Midterm review for final exam in HIS3301 History across Borders #HumanRightsHistory today. ⁦Histoire uOttawa History⁩ ⁦uOttawa Arts⁩ Students made this timeline, connecting events to assigned readings & primary sources as a way of thinking historically about human rights.

We are inviting submissions that address the unfolding catastrophe we are witnessing in Gaza. Submissions can take different forms: 2000-3000 word essays, longer articles, poetry or experimental genres which speak to our devastating present. Humanity humanityjournal.org/blog/call-for-…

Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking panel discussion that delves into the crucial topics of Resilience and Sovereignty in #Haiti with two amazing Haitian scholars @grosmorne29 and Bertrhude Albert, Ph.D. Registration: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in Critical Refugee Studies and Digital Storytelling at the University of Toronto.

“If we do not demonstrate our willingness to apply the law equally, if it is seen as being applied selectively, we will be creating the conditions for its collapse. In doing so, we will be loosening the remaining bonds that hold us together.”

Thanks for your leadership Alex Neve

My comments to the Toronto Star on today’s vindication: “I am relieved that these brave students will face no formal sanctions & that their support for Palestinian resistance & opposition to Israeli apartheid was properly characterized as not antisemitic.” thestar.com/news/gta/tmu-l…

Forthcoming – Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South – CODESRIA codesria.org/beyond-the-col…

This is a deeply troubling and wrong-in-law take on the Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa encampment. A few thoughts in response... 'Just cause' is not the legal test. What makes the students actions lawful (and they are) is that they are exercising fundamental freedoms of expression & peaceful

Biden's order — refusing even to hear asylum claims when an arbitrary threshold is reached — is illegal under the UN treaties the US helped to write, and which •it• signed. Shameful. npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-…

“We call on the United States to uphold its international obligations and urge the government to reconsider restrictions that undermine the fundamental right to seek asylum.” unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

Walk With Web digital stills instructor Kartikay Chadha teaches: Digital #KnowledgeMobilization Step 1 is to EMPATHIZE: Show that you know your users & care about their lives. He leads the #FrontiersOfBelonging #IRTG through the process. ⁦SSHRC⁩ ⁦uOttawa Arts⁩

#VisaBarrier is inequitable

Many thanks Kartikay Chadha for your role in the group’s experiential learning about how to use digital tools to communicate results and mobilize knowledge.

Absolutely amazing #VisaBarrier project analysing and depicting data on visa inequality in the UK. Read the thread 🧵

Sounds big.

After a few years of studying the @IRCC-imposed #VisaBarrier to internationalizing research in Canada, we have come to the same conclusion: if visa-required researchers are collaborating, knowledge mobilization activities must take place elsewhere.

Health conference moved from Calgary to Bali because of ‘severe delays’ in visa approvals. Visa issues also hampered the International AIDS Conference in Montreal in 2022, by Fatima Raza theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail @paimadhu #GlobalHealth

Look what came in the mail just in time for vacation airplane reading. Thanks ⁦@Umut_Ozsu⁩