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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

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

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, 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

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

Monday, June 20, 2022

World Refugee Day: LERRN Celebrates Refugee Leadership

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Friday, May 13, 2022

GAIN Webinar Series: Translating Academic Research into Effective Responses to Forced Displacement

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

TRAFIG Final Conference: Understanding Protracted Displacement and Peoples’ Own Responses

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

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Upcoming Virtual Roundtable: Ukraine’s Refugees in Europe – Needs, Policies, Responses

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

Launch of Reflection Paper: Beyond Consultation

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

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

SSIC 2021 Colloquium: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West

LERRN is pleased to announce the third biennial Colloquium from Somali Studies in Canada, organized by LERRN Partner Dr. Nimo Bokore, on October 16, 2021 at 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, Eastern Time: Somali Studies in Canada Presents: Somalinimo, Blackness and Belonging in the West... More

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Refugee Participation: Where next after the GRF?

Date: Thursday, 30 January 2020 Time: 3:00 p.m – 4:30 p.m. Location: A 631 LOEB building Carleton University History was made by Canada at the UN’s Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019 when it included a refugee advisor, Mustafa Alio, as a formal member of the Canadian delegation. This event will share... More

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