Archives: Webinars

Monday, February 19, 2024

Webinar Report: Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions

The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) hosted the “The Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions” webinar on February 9, 2024. It served as an illuminating recap of the Voices Rising: Refugee-Led Solutions Conference 2023, a landmark event hosted in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. Organized by refugees themselves, this conference... More

Monday, July 10, 2023

Event Report: Meaningful Refugee Participation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmrZl9HuyE   The Refugee Advisory Network of Canada (RAN Canada) organized its inaugural webinar titled "Meaningful Refugee Participation: Taking Stock and Charting the Way Forward" in celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, 2023. With 53 participants from 10 different countries, the webinar explored the... More

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Event Report: The Right to Research Book Launch

Available in عربي Français Español 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... 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

Sunday, April 10, 2022

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Changing the Structures of Forced Migration Research

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

Monday, March 21, 2022

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Haunted by Violence

Please note: this webinar was held as a meeting; no video recording will be made available.   Event details available here. On March 11, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Refugee Research Network (RRN) hosted their second webinar of the year, featuring three anthropologists who reflected on their unique personal... More

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

LERRN-RRN Workshop | Creative Methods in Challenging Times

  Event details and recordings available here. The third 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 creative research methods in challenging times. More than 200 people in 46 countries registered for this... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Building Research Relationships and Setting the Agenda

  Event details and recordings available here. In the second of a series of webinars on the ethics of forced migration research co-hosted by the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Refugee Research Network (RRN), our panel of speakers reflected on the theme of building research relationships and setting the agenda. The... More

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

LERRN-RRN Webinar | Types of knowledge in forced migration: Whose voices and perspectives frame research?

Event details and recordings available here. The first webinar in LERRN’s Ethics in Forced Migration Research series, co-hosted with the Refugee Research Network, attracted 82 participants from 20 countries. While later webinars in the series will look at more specific aspects of the research process, the first webinar started with the important... More

Sunday, July 11, 2021

LERRN-IDRC Webinar | Forced Displacement and Health in the Context of the Pandemic: Localized Responses to COVID- 19’s Impact on Refugees, IDPs, and Communities Living in Chronic Displacement

Event details and recordings available here. On 24 June 2021, LERRN and the International Development Research Center (IDRC) hosted their seventh and final webinar in the LERRN-IDRC webinar series on Forced Displacement. This webinar, drawing on lessons from Bangladesh, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza, focused on health systems and the COVID-19... More

Friday, June 18, 2021

LERRN-IDRC Webinar | Localized Forced Displacement Research: Lessons from East Africa and the Middle East

Available in عربي Français Español Event details and recordings available here. On 9 June 2021, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) hosted the sixth of their Webinar Series on Forced Displacement to focus on localized knowledge ecosystems. The goal of the webinar... More

Monday, April 19, 2021

LERRN-IDRC Webinar: Refugee-Host community relations during Covid-19 and beyond: Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa

Event details and recordings available here. On 8 April 2021, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) hosted the fifth of their webinar series on forced displacement. Drawing on lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa, co-moderators Roula El-Rifai and James Milner,... More

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