Monday, July 7, 2025
11:00 – 11:30 AM
WORDS OF WELCOME
Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Jan C. Jansen (University of Tübingen) & Dane Kennedy (George Washington University)
11:30 AM – 1:15 PM
SESSION 1
Chair: Delphine Diaz (Reims University)
Olof Blomqvist: Refugees of the Empire – Local Reception of Internal Refugees in Early 18th Century Sweden
Jannik Keindorf: “Pandora’s Box”: Refugee Accommodation and Urban Development in Kingston During the Age of Revolutions
Comments: Donovan Fifield, Kelly Eleutério Machado Oliveira
2:45 – 4:30 PM
SESSION 2
Chair: Jan C. Jansen (University of Tübingen)
Konstantin Schischka: Between Liminal and Protracted Displacement: Navigating Post-War Displacement Pathways
Jaehyung Kim: Escaping War and Revolution: Korean Refugees in Manchuria, 1945–1950
Comments: Erzsébet Árvay, Lena Christoph
5:00 – 6:00 PM
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)
Jan C. Jansen & Sophie Rose (Tübingen University): Atlantic Exiles. Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s–1820s
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
8:30 – 10:15 AM
SESSION 3
Chair: Isabel Richter (GHI Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley)
Esteban Octavio Scuzarello: Before They were a Particular Social Group: LGBTQI+ Asylum-seekers Fleeing Argentine in the ’70s and ‘80s
Anie George: History as Text and Paratext: A Study of Select Ugandan Indian Refugee Narratives
Comments: Mohana Chatterjee, Saeed Ahmad
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
SESSION 4
Chair: Daniele Valisena (GHI Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley)
Erzsébet Árvay: Cooperation for Control: Eastern Bloc Strategies for Reclaiming Exiles in the Cold War
Lena Christoph: Jewish Refugees in the Philippines. Exile and Trajectories from a (post-)Colonial Transit Space
Comments: Jaehyung Kim, Lediona Shahollari
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Conversation with Homayoon Ghanizada, Resettlement Manager Refugee Services at Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay
Wednesday: July 9, 2025
08:30 – 10:15 AM
Chair: Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth) & Dane Kennedy (George Washington University)
Intermediate discussion
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
SESSION 5
Chair: Ilana Feldman (George Washington University)
Donovan Fifield: Imperial Expansion, Property, and Economic Adaptation during the Acadian Diaspora, 1754-1765
Kelly Eleutério Machado Oliveira: Brazilians in Defense of Dom Pedro I in Portugal: Reflections on Liberal Resistance, the Miguelist Counter-Revolution, and Political Exile (1826–1828)
Comments: Olof Blomqvist, Jannik Keindorf
Thursday, July 10, 2025
8:30 – 11:00 AM
SESSION 6
Chair: Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
Saeed Ahmad: Temples, Tombs, and Ruins: Producing Refugee Spaces in Postcolonial Delhi
Comments: Anie George, Esteban Octavio Scuzarello
Lediona Shahollari: From the Ottoman Refugee Regime to the Nation-State: Albania’s Resettlement Projects in the Interwar Period
Comments: Esteban Octavio Scuzarello, Konstantin Schischka
11:30 – 12:30 PM
Chair: Jan C. Jansen & Sophie Rose (University of Tübingen).
Concluding discussion