BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20261126T220000Z DTEND:20261126T233000Z SUMMARY:Author Meets Readers | Canada in the Global Refugee Regime DESCRIPTION:ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the Book With global cooperation on refugee protection under mounting strain, understanding the role of individual states has never been more urgent. Canada in the Global Refugee Regime offers the first comprehensive look at Canada’s involvement with the institutions and norms of this regime and the politics that shape refugee protection worldwide. Bringing together leading experts from multiple disciplines, this volume explores how Canada has influenced global refugee responses and where its impact has been more muted. Chapters examine the country’s actions in international forums; its resettlement and sponsorship initiatives; its engagement in key regional contexts such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East; and the links between refugee policy and foreign policy. Contributors reflect on the relationship between Canada’s international leadership and its domestic practices, offering a nuanced account that moves beyond simplistic narratives of benevolence. Canada in the Global Refugee Regime invites readers to rethink the regime itself - not as a fixed system, but as a contested space shaped by the interests and actions of states and other participants. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and policy actors seeking to understand how a single state navigates, contributes to, and is shaped by the global politics of refugee protection. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the Panelists James Milner is a Professor of Political Science at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. He is currently Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network. He is also Co-Chair of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, and Canada’s first De Mello Chair. He has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy, meaningful refugee participation and the politics of asylum in the global South. He has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of: Canada in the Global Refugee Regime (McGill-Queens University Press, 2026), Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (Georgetown University Press, 2019) and Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008). Nathan Benson is Strategy at Pathways International, where he helps to shape and execute the organization’s vision for transformative change and contributes to key projects and partnerships such as the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative and the Resettlement and Pathways Diplomacy Network. Nathan joined Pathways International (then the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub) in 2016 as the National Director of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, and later spearheaded the organization’s dedicated knowledge team as Legal and Research Director. In this role he led the organization’s engagement in global policy forums and research partnerships, including a partnership with the Columbia University Global Policy Initiative to help inform the development of the UN Global Compact on Migration. A lawyer by training, Nathan co-founded and taught a clinical course on refugee law at the University of Ottawa and has helped to guide strategic litigation on refugee issues as co-chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers’ litigation committee. He has practiced law at Canada’s federal justice department and a leading immigration and refugee firm and clerked at the Federal Court of Canada. Nathan is also co-editor of Canada in the Global Refugee Regime, a multidisciplinary examination of Canada’s role in global refugee protection. Gauri Sreenivasan (she/elle) is the Co-Executive Director at the Canadian Council for Refugees, and a leading policy advocate and strategist for human rights, equity and a thriving planet. Gauri brings over 30 years of experience working in leadership roles across civil society, Parliament Hill, and with academia and researchers to build alliances for change on Turtle Island and around the world. She was most recently Policy and Campaigns Director for Nature Canada. Gauri also worked for 15 years at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) as a senior analyst and team leader, as the Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Official Opposition, and as a Policy and Research Director at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Born in Treaty 7 territory (Calgary), the daughter of immigrants from India and the US, Gauri is a fierce feminist and passionate about building Canadian leadership at a local, national and global level to secure a just and secure future for all. Gauri is fluent in both of Canada's official languages, with some Spanish as well. Outside of Turtle Island she has lived and worked with community and human rights organizations in Central America and India. Gauri has an MA in International Affairs from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University and lives in Anishinabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa) with her partner, while adjusting to an emptying nest. Dominique Marshall is Professor of History at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. She teaches and researches the past of social policies, children’s rights, humanitarian aid, disability and technology, refugees, and the extraction of natural resources. Her current SSHRC funded research is on the role of Oxfam in Canadian transnational history 1943 – 2003. She helps coordinate the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid and the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Disability Research Group. She is a Co-Investigator of the Partnership Local Engagement Refugee Research Network where she is a member of RLO Archives Working Group; of the Humanitarian Archives Emergency; the Learning with and from the global South: Young women and girls with disabilities create networks for change; the xDX project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada’s Design Heritage; and of the teaching website Recipro: the history of international and humanitarian aid. She writes about Canadian social policies and poor families, the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, the Conference on the African Child of 1931, and the history of OXFAM in Canada. Dominique Marshall has been President of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) since 2023, and Member at Large of the Executive of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) since 2025. She was President of the Ottawa Historical Association from 2019 to 2022. She was President of the Canadian Historical Association from 2013 to 2015, member of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities (CFSSH) from 2012 to 2017, and  French Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association for 20 years. She has been year-long visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Oxford Brookes.  Her book, Aux origines sociales de l’État providence (1998) (available in English as The Social Origins of the Welfare State (2006)) received the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize (now Canada Prize) from the CFSSH. She received the King Charles III Coronation Medal in June 2024 for her services to the Canadian Historical Association. She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, member of the advisory board of Resilient Humanitarianism funded by the Australian Research Council and of the Ottawa Historical Association, and affiliated to the Institute of Political Economy, the Canadian Accessibility Network and the Institute of African Studies of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. Register LOCATION:Irene's Pub Restaurant, Bank Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 3W4 URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR