Events
Cosponsor
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Organizer
- Center for the Study of Social Difference
Contact
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required. See details.
The Refugee Cities Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference presents an interdisciplinary public symposium, “Refugee Cities: Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement.”
The Refugee Cities Working Group’s concerns lie at the intersection of urban studies on the one hand and, on the other, the humanistic and social justice-oriented study of the mass movement of people fleeing violence, war, and forced removal. This symposium will focus on the impact of refugees on cities and urban processes, both in the present moment and as a historical phenomenon.
A keynote lecture will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 27, with all other presentations to be scheduled throughout the day on Friday, April 28.
In conjunction with Refugree Cities, the SOF/Heyman is also co-sponsoring a film screening of Dry Ground Burning (Friday, April 28; register here) followed by the Beyond Dystopia roundtable (Saturday, April 29; register here), which both seek to build on the themes and ideas raised by the symposium.
Program
April 27, 2023 Thursday
6:15pm EDT
Keynote Lecture
Borders and Commoning: The Struggle over Political Imagination
Miriam Ticktin
Department of Anthropology
CUNY Graduate Center
April 28, 2023 Friday
10:15am EDT
Panel One
Lineage and Patronage: Dual Identities of the Refugees in Early China, c. 770-476 BCE
Liu Xuan
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Columbia University
Between the Seven Worlds: Curing and Cosmological Migration with Uitoto Desplazados
Amy Leia McLachlan
Field Museum
Peace in Refugee Cities? Lessons from Resettled Rohingya Refugees in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Fort Wayne
Helal Mohammed Khan
Department of Anthropology/Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame
Whose city? The Refugees, The Locals and the Changing Dynamics of the Urban Landscape of Post-Partition Calcutta
Subhasree Ghosh
Asutosh College (University of Calcutta, India)
Comment
A. George Bajalia
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Wesleyan University
12:00pm EDT
Lunch
1:00pm EDT
Panel Two
Between Global Humanitarian Policy & Local Implementation: On the Socio-spatial Protection of Urban Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon
Maureen Abi-Ghanem
Doctoral Student in Urban Planning
Columbia University
Rhythms of Cement: Displaced Syrian Construction Workers in Modern-day Beirut
Bailey Miller
Doctoral Student in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Columbia University
"It Only Lacked a University”: The Urban Identity of Damascus’s Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Matthew DeMaio
Doctoral Student in the Department of Anthropology
George Washington University
Urbanization and Multiple Migrations: The Social Production of Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Nadia Latif
Doctoral Student in the Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
Comment
Nora Akawi
Assistant Professor of Architecture
The Cooper Union
2:45pm EDT
Closing Roundtable
Amy Chazkel
Department of History
Columbia University
Bahia Munem
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University
Fanny Julissa García
Researcher, oral historian, and educator
Jorge Rodríguez Solórzano
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University