Project Presentations

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Community Meetings

  • The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Showcase, University of Manitoba (October 2025)

Presentation title: Let’s talk politics: anti-immigrant sentiment in Canadian political discourse (Chenyu Liu, Kezia Wong, Rosty Othman, Romulo Schembida, Abdul-Bari Abdul-Karim, Khatereh Salimi and Lori Wilkinson)

  • Parliamentary Secretary for the National Council of Women of Canada (August 2025)

Presentation title: Femicide in Canada (Myrna Dawson).

  • Nova Scotia Status of Women (August 2025)

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence Government Conceptualizations Across Canada (Evie Tastsoglou, Sharmin Akter Moyna). 

  • 75th Anniversary of the UN Declaration for Human Rights (December 2023)

Presentation title: Understanding the resettlement experiences of Afghan refugees as a human right (Lori Wilkinson).

  • Inclusive Voices, Collective Power: A Virtual Symposium on Innovation and Collaboration to Combat Gender-Based Violence (November 2023)

    Presentation title: The role of recognition, accountability, and education in femicide prevention (Myrna Dawson).

  • Nova Scotia Roundtable for Immigration Research (October 2023)

Presentation title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Response (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (October 2023)

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Evie Tastsoglou and Jane Freedman).

  • Metro Interagency Committee on Restorative Conversations and Family Violence (February 2023)

Presentation title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Response (Evie Tastsoglou).

 

Academic Conferences

  •  Metropolis Identities conference (October 2025)

Keynote presentation title: Changing Directions on Immigration: Are we on the right track? (Lori Wilkinson).

Presentation title: Understanding the challenges faced by newcomers in finding suitable housing in Canada (Lori Wilkinson, Abdul-Bari Abdul-Karim, Rosty Othman, Kezia Wong, Khateri Salimi).

  •  University of Manitoba/ University of Trier Biennial Conference: Resistance (September 2025)

Presentation titles:

1) How can we actively resist xenophobic political discourse against newcomers and refugees? Strategies for addressing hate in the 21st century (Lori Wilkinson, Chenyu Liu, Kezia Wong, Rosty Othman, Romulo Schembida, Abdul-Bari Abdul-Karim, Khateri Salimi).

2) Xenophobia-inspired politics and the blame-game: Canada’s scapegoating of refugees (Chenyu Liu, Kezia Wong, Rosty Othman, Romulo Schembida, Abdul-Bari Abdul- Karim, Khateri Salimi and Lori Wilkinson).

  • European Conference on Domestic Violence (September 2025)

Presentation titles:

1) Framing epidemic violence: Analyzing shifts in media explanations of intimate partner femicide in Canadian press coverage (J. Fairbairn, C. Boyd, and M. Dawson).

2) Digging deeper: Challenges in definitions and measurement of femicide and feminicide (M. Dawson, H. Angus, and A. Zecha).

  •  International Sociological Association’s World Forum of Sociology (July 2025)

    Presentation tile: The Role of the State, Law and Policy in the Gender-Based Violence Experiences of Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean (Evie Tastsoglou, Eva Kazakou).

  • Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities/ Canadian Sociological Association (June 2025)

Presentation titles:

1) The Continuum of Gender-Based Violence in the Experiences of Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean (Evie Tastsoglou, Eva Kazakou).

2) Examining Femicide Risk among Migrant and Refugee Women Girls in Canada (Emmanuel Rohn, Myrna Dawson, Evie Tastsoglou, Catherine Holtmann, Lori Wilkinson).

  • 27th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Biennial Conference (November 2024) 

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence and Citizenship in a Migration and Refugee Context in Canada (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • Global 16 Days Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence Fall 2024 Panel Series (October 2024)

Presentation title: Research and advocacy by the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (Myrna Dawson).

  • 12th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (October 2024)

Presentation title: Femicide without borders: Making visible the undercounted victims of transnational organized crime (Myrna Dawson).

  • European Sociological Association conference (August 2024)

    Presentation title: Locating Subjectivities of Asylum-Seeking Women: Feminist, Intersectional and De- Colonial Perspective (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • American Sociological Association conference (August 2024)

    Presentation title: Analyzing news coverage of intimate partner femicide using an intersectional feminist social ecological framework (Myrna Dawson).

  • Canadian Sociological Association meeting (June 2024)

    Presentation title: Beyond Western Gaze: Locating Subjectivities of Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • European Conference on Domestic Violence (September 2023)

Presentation title: Examining Migrant Women’s Interactions with GBV-related Services and Structures in Canada: Barriers and Vulnerabilities (Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Myrna Dawson).

  • International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: The GBV-MIG Project: A Collaborative, Conceptual and Contextual Global Understanding of Gender-Based and Intersectional Violence (Evangelia Tastsoglou).

  • International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Evangelia Tastsoglou).

  • International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: Feminist Intersectional Approaches to Understanding the Experiences of Gender-Based Violence among Newcomer Women in Canada (Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Catherine Holtmann, and Myrna Dawson).

  • 25th Metropolis Canada Conference (March 2023)

Presentation title: Violence against Women Migrants and Refugees: Policy Considerations and Pathways (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • Research Network Women, Peace and Security Symposium (March 2023)

Roundtable discussion title: Reimagining Peace and Peace-Building in Relation to Gender and Security (Evie Tastsoglou).

  • Metropolis Americas Migration Policy Summit (December 2022)

Presentation title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration (Lori Wilkinson, Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, and Cathy Holtmann).

  • GENDER-NET Plus Workshop - Integrating Gender Analysis into Research (November 2022)

Presentation title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration (Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, Cathy Holtmann and Lori Wilkinson).

  • 26th Biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference (November 2022)

Presentation title: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Gender-Based Violence: An Ecological Model of Analysis of Migrant Women's Resilience (Cathy Holtmann, Evie Tastsoglou, Myrna Dawson and Lori Wilkinson).

Poster title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration: Canada (Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, Cathy Holtmann and Lori Wilkinson).

  • "Research Day" at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (October 2022)

Poster title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Responses: Canada, France, Ireland, Israel, Norway (Cathy Holtmann, Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer and Lori Wilkinson).

  • 25th International Metropolis Conference in Berlin (September 2022)

Canada - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

France - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Ireland - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Israel - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Norway - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

  • European Sociological Association, Research Network 33 (ESA RN 33) - Women and Gender Studies, Milan (June 2022)

Book presentation: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Palgrave-Macmillan) by J. Freedman, N. Sahraoui, E. Tastsoglou.

  • Canadian Sociological Association’s meetings at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities (May 2022)

Panel: Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Migration organized by Evangelia Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, and Cathy Holtmann.

Presentation title: A Journey from “Victimization” to “Re-Victimization” Among Women Migrating to Canada – Continuity of Gender-Based Violence across Borders (Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Evangelia Tastsoglou, and Cathy Holtmann).

  • International Workshop: Asylum Regimes, Bordering Practices and Asylum Seekers' Experiences: Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration (May 2022) 

Organized by WASEM Project and Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University.

  • Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) Migration Working Group (March 2022)

Presentation title: Vulnerabilities and Strengths: Parallel Experiences of Migrant Survivors of Gender Based Violence and Public Service Providers (Cathy Holtmann, Mia Sisic, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Myrna Dawson).

  • Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities (June 2021)

Presentation title: The Continuum of Violence along the Migratory Pathway: Perspectives from Key Informants (Mia Sisic, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Myrna Dawson, Cathy Holtmann, Chantele Falconer). 

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