Bruno Ramirez and John J. Bukowczyk join WMU's Nora Faires to discuss Migration

Bruno Ramirez and John J. Bukowczyk join WMU’s Nora Faires to discuss “Migration in the Great Lakes Borderland”

Thursday, 2 February 2006
7:00 pm
157 Bernhard Center
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public

Canadian Studies at Western Michigan University is bringing to campus two well-known scholars of migration across the U.S.-Canada border: Bruno Ramirez, Professor of History at the University of Montréal, and John J. Bukowczyk, Professor of History at Wayne State University. They will join Nora Faires, WMU Associate Professor of History, in a lively roundtable discussion of the vast mingling of people that continues to shape society on both sides of this international divide. A flier for the event is available.

In addition, on Friday, 3 February, Professor Ramirez, a filmmaker as well as an historian, will discuss his wide-ranging work at a brown bag lunch. The discussion will be held on the 10th Floor of Sprau Tower from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Among Prof. Ramirez’s publications are Crossing the 49th Parallel: Emigration form Canada to the USA, 1900-1930 and On the Move: French Canadians and Italian Migrants in the North Atlantic Economy. Prof. Bukowczyk is the Director of the Canadian Studies Program at Wayne State and editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History; his most recent book is Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, of which Nora Faires is a co-author. Prof. Faires is also the author of the forthcoming article “Going Across the River: Black Canadians and Detroit Before the Great Migration.”