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Newsletter - November - December 2015

December 1, 2015
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Source: MIGS

Upcoming Events


December 3, 6PM

MIGS in collaboration with the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa will screen “Weapon of War”, a documentary by Ilse and Femke Van Velzen on sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Room VA-114 of Concordia’s Visual Arts Building (address below). During the DRC’s seven year war, more than 80.000 women and girls were raped. In this critically-acclaimed documentary, military perpetrators unveil what lies behind this brutal behavior and the strategies of rape as a war crime.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with film maker Femke Van Velzen
The event is free and open to the public but donations are welcomed. Registration

This screening is made possible through cooperation with the University of Ottawa, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, IFPRODUCTIONS, MIGS, the University of Ottawa  and the Amnesty Internal dtudent club at Concordia University.

Location:
MIGS Boardroom
1250 rue Guy, FB 804

December 12 

At 6 pm in the De Seve Cinema of Concordia University,MIGS is co-sponsoring with the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada a presentation by Dr. Vartan Gregorian on “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh: A Historical Perspective.” Dr. Gregorian, a brilliant scholar and educator, has previously served as the president of the New York Public Library and Brown University. He presently heads the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Also featured will be Frank Chalk and Aram Adjemian, who graduated with his MA in History in 2007 and recently published, “The Call of Armenia,” a book based on his Concordia thesis.

Location:
Sir George Williams Campus
McConnell Library Building, LB-125
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 
Montreal, QC H4G 1M8
  

Past events

Nov. 5
Kyle Matthews and MIGS fellow Diego Osorio participated in the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL), which took place from 5 to 8 November in Berlin. Under the title: “Status: unresolved! Designing migration policies for the future”, GDL members brought their own reflections and projects to the debate and shaped the Lab’s formats with innovative and experimental approaches.
 
The GDL is an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office, the BMW Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, and Stiftung Mercator, in partnership with Deutsche Welle. An article by Deutsche Welle covering the third Global Diplomacy Lab can be found here.

Nov. 16
Concordia University's Thinking Out Loud series and the International Press Institute presented: Threats, Risks, Freedoms: A Conversation About Journalism and Human Rights. The discussion featuredAmberin Zaman, a veteran Turkish journalist and analyst, and Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, in conversation with Susan Sachs, Foreign Editor for The Globe and Mail.
 
The discussion centred on the issue of press freedom in Turkey. The large turnout for the event included a reporter from the CBC. Radio station CJAD 800 interviewed Kyle Matthews and Amberin Zaman prior prior to the evening’s exchange.
 
The full video of the talk can be found here.
 
Nov 24
Marie Lamensch spoke to McGill University’s Avocats Sans Frontieres/Lawyers Without Borders Association (ASF) about careers in international relations and MIGS’ efforts to prevent mass atrocity crimes.

Nov. 25
As part of Concordia University’s 2015-2016 series on Heritage and Social Justice, MIGS co-organized a conference titled “Cultural Heritage Diplomacy: How Nations use Historic Sites for Political Ends.” Tim Winter, Research Professor in Cultural Heritage (Deakin University, Australia) discussed the politicization of significant heritage locations. The talk was followed by a round table discussion featuring Concordia professors Frank Chalk (MIGS and History), Erica Lehrer (History and Canada Research Chair, Museum and Heritage Studies), Alison Rowley (Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, History), and moderated by Nadine Blumer (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence). Winter’s address was organized in collaboration with the Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage and l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Nov. 27

Kyle Matthews gave the keynote address at the Montreal United Nations Conference.

Kyle Mathhews and Denis Otis give keynote addresses at Dawson College 2015 MUN
Kyle Matthews and Diego Osario at the Bundestag

In the Media
 
Oct. 29
Kyle Matthews gave an interview to The Kingston Whig Standard entitled “The new face of extremists”. The article discussed his research into how extremists use social media to propagate their ideologies and recruit individuals into their groups through brainwashing techniques.

Nov. 2
Kyle Matthews was quoted in an article titled “Experts say Liberal counter-radicalization office should bridge, not drive, regional efforts” by iPolitics.

Nov. 3
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire received the 2015 Veterans Ombudsman Commendation for his contribution to the well-being of Veterans and their families.

Nov. 13
The CBC’s Rosie Barton and Kyle Matthews sat down to discuss the implications of Jihadi John’s death on the show’s Power and Politics segment.

Nov. 16
Kyle Matthews was a guest on BT Montreal where he analysed the Paris attacks and the link to Syria.
Kyle Matthews, alongside Amberin Zaman, gave an interview to CTV Montreal entitled “How to handle terrorists”, concerning the recent attacks in Paris.

Nov. 18
Kyle Matthews was quoted in an article by the CBC regarding the Canadian Government’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by the end of the year.

Kyle also spoke with Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC Radio One’s The Current about the Paris Attacks. Kyle, Benjamin Weinthal (research fellow at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in Washington) and Margaret MacMillan (Canadian historian and the Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford University) discussed the possible invokation by France of NATO’s Article 5.

Nov. 19
Kyle Matthews and Marie Lamensch are featured in Deutsche Welle's “Global Media Forum 2015 Summary”

Nov. 22
Kyle Matthews was a guest on CBC Radio One’s Cross Country Checkup where he discussed the Canadian government’s plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.
 
Nov. 27
Kyle Matthews spoke to Radio Canada International about the escalating tensions between Turkey and Russia.
 




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