Conference Program

Questioning Crisis: Forced Migration in Theory and Practice

2017 Annual Conference of the Institute for the Study of International Development McGill University

15-16 March 2017, Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 15 March

3:00-3:30	Arrival, registration
3:30-3:45	Welcome, introduction of conference theme Professor Sonia Laszlo, Director, ISID Professor Diana Allan, ISID and Department of Anthropology Professor Megan Bradley, ISID and Department of Political Science
3:45-5:45	Keynote Address Chair: Catherine Lu, Associate Director, ISID “Governing migration under the Global Compacts: Towards an agenda for facilitating mobility” Professor François Crépeau, Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University and UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants “Responding to the global refugee crisis: UNHCR perspectives” Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Representative in Canada Watch the full recording of the Keynote Address here
5:45-7:00	Reception

Thursday, 16 March

8:30-9:00	Arrival, registration
9:00-9:15	Welcome, recap, plan for the day Diana Allan and Megan Bradley, ISID
9:15-11:00	Panel 1: “Crisis” in context: Rethinking responsibility for forced migration crises Chair: Eric Hirsch, Global Governance Postdoctoral Fellow, ISID Discussants: Megan Bradley, ISID and Yves Winter, Political Science, McGill Re-Theorizing the Ethics of Forced Migration Beyond the State Kiran Banerjee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Global Policy Initiative and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Reading Crisis: Race and the Politics of Deportation in 1960s Australia Laura Madokoro, Assistant Professor, Department of History, McGill University Watch the full recording of "Crisis in Context" here
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-11:45	Address by Serge Cormier, MP and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Watch the full recording of Serge Cormier's address here
11:45-1:50	Panel 2: Perspectives on Syria Chair: Francesco Amodio, ISID and Department of Economics, McGill Discussants: Rex Brynen, Political Science, McGill and Jamal Saghir, ISID Professor of Practice Host state policy, socio-economic class, and initial settlement patterns among Syrian refugees in Germany and Turkey Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University The Refugee Surge in Europe Antonio Spilimbergo, International Monetary Fund Watch the full recording of "Perspectives on Syria" here
1:00-2:00	Break
2:00-3:45	Panel 3: Crisis spaces: From black holes to the built environment Chair: Diana Allan Discussants: Ipek Tureli, Department of Architecture, McGill, and Marina Sharpe, Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill Maritime Legal Black Holes: Migration and Extra-Legality Itamar Mann, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa The Architecture of “Crisis”: Housing Refugees in Germany and Turkey Nell Gabiam, Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures and Department of Political Science, Iowa State University Watch the recording of "Crisis Spaces" here
3:45-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:00	Roundtable and open discussion: Implications for research, policy and practice Chair: Sonia Laszlo Roundtable commentators: Rex Brynen (Political Science, McGill), Giulia el-Dardiry (Anthropology, McGill), Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (ISID Professor of Practice), Aderomola Adeola (Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill) Watch the full recording of the Roundtable here

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