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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Upcoming Webinar: Meaningful Refugee Participation: Taking Stock and Charting the Way Forward

On World Refugee Day 2023, LERRN, NZRAP, RAN Canada, R-SEAT and USRAB present the following... More

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Refugee research, policy and practice: some frequently asked questions

In this Blog Post, LERRN Co-Investigator Dr. Jeff Crisp answers crucial questions about refugee research outside of traditional academic spheres, and the impact it can have on humanitarian agencies and... More

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Upcoming PPP Webinar: Scholars At-Risk: Hosting Practices in Canada

LERRN is pleased to share the following information on the next webinar from the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP)... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Event Report: The Right to Research Book Launch

  Event details and recordings available here. On Monday, April 24th, viewers across 29 countries attended the virtual book launch of The Right to Research anthology published by McGill-Queen’s University Press as part of their Forced Migration Studies Series. The conversation, moderated by Professor Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University),... More

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Call for Applications: PPP Student Communications Personnel

LERRN is pleased to announce the following opportunity on behalf of the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan at Risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP) Project. PPP Student Communications Personnel (Summer 2023) Job Type: Communications Part Time Summer Job (10 hours a week) with Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan at... More

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

JMHS Special Issue on Protracted Displacement

Patterns of Refugees’ Organization Amid Protracted Displacement: An Understanding From Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey Oroub El-Abed, Watfa Najdi, and Mustafa Hoshmand from the Centre for Lebanese Studies just published a new article on the patterns of refugee organizations in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey in The Journal on Migration and Human... More

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Upcoming Webinar: Advancing Activism in Exile: Afghan Activists in Canada

LERRN is pleased to share the following information on the next webinar from the Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan At-risk Scholars, Activists and Students (PPP)... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Call for Papers: Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals?

LERRN is pleased to share the following Call for Papers for an upcoming Edited Volume on behalf of the editors: Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Editors Alfred Babo Ph.D. (Fairfield University) ababo@fairfield.edu Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Ph.D. (Coppin State University) shussaini@coppin.edu Potential Publishers Editors... More

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Upcoming Event: Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium

[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

Monday, April 10, 2023

Final Report – Refugee Communities Mobilising in the Middle East: Refugee-led Organisations in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

This report presents the final results from the Middle East portion of the project “Evaluation of Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle... More

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Research Position: East Africa Research Lead

Applications are now being reviewed for an 18-month post-doctoral level research position to lead the East Africa portion of a global project on the politics and process of refugee leadership. Deadline: The deadline for the submission of applications for this position has now passed. With the support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, this position... More

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Book Launch: The Right to Research

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

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