Methods in refugee history – call for papers
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 call for papers for spring 2022.
IHR Partnership Seminar Series: Doing Refugee History – Methods in Refugee History
We are pleased to announce the third round of seminars in our series, Doing Refugee History, supported by the Institute for Historical Research and RefugeeHistory.org. This set of seminars will explore the subject of Methods in Refugee History and will run from March to May 2022.
The purpose of this set is to explore the role of method in doing refugee history, by examining both the use of conventional research methods and the emergence of innovative new methodological approaches. We welcome contributions that discuss the relationship between methods, analysis and argument in the sub-field of refugee history.
Scholars at all career stages are encouraged to submit abstracts for papers that use empirical case studies to explore subjects including (but not limited to):
Methodological reform: what are the limitations of conventional historical methods for doing refugee history, and how can they be overcome?
Methodological innovation: what new methods can help us do refugee history?
Voice, representation and suppression
Interdisciplinarity
Positionality and reflexivity
We will run three sessions in this set of seminars, with two short (c.2,000-word) pre-circulated papers per session. Presenters will comment on each other’s work and engage with audience Q&A. Specific seminar topics have not yet been established and papers will be selected on the basis of thematic coherence for each session.
Please send your abstract (no more than 200 words) to doingrefugeehistory@gmail.com no later than 14 February 2022.
Image: French commemorative stamp for World Refugee Year, 1960, engraved by Albert Decaris and showing a girl in ragged dress holding a string bag of belongings against a backdrop of ruined buildings
Source: http://stampengravers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/decaris-albert.html
