli Diaspora (University of Washington Press/Routledge, 2002), received the American Sociological Association International Migration Section Thomas and Znaniecki Book award for Best Book in International Migration, 2003. To view a recent article, "Gender, Class, and Network: Social Structure and Migration Patterns among Transnational Israelis, published in Global Networks 1,1 (2001), click here. Click here for Professor Gold's web site.

Steven Gold and Jeffrey G. Reitz in Multi-Ethnic Toronto

Frances Henry "The New Racism in Canadian Society Today" "Mass Media: Research and Critical Discourse Analysis in the Media" "Mass Media: Case Studies of Racist Discourse in the Media" Dr. Frances Henry is Professor Emerita, York University. She presented a series of three lectures on racism in Canada during each of the 2001-2002, 2002-2003, and 2003-2004 academic years. If you are interested in this topic, you will want to read Dr. Henry's recent book, Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press, University of Toronto Press, 2002. For more information on Dr. Henry, click here.

Jose Itzigsohn "Unfinished Imagined Communities: The Theoretical Implications of Nationalism in Latin America," November 29, 2002. Jose Itzigsohn is Professor of Sociology, Brown University, Providence R.I. His work focuses on identity and group formation, with a focus on processes of racialization. He is also interested in the political economy of inequality. The text of his lecture is available here in pdf form. See Professor Itzigsohn's website for more information about this speaker.

Daniele Joly "The Muslim Paradigm in France and Britain," Thursday, October 26, 2006. Daniele Joly is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick, UK. CRER focuses on the experience of people from minority ethnic groups in the UK and Western Europe. Its research agenda includes a focus on the processes of racial discrimination, issues of citizenship, political participation, cultural identity, refugees, ethnic mobilization, and nationalism. For further details of the Centre, please see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/CRER/index.html. Joly’s personal research interests are in the fields of asylum regimes, ethnic relations, and Muslims in Europe. Her recent books include Black and Britannity (2001), Global Changes in Asylum Regimes (2002), International Migration in the New Millennium (2004), and Muslims in Prison (2005).

Peggy Levitt "Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: Transnational Perspectives on International Migration," October 10, 2003. Professor Peggy Levitt is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and a Fellow at The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She is author of The Transnational Villagers, University of California Press, 2001, which received Honorable Mention in competition for the Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the Section on International Migration, of the American Sociological Association. Click here for Professor Levitt's web site.

Audrey Macklin "Law and the Encultured Subject," January 17, 2003. Audrey Macklin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her areas of interest include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. An abstract of the lecture is available here. For more information about Professor Macklin, check her web site.

John Myles "Residential Segregation and Neighbourhood Attainment Among Toronto's Visible Minorities: Testing Spatial Assimilation Theory with Micro-level Data," March 8, 2002. John Myles is Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. His research interests include comparative social policy and politics, economic inequality and its consequences, and issues in urban sociology, including immigrant incorporation and urban health. To view his web site, click here.

Jan Rath "Social Reactions to Islam: How European Countries React to the Institutionalization of a 'New' Religion," February 3, 2003. Jan Rath is Professor of Urban Sociology and Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam. See Dr. Rath's website at: http://users.fmg.uva.nl/jrath.

Ayelet Shachar "Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights," September 19, 2002. Ayelet Shachar is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She has been named the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the Faculty of Law and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science. Her work focuses on citizenship and immigration law, highly-skilled migrants, and transnational legal processes. Her lecture was based on a recent publication with Cambridge University Press, 2001. For Professor Shachar's web site, click here

D. Alissa Trotz Making a Living, Making Homes: Gender and the Remapping of Caribbean Identities across Place," March 28, 2003. Alissa Trotz is Assistant Professor at OISE/UT, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE). She works in the areas of intersectionality and social inequalities, migratory circuits and diasporic practices, feminism and transnationality, and Caribbean Studies. To view her web site, click here.

Jack Veugelers "Legacy of Empire: Ex-colonials, Voluntary Associations, and Anti-democratic Politics in France," October 21, 2004. Jack Veugelers is Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto. His interests include the political sociology of far-right parties in Western Europe, the role of immigration issues in national political debates, the immigration policymaking process, and the politics of immigration and environmental degradation. Veugelers' current work examines aspects of far-right politics in Western Europe, including the differences between Italy and France that have influenced tactics of far-right political parties and how the democratic process responds to far-right parties. Professor Veugelers is researching the ways in which far-right parties exploit anti-immigration sentiment for political gain. Click here for Professor Veugelers' website.

Patrick Weil Is There a European Immigration Policy?" September 20, 2005. Professor Patrick Weil (CNRS and Paris I) was a visiting professor in the History Department at the University of Toronto from September 8 to October 18, 2005. He is a widely acclaimed authority on immigration, secularism, and citizenship in France. He is the author of numerous books, and has participated in several governmental commissions. During his stay in Toronto, Professor Weil also taught an intensive 5-week graduate seminar, starting on the first day of classes in September 2005: "Immigration, citizenship, integration of minorities, and secularization policies: a comparative approach of Europe and North America." For Professor Weil's web site, click here.