049-2017 : Laurier’s Up/Rooted conference to explore refugees, resettlement and community

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Wilfrid Laurier University news release announcing a conference exploring issues facing refugees, migrants, and the communities that host them. The three-day, three-location conference runs from March 30 to April 1. Tima Kurdi, the aunt of Alan Kurdi, the three year-old Syrian boy whose drowned body found on a Turkish beach shocked the world, is the conference keynote speaker.

The conference, to be held at Laurier’s Brantford campus, the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Laurier’s Waterloo campus, is hosted by Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) in partnership with Wilfrid Laurier University's departments of Global Studies, Religion and Culture, and the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell will give welcoming remarks on March 31.

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Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university in Waterloo, Ontario. Laurier traces its roots to 1911 with the founding of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada, the first Lutheran seminary in Canada.

As the seminary grew, it expanded teaching into new areas. From 1914-1929 it founded and operated Waterloo College School, an all-boys high school offering pre-theological education leading to senior matriculation. In 1924, the seminary expanded its higher education offerings when it established Waterloo College of Arts, a non-theological honours degree program affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. Waterloo College and Associate Faculties, offering science and engineering programs, was launched in 1956. Three years later, Waterloo College and Associate Faculties separated from Waterloo College and became incorporated as the University of Waterloo.

Also in 1959, the seminary received a revised charter from the Province of Ontario. The charter established Waterloo Lutheran University, a degree-granting university composed of two units – Waterloo University College (formerly Waterloo College) and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary (formerly the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada). In 1960, WLU ended its long-standing affiliation with the University of Western Ontario, and began to grant its own degrees.

On November 1, 1973, Waterloo Lutheran University became a public institution and was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, renamed Martin Luther University College in 2018, remains a federated college of the university.

In 1999 a second campus, Laurier Brantford, opened in Brantford, Ontario. In 2006 the Faculty of Social Work moved to a century-old building in downtown Kitchener.

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Waterloo, Ont.

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March 17, 2017

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Wilfrid Laurier University - Special events

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049-2017

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Waterloo

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.4668 Longitude: -80.51639

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