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°Õ³ó±ðÌýÌýÌý–ÌýÌýtook place on 24-25^th. October 2019, hosted by the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Advanced Studies.

Leading academic and practitioner experts in the fields of migration, displacement and refugee studies took part, including keynote speakers, ProfessorsÌýÌý(Harvard),ÌýÌý(Oxford), and Sari Hanafi (American University, Beirut).

The Conference wasÌýlive-streamedÌýin both English and Arabic, and viewed by over 1,500 people online. It is still available to watch:

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The event marked the start of the fourth and final year of the AHRC-ESRC fundedÌýRefugee HostsÌýproject, led by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Geography’s Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. This is examining the diverse roles played by local communities, including established refugee communities and local faith communities, inÌýresponding to refugees displaced from SyriaÌýsince 2011.

Participants were encouraged to join Refugee Hosts’Ìý‘community of conversation’, to debate the dominant humanitarian discourse, including the politics and ethics of knowledge production and current theory and practice in relation to forced migration.

Detailed summaries of the themes, in addition to panellists’ biographies and presentation abstracts are available below:

Find the programme of the event, live-stream videos, and their Arabic translations, on the .

Join the conferenceÌýconversationÌýonÌýTwitterÌýusing the hashtags #RHIC19 and #PoliticsAndPoetics and by taggingÌý, or by writing a blog for the Refugee Hosts website.

Panel-by-panel podcasts and videos will be available soon from theÌýÌýwebsite.

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