Event Date: June 10, 2025 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: FSS 7035, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa

Presented by CIPS and the School of Political Studies

Join us on Tuesday, June 10th for a conversation with a diverse group of scholars engaging on the topic of “The New Global Responsibility of Universities: Scholars at Risk and International Cooperation”.

This event will take place in English and French.

Speakers:

Nadia Abu-Zahra is an Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, as well as the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. She has broad interests in health, environmental issues, human rights, and education. Working with Oxfam-Quebec, and on other projects sponsored by UNICEF, the EU, and CIDA, she explored the possibilities of raising awareness of these issues. As a result of these projects, as well as academic work, she continues to think about the ethics of research and international development. Her writings are generally within these subject fields, with a recent focus on how states – and particularly their policies of identity documentation (passports, IDs, databases, etc.) – affect individuals and groups at personal levels.

Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie (BA and MA Addis Ababa University, PhD in Political Science and International Studies, BDU, Ethiopia) is a Visiting Researcher and IIE-SRF Fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Bantayehu’s current research interest and publications focus on state-building, ethnic politics and conflict, political transitions, forced displacement, and international relations, with a focus on the Horn of Africa region, primarily Ethiopia and South Sudan. Until July 2023, he served as an Assistant Professor and PhD Program Coordinator in the Department of Political Science and International Studies (DPSIS) at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. Bantayehu was the 2021/2022 African Presidential Scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA.  Prior to joining Bahir Dar University in September 2016, he was a Lecturer of Political Science and International Relations at Adama Science and Technology University.

Christina Clark-Kazak is a Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Her research focuses on three areas: age discrimination in migration and development policy; political participation of young people in migration situations; and, interdisciplinary methodology in forced migration, conflict and development.

Philippe Frowd is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are in borders and migration, critical security studies, and African politics. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from McMaster University in 2015, having completed his BSocSci (2008) and MA (2010) at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in 2018, he was a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York and Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

Florian Kohstall is the head of the Global Responsibility Unit at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2016, he founded Academics in Solidarity, a transnational peer-to-peer mentoring program for displaced scholars. Since 2020, he serves as the PI of the Berlin Center for Global Engagement. He has taught political science in Aix-en-Provence, Cairo, and Lyon. Together with Patrice Corriveau, he co-chaired the U15 working group on “Geopolitical Changes and Their Impact on Universities.”