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September 23 - 25, 2010, New York University 4 & 5/F, 20 Cooper Square
This three day symposium at New York University will draw together academics and practitioners working on refugee-related issues to explore how crisis, sovereignty, representation and culture intersect in the figure of the refugee. By highlighting the social agency, political activism, and cultural expressions that refugees enact, we hope to trouble conventional representations of the refugee as the fearful subject, bereft of speech, for a more robust sense of the political aspirations of these subjects.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Conference Program
Thursday, September 23rd
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square
6:00pm Opening Remarks
6:30pm Documentary Screening: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
8:00pm Discussion with filmmaker Zach Niles and Mohammed
Naseehu Ali, writer and musician
Friday, September 24th
Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square
9:00am Breakfast
9:30am Panel I: Zones of Indistinction, The Production of Crisis
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Camp Cities: Material, Space,
and Architecture"
April Shemak, "Refugee Cartographies: Mapping the Zone of
Indistinction in Post-Earthquake Haiti"
Anne Cubilié, "Impossible Ethics: Justice, Protection and
Operational Practice"
Moderator: Jini Watson, English, NYU
11:00am Break
11:30am Panel II: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
and by Refugees I
Louisa Schein, "Contested Images of Refugeehood
in Hmong American Cultural Production"
Sara Green, documentary screening and discussion about
Art for Refugees in Transition's programs
Moderator: Sangeeta Ray, English and Comparative Literature,
U Maryland
1:00pm Lunch Break
2:30pm Panel III: Maneuvering at the Margins of Refugeehood
Zenia Kish, "'A Devil's Bargain': Haitian Rice, Agricultural
Agricultural Restructuring and Hunger Refugees"
Susan Bibler Coutin, "Falling Outside: Excavating the
History of Central American Asylum Seekers"
Celina Su, "Between Migrant and Refugee, Evading
Categories: Pragmatic Lessons from Shan Burmese
Refugees in Thailand"
Moderator: Margaret Satterthwaite, Law, NYU
4:00pm Break
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square
4:30pm Keynote Lecture: Thomas Keenan
"'After Every War Someone Has to Tidy Up':
Some Thoughts on the Politics of Neutrality"
6 - 7:30pm Reception
Saturday, September 25th
Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square
9:00am Breakfast
9:30am Panel IV: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
and by Refugees II
Nina Ha, "'Our Mothers and Their Lives of Suffer':
Examining Refugee Women's Lives Through
Literature"
David Campbell, "Humanity in Motion: A Critical
Reading of Multimedia Stories from the Congo"
Miriam Ticktin, "Reading Refugee Claims: The
Politics of Biology and Fiction"
Moderator: Joseph Slaughter, English and Comparative Lit,
Columbia University
11:00am Break
11:30am Panel V: Naming Practices: Consolidating Nations and
Borders
Eliot Borenstein, "Running in Place: Borders, Migrants, and the
Symbolic Geography of Post-Soviet Russia"
Jana Lipman, "'Give us a Ship': The Vietnamese Repatriate
Movement on Guam, 1975"
Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Eligibility: UNRWA and
the Definition of a 'Palestine Refugee'"
Moderator: Renato Rosaldo, Anthropology, NYU
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square
6:00pm Opening Remarks
6:30pm Documentary Screening: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
8:00pm Discussion with filmmaker Zach Niles and Mohammed
Naseehu Ali, writer and musician
Friday, September 24th
Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square
9:00am Breakfast
9:30am Panel I: Zones of Indistinction, The Production of Crisis
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Camp Cities: Material, Space,
and Architecture"
April Shemak, "Refugee Cartographies: Mapping the Zone of
Indistinction in Post-Earthquake Haiti"
Anne Cubilié, "Impossible Ethics: Justice, Protection and
Operational Practice"
Moderator: Jini Watson, English, NYU
11:00am Break
11:30am Panel II: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
and by Refugees I
Louisa Schein, "Contested Images of Refugeehood
in Hmong American Cultural Production"
Sara Green, documentary screening and discussion about
Art for Refugees in Transition's programs
Moderator: Sangeeta Ray, English and Comparative Literature,
U Maryland
1:00pm Lunch Break
2:30pm Panel III: Maneuvering at the Margins of Refugeehood
Zenia Kish, "'A Devil's Bargain': Haitian Rice, Agricultural
Agricultural Restructuring and Hunger Refugees"
Susan Bibler Coutin, "Falling Outside: Excavating the
History of Central American Asylum Seekers"
Celina Su, "Between Migrant and Refugee, Evading
Categories: Pragmatic Lessons from Shan Burmese
Refugees in Thailand"
Moderator: Margaret Satterthwaite, Law, NYU
4:00pm Break
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square
4:30pm Keynote Lecture: Thomas Keenan
"'After Every War Someone Has to Tidy Up':
Some Thoughts on the Politics of Neutrality"
6 - 7:30pm Reception
Saturday, September 25th
Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square
9:00am Breakfast
9:30am Panel IV: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
and by Refugees II
Nina Ha, "'Our Mothers and Their Lives of Suffer':
Examining Refugee Women's Lives Through
Literature"
David Campbell, "Humanity in Motion: A Critical
Reading of Multimedia Stories from the Congo"
Miriam Ticktin, "Reading Refugee Claims: The
Politics of Biology and Fiction"
Moderator: Joseph Slaughter, English and Comparative Lit,
Columbia University
11:00am Break
11:30am Panel V: Naming Practices: Consolidating Nations and
Borders
Eliot Borenstein, "Running in Place: Borders, Migrants, and the
Symbolic Geography of Post-Soviet Russia"
Jana Lipman, "'Give us a Ship': The Vietnamese Repatriate
Movement on Guam, 1975"
Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Eligibility: UNRWA and
the Definition of a 'Palestine Refugee'"
Moderator: Renato Rosaldo, Anthropology, NYU
Friday, September 3, 2010
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