Methods in refugee history – spring seminar series
In 2021-22 we are supporting the seminar series ‘Doing refugee history’, convened by Anne Irfan, Laura Madokoro, and Benjamin Thomas White. This is the seminar programme for spring 2022.
We are delighted to announce the spring programme for the ‘Doing refugee history’ seminar, focusing on methods in refugee history. Attendance is open to anyone, but registration is required. Sign-up links for each session are included below.
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April 20: Archives, case files, interpreters
Sara Cosemans (KU Leuven)
Mining the UNHCR archives: digital methods of doing refugee history
Antoine Burgard (University of Manchester)
‘On the Case’: methodological and ethical challenges of using casefiles as sources for refugee history
Maxime Marechal (Université Paris Cité)
Silenced interpreters: methodological and epistemological issues for a socio-history of language interpreting in the French asylum procedure
Sign up for the April 20 session here: https://forms.office.com/r/1XaL7cJTpx
May 4: Poetry, embroidery
Katherine Mackinnon (University of Glasgow)
The skeleton architecture of our lives: collective poetry as research method
Stéphanie Prévost (Université de Paris/Institut Universitaire de France)
Piecing together threads of refuge: methodological quandaries in the writing of Armenians’ refuge (1890s)
Sign up for the May 4 session here: https://forms.office.com/r/4YbYNUhdL4
May 18: Global microhistory, archival fragments
Sara Halpern (St. Olaf College)
From story of Holocaust survival to global microhistory: case study of Shanghai’s Jewish refugees
Antara Datta (Royal Holloway)
Negotiating precarity: Uyghur and Kazakh refugees in post-Partition India
Sign up for the May 18 session here: https://forms.office.com/r/Tf5AV3cmgB
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Sessions are based on short (c.2000-word) pre-circulated papers, which will be made available to registered participants at least a week ahead of time.
All seminars will take place online, starting at 2pm UK time (British Summer Time). The seminar on April 20, with three papers, will last for ninety minutes; the others, with two, will last for one hour..
Contact the seminar convenors via email.
The header image shows a 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
