Research Symposium
Our annual research symposium is a chance for the Parhad Research Program participants to share what they have learned.
Grassroots Engagement & Municipal Environmental Policy - Erin McFarlane
Erin spent the summer of 2013 completing a placement at a not-for-profit, grassroots, volunteer-driven environmental organization in Ottawa. Situating her experience and knowledge gained within the context of current scholarship on neighbourhood-based community organizing models, Erin will consider the opportunities and challenges of a decentralized, distributed leadership approach for both volunteer engagement and for affecting environmental policy change at the municipal level.
Creating Change and Treating Trauma with Yoga - Nicki Mosley
In today's world, trauma will impact and shake the security of almost every human being at some point in his or her life. Trauma sensitive yoga (TSY) is an intervention that can support healing through the integration of the head, heart, and hands–all tools for change. For example, empirical evidence has demonstrated that TSY contributed the reduction of PTSD symptomology by 33% with trauma survivors. In this presentation, Nicki will share how this adjunctive intervention is growing and her vision to contribute to individual and collective healing.
Italy's Ten Year Emergency: Social Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in light of the Dublin II Regulation - Roda Siad
This presentation will outline the methods of integration used by governments and social organizations and what this means for the everyday realities faced by refugees. The goal is to examine and present the current narratives that have been constructed for and about refugees and shed light on this silent humanitarian crisis.
Visible and Invisible: African refugees and makeshift communities in Italy - Asha Siad
Through personal stories and a look inside public abandoned buildings this project will explore how African refugees attempt to seek acceptance and forge a sense of belonging in a new environment that is not always what it seems. It will also show how makeshift communities are built and rebuilt by the refugees themselves despite lack of support.
This year we are joining forces with the 2020 Vision for Humanity Network to showcase the multidisciplinary research being done in the area of human security.
The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Parkdale United Church. Parhad researchers will be presenting from 1:10-3:10pm.
Grassroots Engagement & Municipal Environmental Policy - Erin McFarlane
Erin spent the summer of 2013 completing a placement at a not-for-profit, grassroots, volunteer-driven environmental organization in Ottawa. Situating her experience and knowledge gained within the context of current scholarship on neighbourhood-based community organizing models, Erin will consider the opportunities and challenges of a decentralized, distributed leadership approach for both volunteer engagement and for affecting environmental policy change at the municipal level.
Creating Change and Treating Trauma with Yoga - Nicki Mosley
In today's world, trauma will impact and shake the security of almost every human being at some point in his or her life. Trauma sensitive yoga (TSY) is an intervention that can support healing through the integration of the head, heart, and hands–all tools for change. For example, empirical evidence has demonstrated that TSY contributed the reduction of PTSD symptomology by 33% with trauma survivors. In this presentation, Nicki will share how this adjunctive intervention is growing and her vision to contribute to individual and collective healing.
Italy's Ten Year Emergency: Social Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in light of the Dublin II Regulation - Roda Siad
This presentation will outline the methods of integration used by governments and social organizations and what this means for the everyday realities faced by refugees. The goal is to examine and present the current narratives that have been constructed for and about refugees and shed light on this silent humanitarian crisis.
Visible and Invisible: African refugees and makeshift communities in Italy - Asha Siad
Through personal stories and a look inside public abandoned buildings this project will explore how African refugees attempt to seek acceptance and forge a sense of belonging in a new environment that is not always what it seems. It will also show how makeshift communities are built and rebuilt by the refugees themselves despite lack of support.
This year we are joining forces with the 2020 Vision for Humanity Network to showcase the multidisciplinary research being done in the area of human security.
The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Parkdale United Church. Parhad researchers will be presenting from 1:10-3:10pm.
