Upcoming Events / Événements à venir

  • Public is invited to the ECSA-C Biennial Conference “Europe in an Age of Austerity: Integration, Disintegration, or Stagnation?” April 27-28, 2012, Ottawa

  • The mission of the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C) is to help promote the study of the European Union and its member states within Canada. To this end, there are spaces available for the general public interested in attending the 9th Biennial ECSA-C Conference to be held in Ottawa on April 27-28, 2012. Registration requests will be accepted until April 15th, 2012. However, registration may close prior to this date if the available spaces are filled. One and two day registration options are available. Members of the public may also attend the banquet on Saturday, April 28th, at an additional charge. Please see the registration form for more details regarding the fees and payment methods canada-europe-dialogue.ca/conference-on-europe-in-an-age-of-austerity. The registration fee includes lunch, refreshments breaks, and conference materials.

  • YRN Professional Development Day

  • The Young Professional Network (YRN) is organizing a full-day professional development seminar for students and young scholars on April 26, 2012, one day prior to the ECSA-C conference.
    Registration for the seminar is now OPEN.
    To find out more          and  to register, please click here.

  • February 2-3, 2012
  • February 2, 2012: 5:30 pm-9:00 pm; February 3, 2012: 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
  • Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
  • Workshop: Gender, Care, Migration – Europe-Canada Compared (Université de Montréal)

  • February 2, 2012: 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
    February 3, 2012: 9:00 am – 5:15 pm

    Concepts of care and care work reveal a gender division of labour, with women doing most of this work, often in the employment of other women. Care work is emotional work, involving a relationship to the body, and requiring skills. These three terms also call for rethinking work itself, as frontiers of public/private and national borders are redrawn. In the North, care work is often done by migrant or immigrant women. Analysing through the lens of gender and migration can provide new understandings, about the globalisation of care work that is generating new social and economic relations in the North as well as the South, as well as relations of power between women that result from this way of structuring care in aging societies.

    Gender, care and migration are three closely interrelated concepts, and they must be analysed together. This workshop will do so, via an examination of three cross-cutting themes that encourage an analysis of the links among the three concepts. The first theme directly addresses the interrelationship: is there a specific form of intersectionality in the area of care? How does care reconfigure power relations among women? The second cross-cutting theme focuses on the ethnic diversity generated by the concentration of migrant and immigrant women care work in Canada and Europe. How do such population movements and the resulting cultural diversity redesign care work in these regions at the same time that states are reconfiguring their actions in this policy area? Finally the workshop addresses the triptych gender/care/migration from perspective of citizenship. The focus is on the extent to which adjustment in rights and citizenship are called forth by practices of migration and or managing diversity in these new social relations of care.

    To download the preliminary programme, please follow this link.

    For more details and registration, please contact Patricia Garcia (CPDS-CCCG):
    514 343-6111 poste 20324 or patricia.garcia@umontreal.ca.

    An event organized by Pascale Dufour, Jane Jenson, Éléonore Lépinard (Political Science Department, UdeM) in the name of:

    Centre de recherche sur les politiques et le développement social (UdeM)
    European Union Center of Excellence (UdeM-McGill)
    Immigration and Social Policy TRG, Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue Cluster
    Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance (UdeM)