Final Call! (Deadline extended to March 31, 2007)
CRS Graduate Student Conference:
Redefining Borders: Dialogues of Displacement, Identity and Community
Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Toronto, Canada
May 3 and 4, 2007
The Centre for Refugee Studies' (CRS) Annual Graduate Student Conference will
be held May 3rd and 4 th, 2007 at York University. This event, hosted by CRS
Student Caucus, offers Masters and PhD students across disciplines the
opportunity to present ideas in a professional but non-intimidating forum.
The theme for this year's conference is Redefining Borders: Dialogues of
Displacement, Identity and Community . Working within the field of Refugee and
Migration Studies, this theme invites critical, imaginative and innovative
discussion surrounding the concepts of borders, what they might entail today,
and how they impact displacement, identity and community. Our aim is to
create a theme broad enough to accommodate a wide range of discussion on these
openly defined terms.
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to present papers at this
forum, with abstracts due by March 31, 2007. Abstracts should be submitted
electronically to the CRS Student Caucus at: [log in to unmask] Abstracts
should not exceed 250 words and should be accompanied by a short personal
biographic profile of no more than 100 words. We are also open to
accepting 'ideas in progress' to accommodate students who are in the initial
phases of their research project.
Final drafts of all conference papers will be reviewed by staff at CRS'
internationally published journal, REFUGE , with one paper selected for
publication in an upcoming edition.
We are pleased to announce that IASFM will provide full funding for the top
presenter from the CRS conference to attend the 11th Annual Conference for the
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration to be held in
Cairo, Egypt in January of 2008.
The CRS student caucus is honoured to announce Wenona Giles as this year's key
note speaker. Wenona Giles is a professor in the School of Social Sciences
and an Associate Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York
University. Her research brings a strong gender and feminist perspective into
areas of migration, refugee issues, and war.
If you are interested in participating in this year's conference as a
presenter, moderator, organizer or attendee, please complete the online
registration form at http://www.yorku.ca/crs/ .
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 31, 2007
Submit to CRS Student Caucus at: [log in to unmask]
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