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Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries:

Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies

The purpose of this seminar is to promote the historical study of refugees, who are too often regarded as a phenomenon of recent times. By viewing the problem of refugees from a historical perspective, the seminar seeks to complicate and contextualize our understanding of peoples who have fled political or religious conflicts, persecution, and violence. By bringing together some 15 advanced PhD students and early postdocs from different parts of the world whose individual research projects examine refugees in different times and places, we intend to give a sense of purpose to this emerging field of study and demonstrate the value of viewing the plight of refugees from a historical perspective. The seminar takes places alternately in Germany and the United States.

The seminar is hosted by Jan C. Jansen (University of Tübingen), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University) and Simone Lässig (GHI). The participants will be joined by a group of leading senior scholars in the field of refugee history, including Delphine Diaz (University of Reims-Institut universitaire de France), Ilana Feldman (George Washington University), Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) and Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth)

The seminar is organized conjointly by the University of Tübingen, the American Historical Association and the German Historical Institute in Washington and supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the European Research Council project “Atlantic Exiles”, the German Historical Institute, and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21).