Abstract
We, at the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, are a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives– and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities. In this session, we each present on a “key word” in positing a different orientation in the Humanities as it relates to the figure of the refugee. “Transits” will be a dynamique colloquium that puts into place a new vocabulary to structure refugee discourse.
Presenters
Lan DuongAssociate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California, United States Fiori Berhane
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Southern California, California, United States Yen Espiritu
Distinguished Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, California, United States Ma Vang
Associate Professor, History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Merced, California, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Traveling Concepts: The Transfer and Translation of Ideas in the Humanities
KEYWORDS
Refugees, Transits, Key Words, Epistemologies, Cosmologies, Futurities, Gender, Sexuality
