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2021 Program

Day 1: October 12, 2021

13:30 – 15:45 CET
WELCOME & SESSION 1

Chair: Dane Kennedy (Washington, DC)

Welcome: Jan C. Jansen (Duisburg-Essen)

Fabrice Langrognet (Princeton/Oxford): The refugee-migrant distinction and the need for bridging analytical divides

Anne Schult (New York): Counting the Countless: Statistics, Demography, and the Modern Refugee, 1920s-1960.

Comments: David de Boer & Nicolás González Quintero

16:15 – 18:00 CET
SESSION 2

Chair: Sabine Hanke (Duisburg-Essen)

David de Boer (Amsterdam): Humanitarianism before the Humanitarian Revolution: Transnational Compassion and Refugee Relief in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1750

Olivier Lamon (Geneva): A Republican-Democratic Asylum in the Heart of a Monarchical Europe? The Reception of Switzerland’s Asylum Policy Towards Refugees of the 1848 Revolutions

Comments: Mitchell Edwards & Salma Hargal

18:30 – 20:00 CET
PUBLIC KEYNOTE

Peter Gatrell (Manchester): Learning by Doing: Reflections on Refugee History

Day 2: October 13, 2021

09:00 – 10:45 CET
SESSION 3

Chair: Delphine Diaz (Reims)

Victoria Abrahamyan (Neuchâtel): The Impact of the Armenian Refugees on the Syrian Hosts during the French Mandate, 1920-1936

Salma Hargal (Lyon): The Algerian Refugee and Migrant Experience in the Ottoman Empire (1830–1914) Questioning the muhācir status in the late Ottoman Empire: The Algerian migrations after the French conquest (1830-1876)

Comments: Fabrice Langrognet & Charlotte Lysa

11:15 – 13:00 CET
SESSION 4

Chair: Megan Maruschke (Duisburg-Essen)

Mitchell Edwards (Evanston, IL): Cultivating Refuge in North-Central Uganda, 1720-1850

Edidiong Ekefre (Johannesburg): Hosting Refugees: The Nigerian Biafran Child-Refugees and the Inter-African Refugee network system during the Nigerian Civil War, 1967 and beyond

Comments: Lennart Bolliger & Sarah Knoll

14:30 – 16:15 CET
SESSION 5

Chair: Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)

Nicolás González Quintero (Sao Paulo): Belonging or not to the Nation”: Loyalist Refugees in the Caribbean during the Spanish American Revolutions

Ana Joanna Vergara Sierra (Minneapolis/St. Paul): Routes of exile – trans-imperial networks and the emigrants of the Venezuelan War of Independence in the non-Spanish Caribbean (1780-1830)

Comments: Dimitra Glenti & Olivier Lamon

Day 3: October 14, 2021

09:00 – 10:45 CET
SESSION 6

Intermediate discussion

11:15 – 13:00 CET
SESSION 7

Chair: Peter Gatrell (Manchester)

Dimitra Glenti (Lesvos): Refugee Experience and Integration in a Historical Perspective: The Case of Lesvos

Charlotte Lysa (Oslo): A History of Refugees in Saudi Arabia

Comments: Edidiong Ekefre & Lynton Lees

Day 4: October 15, 2021

09:00 – 10:45 CET
SESSION 8

The Academy in Exile

11:15 – 13:00 CET
SESSION 9

Chair: Thomas Mareite (Duisburg-Essen)

Baher Ibrahim (Glasgow): Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement: Refugees and Psychiatrists, 1945–1993Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement: Refugees and Psychiatrists, 1945-1993

Sarah Knoll (Vienna): Historicizing International Aid: UNHCR for refugees in Austria during the Cold War (1956–1990)

Comments: Victoria Abrahamyan & Anne Schult

14:30 – 16:15 CET
SESSION 10

Chair: Jannik Keindorf (Duisburg-Essen)

Lynton Lees (New York): Rescue and resettlement: emigrating Jewish child refugees in the late British empire, c.1938-1948

Lennart Bolliger (Berlin/Johannesburg): Militarized Refugees: A History of Angolan Women and Children Associated with Apartheid South Africa’s Military, 1975-89

Comments: Ana Joanna Vergara Sierra & Baher Ibrahim

16:45 – 10:45 CET

Chair: Jan C. Jansen (Duisburg-Essen)

Concluding discussion