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CMU faculty awarded King Charles III’s Coronation Medal
Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor and Chair of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, has been awarded the King Charles III's Coronation Medal for her work on the Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees exhibition.
Hearts of Freedom | CMU Film Screening comments and Q&A
The Hearts of Freedom (HOF) is a national community project that collects and preserves the personal histories of refugees from Southeast Asia—Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia—who came to Canada between 1975 and 1985 and the Canadians who assisted them. The refugee oral histories were completed with funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Department of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and the DeFehr Foundation. One of the initial outcomes was the creation of a documentary film, Passage to Freedom (producer: Sheila Petzold), that features powerful oral histories of Southeast Asian refugees that made the dangerous journeys to Canada.
Refugee exhibition curated by CMU professor arrives in Manitoba
A travelling exhibition called, Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees, is being showcased in the Manitoba Museum's Festival Hall from January 5 until April 7.
Dr. Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, Associate Professor and Chair of Conflict Resolution Studies at Canadian Mennonite University, curated the exhibition. It is the product of a larger Hearts of Freedom research project, which Stobbe worked on with four other researchers, beginning in 2018.
Dr. Stephanie Stobbe curates national travelling exhibition
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of mid-2022, there are 32.5 million refugees worldwide. That number jumps to 53.1 million internally displaced people and expands yet again to 103 million when considering forcibly displaced people worldwide.
“Hearts of Freedom” project to include testimony from former PM Joe Clark
As Stephanie Stobbe (Menno Simons College) and team prepare for the project's next phase, key players are adding their voices to the record, including Joe Clark, PM during the height of Southeast Asian immigration to Canada.
Between 1975 and 1980 Canada resettled 69,200 South East Asian refugees. Today Stephanie Stobbe, of Menno Simons College, along with a team of researchers, are working to ensure their experiences will be preserved for generations to come.
MSC to host refugee resettlement panel discussion
Five refugee resettlement experts with experience in Canada's past and present programs will participate in a panel discussion examining the past, present and future of Canada's refugee resettlement efforts.
The public is invited to attend the event, titled, "Refugee Resettlement in Canada: Moving Forward from Lessons of the Past." The discussion will take place on Tuesday, February 6 at 7:00 PM in Eckhardt Gramatte Hall, at the University of Winnipeg. Admission is free, and all are welcome.
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