His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for Canada presents the 2015 Ismaili Centre Lecture
Author and international-affairs columnist at The Globe and Mail, Doug Saunders to present: Arrival Cities: How Immigration Succeeds and Fails on the Edge of the City.
In the context of his award-winning publication, Arrival City: The Final Migration and our Next World, Mr. Saunders will share his insights on how migration and urban growth is reshaping our world and the benefits and drawbacks of these changes.
The response to the lecture will be delivered by Dr. Abidin Kusno, Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, and will be followed by a discussion and a moderated Q & A session.
After the programme, Mr. Saunders will be available for a book signing.
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2015
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: The Ismaili Centre in Vancouver, 4010 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C.
Cost: $20
Click here to register and purchase tickets
Tour the Ismaili Centre
Attendees are invited to take a tour of the Ismaili Centre before the event. Please email rsvp indicating your interest.
Light Refreshments will be served prior to the presentation.
Agenda:
1:00 Ismaili Centre Tour
1:45 Light Refreshments
2:15 Ismaili Centre Lecture by Doug Saunders
3:45 Book Signing
Doug Saunders is a Canadian-British author and journalist. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012), and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the prestigious National Newspaper Award on five occasions.
Dr. Abidin Kusno is Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto. He is former Director of the Centre for Southeast Asia Research and Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture at University of British Columbia. Internationally recognized as the preeminent scholar in the field of Indonesian architecture and urban studies, Dr. Kusno has published Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia (Routledge, 2000), Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urbanism in Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2010), and most recently, After the New Order: Space, Politics and Jakarta (Hawaii University Press, 2013).
Each year, the Ismaili Community in Canada hosts a flagship lecture at the Ismaili Centres in Vancouver and Toronto as part of a global series that aims to bring together thought leaders in order to foster a greater understanding of current critical issues. The lectures encourage exchange and mutual understanding between diverse peoples, communities and faiths, while broadening intellectual horizons and fostering an appreciation of pluralism. Past speakers at the Ismaili Centre in Vancouver have included UBC President Stephen J. Toope, historian and author Karen Armstrong, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, and former Prime Minister Kim Campbell.
Previous Ismaili Centre Lectures:
- President Stephen J. Toope: Universities have a role in encouraging pluralist encounters
- Karen Armstrong: 12 Days of Compassion tour
- John Stackhouse: Canadian pluralism at a crossroads
- Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Reviving a sacred concern for nature
- His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston: Address to the Members of the Canadian Club of Vancouver
- The Right Honourable Kim Campbell: Building Civil Societies: The Role of Women Leaders
Ismailimail 