Themes in refugee history - autumn seminar series
In 2021-22 we are supporting the seminar series ‘Doing refugee history’ at the Institute of Historical Research, convened by Anne Irfan, Laura Madokoro, and Benjamin Thomas White. This is the seminar programme for autumn 2021.
We are delighted to announce the autumn programme for the ‘Doing refugee history’ seminar hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, focusing on themes in refugee history. Attendance is open to anyone, but registration is required.
Registrations will open shortly on the IHR website.
Wed 13 Oct: Space and place
James Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
‘Refuge in the British Lines’: refugees from slavery in occupied Savannah and Charleston, 1778-1782
Marcia C. Schenck (Potsdam University) and Gerawork Teferra (Princeton Global History Lab/Jesuit Worldwide Learning)
History Dialogues: researching (in) permanent transience in Kakuma refugee camp
Wed 3 Nov: Rethinking agency
Arddun Heydydd Arwyn (Prifysgol Aberystwyth University)
The trickster as an agent of empowerment and resistance in the narratives of German refugees and expellees, 1944-1948
Megan Bradley (McGill University)
Realizing the right of return: refugees’ roles in localizing norms and socializing UNHCR
Wed 1 Dec: Voice and memory
Philipp Seuferling (Södertörn University)
Preconditions of refugee voice: the mediation of memory and witnessing in the refugee camp
Aiswarya Sanath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Oral and material memory of refugee displacement: situating the memoryscapes of Indian Partition of 1947
Anirban Chanda and Yashowardhan Tiwari (Jindal Global University)
The use of oral accounts in documenting refugee history: a study of the Marijhapi Island Massacre in West Bengal (1979) and the exodus of Hindu Pundits from Kashmir (1989-91)
Sessions are based on short (c.2000-word) pre-circulated papers, which will be made available to registered participants two weeks ahead of time.
All seminars will take place online, starting at 2pm UK time (British Summer Time for the first seminar, GMT for the others). The seminars on 13 Oct and 3 Nov will last for one hour; the seminar on 1 Dec, with three papers, will last for ninety minutes.
Contact the seminar convenors via email.
The header image shows Norah Neilson Gray’s painting A Belgian Refugee—a seated man wearing a blue smock, with shortish grey hair swept back, a moustache, and an intense but distant stare. Copyright Glasgow Museums.
