Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
Refugee Hosts' writer-in-residence, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, will read from his acclaimed poetry collection, 'Writing the Camp,' in conversation with Prof. Heaven Crawley, at the IASFM18 Conference 'Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy.' 'Writing the Camp' is an essential collection drawn from Yousif's experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon.…
Refugee Hosts' writer-in-residence, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, will participate in the 'Migrant Knowledge: Early Modern and Beyond' event at the University of Cambridge next week. This three-day public event will bring together academics, artists, and activists to 'explore alternative ways of thinking and knowing about migration – of people, things, and ideas – rooted in the…
Arabic Stories and Poetry in Translation is a series of workshops held at Birkbeck, University of London and SOAS. Refugee Host's writer in residence, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, will join author Selma Dabbagh, a British Palestinian fiction writer, to lead a workshop exploring issues that face writers and artists 'when they voice the world of Arabic…
Refugee Hosts Co-I Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge and Writer in Residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh will present insights from the Refugee Hosts project at the forthcoming conference "Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature" at University of Leeds, 20-22 June 2018. On 20 June, from 17-00-18:00, Lyndsey will deliver the keynote lecture, entitled "Hannah Arendt in…
On 22 May 2018, 17:30-19:30, Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge (Refugee Hosts Co-I), will give the John Coffin Memorial Annual Lecture at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russel Square, London, WC1B 5DR. The lecture, titled "Placeless Peoples: Writing, Rights and Refugees", will discuss how writers such as Arendt, Orwell, Simone Weil, Dorothy Thompson, and Samuel Beckett…
On Tuesday 12 December, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh was invited to present insights from her research at the UNHCR High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges. As one of four panelists discussing ‘Reception and Admission’, she spoke alongside H.E. Ambassador Mr. Boudjemâa Delm (Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations), H.E. Ambassador Antje Leendertse (Ambassador…
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, PI of Refugee Hosts, will be contributing to a side event of the 69th meeting of the UNHCR Standing Committee. The event will be moderated by Ms. Shahrzad Tadjbakhsh, Deputy Director, Division of International Protection, UNHCR Thursday, 29 June 2017, 13:15 – 15:00 Palais des Nations – Room XXIV Journalists and photographers around the…
The Middle East Re-mapped: 10-4pm, 5th June 2017, Anthropology seminar room, Department of Anthropology, UCL. Reflecting a wider interest in ‘re-mapping area studies’ at UCL, the aim of this workshop is to explore how the Middle East might be rethought and re-drawn today. We invite short contributions from researchers from across the social sciences, arts and…
Refugee Hosts is pleased to share this announcement on behalf of Dr Tahir Zaman. Make sure you reserve a ticket for the Voices from the 'Jungle' launch event which takes place in Shoreditch, London, on Friday 21 April. The event will comprise of a panel reading and discussion of the new book Voices from the…
On Wednesday 15 March 2017, Samar Maqusi, Prof. Murray Fraser (both of UCL-Bartlett School of Architecture) and Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL-Geography and Refugee Hosts PI) convened a symposium on Space of Refuge. The symposium drew heavily on Maqusi's PhD research in Jordan and Lebanon, enabling a conversation around the roles that space and scale play in determining the opportunities and…
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