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Join us in making Refuge together this Saturday at The New School! Learning to live & feel in times of duress, we have taken to conceptualizing what Refuge is, but what it most certainly is not, yet what it can also be. From colonial refuge to the refuge of imagination, from the foreclosures it avails the refugee of to seeking refuge in exile to home and beyond, there is much to talk about. Alongside an exhibit & screenings to attend to. With a little bit of nice food and conversation to go with it.
 
Conference Schedule:
Light Breakfast – 9:30
Opening Provocation by Ann Stoler – 10:00-10:30
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1st Panel: Cell – 10:30-12:00
–Aya Jaffar, Transdisciplinary Design (MFA), Parsons – Narratives of (Post)displacement: Designing spaces for integration
–Valerie Giesen, Anthropology (MA), Columbia University – We have never been colonial – Germany and the refugee crisis
–Ramon de Haan, Anthropology (MA), NSSR – Dutch Anxiety: Fear for the Syrian Refugee in the Netherlands
–Anke Gruendel, Design Studies (MA), Parsons – Governing Contingency: The Technopolitics of Design­ Led Public Innovation
Hunger, Lunch – 12:00-1:00
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Making Refuge with Catherine Bestemann & Bernadette Ludwig – 1:00 – 2:00
2nd Panel: Haven – 2:00-3:10
–FaDi Shayya, Theories of Urban Practice (MA) & Nadine Rachid, Design and Urban Ecologies (MS), andKartik Amarnath, Design and Urban Ecologies (MS), Parsons – Refuge and the Territoriality of Habitation: A Critical Inquiry
–Yemima Cohen – A House of prayer for all nations, (terms & conditions may apply): how heritage sites around the Temple Mount create group boundaries
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3rd Panel: Asylum – 3:10-4:30
–Valentina Ramia, Anthropology (MA), NSSR – Foreclosure: A Concept at its Site
–Ye Liu, Sociology (MA), NSSR – Re-imagining refuge: An approach of spatial realpolitik
–Michelle Munyikwa, Anthropology (MD/PhD), University of Pennsylvania – Seeking Refuge: Black Americans Seeking the Otherwise
Wait, Coffee Break – 4:30-5:15
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4th Panel: Shelter – 5:15-6:30
–Erick Howard, Anthropology (PhD), NSSR – No Refuge in Return: intimacies of home and exile on a Lakota reservation
–Tamara Álvarez Fernández, Anthropology (PhD), NSSR – Searching for Refuge in the Cosmos: Humans as Interplanetary Species
–Elisa Taber, Anthropology (MA), NSSR – “(Know you Know) What You Don’t Know”
 
Thirst, Reception – 6:30
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// Multisensory offerings:
  • Aya Jaffar, Transdisciplinary Design (MFA), Finishing Thesis
    1. Narratives of (Post)Displacement [Refuge] mini-Exhibit: Designed objects, spaces & interactions for an imaginary infrastructure
  • Brendan & Jeremy Smyth (Documentary Filmmakers)
    1. “Seeking refuge in money“: The story of  Israel Garcia Lopez from Oaxaca, Mexico, living like a ghost in the US
    2. “Rice for Sale“: Vignettes of Balinese migrants working alongside Israel