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Events

Harney Lecture Series

Sponsored by the R.F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the Harney Lecture Series brings prominent scholars and practitioners from around the world to explore cutting-edge topics in citizenship, migration, and diversity and to enrich the research community at the University of Toronto.

All events are open to the public and require pre-registration (unless otherwise stated).

Past Events

Poster of information about Dr. Kaushal's The Making and Unmaking of Citizenship talk: Oct. 24th at 4pm
 

October 24, 2024 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Lecture by Professor Asha Kaushal, Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

Details of Constitutional Intolerance event
 

November 6, 2024 | 4:00PM - 6:00Pm

Lecture by Marietta van der Tol, Research Fellow, University of Cambridget

poster
 

November 29, 2023   2:00PM - 5:00PM 

Mirille photo
 

November 24, 2023   4:00PM - 6:00PM

Where Sex is Work: the Global Migration-Sex Work Nexus
 

November 17, 2023 | 2:00PM - 7:00PM

Lecture by Rhacel Parreñas, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California and Visiting Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology, Princeton University.

Yasuko Takezawa
 

November 16, 2023   4:00PM - 6:00PM (EST)

Lecture by Yasuko Takezawa from Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.

 Book cover
 

October 27, 2023   5:00PM - 7:00PM (EST)

Book launch of Randall Hansen, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Department of Political Science & Director, Global Migration Lab, Munk School.

Tristan
 

October 18, 2023   4:00PM - 6:00PM (EST)

Lecture by Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Labor and Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Care Activism
 

September 20, 2023

4:00PM - 6:00PM (EST)

This event will take place in-person in Seminar Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON.

Leave no one behind on red background
 

April 27, 2023

4:10 - 6:00 pm (EST)

Keynote lecture by Prof. Naika Foroutan, Humboldt-University, Berlin.

Discussants:  Prof. Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University and Mr. Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail

Red maple leaf
 

March 29, 2023

4:00-6:00 PM (EST)

Lecture by Jennifer Elrick, Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University

 

Parrenas Unfree book cover
 

February 10, 2023 

3.00-5.00 pm (EST)

Book Panel Celebrating the Publication of Rhacel Salazar Parreñas's Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States

Close up of a mural of arms reaching down
 

January 26, 2023

12:00-2:00 PM (EST)

Lecture by Martijn Stronks, Assistant Professor of Migration Law, Amsterdam Centre of Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

A dome against the sky
 

November 17, 2022

The Pearson Marfleet Lecture in Political Science by Paul Sniderman, Fairleigh Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University

 

Time Square, NYC
 

October 28, 2022

The Cadario Visiting Lecture in Public Policy Graduate Seminar

 

Grid people in black and white
 

October 27, 2022

Cadario Lecture by Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University

Aerial photo of many country flags blowing against a grey sidewalk
 

September 15, 2022

Lecture by Ming Hsu Chen, Professor of Law & Director of the Race, Immigration, Citizenship and Equality Program, UC Hastings

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Borders, territory and rights: Changing legal cartographies of migration and mobility

June 30-July 1, 2022

Lectures by Ayelet Shachar, R. F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration, University of Toronto & Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University 

The outline of a person with their arm up and the UNHCR logo
 

June 29, 2022

Lecture by Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University 

A white arrow on a red background
 

April 11, 2022

Lecture by Dur-e-Aden, Harney Graduate Research Fellows

A colourful selection of cartoon drawings with words of support for refugees and minorities
 

March 31, 2022

Lecture by Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY’s Graduate Center

Book cover for Majority Minority by Justin Gest
 

March 10, 2022

Lecture by Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

A white line on a grey surface and a yellow line on a white surface
 

February 17, 2022

Lecture by Elizabeth F. Cohen Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

A sign with a drawing of the planet and the words One World written on it
 

January 27, 2022

Lecture by Olúf́mi O. Táíwò, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University

A pink wall built on a hill with a blue sky above
 

November 18, 2021

Lecture by Emine Fidan Elcioglu, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto

A purple and cream coloured Wampum belt
 

October 21, 2021

Lecture by Douglas Sanderson, Prichard Wilson Chair in Law & Public Policy, Decanal Advisor on Indigenous Issues, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

A COVID virus cell
 

How embedded interventions controlled contagion: Ideas, institutions and the first vaccine in China and India

March 25, 2021

Lecture by Prerna Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University

 

Two cartoon stick figures speaking in speech bubbles and a third stick person tearing up a speech bubble
 

The rise of authoritarianism and populism: Challenges to critical analyses of law

March 12, 2021

Panel with Professor Guenter Frankenberg, Goethe University, Frankfurt; Helena Alviar Garcia, Science Po Law School, Paris; Bojan Bugaric, University of Sheffield

A robot face
 

February 25, 2021

Lecture by Kieran Oberman, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh and Tom Parr, Associate Professor, University of Warwick

A mural of a woman's face with the words Power & Equality written in a circle above her head
 

Racial borders

February 4, 2021

Lecture by E. Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law / UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

A smooth sand dune against a blue sky
 

January 21, 2021

Lecture by Noora Lori, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Pardee School, Boston University