Recorded Sessions
Thursday, March 7
4:30-4:45 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Tamar Mayer, Middlebury College
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Session 1: Re-Imagining Migration
Chair: Laura Dillon ‘19
Moderator: Daniel Silva, Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies
- Re-Imagining Migration in the Wake of “Crisis,” Global Compacts, and Exclusion
Jennifer Hyndman, York University, Canada
- When Trauma Follows: Toward a critical feminist methodology of migration, trauma, and empire
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Bennington College
6:15-7:00 p.m. Dinner provided
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Session 2: Lessons in History
Chair: Audrey Pan ’19
Moderator: Guntram Herb, Department of Geography
- Forced Migration by War and Colonialization in Medieval Spain: Between al-Andalus and the feudal world
J. Santiago Palacios Ontalva, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Questions of Belonging: Victims of Nazi-persecution in Colonial Kenya
Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College
Friday, March 8
12:30–2:00 p.m.
Session 3: Fleeing for Your Life
Chair: Lulu Zhou ’19
Moderator: Dima Ayoub, Department of Arabic
- Re-Conceptualizing Puerto Rican Migration: From voluntary to economic and climate migrants
Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island
- New Insecurities: The political ecology of climate migrants, belonging, and adaptation to multiple stressors in Ghana
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, University of Denver
- A Parallel Society in the Making? A case study of the migrant recycling enclaves in Beijing
Jia Feng, Washburn University
2:15–3:45 p.m.
Session 4: There Is No Place Like Home?
Chair: Anton Gallegos ’21
Moderator: Kristina Sargent, Department of Economics
- Uprootedness: Refugee narratives and the question of belonging
Andreas Kossert, Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin, Germany
- Mobility and Displacement: A comparative analysis of refugees in Tucson and nomads in Mongolia
Orhon Myadar, University of Arizona
- Black Beirut: Migration, intimacy, exile
Sumayya Kassamali, Tufts University
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Session 5: Women on the Move: Negotiating Belonging
Chair: Georgia Vasilopoulos ’21
Moderator: William Poulin-Deltour, Lois ’51 and J. Harvey Watson Department of French and Francophone Studies
- “I Can’t Stay Here Anymore”: Cruel optimism and generational practices of endurance in post-Soviet Armenia
Kaitlin Fertaly, University of Colorado
- “I Had No Will to Live”: Rohingya refugee women negotiating gender, identity, and belonging
Farhana Rahman, University of Cambridge, UK
Saturday, March 9
9:00–10:45 a.m.
Session 6: From Displacement to Belonging
Chair: Madison Holland ’21
Moderator: Trinh Tran, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- An Uncertain Return: Violence, documents, and legal death in the Syrian displacement in Lebanon
Veronica Ferreri, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
- Kinship and “the Refugee Crisis”: Interrogating the racial and sexual discourses of family in Canadian refugee sponsorship
Natalie Kouri-Towe, Concordia University, Canada
- The Role of Discourse in Educational Policies for Refugee-background Students
Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College