Between Worlds: Culture, Biographies, Spectacle

National Portrait Gallery, London
10 -11 May 2007
A one and a half-day interdisciplinary conference organised to accompany the exhibition Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850 which opened at the National Portrait Gallery on 7 March 2007.  Drawing on some of the individuals and ideas in the exhibition, the conference aims to consider issues related to cultural exchange [...]

Exile and Narrative/Poetic Imagination

Contributions are solicited for inclusion in a book on Exile and Narrative/Poetic Imagination. Papers may examine texts by any exiled writer from any country, dealing with the literary representation of exile. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: women and exile; creativity and exile; personal/cultural memory; remembering, longing, and forgetting; language and identity; [...]

Refugee Voices Newsletter

by Veysel Essiz 
Prepared within Helsinki Citizens Assembly’s (hCa) Refugee Advocacy and Support Program, the first issue of “Refugee Voices” newsletter that aims at raising awareness about the situation of refugees living in Turkey is published. The newsletter includes photographs and articles from refugees in Turkey, and is available in English and Turkish.”Refugee Voices” is designed [...]

Refugees Into Teaching Conference

The Refugees into Teaching project is happy to announce its upcoming Summer Conference on 22 June 2007:
Coming full circle: re-training and re-employing refugee teachers
22 June 2007 (09:30-16:30), The Living Room, City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA.
This free conference aims to encourage dialogue between those responsible for selection and recruitment decisions and refugees seeking [...]

Voices from Abroad: The Spanish Caribbean Author as Traveler, Exile, (Im)Migrant

Call for Submissions
Edited Collection
We are looking for essays for an edited collection that examines the
experiences and contributions of Spanish Caribbean writers who have left
their hometowns and native lands to live, write, and/or work abroad.  We
invite book chapters (of approximately 20 pages) that THEORIZE about the
role or place of (1) travel, (2) exile, and/or (3) (im)migration [...]

Migrant Cinema

by Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg 
At our recent conference The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe internationally acclaimed filmmakers, producers and other leading media practitioners discussed their views on what it means to make, produce and distribute films made by diasporic filmmakers in Europe. You now have the opportunity to listen to six [...]

Refugee Rights and Responsibilities

From Nicholas Van Hear, a new commentary on refugee rights and responsibilities:
The third in the series of online consultations focuses on complex refugee responsibilities. While understanding that particular social and cultural contexts impact on different refugees’ responsibilities, it can be argued that forced migrants are faced with a more complex set of responsibilities than others. [...]

Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees

From Max Martin, a freelance journalist based in Bangalore, a recent series of photographs on Sri Lankan Refugees:
2006 marked the highest number of arrivals in 23 years – more people are coming. Their safe passage across the Palk Straits is a major issue – largely unaddressed yet.

Strangers into Citizens Campaign

Please log in to check information on the Strangers into Citizens Campaign: http://www.strangersintocitizens.org.uk/
To volunteer to act as Stewards on the 7th May please see the flyer. The volunteers would need to be available for training on 5th May.
Also, do you know that…
A recent ORB opinion poll has shown that a large majority of [...]

Workshop this Friday: Destitution and the role of Ethnic-minority Media…

Destitution and the role of Ethnic-minority Media in representing Asylum-seekers
Workshop 27th April 2007, Nottingham FREE
This workshop, to be held at Nottingham Trent University as part of the ‘Making the Connections: arts, migration and diaspora’ series, aims to explore issues surrounding ‘destitution’ and the role of ethnic-alternative media in giving a voice to [...]