How does climate change and food insecurity affect international migration? Simon Fraser University (SFU) invites you to attend a series of public engagement forums to establish a dialogue between academics, students, policy analysts and – most importantly – refugee communities, to begin to answer this question. You are welcome to attend one, two or or all three of our sessions.

Each of the three public forums will be hosted by an internationally recognized scholar, but the voices of refugee communities will be at the forefront of these dialogues.

These forums will be facilitated by Kris Archie, a Secwepemc and Seme7 woman from the Ts’qescen First Nation. Kris was the project manager for the Vancouver Foundation’s youth homelessness initiative before becoming the executive director of “The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.” She is also an instructor with Simon Fraser University’s Dialogue and Civic Engagement Certificate.

The Food, Migration and Climate Change forums are produced by Yıldız Atasoy, the Director of the  Centre for Sustainable Development, SFU Public Squareand SFU Continuing Studies.

Forum Series Details:

We All Live From the Land with Dr. Harriet Friedmann, University of Toronto

• September 14 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Click here to register

Climate Change and Cross-border Migrationwith Dr. Thomas Faist, University of Bielefeld

• October 5 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Click here to register

International Burden Sharing in Mass Refugee Movementwith Dr. Başak Kale, Middle East Technical University

• November 16 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | –  Click here to register

For more information, click here.

Translation available in Farsi and Spanish – please indicate if needed during registration.