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The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Global Responses

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Panel discussion “The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Global Responses” with Judith Kumin, 33-year veteran of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) including UNHCR’s director for Europe; Jennifer Hyndman, professor and director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University; and Alison Mountz, professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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RCGA Annual Conference: From Scroll to Scrolling: Shifting Cultures of Language and Identities

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
12:15 p.m. Lunch served in the RAJ House Conference Room SESSION III: Orality, Literacy, New Media • “My Knowledge Is Only from Books”: Textuality, orality, and literacy of women Sanskritists in postcolonial India Laurie Patton, Middlebury College • Reifu Talismans in Japan: From secret transmission to commonplace symbol Laura Miller, University of Missouri—St. Louis • Poetry as Equipment for Living: Imagining Navajo on the page and on the Internet Anthony Webster, University of Texas at Austin

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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RCGA Annual Conference: From Scroll to Scrolling: Shifting Cultures of Language and Identities

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
SESSION VI: Writing and Mobile Identities • How to Write Chatino Right, Right Now Hilaria Cruz, University of Kentucky • From Indigenous to Catalan (Is It Possible?): Shifting paradigms of identity in the Spanish postcolonial context Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain • Theatre of Rebellion: Danny Yung and political Hong Kong theater Wah Guan Lim, Bard College • Animal Writing in Tawada Y”ïko’s The Snow Apprentice Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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RCGA Annual Conference: From Scroll to Scrolling: Shifting Cultures of Language and Identities

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
SESSION IV: Technologies of Writing and Imaginations of Community • Ideologies and Technologies of Tamil Book Printing: Lessons from nineteenth century French India and Guiana Sonia Das, New York University • From Cultural Periphery to Cultural Capital: Ili and the making of modern Uyghur culture Joshua Freeman, Harvard University • Sign Language Mediated by Digital Technology as a Link to Build Cultural Identities Ana Gediel, Federal University of Viços, Brazil (with Molly Bloom, University of California, Los Angeles)

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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