"Wanted: New Paradigms? Forced Migration, Mobilities and Humanitarianism in Australia and Beyond"
A two-day interdisciplinary symposium
The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Melbourne, Australia, 12 & 13 November 2012
Aims: Politics, policies and approaches to management and care of forced migrants are shaped by moral and practical imperatives and informed by often-implicit sets of values and knowledge. This two-day symposium will critique current paradigms framing thinking and practice and will interrogate new paradigms that situate mobility and morality at the center.
A key focus of this symposium is on humanitarian discourses and their consequences, as applied to the problem of forced migration. The symposium will
• facilitate an intensive face-to-face discussion among scholars and practitioners
who are working on issues of forced migration in Australia and the region;
• take stock of the state of the field and identify new research agendas.
Symposium discussion and debate will be organized around the critical anthropological scholarship of our keynote speaker: Professor Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
URL: http://formhub.net/blog/2012/07/20/forced-migration-symposium-and-launch-event/
For more information please visit www.formhub.net or www.sisr.net or
contact Sandy Gifford: [log in to unmask]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the
Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration
Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International
Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the
views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or
re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or
extracts should include attribution to the original sources.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines
Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave
List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html
RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies
|