Monks return to streets of Burma (BBC News) - [text online]
Ministers accused of underestimating number of foreign workers by 400,000 (The Independent) - [text online]
French charity workers face jail for 'abducting children' (The Independent) - [text online]
Ministers ignored calls to improve migration figures (The Guardian) - [text online]
The left can no longer afford to bury the migration debate (The Guardian) - [text online]
The numbers game (The Guardian] - [text online]
UNHCR gets eastern Chad's chiefs and officials talking (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thousands flee Mogadishu as fresh fighting erupts (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
News Stories (31/10/07)
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
News Stories (30/10/07)
Smith 'sorry' for migrants error (BBC News) - [text online]
Darfur camp eviction 'fabricated' - [text online]
Labour plans migrants points system (The Guardian) - [text online]
A grown-up debate about immigration (The Guardian) - [text online]
Central Asia's legal eagles pledge more cooperation for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Students face up to refugee realities in Montenegro (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Uganda: Across the airwaves comes reassurance to go home - [text online]
Monday, 29 October 2007
News Stories (29/10/07)
Growth of our population is unsustainable, says Cameron (The Times Online) - [text online]
Free English lessons 'would help refugees to integrate' (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Somalis demand that Ethiopians leave (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Darfur delegates to agree agenda (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Charity 'smuggled Darfur war orphans to France for £4,000' (The Independent Online) - [text online]
UK and US play Iraq 'blame game' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Chad 'kidnapping' angers Sarkozy (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Payout for engineer held in Belfast 'because he was black' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Tories would cut migration, vows Cameron (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Brick Lane's many narratives (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Flagship border force 'puts security at risk' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
The trouble with Brick Lane (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Goldmine dreams end in death for six displaced Afro-Colombians (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Q&A: Introducing refugees from Bhutan to the world (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Luwani Refugee Camp in Malawi closes as UNHCR moves last resident (UNHCR News) - [text online]
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
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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.
News Stories (26/10/07)
Zimbabwe
Race-remark scientist quits lab post (The Independent Online) - [text online]
China rejects call for action against Burma as Suu Kyi meets junta (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Soldiers back on Rangoon streets (BBC Online News) - [text online]
Libya seals peace deal for Chad (BBC Online News) - [text online]
Witchcraft allegations plague southern Chad's camps (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Displaced women tell tales of rape and fear in Somalia (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thursday, 25 October 2007
News Stories (25/10/07)
Gordon Brown’s vow to send foreign inmates home is questioned (The Times Online) - [text online]
Darfur peace talks 'doomed' after rebel leaders pull out (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Dutch smash 'voodoo' child trade (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Congolese refugees return to Equateur in growing numbers (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
News Stories (24/10/07)
A portrait of Britain
Optimism as Burma adopts more open approach to UN (The Independent Online) - [text online]
UN tells Belgrade to stop intimidating ethnic Serbs over Kosovo elections (The Independent Online) - [text online]
Burmese people 'waiting in the dark' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Jails adapted for foreign inmates (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Suu Kyi rallies planned worldwide (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Darfur 'a quarrel over a camel' (BBC News Online) - [text online]
ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES: 1945 - United Nations Organisation is born (BBC News Online) - [text online]
Higher fertility, immigration and longer lives fuelling Britain's population rise (Guardian Online) - [text online]
UK population 'to rise by 10m by 2031' (Guardian Online) - [text online]
Gulf of Aden crossing claims up to 66 lives (UNHCR News) - [text online]
Thousands flee into Uganda to escape North Kivu fighting (UNHCR News) - [text online]
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