Narratives of Forced Migration in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 16-18 September 2019


Organisers, Dr Fiona Barclay and Dr Beatrice Ivey, were delighted to host 90 speakers over the three days of the conference from every continent. The conference was funded in part by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Recordings of the keynote presentations have been made available below.

Christine ​Vicera from the University of Hong Kong very kindly took pictures and shared these with us.

Professor Marianne Hirsch and Professor Leo Spitzer: "No Cameras, No Questions!" Displaced Children and Haunted Concentrationary Sites


Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge: Freedom Time/Survival Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani