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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

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

PLEASE NOTE: The application period for this call has closed. 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... 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

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Migrant Vulnerabilities in the Canadian Protection System Researchers/Community Partners/Civil Servants Dialogue

The Migrant Vulnerabilities in the Canadian Protection System Workshop held at the University of Ottawa on Wednesday March 15, 2023, sought to bring together practitioners, community partners, and civil servants to discuss the various research findings of this project. In the morning session, 23 participants, consisting of both practitioners and... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

LERRN Podcast Series: Discussion with The Right to Research Book Editors and Contributors

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, April 3, 2023

ملخص تنفيذي – تقييم المنظمات التي يقودها اللاجئون في الأردن ولبنان وتركيا

(Arabic) This Executive Summary presents key findings from the Middle East portion of the project "Evaluation of Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa and the Middle... More

Monday, March 20, 2023

Upcoming Webinar: Afghanistan: Displacement and Disruption of Knowledge Networks

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

Podcast Episode on Refugee Participation by James Milner and Rez Gardi

In this 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 system. As with any paradigm shift, change... More

Friday, March 10, 2023

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: The view from Kenya

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

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Now Published: LERRN February 2023 Newsletter

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