Speakers
The Summer Institute featured a strong line-up of speakers with different backgrounds and experience. An excellent student-instructor ratio and the interactive style of teaching enabled course participants to make the most of the presenters' expertise and specialised knowledge.
Lead instructors*:
- Ruben Zaiotti, Director, JMEUCE, JM Chair in Border Control & Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
- Melanie Smith, PhD Student, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Guest instructor:
- K.I.M. (Kim) Van Dam, Senior Researcher, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, and Associated Researcher, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
They were joined by speakers from a range of backgrounds:
- Kerian Burnett, Activist for Temporary Migrants
- Emily Burton, Oral Historian, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
- Julie Chamagne, Director, Halifax Refugee Clinic
- Amber Laurie, Curator of Marine History, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
- Jan Raska, Historian, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
- Steven Schwinghamer, Historian, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
- Staff, Grand Pré National Historic Site
* Curriculum development and planning also provided by: Kiran Banerjee, Canada Research Chair in Forced Migration Governance and Refugee Protection & Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University and Jerry Bannister, Associate Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie University.
