Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries: Fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies 2024
On July 3-6, 2024, the fourth International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies will be held at the University of Tübingen, conjointly organized by the University of Tübingen, the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association. For a glimpse into the program and set of participants, see here.
Historicising the Refugee Experience: Some Reflections on Current Research Interests, Concepts, Paradigms, and Problems in Refugee Studies
Keynote lecture, July 3, 2024, 6 pm CET, University of Tübingen
Susanne Lachenicht (Universität Bayreuth) will hold a keynote lecture on "Historicising the Refugee Experience: Some Reflections on Current Research Interests, Concepts, Paradigms, and Problems in Refugee Studies" as part of the Fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies. For online attendance, please register by sending an email to refugee-historyspam prevention@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de.
Workshop
Alienness, Belonging, and Mobility Control in a Global Perspective, c. 1750-1900
April 25-27, 2024, University of Tübingen
For further information, please look here.
Interview
Listen to Thomas Mareite's New Books Network podcast on his book Conditional Freedom.
Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries: Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies 2023
On July 4-7, 2023, the third International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies was held at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, conjointly organized by the University of Tübingen, the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association. For a glimpse into the program and set of participants, see here.
Humanitarian Time and Refugee Presence: On Palestinian Lives in Extended Displacement
Keynote lecture, July 4, 2023, here
We are moving! As of March 1, 2023, the University of Tübingen is our new host institution. More info and a link to our new website will follow soon.
Excited to welcome two new affiliated members in our team: Sophie Rose and Sibylle Fourcaud!
As a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG Research Unit "Ambiguity and Distinction" at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Sophie works on a project on alien regulation in revolutionary-era Curaçao in comparative perspective. For more information on Sophie's work, see here.
Sibylle pursues her PhD project (at Science Po, Paris) on the long history of reception and assistance policies towards Saint-Domingue refugees in metropolitan France. For more information on Sibylle's work, see here.
Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries: 2023 Call for Papers
The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), are pleased to announce the third International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, which will be held at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21) in Duisburg, July 4–7, 2023. For the full Call see the Seminar's see blog on hypothesis
Interview
"Faccia a faccia: 'Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s-1820s: Alessandro Bonvini intervista Jan C. Jansen," Rassegna storica del Risorgimento 108, no. 2 (2021): 126–132.
Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries: Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies 2022
On July 13–16, 2022, the second International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies was held at the German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington, DC, conjointly organized by the University of Duisburg-Essen, the GHI and the National History Center of the American Historical Association. For a glimpse into the program and set of participants, see the Seminar's blog on hypothesis
Nicolás González Quintero has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and appointed postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo’s History Department. Congratulations!!
Congratulations to Megan Maruschke who has accepted the position of tenure track Assistant Professor for Global Studies at the University of Leipzig! Megan will continue to be a member of the "Atlantic Exiles" team.
A link to her new website will follow soon.
"American Indians for Saint-Domingue? Exile, Violence, and Imperial Geopolitics after the French and Haitian Revolutions," Jan C. Jansen
Article in French Historical Studies 45, no. 1 (2022): 49–86, open access here.
"Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s", Jan C. Jansen
Article in Past & Present 255 (2022), advanced open access here.
"Who is a Refugee?"
The ERC Project “Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s-1820s)” at the University of Duisburg‐Essen holds the workshop “Who is a Refugee? Concepts of Exile, Refuge, and Asylum, c. 1750–1850” in Essen, June 30 – July 1, 2022 Read on
"Learning By Doing: Reflections on Refugee History", Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
Public Keynote here
Interview
Interview with "TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research" about Atlantic Exiles project.
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