The Next Generation of Humanitarianism and Refugee Studies

March23rd

Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Responses

Symposium

The Next Generation of Humanitarianism and Refugee Studies:

Challenges and Opportunities

Thursday 13th of April 2017

Greenberg Conference Center, Yale University

Provisional Agenda

8:30 am registration (light breakfast and coffee served)

9:00 am Introductory address

Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center

9:15 am Opening speech

Catherine Panter-Brick, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University.

9:30 am session 1

Legal and Health Challenges Facing Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States

Panelists:

• Katherine C. McKenzie, MD, Director, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine.
• Aniyizhai Annamalai, MBBS, MD, Director, Adult Refugee clinic; Director, Wellness Center, Connecticut Mental Health Center.
• MayaPrabhu, MD, LLB,Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Law and Psychiatry Division.

Chair:

• Kaveh Khoshnood, Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale University.

10:30 coffee break

10:45 Keynote address

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee ( IRC), former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK. (TBC)

11:30session 2

A Shattered Humanitarian System: Unprecedented Crisis, Unprecedented Challenges

Panelists:

• Clare Lockhart, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute, Yale University; Director and co-Founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE).
• David Miliband, (IRC). (TBC)
• Stephen Poellot, Legal Director and a co-founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP).

Chair:

• Catherine Panter-Brick,Professor of Anthropology, Yale University.

12:30 lunch

1:30session 3

The Challenge of Rebuilding Health Systems in Conflict Affected Situations

Panelists:

• Hani Mowafi, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.
• Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Assistant Professor, YSPH; Director Global Health Studies, Yale College.
• Asghar Rastegar, Professor of Medicine; Director, Office of Global Health; Chief, Fitkin Firm, YNHH.

Chair

• Unni Karunakara, Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute, Yale University; Former International President of Doctors without Borders. (TBC)

2:30 coffee break

2:45-3:15 session 4

America’s Arab Refugees: Poverty, Vulnerability, and the Health Costs of Conflict.

A presentation by Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, William K. Lanman Jr.Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs.

3:15 coffee break

3:30session 5

New Horizons of Humanitarianism in Action

Panelists:

• Christina Zhang, SY ’17, Architecture major. (Ideation)
• Lixing Liang, D'port ’18, (place and displacement)
• Maria Melchor Morse ’18, (Yale Refugee Project)

Chair:

• Geraldine A. Wu, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Yale SOM. (TBC)

4:30 wrap up and reception

Poster Presentations

• Yale Center for Asylum Medicine

• Yale Refugee Project

• Students for Salaam

• Ideation, Christina Zhang, Place and Displacement

Ideation Worldwide is a social innovation consultancy nonprofit that transforms the core programs of grassroots NGOs. Christina Zhang (the founder) SY ’17, an architecture major graduating this spring. Inspired by her Critical Refugee Studies course, Zhang is designing a new community center for the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Her budget? $80k, raised entirely by her creative fundraising efforts.

Place and Displacement is an initiative inspired by its work with a client refugee-led NGO at Kakuma Refugee Camp in summer 2016. As an interdisciplinary competition, Place and Displacement invites innovative proposals for a marketplace, which includes an architectural design and a viable operational plan, for existing refugee settlements in Berlin (Germany), Zaatari (Jordan) or Kakuma (Kenya). Around 250 team from more than 43 countries participated in the competition.

• the Collateral Repair Project

Semhal Tsegaye is a Yale graduate who is currently on the MacMillan Center's Henry Hart Rice Foreign Residence Fellowship in Amman, Jordan. She is working with an organization, the Collateral Repair Project, that supports Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Amman. One of their current projects is training Syrian and Iraqi women in embroidery and quilt-making, in an effort to teach tangible skills that can support their livelihoods, as well as reconnect them with their homelands by using traditional methods of embroidery and quilt-making.

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