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Refugee technologies – call for papers

Refugee technologies – call for papers

Refugee History
Announcements

We are pleased to announce that the ‘Doing Refugee History’ series continues this semester on the subject of refugee technologies and will take place on Thursday 20 April 20223, 2-4pm UK time. 

Technology has shaped refugee history in many ways, from how refugees move and stay connected to how states seek to regulate and control migrant mobility. Boats, trains and planes enabled people to travel to places further and further afield. Letters, telegrams, emails and messaging applications have enabled people to keep in touch and raise awareness about refugee situations. Conversely, identity documents, passports and now facial recognition technologies have created layers of regulation and bureaucracy that refugees must navigate and overcome. Technology has also changed the manner in which researchers access histories of displacement and refuge, and transformed the nature of research in this field.

The purpose of this roundtable is to explore the topic of refugee technologies in history. What kinds of technologies have refugees used in their journeys? What kinds of experiences have these technologies fostered? In what ways have various technologies been used to regulate refugee movements and refugee bodies, historically and in the present? And in what ways has technology transformed historical research? We welcome contributions that discuss technologies, broadly defined, and consider how these inform approaches to doing refugee history. 

Refugee connections – autumn semester roundtable

Refugee connections – autumn semester roundtable

Refugee History
Announcements

We are delighted to announce the speakers for the ‘Doing refugee history’ autumn semester roundtable, focusing on refugee connections. Attendance is open to anyone, but registration is required. 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 dispossession

  • Edidiong Ekefre (University of the Witwatersrand)
    Fleeing Boko Haram: historicizing the refugee connections in the Lake Chad basin, 2010-2020

  • Neela Hassan (University of Waterloo)
    A site of connection for refugees: forming community based on shared vulnerability and precariousness at an Afghan restaurant

  • Ryan Sun (University of British Columbia)
    The possibilities in transit: Jewish refugees onboard Shanghai-bound ships (1937-1940)

Refugee connections – call for papers

Refugee connections – call for papers

Refugee History
Announcements

We are pleased to announce that the ‘Doing Refugee History’ series will continue this year with two roundtables. The first will explore the subject of refugee connections and will take place on Thursday 20 October 2022, 2-4pm UK time.

As displaced people, refugees are often assumed to be disconnected—to have lost their connections to the places, people, and things that matter to them. Humanitarian programming in first countries of refuge, and refugee integration strategies in resettlement countries, aim to create new economic and social connections for refugees. But what connections have refugees, over time, made for themselves?

Methods in refugee history – call for papers

Methods in refugee history – call for papers

Benjamin Thomas White
Announcements

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.

Border-crossing: History Dialogues between camp and campus

Border-crossing: History Dialogues between camp and campus

Marcia C. Schenck & Kate Reed
Refugees Today

Refugees living in camps are often not perceived as historians for ‘historically explicable reasons’, to borrow Bonnie Smith’s phrase. They do not do the things historians do because they cannot: they cannot consult archives, they cannot access university libraries (or, often, libraries at all), they cannot depend on reliable internet and computer access, let alone the funding, research support, training, social networks, and material resources that underpin the research and writing of academic history. It is as though encamped refugee and historian have been defined as mutually exclusive identities. A person residing in a refugee camp cannot be a historian because a historian, quite simply, cannot be a person residing in a refugee camp.

What if we were to disrupt this tautology? To redefine what being a historian means?

Themes in refugee history – call for papers

Themes in refugee history – call for papers

Benjamin Thomas White
Announcements

We are pleased to announce the second round of seminars in our series, Doing Refugee History, supported by the Institute for Historical Research and RefugeeHistory.org. This series of seminars will explore the subject of Themes in Refugee History and will run from October to December 2021.

The purpose of the seminar is to explore new ways of addressing established themes in refugee history (e.g. refugee agency) and to suggest innovative thematic approaches. Scholars at all career stages are encouraged to submit paper abstracts.

Refugee times: seeking refuge in and beyond the 20th century – call for papers

Refugee times: seeking refuge in and beyond the 20th century – call for papers

Refugee History
Then & Now

We are pleased to announce a new Partnership Seminar Series with the Institute for Historical Research on Doing Refugee History. Across a year and a half of seminars, this series aims to create a new network of historians working on forced migration through time and space. We are currently seeking papers for spring/summer 2021, around the theme of Refugee times: seeking refuge in and beyond the 20th century.