The Migration DRC, together with SCMR and IDS, will be hosting a conference
on 'Migration and Social Protection: Exploring Issues of Portability and
Access' to be held at the University of Sussex, UK, on Wednesday 5th and
Thursday 6th November 2008.
Please find attached the call for papers with a deadline of 8th August for
abstracts. I would be really grateful if you could also circulate the announcement to
other researchers, policy makers and practitioners who might be working on
the topic.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries, or to
recommend I send the call to other people,
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Romy Danflous
Communications and Policy Officer
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
Room C226
University of Sussex
Brighton
Falmer
BN1 9SJ
tel/mob: +(0)7816 856 120
office: +(0)1273 877 584
r.g.danflous@sussex.ac.uk
www.migrationdrc.org
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Showing posts with label conferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conferences. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Oxford University Workshop - Environmental Change & Migration
Workshop - Call for Papers
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MIGRATION
11th & 12th September 2008, Oxford
Many recent reports on the likely impact of climate change
have highlighted the potential for large- scale
'environmentally-induced' migrations in developing regions
of the world over the next twenty to fifty years.
Environmental transformations resulting from increases in
global atmospheric temperatures have prompted many experts
to predict the collapse of traditional livelihoods systems,
increased conflict over natural resources, regional 'water
wars', and a resulting population of 'environmental
refugees' that some have predicted will be hundreds of
millions strong.
As yet, there is little concrete evidence to justify such
predictions. There is a significant lacuna in both
conceptual and empirical research on the relationship
between environmental change and the patterns and process of
migration. For example, it remains unclear how one can
differentiate between 'environmentally induced displacement'
and other forms of displacement, given the complex mix of
factors which underlie people's decisions to move.
This workshop seeks to address this lacuna by bringing
together academics, activists, policy makers and development
practitioners to share research, experience and analysis on
the subject. In particular, the workshop hopes to address
the following questions:
* How can we conceptualise the relationship between
environmental change and migration, particularly 'forced'
and 'economic' migration? What do the concepts of
resilience, adaptation and transformation bring to our
understanding of this relationship?
* What empirical evidence is available to underpin
existing analyses of the links between environmental change
and migration? What are the gaps and how are they being
filled?
* To what extent does migration related to environmental
change give rise to new challenges for humanitarian response
or notions of sustainable development? Should those who
migrate as a result of environmental change be afforded
specific forms of legal and social protection?
* How important are questions of political economy in
determining the relationship between environmental changes
and migration locally, regionally and internationally?
* How is environmental change likely to influence
migration patterns in the 21st century at the local,
regional and international level?
The workshop will be organized as an open forum where a
number of brief presentations are followed by open
discussion. Potential speakers are invited to submit
presentation abstracts to be considered for inclusion in the
workshop.
Abstracts may address any question relevant to the
interrelationship between environmental change and
migration, should be no more than 300 words long, and should
be submitted to simon.addison@qeh.ox.ac.uk by the 20th June
2008. Participants will be expected to cover their own costs
for attending this event, though some limited funding maybe
available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.
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University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the
RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MIGRATION
11th & 12th September 2008, Oxford
Many recent reports on the likely impact of climate change
have highlighted the potential for large- scale
'environmentally-induced' migrations in developing regions
of the world over the next twenty to fifty years.
Environmental transformations resulting from increases in
global atmospheric temperatures have prompted many experts
to predict the collapse of traditional livelihoods systems,
increased conflict over natural resources, regional 'water
wars', and a resulting population of 'environmental
refugees' that some have predicted will be hundreds of
millions strong.
As yet, there is little concrete evidence to justify such
predictions. There is a significant lacuna in both
conceptual and empirical research on the relationship
between environmental change and the patterns and process of
migration. For example, it remains unclear how one can
differentiate between 'environmentally induced displacement'
and other forms of displacement, given the complex mix of
factors which underlie people's decisions to move.
This workshop seeks to address this lacuna by bringing
together academics, activists, policy makers and development
practitioners to share research, experience and analysis on
the subject. In particular, the workshop hopes to address
the following questions:
* How can we conceptualise the relationship between
environmental change and migration, particularly 'forced'
and 'economic' migration? What do the concepts of
resilience, adaptation and transformation bring to our
understanding of this relationship?
* What empirical evidence is available to underpin
existing analyses of the links between environmental change
and migration? What are the gaps and how are they being
filled?
* To what extent does migration related to environmental
change give rise to new challenges for humanitarian response
or notions of sustainable development? Should those who
migrate as a result of environmental change be afforded
specific forms of legal and social protection?
* How important are questions of political economy in
determining the relationship between environmental changes
and migration locally, regionally and internationally?
* How is environmental change likely to influence
migration patterns in the 21st century at the local,
regional and international level?
The workshop will be organized as an open forum where a
number of brief presentations are followed by open
discussion. Potential speakers are invited to submit
presentation abstracts to be considered for inclusion in the
workshop.
Abstracts may address any question relevant to the
interrelationship between environmental change and
migration, should be no more than 300 words long, and should
be submitted to simon.addison@qeh.ox.ac.uk by the 20th June
2008. Participants will be expected to cover their own costs
for attending this event, though some limited funding maybe
available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.
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Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the
Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee
Studies Centre (RSC), Department of International Development,
University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the
RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this
message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should
include attribution to the original sources.
List archives are available at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
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International Workshop
International Workshop "Promoting Change through
Innovation: New Approaches in Servi ces for Migrants and Refugees"
The European Centre for Migration and Social Care at the University of Kent
invites you to our International Workshop "Promoting Change through
Innovation: New Approaches in Services for Migrants and Refugees" at the
University of Kent, Canterbury from the 13th to the 15th of June.
The Workshop is open to all researchers, social care and mental health
professionals, planners and policy makers interested in promoting best
practice in services for migrant and refugee groups. Speakers include Dr
Angela Burnett, (Sanctuary Practice, Hackney and the Medical Foundation),
Dr Charles Watters, European Centre for Migration and Social Care, David
Palmer, MIND Bexley, Professor Suman Fernando and Dr Chris Endersby,
Honorary Lecturers, University of Kent.
The cost of the workshop is £150 which includes all lectures, seminars and
teaching materials, meals and refreshments. Overnight accommodation not included.
To book a place and for more information please contact Kalli Glezakou
K.Glezakou@kent.ac.uk 01227 827613
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Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee
Studies Centre (RSC), Department of International Development,
University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the
RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this
message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should
include attribution to the original sources.
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Innovation: New Approaches in Servi ces for Migrants and Refugees"
The European Centre for Migration and Social Care at the University of Kent
invites you to our International Workshop "Promoting Change through
Innovation: New Approaches in Services for Migrants and Refugees" at the
University of Kent, Canterbury from the 13th to the 15th of June.
The Workshop is open to all researchers, social care and mental health
professionals, planners and policy makers interested in promoting best
practice in services for migrant and refugee groups. Speakers include Dr
Angela Burnett, (Sanctuary Practice, Hackney and the Medical Foundation),
Dr Charles Watters, European Centre for Migration and Social Care, David
Palmer, MIND Bexley, Professor Suman Fernando and Dr Chris Endersby,
Honorary Lecturers, University of Kent.
The cost of the workshop is £150 which includes all lectures, seminars and
teaching materials, meals and refreshments. Overnight accommodation not included.
To book a place and for more information please contact Kalli Glezakou
K.Glezakou@kent.ac.uk 01227 827613
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Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the
Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee
Studies Centre (RSC), Department of International Development,
University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the
RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this
message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should
include attribution to the original sources.
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Refugee Council: Training & Conferences
OUR CURRENT SCHEDULED TRAINING COURSES ARE:
• Emotional wellbeing of refugee children and young people [8 May]
• Key issues in asylum [23 June]
• An introduction to asylum support [24 June]
To receive DETAILS OF NEW COURSE DATES as they are scheduled please sign-up for our training newsletter at: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/sign-up . For full details of all our training courses, please visit: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/training .
THE INFORMATION SERVICE: UPDATED TO GIVE YOU THE LATEST FACTS AT YOUR FINGER-TIPS
Easy to use, authoritative and up-to-date, the subscription based Information Service contains over 240 pages of relevant policy information, best practice and illustrative case studies, as well as current lists of useful services, resources and organisations. Subscribers receive 12 monthly update inserts, to keep their binder up-to-date, all for £100 (statutory bodies) or £50 (voluntary).
View FREE SAMPLE PAGES at: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/informationservice
EXTERNAL CONFERENCE NEWS
Why am I waiting? A conference from the British Association for Adoption & Fostering examining care for BME children, 15 May, London
Information and booking from: www.baaf.org.uk, conferences@baaf.org.uk
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• Emotional wellbeing of refugee children and young people [8 May]
• Key issues in asylum [23 June]
• An introduction to asylum support [24 June]
To receive DETAILS OF NEW COURSE DATES as they are scheduled please sign-up for our training newsletter at: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/sign
THE INFORMATION SERVICE: UPDATED TO GIVE YOU THE LATEST FACTS AT YOUR FINGER-TIPS
Easy to use, authoritative and up-to-date, the subscription based Information Service contains over 240 pages of relevant policy information, best practice and illustrative case studies, as well as current lists of useful services, resources and organisations. Subscribers receive 12 monthly update inserts, to keep their binder up-to-date, all for £100 (statutory bodies) or £50 (voluntary).
View FREE SAMPLE PAGES at: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
EXTERNAL CONFERENCE NEWS
Why am I waiting? A conference from the British Association for Adoption & Fostering examining care for BME children, 15 May, London
Information and booking from: www.baaf.org.uk, conferences@baaf.org.uk
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Conferences and Other News
First Podcast from IASFM Conference
As promised in this earlier post, Forced Migration Online (FMO) has released the first of a planned series of podcasts recorded during the 11th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference, which was held in Cairo earlier this year. The theme of the initial plenary was "Emerging patterns of irregularity and their effects among migrants and refugees in the
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)
The Global Database on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement was recently launched by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM). Its aim is to facilitate the development of national legal and policy frameworks on internal displacement by providing "instant access to official documents, including recommendations of United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies, reports of UN charter bodies, and UN General Assembly resolutions about the rights of these IDPs."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) just launched the online World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Now it has released the 2008 edition of the State of the World's Minorities. The volume can be downloaded in its entirety or by chapter. Contents include thematic articles such as "climate change and minorities" and regional sections with an initial introduction to relevant issues affecting the region, followed by profiles of minority populations in individual countries.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)
Citizens Speak Consultation: How Should Asylum Seekers be treated?
An independent enquiry into the
http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/
http://www.citizensspeak.org.uk/
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/)
Advisory Board on Naturalisation and Integration: Citizenship in the Community Conference, 21st May 2008
A conference to consider the Government’s proposals for further reform on citizenship. For more details and to express interest e-mail Imran Khan imran.khan@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/)
2008 Perrie Lectures- Outsiders Inside: Foreign Nationals, Detention and Crime,
Speakers include Donna Covey Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, Jonathan Lindley Strategic Director for Enforcement, Borders and Immigration Agency.
http://perrielectures.org.uk/index.htm
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/)
Organised by UNISON and the British Association of Social Workers and looking at refugee, asylum seeker, migrant and trafficked children. Email dave@abelard.org.uk for details.
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/)
Refuge in Films 2008 is now receiving submissions of new films about refugees and immigration matters. Last year the festival screened 30 films, from refugee community productions to mainstream films.Deadline:
(Source: Welsh Refugee Council - www.welshrefugeecouncil.org/)
RefugeeMap
http://www.star-network.org.uk/index.php/news/comments/refugeemap_launched/
STAR (Student Action for refugees) has launched a new interactive online resource for young people. RefugeeMap is a collaborative Wiki providing easy and accessible information for volunteers, especially young people, working with refugees in
(Source: Welcome To Your Library - http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/)
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Friday, 11 January 2008
Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference.
Conference Announcement for the
Museums & Refugees: Keeping Cultures Conference
13 & 14 March 2008
Museum in Docklands, London
2 day full rate: £85 per person
This international conference will explore the changing shape of community cultures and how museums and heritage sector agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. It also marks the end of the four year London Museums Hub funded Refugee Heritage Programme.
For information and booking visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk
Welcome by Professor Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London
Keynote speeches by Bemma Donkoh, UNHCR Representative to the UK and
Clara Arokiasamy, Chair of the London Mayor‘s Heritage and Diversity Taskforce, GLA
Details of how to make a booking for the conference can be found by following the links below:
Booking form (Word 108kb)
Conference delegate Invite (PDF 1mb)
Refugees conference brochure (PDF 1.5mb)
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Conferences
1) ILPA/LSE Conference: 'Migrants and Involuntary Return' :
Synopsis: The European legal system, with its power to influence Member States' behaviour as well as to monitor and enforce legal compliance, is arguably the most effective international legal system in the world today.
Recently however, particularly in the light of national security issues, there have been significant challenges facing European States
Tickets: £30-£220. For more information and to register: http://www.ilpa.org.uk/DT1022c
2) In Search of Solutions: Methods, Movements and Undocumented Migrants in
Africa
Research and Training Workshops, 1-4th of July, 2008
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, and the Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, invite submissions for a two part colloquium on methods and informal migration. This event is designed to strengthen and further refine the strategies used to analyse and understand migration patterns in
statistics can often be of limited value in coming to terms with this contentious issue. In the absence of empirically reliable and theoretically sophisticated research methods, speculation and hyperbole have regularly filled the void.
Submission
Please send submissions by email - with subject heading either:
'Training Workshop Submission' or 'Research Workshop Submission - to:
darshan.vigneswaran@wits.ac.za.
Requests for additional information should be directed to Dr Joel Quirk
(j.quirk@hull.ac.uk).
The Forced Migration Studies Programme (http://migration.org.za/ ) is
The Wilberforce Institute (http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/) is dedicated to the pursuit of world class research in the areas of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and social justice. The institute seeks to improve academic knowledge and public understanding of both historical practices and contemporary problems, and to inform public policy and political activism.
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Monday, 19 November 2007
5th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference
The University of Oxford has just published a Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference to be held from the 1 March 2008 at the University of Oxford. The theme for the 2008 conference will be "Rethinking Solutions for Forced Migrants" and this conference followings on from the 2006 student conference which was held here at the University of East London.
Call for Papers Link: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/StudConf08.pdf
Details of the 2006 Conference held at UEL: http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/research/fmsc/index.htm
Further details and information on past conferences: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/
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Call for Papers Link: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/StudConf08.pdf
Details of the 2006 Conference held at UEL: http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/research/fmsc/index.htm
Further details and information on past conferences: http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/
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Monday, 12 November 2007
Conferences, Publications and Other News
Publications:
Other News
Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54
Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php
Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog: List of new online publications available at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/
Publications listed include:
Asylum Rights Watch: Summary of responses June – September 2007 (Asylum Aid, Oct. 2007) [text]
Researching the Legal Aspects of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (GlobaLex, Nov. 2007) [text]
Other Publications of Note:
Refugee Heritage Project - Report on the London Museums Hub Project to record refugee heritage 2004-2006: available online via the MLA web site at: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/renaissance/index.cfm?NavigationID=364
Conference News:
Details of the following conferences have been found on the Welcome To Your Library Email list:
Community engagement workshop. Tue 20 Nov, Coventry
Community engagement through reading: a proactive role for public libraries. Fri 30 Nov, London
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72
Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Event.asp?lsection=46&id=SXB7C6-A7846A72
Older Refugees: from isolation to integration
Wed 09 Jan 2008, City Hall, London
This conference will focus on the issues, challenges and service needs of older refugees and asylum-seekers, concluding the Older Refugees Programme - a 2-year initiative, funded by Lloyds TSB, between Age Concern England, the Refugee Council, Age Concern London and the Greater London Association of Older Women (AGLOW). To register your interest in attending this conference, please email refugees@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7523.
Museums and Refugees - Keeping Cultures conference
13-14 Mar 2008, Museum in Docklands, London
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/RefugeeMuseums.htm
This international conference will explore how museums and heritage agencies respond to complex historical, ethical, legal, social and political issues. Museums, academic research centres, non-government organisations and government departments/agencies increasingly see the need to explore the cultural contributions and impact of refugee and asylum seeker groups on urban and regional centres.
These issues significantly affect museums’ policy and approaches: participation, curatorial decisions, collecting strategies, partnerships, approaches to programming, as well as shared decision making in collaborative exhibitions and public events. See weblink above for the questions that the conference will seek to address and further details.
Other News
Migration Bibliography: Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Consortium have created a new section on their website providing links to reports and research relating to new migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Further details can be found on the web site at: http://www.refugeeaccess.info/default.asp?step=2&id=54
Asylum Aid: have recently launched their new and updated web site and this can be found at: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/index.php
Friday, 26 October 2007
Beyond camps and forced labour: current intl. research on survivors of Nazi persecution
From the FMO E-mail List:
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.
The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
* DPs in post-war Europe
* Reception and resettlement
* Survivors in Eastern Europe
* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
* Rescuers and liberators
* Child survivors
* Women survivors and gender issues
* Trials and justice
* Testimony and memory
* Film and photography
* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational transmission
* Educational issues
* Remembrance and memorials
* Museums and archives
The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster), Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan University).
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk <
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available in 2008.
It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further information please contact http://www.secolo-verlag.de/ or u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de.
The conference is being organised by
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
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Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources.
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.
The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.
The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
* DPs in post-war Europe
* Reception and resettlement
* Survivors in Eastern Europe
* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
* Rescuers and liberators
* Child survivors
* Women survivors and gender issues
* Trials and justice
* Testimony and memory
* Film and photography
* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational transmission
* Educational issues
* Remembrance and memorials
* Museums and archives
The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster), Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan University).
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk <
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available in 2008.
It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further information please contact http://www.secolo-verlag.de/ or u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de.
The conference is being organised by
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
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Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Refugee Council Training & Conferences
REFUGEE COUNCIL TRAINING & CONFERENCES
Key issues in asylum
New summer date announced: 7 August in London
Hopefully the pace in your office is slowing a little as people take their summer holidays, giving you time to get round to those jobs you’ve been meaning to do for ages. Maybe you want to take this chance to pick up some new skills? In which case why not come along to our introductory course, 'Key issues in asylum', which covers the 2006 Immigration and Nationality Bill and the New Asylum Model.
Building Communities: equality and diversity in action
Leeds, 7 November 2007
London, 28 November 2007
With the recent publication of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion’s report 'Our shared future' and the launch in October 2007 of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, these important and timely conferences seek to clarify the legislative background to refugee integration and examine current policy and practice in this area. http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/eventsandtraining/conferences/buildingcommunities.htm
Key issues in asylum
New summer date announced: 7 August in London
Hopefully the pace in your office is slowing a little as people take their summer holidays, giving you time to get round to those jobs you’ve been meaning to do for ages. Maybe you want to take this chance to pick up some new skills? In which case why not come along to our introductory course, 'Key issues in asylum', which covers the 2006 Immigration and Nationality Bill and the New Asylum Model.
Building Communities: equality and diversity in action
Leeds, 7 November 2007
London, 28 November 2007
With the recent publication of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion’s report 'Our shared future' and the launch in October 2007 of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, these important and timely conferences seek to clarify the legislative background to refugee integration and examine current policy and practice in this area. http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/eventsandtraining/conferences/buildingcommunities.htm
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