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20/04/2023
15:30 Hybrid format event (In person and online webinar)
Migration Governance and Asylum Crises (MAGYC) Concluding Conference
Keynote Address and Roundtable
“What is Home? Syrian Refugees and Narratives of Belonging”
Keynote Address and Roundtable
“What is Home? Syrian Refugees and Narratives of Belonging”
Lieu : Les Salons scientifiques (B108), 1 place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin 75007 Paris
While of universal significance, the question of home gains special significance in contexts of forced migration. Examining the Syrian case for larger insights, Wendy Pearlman shares interviews that she has conducted over the past decade with 500 displaced Syrians around the world. She explores their stories of losing, seeking, finding, or not finding home, and what they teach us about the meaning of belonging. The perspectives of refugees challenge common narratives of “crisis” and interrogate conventional wisdoms about displacement.
Keynote Speaker:
Wendy Pearlman is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she holds the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence and the Crown Professorship of Middle East Studies. A specialist in the comparative politics of the Middle East, she is the author of four books and thirty-five academic articles or book chapters on topics ranging from social movements to refugee studies.
Roundtable Panelists:
Munzoul Assal is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan and the University of Bergen, Norway.
Elspeth Guild is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary University of London as well as at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a partner at the London law firm, Kingsley Napley and a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges.
Nassim Majidi is the co-founder and Executive Director of Samuel Hall. She is also a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, USA.
Mehari Taddele Maru is part-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance and Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute. He is also a Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges and a member of the Technical Committee of the Tana High-Level Security Forum, a
Roundtable Moderator:
Hélène Thiollet is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) based at the Center for International Research (CERI) of Sciences Po Paris. She is the institutional lead at Sciences Po for the MAGYC project.
Organized by: CERI
