Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Schifferstraße 44, 47059 Duisburg
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
03:00 – 05:15 PM
WORDS OF WELCOME AND SESSION 1
Chairs: Jan C. Jansen, Dane Kennedy
Stephanie Bode: Ils ne sont Réfugiés que parce qu’ils ont bien voulu: Perceptions of Refugee Experiences in 17th-Century French Media
Peter Walker: The American Loyalist Clergy: Refugee-Martyrs in the Age of Revolutions
Comments: Alba Martínez, Michele Magri
06:10 – 07:00 PM
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Ilana Feldman: Humanitarian Time and Refugee Presence: On Palestinian Lives in Extended Displacement
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
09:00 – 10:45 AM
SESSION 2
Chair: Peter Gatrell
Annika Heyen: The Bermuda Conference on the “Refugee Problem” of 1943 and the term “Refuge” in the early 1940s
Victoria Gonzalez Maltes: “They Are Good Human Stock”: Labor Considerations in the Displaced Persons Program (1948-1952)
Comments: Stephanie Bode, Oladotun Awosusi
11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
SESSION 3
Chair: Jannik Keindorf
Franziska Maria Lamp: The ”Returnees”: Navigating the Resettlement of Displaced Women to the United Kingdom after World War II and their Further Migration
Alba Martínez: Who is the ‘True’ Spanish Refugee? The Gendered Labelling Process of the ‘Spanish Political Refugee’ in France (1945-1978)
Comments: Alessandra Vigo, Al Khoder Al Khalifa
02:30 – 04:15 PM
SESSION 4
Chair: A. Sophie Rose
Rohail Salman: Defining the Nation, Building the State: The Pakistani State’s Response to the Refugee Crisis, 1947-1954
Oladotun Awosusi: A Policy History of Refugee-Containment in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1998-2022
Comments: Phoebe Shambaugh, Grecia Chávez Medina
Thursday, July 6, 2023
09:00 – 10:45 AM
INTERMEDIATE DISCUSSION
Chairs: Dane Kennedy, Susanne Lachenicht
11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
SESSION 5
Chair: Thomas Mareite
Al Khoder Al Khalifa: Historicizing Trauma Across Generations: The (Syrian) Armenian Refugee Experiences between the First and the Third Generation
Phoebe Shambaugh: Getting to Gateway: Situating Bolton’s Participation in Refugee Resettlement
Comments: Victoria Gonzalez Maltes, Martin-Oleksandr Kisly
Friday, July 7, 2023
09:00 – 10:45 AM
EXTERNAL GUEST “THE ACADEMY IN EXILE”
Chair: Jan C. Jansen
Presentation: Egemen Özbek
11:15 AM – 01:00 PM
SESSION 6
Chair: Delphine Diaz
Michele Magri: Political Practices and Forms of Politicization of Italian Exiles in the USA, 1815-1860
Grecia Chávez Medina: Refugees in Mexico: International Red Aid within the Communist Refugees during the Mid-Twenties and Thirties of the Twentieth Century
Comments: Annika Heyen, Franziska Maria Lamp
02:30 – 04:15 PM
SESSION 7
Chair: Ilana Feldman
Martin-Oleksandr Kisly: Crimean Tatars’ Return to the Crimea as Reverse Migration
Alessandra Vigo: Dynamics of Encounter: Negotiating Peninsular Belonging in Decolonizing Italy (1950s-1960s)
Comments: Annika Heyen, Franziska Maria Lamp
04:45 – 05:45 PM CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
Chairs: Jan C. Jansen, Dane Kennedy