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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration
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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration

Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, Migration) is designed to strengthen an existing cluster of faculty and the departments, programs and interdisciplinary research centers with which they are associated, extending the contributions they already make to the diversification of research and teaching at the University of Minnesota. Minnesota has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching on race, ethnicity and migration. (The birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s and home of pioneering American Studies Department for over a half century, the first REM initiative organized a seminar and conference in the late 1990s.) U.S.-focused in its earlier iterations, new hires have internationalized scholarship on REM across the disciplines.

Globalization and rising flows of population inevitably raise questions about how race, ethnicity, and other forms of cultural diversity are structured and understood in all parts of the world. Global REM hopes to bring networks of expertise on all world regions into regular conversation. With a scholarly seminar, a program of pedagogy discussions and a conference planned for 2007-2008, Global REM faculty will play a special role in the education of new and increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Global REM faculty can provide the cultural expertise needed by the U to work effectively with new and old immigrant and ethnic communities in the Twin Cities and beyond.

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Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism (CCMET)

The Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism is a new academic organization created to foster and facilitate collaboration among historians working in this field. Those interested in the history of migrations, ethnicity, transnationalism and related subjects are invited to join the CCMET listserve or visit the web site. (more)

Through the listserv, the CCMET circulates details about upcoming conferences, requests for panel participants, and calls for papers. Ideas and information on esources and archival collections are shared that will stimulate and inform research on the history of migration and related subjects.

The CCMET was established in June, 2009, during the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). The executive committee of the CCMET is composed of the following officers: Lisa Chilton, University of Prince Edward Island (Chair), Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg (Vice-chair), Bruce Elliott, Carleton University (Secretary-treasurer), and two members at large (Laura Madokoro, University of British Columbia, also listserv moderator ex officio, and Tina Chen, University of Manitoba).

The CCMET listserve and web presence may be accessed at the following link: http://groups.google.com/group/CHA-MET(please note that you may have to copy and paste this address into your browser). If you would like assistance relating to the listserv, please contact Laura Madokoro at lmadok@interchange.ubc.ca. Any other questions may be directed to Lisa Chilton at lchilton@upei.ca.

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