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Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2021

‘Localising’ Refugee Research and Practice

This public seminar series aims to examine research on refugees and forced migration within the broader localisation agenda, as well as methodological attempts to ‘localise’ refugee research through co-creating and co-conducting research with refugees and local hosts. Through a blend of practically-, methodologically-, and theoretically-focused seminars, this series aims to present current research designs and methodologies involving refugee and local researchers, and the challenges and opportunities that lie therein, as well as theoretical work reflecting on issues of ethics and power. Concomitant with these discussions will be ongoing examinations of the relationship between advocacy and scholarship, and the extent to which both can and should be met together.

Series convener: Dr Evan Easton-Calabria, Senior Research Officer

Series poster (A4)

About the seminar

In the wake of digital transformations in social life and social research, this seminar examines the role of the digital in research with, on and by refugees and forced migrants. In the emerging field of digital forced migration and refugee studies, the digital refers to the object of inquiry, its methods, and its platforms. Using selected examples from my collaborative research, I show how the digital affects the relations between forced migrants’ everyday life and its analysis in diverse ways. Digital methodologies can be used to maintain unequal power relations in refugee research but also to rethink “refugee voices”, representation and power within the growing movement that calls for decolonizing forced migration and refugee studies. Integrating theory, methods, and practice, I then describe our collaborative Digital Storytelling Action Research, which uses co-produced digital narratives and platforms as decolonial praxis for social change.

Video

Watch the speaker's presentation on YouTube

Please direct enquiries to rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture

The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture is named in honour of Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, the founding Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. It is held each year in Michaelmas term.

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture

The Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture is held in Trinity term. It is named after Professor Elizabeth Colson, a renowned anthropologist.

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A celebration of the life of David Turton

Saturday, 20 July 2024, 2pm to 3pm @ The Crypt Cafe, St Peters Church, Northchurch Terrace, London N1 4DA