Seminar : The Figure of the Migrant in Law and Literature: Push Back or Acceptance? Limbo or Integration? Common Places, Norms and Evolving Narratives, Ryerson University

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
13-14 October 2016
Ryerson University, Toronto
 
THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2016
 
5:00pm–6:00pm      
REGISTRATION   
 
6:00pm–7:00pm      
WELCOME AND INAUGUARAL SPEECH

Pam Sugiman, Dean, Faculty of Arts
 
Rawi Hage, Writer and Photographer, Keynote Speaker
Inaugural Address:  Departure, arrival and inner exile

7:00pm                      
RECEPTION
 
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 2016
 
8:00am–9:00am        
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 
 
9:00am–10:30am       
PANEL DISCUSSION: Evolving Perceptions of the Migrant as a Border Subject
 
DISCUSSANT           
John Shields, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
 
PANELISTS  
Narrating the Nation from Behind a Veil: Zunera Ishaq and Citizenship
Audrey Jacklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
 
Planetarity, Asylum and Narratives of Migrant Survival
Simon Harel, Department of Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal
 
Negotiating Borders in Contemporary Canadian Fiction​​
Kathleen L. Kellett, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ryerson University
 
10:30am–11:00am          
MORNING BREAK
 
11:00am–12:30am           
PANEL DISCUSSION: Evolving Perceptions of the Migration in Crisis/Migration as Crisis
 
DISCUSSANT               
Christina Clark-Kazak, Department of International Studies, Glendon College, York University
 
PANELISTS
 
Migration in Dramatic Storytelling: Roving Through Pasts, Presents and Futures
Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Performance Studies, York University
 
Migrant and Gender Performativity as a Borderline Performance. A Reading of Efoui's Use of Drag in L'ombre des choses à venir
Marie-Pierre Bouchard, French Department, University of Toronto
 
Fact or Fiction? Evolving Narratives of Migration
Michelle Majeed and Bethan Faradhi, Human Geography, University of Toronto
 
12:30pm–1:30pm              
LUNCH
 
1:30pm–3:00pm               
PANEL DISCUSSION: Integration and/or Assimilation: Utopia and/or Challenge? 
 
DISCUSSANT:              
Hon. Ron Atkey, Adjunct Professor (National Security Law) at Osgoode /York University
 
PANELISTS:
 
Wrestling with Notions of “Illegality”: Keita’s Journey as Migration Story
Sharry Aiken, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
 
Title: Outstanding
Peter Showler, Director of the Refugee Forum, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
 
Title: Outstanding
Julia Creet, Department of English, York University
 
Between Nostalgia and Migrant's Dreams: The Chronotope of Displacement
Aurelia Klimkiewicz, Translation, Glendon College, York University
 
One Love? The Chinese Migrant as National Foil in Early 20th Century Jamaica
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, English Department, Ryerson University
 
3:30pm–3:30pm              
HEALTH BREAK
 
3:30pm–5:00pm              
PANEL DISCUSSION: Precarious State(s) of Refuge, Refugees and Sanctuaries  
 
DISCUSSANT:              
Harald Bauder, Department of Geography, Ryerson University
 
PANELISTS
 
Cities of Migration in States of Transition: A Review of the Sanctuary City Movement in Toronto
Graham Hudson, Department of Criminology, Ryerson University
 
Inclusion or Exclusion, Illegality or Sanctuary? The “Jungle of Calais” and Toronto as Enclaves of Political Resistance in the “Refugee Crisis” Dispositive
Janika Kuge, Department of Geography, University of Freiburg, Germany
 
The Figure of the Migrant in the European Political Discourse: Questioning the Toxic Debate on Migration and Banking on Mobility
François Crépeau, Faculty of Law, McGill University
 
5:00pm–6:00pm              
BOOK LAUNCH
                                          
Harald Bauder
Migration Borders Freedom, Routledge, 2016
 
6:00pm                        
RECEPTION