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Day 1. 24th October 2019
9.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
10.15 – 11.00 Distinguished Keynote
Prof. Homi Bhabha (Harvard University)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1: Disrupting Humanitarian Narratives
Chair: Sarah Clarke (Article 19)
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
Dima Hamadmad (Refugee Hosts)
Dr. Tom Western (University of Oslo)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch and Exhibition
13.45 – 14.45 Roundtable Conversation: Writing Displacements into Literature
Chair: Prof. Philippe Sands (UCL and English-PEN)
Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts – University of Birmingham)
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts Writer-in-Residence – University of Oxford)
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panel 2. Hosting, Hostility and Displacement
Chair: Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)
Bayan Itani (Refugee Hosts)
Dr Estella Carpi (Southern Responses to Displacement project – UCL)
Dr Ann-Christin Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen)
16.30 – 17.00 Closing Remarks
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts – University of Birmingham)
Dr. Anna Rowlands (Refugee Hosts – Durham University)
Prof. Alastair Ager (Refugee Hosts – Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
17.00 – 18.30 Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Displacement in/through Film
Chair: Saiful Huq Omi (Principal, CounterFoto Centre for Visual Arts)
Dr Daniele Rugo and Abi Weaver, Directors of ‘About a War’
Dr Stefano Fogliata, Screenwriter of ‘Footbalization’
18.30 – 19.30 Closing Reception
Day 2. 25th October 2019
9.45 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00 – 10.10 Opening Words of Welcome
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
10.10 – 11.45 Keynote Conversation: The Politics and Ethics of Knowledge Production in Conflict Situations
Chair: Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
Prof. Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
Prof. Patricia Daley (University of Oxford)
11.45 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.30 Workshop: Translation, Literature and Precarity
Chair and Facilitator: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts Writer-in-Residence and University of Oxford)
Prof. Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS)
Prof. Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)
13.30 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.45 Workshop: Locating Faith in Humanitarian Practice
Prof Alastair Ager (Refugee Hosts – Queen Margaret University)
Dr Anna Rowlands (Refugee Hosts – Durham University)
Dr Olivia Wilkinson (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities)
Atallah Fitzgibbon (Islamic Relief Worldwide)
Fernando Espada (Save the Children)
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Rethinking Community, Rights and Displacement
Chair: Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts – University of Birmingham)
Dr Tamirace Fakhoury (Lebanese American University)
Dr Anna Rowlands (Durham University)
Dr Zeynep Kivilcim (Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin)
17.30 -18.00 Closing Roundtable Discussion
Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL)
Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts – University of Birmingham)
Prof. Alastair Ager (Refugee Hosts – Durham University)
Dr. Anna Rowlands (Refugee Hosts – Queen Margaret University)
18.00 – 19.00 Closing Reception
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