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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
[External Link] LERRN is pleased to share the following event from The Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group entitled Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium. Event Description Scholars, artists, and organizers who understand the violence of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how... More
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The Right to Research brings together the scholarship of nine historians with lived experience of displacement or statelessness. Covering topics from Burundian refugee drummers to Kurdish photojournalism to pottery and identity in Rwandan refugee camps, the volume asks what it would mean to take seriously a “right to research.” In this... More
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
In our first-ever podcast episode, LERRN host İrem Karabağ talks with book editors Professor Marcia C. Schenck and Kate Reed, and book contributor Ismail Alkhateeb of the anthology The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, published in 2023 with McGill-Queen’s University Press in their forced... More
Monday, March 20, 2023
LERRN is pleased to share the following information on an upcoming webinar from the "Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-Risk Scholars, Activists and Students’ project" in collaboration with Carleton University and the University of British Columbia, and funded by IDRC. This webinar will discuss the state of higher... More
Friday, March 10, 2023
...s episode of (Un)Filtered hosted by Co-Director of R-SEAT Rez Gardi, LERRN Project Director James Milner talks about his research in the forced migration field throughout his career, the change in global refugee regime since the 90s, and meaningful refugee participation in the international refugee... More
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 from 12pm to 1:30pm EST in the Loeb Building at Carleton University. This event is a hybrid event, with space for 25 people in-person and many more via ZOOM. The field of refugee and forced migration studies has grown significantly over the past two decades, both in size and in... More
Monday, June 20, 2022
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Friday, May 13, 2022
LERRN is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming webinar series from the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN): Translating Academic Research into Effective Responses to Forced Displacement. Join us for a series of online discussions in which we will explore how academic findings and initiatives that can support... More
Thursday, April 28, 2022
LERRN Partner Janemary Ruhundwa, Lead of the Tanzania Working Group and Executive Director of Dignity Kwanza, will be participating in the TRAFIG Final Conference as a panelist in Panel 1 - Moving forward: Improving responses to protracted displacement in major host... More
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Event details and recordings available here. The last webinar in a series on Ethics in Forced Migration Research, co-hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Refugee Research Network (RRN), focused on funding structures for research on forced migration. Panelists spoke of the ways individual researchers can... More
Thursday, April 7, 2022
External Link: LERRN is pleased to be participating in the following event to be held by the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University: Ukraine’s Refugees in Europe – Needs, Policies, Responses A virtual... More
Thursday, March 31, 2022
LERRN is pleased to be participating in the following event to be held by the European Chapter of the GRN (the European Coalition of Migrants and Refugees, EU-COMAR), in collaboration with New Women Connectors and Oxfam International: Launch of a Reflection Paper: Beyond Consultation: Unpacking the Most Essential Components of Meaningful... More
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