Scholars of Excellence Workshop – How she thinks

The Scholars of Excellence Workshop series are indepth sessions where international scholars are invited to contribute to complex topics of interest to the academic community.

Our workshop is convened by Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair of CERC Migration.

This workshop is situated in the emerging scholarship on de-centring, de-colonizing and de-racializing migration research. We engage in a self-reflexive discussion on how the socio-economic and political context in which we live and our own personal experiences shape our research themes and methodologies. Through this, we explore how perspectives are informed by intersectional dimensions of privilege and disadvantage, and the influence of the socio-economic, ethnic, racial and religious undertones of our times.

This workshop contributes to re-centring analytical perspectives through personal-political experiences, considering the different geopolitical contexts and complex biographies of senior and emerging women academic leaders. We aim to make visible the ‘Westernism’ that treats European and North American experiences as the ‘model’ against which other perspectives and narratives are analyzed, as well as the influence of our complex biographies – even our own personal migration experiences.

The workshop brings together several distinguished academic leaders and emerging or mid-career female scholars, who originate from diverse regions of the world, including South, Southeast and West Asia, West and East Africa, Europe as well as North America, Our panel will engage with three main questions: How one’s own biography and career shapes the thematic choices and directions of her research; how experiences in work and life guide methodological choices; and, last but not least, we ask our speakers to reflect on what de-centring, de-colonizing and de-racializing migration research means to them.

PLEASE NOTE: CERC Migration cannot provide letters of invitation for event attendees for our non-conference events such as this one.

For the program agenda, please visit the website.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

CERC Migration, 220 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada