9TH NATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Workshop Presentations, Block F

 
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The following are workshops for which we have presentations to post. If your workshop is not listed here and you would like us to include your presentation on the website, please contact Rong Wu at
ceris.resourcecentre@utoronto.ca. For the complete workshop schedule, please visit the 9th National Metropolis Conference website (www.metropolis2007.net).  
 
Session #F-4
Social Cohesion: Its Political Dimensions
This workshop explores homeland political attachments among newcomers and possible centrifugal forces against social cohesion with Canadian society.
Organizer: Michael Lanphier, York University
Participants:
Daphne Winland, York University
R. Cheran, University of Windsor
James McLean, Geographies of Being, Becoming, and Belonging: Ismaili Identities in Vancouver, BC, York University
Khashayar Hooshiyar, York University
John Biles, Metropolis Project


Session #F-5 
Expressions of Belonging: What Does It Mean to Be Canadian?
This workshop will explore artistic expressions and considerations of questions of identity and belonging, bridging research and experience in this area from the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Organizer:
Farouk Kaspaules, Visual Artist
Participants:
Farouk Kaspaules, Visual Artist
John Ryerson, Canadian Artists without Borders, Varley Art Gallery of Markham
Astri Wright, University of Victoria


Session #F-6
Immigrant Political Integration in Canada and United Kingdom
Sponsored by the SSHRC-funded Ethnicity and Democratic Governance project, this workshop will explore both theoretical and practical issues of immigrant political integration in Canada and the UK, and what can be learned from each other’s practices and experiences.
Organizers:
Wei Li, Queen's University / Arizona State University, USA
Bruce Berman
Participants:
Varun Uberoi, Do Policies of Multiculturalism Undermine National Identities? Oxford University
Kristin Good, More Than 'Creatures of Provinces': Urban Governance in Multicultural Canada, Dalhousie University (Hand-out)
Phil Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto
Michael Pal, Is Every Ballot Equal? Visible Minority Vote Dilution in Canada, University of Toronto
Sujit Choudhry, Is Every Ballot Equal? Visible Minority Vote Dilution in Canada, University of Toronto
Tung Chan, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (United Chinese Community Enrichment Society)

 
Updated: October 18, 2007