Toronto Metropolitan University Claire Ellis is a PhD student in Policy Studies, Migration Stream, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Her doctoral research examines the nature and...
New York University Abu Dhabi & New York University May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has an associated appointment...
By Olga Sezneva
An online discussion organized by the French Institute in Russia, Urbanism & Participation Lab at the European University of St. Petersburg, and a postgraduate program in urban design, Building City Now!. The discussion critically interrogates the lost sense of normality and the normal to which we collectively want to return (or not). In English, featuring speakers from Amsterdam, Barcelona and St. Petersburg and moderated by Olga Sezneva.
University of Amsterdam Olga Sezneva: I am an urban and cultural sociologist working at the University of Amsterdam. I also have strong interest in artistic research,...
COVID-19 border closures and backlogs have stranded people with seemingly bright futures in Canada. Many of these individuals have sold their homes, quit their jobs, packed their bags and uprooted their families, expecting to come to Canada on work permits.
By Lucia Nalbandian & Anna Triandafyllidou
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that among Canada’s truly “essential” workers are many low-skilled temporary migrant workers: those who find it nearly impossible to access permanent residency, and later, citizenship.
Open University of Cyprus and Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaMichalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus...
By Felis Tibbits
Students at Teachers College (TC) of Columbia University are collaborating with the UNESCO office in Beijing to develop a “Coronavirus Curriculum.” The aim of this curriculum packet is to use the advent of the pandemic to explore issues central for critical global citizenship. For what is now self-evident to all is that we are living in a world that is interconnected and interdependent. What can we learn by treating covid-19 as a case study of this?
Utrecht University and Teachers College of Columbia University Felisa Tibbitts is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Higher Education and Chair in Human Rights Education at...