Monday 24 March
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8 – 9.30am
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Conference registration
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9.30 – 9.45am
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Director's welcome
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9.45 – 10.45am
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Opening plenary – In search of solutions: refugees are doing it for themselves
Jeff Crisp, Refugees International
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10.45 – 11.15am
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Break
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Session 1
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 1 – Representations of 'the refugee'
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Chair: Alexander Betts (Associate Professor of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies)
'They take your photograph. You come into existence': Irregular migrants and struggles over representations
Bendixsen, Synnove
Playing the trickster? Voices of asylum seekers in Glasgow
Hill, Emma
Genuine voices? (Im)mobilizing refugees in humanitarian discourse and practice
Bardelli, Nora and Meneguello Bressan, Laís
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 2 – Refugee voices and the asylum process
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Chair: Cathryn Costello (Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law)
Whose voice? Hearing the refugee interpreter
Moser-Mercer, Barbara and Mercer, Kerstin
Adjudicating the refugee story: assessing pitfalls and charting possibilities
Barry-Murphy, Emily and Stephenson Jr, Max
Die asyl-monologe and the German actors
Bhimji, Fazila
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 3 – Refugees from Burma/Myanmar
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Chair: Gil Loescher (Visiting Professor)
Efforts to transform the dialogue with refugees: the Chin experience
Fleming, Rachel
Communication as aid: giving voice to refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border
Jack, Victoria
The new aid paradigm in Burma – building or undermining peace?
Curwen, Pippa
The Chins seeking refuge in Mizoram State, India: a roundtable approach to refugee protection
Wilch, Matthew and Hmung, Zo Tum
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 4 – Statelessness: Palestinian voices
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Chair: Dawn Chatty (Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration)
Undesirables: 117 Palestinian refugees in Brazil, between humanitarianism and nationalisms
Schiocchet, Leonardo
Stateless governance: the Palestinian refugee camps
Irfan, Anne
No place to call home: the case of Palestinian refugees
Shiblak, Abbas
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1 – 2pm
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Lunch
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Session 2
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 5 – Music and cultural expression
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Chair: Tom Scott Smith (Teaching Assistant)
Music as a strategy of youth resilience in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya
Kiruthu, Felix
Ox songs and protracted encampment
Shao, Oliver
The art of the problem: aesthetic encounters of asylum-seeking children in Denmark
Whyte, Zachary
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 6 – Refugee voices and new media
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Chair: Louise Bloom (Research Officer)
Memories and voices of Jews displaced from Arab Lands in 1948–1958
Negrine, Ralph
Refugee and diasporic voices in virtual space: live narratives and hybrid activism
Doná, Giorgia and Godin, Marie
Right to a story: how KANERE free press transgresses biopower
Deramo, Michele
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 7 – Refugee voices: women from Burma
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Chair: Kirsten McConnachie (Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow)
A constant state of fear: the situation facing Chin refugee women and children in Delhi
Zahau, Rosalinn and Fleming, Rachel
Kachin IDPs and the work of Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
Nkhum, Jessica
Burma’s ethnic nationalities and the question of transition
Phan, Zoya
Women and peace
Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 8 – Space, identity and ‘becoming’
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Chair: Olaf Kleist (German Research Foundation Research Fellow)
Afghan refugees reclaiming urban space in Iranian cities
Sobout, Azadeh
Melbourne Hazara oral histories: Hazara mens' and womens' stories about becoming Australian
Mackenzie, Laurel
Rhythms, rituals and remembrance of exile: Lao, Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in Phanat Nikhom refugee camp, Thailand
Hynes, Patricia
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3.45 – 4.15pm
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Break
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Session 3
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4.15 – 6pm
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Panel 9 – Art and identity
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Chair: Will Jones (Research Officer)
The exilic aesthetic: articulations of patriotism by the expatriate
Gayed, Andrew
Graffiti by migrants in Zeebrugge
Derluyn, Ilse, Mels, Cindy, Watters, Charles and Broekaert, Eric
Living in images: the imaginative practices and aesthetic expressions of Karen refugees resettled in Melbourne, Australia
Robertson, Zoe
Affects of protest: feeling and feeling for others in refugee mobilisations in Wales
Payson, Alida
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4.15 – 6pm
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Panel 10 – Beyond bare life: agency in encampment
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Chair: Matthew Gibney (Elizabeth Colson Associate Professor of Politics and Forced Migration)
Gender in camps in Tamil Nadu
Chowdhory, Nasreen
Constructing culture: contesting inter-generational expression in a Palestinian refugee camp
Procter, Caitlin
Marginalized but not voiceless: the 'camp' of Salaam Palace in Rome
Puggioni, Raffaela
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4.15 – 6pm
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Panel 11 – History and memory: dominant discourses and the exclusion of refugee voices
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Chair: Tom Scott Smith (Teaching Assistant)
Displacements of memory
Marfleet, Philip
Hearing a voice from the past: the Hebrew Bible as a resource for the study of forced migration
Strine, Casey
Democratic access or privileged exclusion: preserving (and listening!) to the voice of the refugee within the archival record of the nation-state?
Dudman, Paul
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7.15pm
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Conference dinner
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Tuesday 25 March
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Session 4
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9 – 10.45am
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Panel 12 – Literary voices
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Chair: Dawn Chatty (Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration)
Asylum seeking in a violent metropolis: writing alternative Londons in Brian Chikwava's Harare North
Davies, Dominic
Romanticism, law and the nation state: three novels on the refugee experience
Behrman, Simon
'Man as a cause': Ghassan Kanafani and the politics of literature
Kuntz, Blair
‘Real Bedouin words’: displacement, cultural ‘purity’, and Jordanian women’s Nabati poetry
Seeley, Maira
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9 – 10.45am
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Panel 13 – Methodologies: reflexivity
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Chair: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Senior Research Officer)
Refugee voices: challenging the epistemic void
Korac, Maja
Living in the refugee cycle as a (marginal) scholar and practitioner: epistemological and methodological reflections arising from empirical research
López Zarzosa, Helia
Representing 'the story' on stage – theatre as an alternative form of data representation?
Opfermann, Lena
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9 – 10.45am
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Panel 14 – Detention and deportation
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Chair: Cathryn Costello (Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law)
Beyond the Island - experiences of asylum seekers in Australia
Newman, Louise
Responding to mental health vulnerability in Maltese detention centres: the use of psychological support groups as an intervention tool
Caruana, Julian and Rossi, Alexia
The voice of the silenced in the Australian detention system
Wainer, Devorah
Deportation of Sudanese children by Israel
Gerver, Mollie
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9 – 10.45am
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Panel 15 – Refugee youth: coping, adapting, resisting
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Chair: Kirsten McConnachie (Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow)
Voice, rights and resistance amongst Congolese human rights defenders
McQuaid, Katie
Young Afghans returning home: making sense of past and present
Robinson, Kim and Williams, Lucy
The voice of the silenced in the Australian detention system
Wainer, Devorah
Make not break: perspectives on risk and resilience by separated young people seeking asylum
Gupta, Anna and Clayton, Sue
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10.45 – 11.15am
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Break
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Session 5
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 16 – Resistance and the body
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Chair: Tom Scott Smith (Teaching Assistant)
Human rights, the human condition and refugee protest / We are human: detained refugees struggle for recognition as human
Fiske, Lucy
Protests in Cairo
Danielson, Nora
Welcome to Greece: violence and activism at the border
Pia, Emily
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 17 – Methodologies: inclusion
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Chair: Matthew Gibney (Elizabeth Colson Associate Professor of Politics and Forced Migration)
Giving refugee young people a voice: rights, respect and methods
Lawrence, Jeanette, Kaplan, Ida and Dodds, Agnes
Reclaiming agency: voices of refugee and asylum-seeing women
Greenfields Margaret and Paszkiewicz, Natalia
Unsettling accounts: community-based narrative / ethnographic inquiry with LGBTQ refugees in Canada
Jordan, Sharalyn and Rainbow Refugee Committee
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 18 – Refugees from Syria
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Chair: Dawn Chatty (Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration)
Listening to the voices of Syrian women refugees in Jordan: ethnographies of displacement and emplacement
Al Akash, Ruba and Boswall, Karen
Coping strategies among self-settled Syrians in Lebanon
Thorleifsson, Cathrine
Constructions of ‘refugees’ through cultural expression: Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Kiwan, Dina Jane
'Khidan li-Adhan… walls have ears' even in the diaspora: Syrians in London
Ferreri, Veronica
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 19 – Repatriation and return
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Chair: Naohiko Omata (Research Officer)
Hoping for peace, preparing for war: negotiating safety on the borders of Uganda and Sudan
Hovil, Lucy
Deconstructing the meanings and motivations of return: an Afghan case study
Van Houte, Marieke, Siegel, Melissa and Davids, Tine
Geopolitical change and mobility dilemmas: anxieties, obstacles and challenges of 'moving back’ or 'moving on' (case of Karenni refugees on the Mae Hong Son [Thailand] - Kayah State [Myanmar] borderland)
Grundy Warr, Carl and Chin, Wei Jun
Narrating 'home': transcending the nation state
Hughes, Vanessa
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11.15am – 1pm
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Panel 20 – Bhutanese refugees
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Chair: Gil Loescher (Visiting Professor)
Faith and religious practice in Bhutanese and Iraqi refugee communities
Shanahan, Suzanne; Kim, Esther and Stefanich, Julie
Expressions and experiences of suffering and hope in the process of third-country resettlement
El-Shaarawi, Nadia; Bhai, Kiran and Howard, Kelly
Uncovering resettled refugees' voices
Ott, Eleanor
Silent cries of Dalits in refugee voice
Shrestha, Tara
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1 – 2pm
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Lunch
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Session 6
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 21 – Historical voices
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Chair: Tom Scott-Smith (Teaching Assistant)
Reconstructed ethnography of WWII evacuation and displacement
Okely, Judith
Polish resettlement camps for political refugees after the second world: understanding resettlement to the UK
Blaszczyk-Sawyer, Agata
Hope, apathy and despair: refugee voices in transit from Camp Traiskirchen (1982–1990)
Watton-Lasbo, Karen Elizabeth
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 22 – Statelessness: the Rohingya
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Chair: Kirsten McConnachie (Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow)
Voices of the Burmese Rohingya refugees: an analysis of everyday life in refugee camps in Bangladesh
Tun Khin
The treatment of the Rohingya
Agata Blaszczyk-Sawyer
Shared responsibility: an international approach to the Rohingya crisis
de Chickera, Amal
The Rohingya: reading the State
Maung, Zarni
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2 – 3.45pm
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Panel 23 – Coping and resilience
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Chair: Maurice Herson (Co-Editor, Forced Migration Review)
Meaning making strategies among Bosnian refugees in Sweden
Porobic, Selma
Voices of refugees: psychological adaptation in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan civil war
Dombo, Eileen and Ahearn, Frederick
Displacement and resettlement: voices from Jaffna in Sri Lanka
Kopalapillai, Amirthalingam, Jayatilaka, Danesh and Lakshman Rajith
Organized chaos: informal institution building in the Maashouk gathering
Yassin, Nasser, Stel, Nora and Rassi, Rima
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3.45 – 4.15pm
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Break
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Closing artist session
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4.15 – 6pm
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Chair: Dawn Chatty (Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration)
Speaking through the void: visual voices of memory in photography
Fassl, Johanna
Syria: faces of the revolution
Chapman, Russell
Borderline existence: Chin in Mizoram State
Rubin, Steven
Photography as self-expression; barriers in accessing education for young asylum seekers in London
Mitchell, Mary
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