(This message is being re-posted. The deadline for applications is 30
November.)
The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in
Cairo is planning to conduct TWO CONCURRENT short courses starting January 25,
2005
Please find below more details about the two courses and the application
procedures.
The American University in Cairo
FORCED MIGRATION AND REFUGEE STUDIES
Short courses
1- Romani Studies; Ethnicity, Migration & Identity
January 25-31, 2005
Course Description:
The Gypsy peoples of the world- Romani, Domari, Lomavren, among others
represent the most sensitive "litmus test" in the context of processes of
nation-state construction, modernization and westernization. Romani Studies is
moving into a new paradigm where the previous explanations for continuing
discrimination, marginalization, enforced or commercial nomadism and
linguistic development are being tested in the light of new Romani
historiography. The new Paradigm encompasses scholarship relating to the study
of ethnicity, identity, arts and cultural studies, racism, linguistics,
anthropology, ethnology, literary criticism and history.
This short course is designed to answer the most basic question, "Who are the
Gypsies?" By investigating their ancestry in eleventh-century India, their
origins and formation in twelfth-century Byzantium, to their social and
economic situation as Dom in modern Egypt, the course addresses the issues of
language, culture, identity, religious beliefs, marriage practices and
communal self-regulation. It offers students a knowledge and understanding of
the main themes current in contemporary Romani studies, understanding the
socio-historical processes of marginalization, evolution of social and
political relationships between Gypsy groups, understand the nature of
prejudice that has historically been an intrinsic element of the relationship
between Gypsies and non-Gypsies.
Instructors: **Mr. Adrian Marsh, who is of English Romanichal origin, is a
Lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University and Director of International Romani
Studies Network. He has been working in the fields of community education,
childcare and social work for many years. As an academic, he has been working
on the history of the Gypsies in the late Ottoman Empire for his doctoral
thesis, and has written extensively on the Romani Holocaust and the origins of
the Gypsies in Cairo.
**Ms. Elin Strand Marsh, Research Coordinator at IRSN/Bilgi University. She
has carried out research into the Romani Pentecostal Church in Europe, Gypsies
in Cyprus, Bulgaria and Turkey and has published reviews of the most recent
Swedish works concerning Roma and Resande.
The course will take place at the American University in Cairo, New Falaki
Building, Room # 801. Between 9 am and 4 pm, every day.
Tuition: The fee for the course is US $100 for international participants and
LE 170 for Egyptians and Residents of Egypt. A limited number of tuition
waivers are available for refugees in Egypt.
If interested please download the application form from our website
www.aucegypt.edu/fmrs and send it to [log in to unmask]
DEADLINE: November 30, 2004
Additional information on the course and accomodation in Cairo available on
FMRS website:www.aucegypt.edu/fmrs
2- Refugee Camps and 'Warehousing'
January 26-31, 2005
Course Description:
Refugee camps, an ostensibly temporary solution to situations of mass influx
of refugees from wars, ethnic conflict, and famines, are often perceived as a
mechanism to alleviate human suffering in immediate and focused ways. Refugee
camps, however, often become a long-term condition with no solution in sight,
leaving generations of refugees trapped within artificial physical, political
and social borders.
This course will address the logic of keeping displaced populations in camps
and of 'encampment' in general. Using both historical (labor camps,
concentration camps and children camps) and contemporary case studies, the
course will identify the main features of camps as spaces characterized by the
dynamics of power and control as well as specific types of social organization
and social relations. The course will address the rhetoric of camps as 'safe
areas' and as 'warehousing', as seats of political activism and insurgency
(e.g. Tanzania, Rwanda) as well as paradigmatic areas of human rights
violations.
Instructor: Dr. Eftihia Voutira, Associate Professor, Department of Balkan
Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki,
Greece. She studied Philosophy (Harvard University) and Social Anthropology
(University of Cambridge), from 1993-1998 she was Research Officer at the
Refugee Studies Program and the School of Geography, University of Oxford. She
is the author of Conflict Resolution: A Cautionary Tale ( Uppsala, Sweden:
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet 1995), Improving Social and Gender Planning in
Humanitarian Emergencies (Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford/
World Food Programme, Rome 1995) and Anthropology in International
Humanitarian Emergencies (with Jean Benoist; European Commission, Brussels,
Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA) July 1994, 2nd edition, 1998), The
Right to Return and the Meaning of `Home´, Berghahn, Oxford, forthcoming).
The course will take place at the American University in Cairo,
Rare Books Building, Room # 203. Between 9 am and 4 pm, every day.
Tuition: The fee for the course is US $100 for international participants and
LE 170 for Egyptians and Residents of Egypt. A limited number of tuition
waivers are available for refugees in Egypt.
If interested please download the application form from our website
www.aucegypt.edu/fmrs and send it to [log in to unmask]
DEADLINE: November 30, 2004
Additional information on the course and accomodation in Cairo available on
FMRS website:www.aucegypt.edu/fmrs
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