Refugee connections – autumn semester roundtable
In 2022-23 we are supporting the ‘Doing refugee history’ series, convened by Laura Madokoro, Anna Maguire, and Benjamin Thomas White. This is the announcement for the autumn semester roundtable.
We are delighted to announce the speakers for the ‘Doing refugee history’ autumn semester roundtable, focusing on refugee connections. All are welcome! A sign-up link is included below.
Speakers at this session are:
Stephanie DeGooyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The connection between early American refugee history and Native dispossessionEdidiong Ekefre (University of the Witwatersrand)
Fleeing Boko Haram: historicizing the refugee connections in the Lake Chad basin, 2010-2020Neela Hassan (University of Waterloo)
A site of connection for refugees: forming community based on shared vulnerability and precariousness at an Afghan restaurantRyan Sun (University of British Columbia)
The possibilities in transit: Jewish refugees onboard Shanghai-bound ships (1937-1940)
The roundtable will take place online on 20 Oct 2022, 2–4pm UK time. The precirculated papers will be available to registered attendees from Thu 7 Oct.
Attendance is free, but registration is required to allow us to circulate the Zoom link and papers for the session. Please click here https://forms.office.com/r/m4QKmTtyt3
Registration will close two hours before the event begins.
Co-convenors
Anna Maguire (UCL)
Laura Madokoro (Carleton University)
Benjamin Thomas White (University of Glasgow)
The header image is a portrait-format photograph showing three refugee women in Athens in 1922, one seated on the ground and two standing, each occupied with a piece of knitting or sewing. On the ground around them are a handbroom, a woven basket, and a piece of sacking on which what might be chestnuts are scattered. Behind them is a washing line hung with washing. And immediately behind them rise the stone base and enormous pillars of the temple of Theseus. Source: Library of Congress.
