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TMCIS-ISS Literary Lunch & Learn - 20th Anniversary of the Immigration & Settlement Studies MA Program: Celebrating Alumni Stories & Achievements
- Date
- October 02, 2024
- Time
- 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
- Location
- Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (YSGPS) Interdisciplinary Program Study Space, Daphne Cockwell Centre, 288 Church Street, 7th floor
- Contact
- tmcis@torontomu.ca
This event was co-hosted by TMCIS and ISS, and co-convened by Dr. Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) Academic Director and Dr. Henry Parada, Immigration & Settlement Studies (ISS) MA Program Director.
Description:
We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Immigration & Settlement Studies MA Program program by featuring prominent program alumni and authors. Discussions explored the authors’ unique insights and experiences that have profoundly shaped their approach to storytelling, delving into prominent themes from their novels, including the distinct challenges that shape different migrant experiences, cultural identity and belonging, intergenerational displacement and trauma, familial reunification, and resilience within the context of Canadian and British colonialism and transnational sociopolitical dynamics that influence and shape diasporic identities.
Chairs:
Dr. Zhixi Zhuang - Academic Director, Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement
Dr. Henry Parada - Program Director, Immigration & Settlement Studies MA
Panellists + Featured Novels:
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio (external link) - ISS Alumni, Author of Reuniting with Strangers (external link)
Sheila Murray (external link) - ISS Alumni, Author of Finding Edward (external link)
Janika Oza (external link) - ISS Alumni, Author of A History of Burning (external link)
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.