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Ambassador’s Lecture Series
2012-02-06Ambassador’s Lecture Series Top diplomats are invited to lecture and interact with the larger academic community on prespecified topics. Prof. Dr. Bart De Moor, Vice Rector for International Policy, cordially invites you to attend the 9th lecture in this series. "Immigration Policy and Integration: A different point of view from Canada" H.E. Louis de Lorimier, Ambassador of Canada to Belgium and Luxembourg. The lecture will be introduced by Prof. Dr. Ching Lin Pang, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre.Research Area & Mission
IMMRC (Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre) conducts state-of-the-art anthropological analyses of topics related to mobility and minorities. It focuses on tangible and intangible relations, and borders. Through in-depth ethnographic study, the researchers disentangle the diversified relations and their global (dis)connections, with special attention for minorities and less visible community building.
Topics & Current Projects
- Mobilities (e.g. migration, identity, tourism, transnational students and professionals, transborder trade…)
- Crossing boundaries (e.g. conversion, religious identifications, arts, healing & traditional medicine, development, gender, disability …)
- Interculturalism and urban space (e.g. market places as global meeting place, ephemeral relations, entrepreneurship, mixed neighborhoods, multicultural festivals, education, …)
Fethullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies
Purpose of the Fethullah Gülen Chair for Intercultural Studies - GCIS:
- Stimulating research on intercultural understanding with a special focus on relations between Muslim communities and the wider society in Europe.
- Providing an academic platform where researchers can present, debate and exchange their findings on the study of Islam and Muslims.
- A short semi-annual Activities Report 2011
- List of upcoming seminars 2012
- 11/1 - Prize for best thesis - Fetüllah Gülen Chair
Partners
- CEETUM, Université de Montréal (Contact: Johan Leman)
