Knowledge Production in Displacement and Forced Migration
APR 17 & 18, 2023
Workshop at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Conveners: Joshua Donovan (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Vitalij Fastovskij (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Monday, April 17, 2023
welcome
9 – 10:00 a.m.
Panel 1
10 – 11:30 a.m.
Migrant Knowledge and Space
Moderator: Vitalij Fastovskij
Martin Nekola, Independent Scholar:
Czech refugees in the displaced persons camps after 1948
Phi Nguyen, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne:
Devout Landscape – Migrant Placemaking in Huế, Vietnam
Comments: Ani Yeremyan & Benjamin Tromly
Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 2
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Education/Pedagogy
Moderator: Joshua Donovan
Evren Altinkas, University of Guelph:
The German Scholars of Jewish Origins in Turkey (1933-1939): Formation of Turkish Higher Education System
Charis Marantzidou, Columbia University:
Refugees as Modernizers? Russian Émigrés in Bulgaria and the International Humanitarian System in the Interwar Period, 1917-1948
Comments: Jan Lambertz & Nour A. Munawar
Break
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel3
3:00 -4:30 p.m.
Production of ego-documents/autobiography
Moderator: Vitalij Fastovskij
Roy Bar Sadeh, Yale University
Questioning Imperial Minority Rights: Soviet Muhajirs and the 1931 General Islamic Congress in Jerusalem
Barbara Henning, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz:
The Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in post-Ottoman Turkey: Epistemic Displacements, Restarts and Resilience of a Trans-Imperial Status Group
Comments: Martin Nekola & Rustam Khan
Dinner
6:00 – 9 p.m.
Optional: Casual Dinner (self pay)
We have reserved a big table at Woodstock’s Pizza. You may also explore Santa Barbara on your own.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Panel 4
9:00 – 10::30 a.m.
Refugee newspapers
Moderator: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Ramon Wiederkehr, University of Neuchâtel
“A small signpost to the future”: Refugee Periodicals, Migrant Knowledge, and the International Refugee Regime in Early Postwar Switzerland, 1944–1952
Ani Yeremyan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: Knowledge Production through Newspapers: Armenian Forced Migration in the late 19th and early 20th Century
Comments: Roy Bar Sadeh & Phi Nguyen
Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
Panel 5
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Postcolonial legacies
Moderator: Joshua Donovan
Rustam Khan, MIT:
Human rights, migrant labor activism, and rightful pasts in postcolonial Belgium 1970s
Nour A. Munawar, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies:
Where is my Home?
Comments: Barbara Henning & Charis Marantzidou
Break
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
lunch
Panel 6
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Instrumentalizing refugee knowledge
Moderator: Nino Vallen, GHI Washington
Jan Lambertz, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
A Harvest in Wartime: U.S. Intelligence Agencies, Repatriates, and Refugees
Benjamin Tromly, University of Puget Sound:
Russian Displaced Persons and Cold War Knowledge of the Vlasov Movement
Comments: Ramon Wiederkehr & Evren Altinkas
Break
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
coffee Break
Conclusion
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.