FiftyRefugees: Stories of Refugees in Malaysia

by Aris Oziar
For the past three months I have been working on a
website project called FiftyRefugees.  As the name implies, it chronicles the
story of 50 refugees who currently call Malaysia their home.
Malaysia does not recognise the Geneva Refugee Convention, and partly as a
result of this (we have other legal avenues to give them rights, such [...]

Internally Displaced People’s Voices

Listen to the voices of people who have been violently forced from their homes, as they tell about their lives. Discover the personal stories behind the figures on internal displacement.
Find out more at: http://www.idpvoices.org

World Conference of Humanitarian Studies

World Conference of Humanitarian Studies,
Groningen, The Netherlands, 4-8 February 2009
Billed as the first world conference focusing on this field of study
Participants and occasion:
An estimated number of 500 participants from a variety of institutions, universities, NGOs and other relevant organisations, associations, governmental departments and intergovernmental agencies.
For more information see: http://www.humanitarianstudies2009.org/

New Journal: migrations & identities

Call for papers
migrations & identities is a new journal published bi-annually by  
Liverpool University Press. The title represents a programme: We aim  
to interrogate notions of ‘identity’ while asking how the fact of  
mobility and displacement shapes understandings of self and the wider  
world, among both migrants and ‘host’ societies.  By the same token,  
we [...]

Online Petition to support academic freedom in Iraq

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) Online Petition in Support of the Future of Academic Freedom in Iraq 
CARA is doing considerable work to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi academics and what can only be described as the wholesale destruction of the Iraqi education system. Over 280 Iraqi academics have been assassinated since 2003 and [...]

CFP: Ireland and the Caribbean

Call for Contributions, “Irish Migration Studies in Latin America”
Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2007)

Ireland and the Caribbean
Invited Editor: Jorge Chinea, Wayne State University, USA
 

The editors of “Irish Migration Studies in Latin America” invite
contributions for the forthcoming issue of the journal (Vol. 5, No. 3,
November 2007). Articles on any aspect [...]

Call for Contributions to Exiled Ink Magazine

The next feature of Exiled Ink Magazine will focus on:
Exiled writers’ relationships to their new British space and the British relationship to them. How do you express this in poetry, prose and drama?
We are particularly interested in work by exiled writers living outside London.
Please send to: lynette.craig@btinternet.com
Please send all other articles, poetry, prose, drama and images [...]

Literary Representations of “British Muslims”

Thursday 8 November 2007, Senate House, University of London, Malet St., London WC1E
Hosted by the Institute of English Studies in association with Goldsmith’s College, University of London, and Leeds Metropolitan University.
Deadline for handing in proposals was 30 July 2007.
In the current political climate, an increasingly complex debate is emerging about what it means to be “British [...]

An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and the Future

3 and 4 April 2008, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham
 
Deadline for papers and contributions: 30 November 2007
 
This conference might be of interest to everyone working in the area of climate change and forced migration (‘Intersections’ theme of the months of July and August).
The premise of this conference is that human society has had a potentially catastrophic [...]

‘Borders’ Exhibit in Barcelona

Sent in by photographer Lauren Hermele, an exhibit at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
“The examination of boundaries we propose in this exhibition is an exploration of borderline territories which somehow express the contradictions of a world that moves between hypercommunication and deep schism. The closer we move together, the more labyrinthine the world [...]