Call for Papers
The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), are pleased to announce the third International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, which will be held at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21) in Duisburg, July 4–7, 2023.
We invite contributions from recent PhDs, as well as young scholars in the final stages of their dissertations. In addition to historians, we also encourage applications from researchers working in the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic and area studies. Possible contributions include:
- Studies of refugee movements and exile diasporas in various periods and places;
- Studies of the ethnic, gendered, racial, religious, and other characteristics of refugee groups and how they impact on reception policies and processes;
- Studies of reception and aid policies, and on the repercussions of refugees on host states and societies;
- Studies of the changing inter-state framework of refugee movements, such as international or inter-imperial cooperation, the role of international governmental or non-governmental actors, humanitarian organizations, etc.;
- Studies of the infrastructures of exile (camps, networks, economies, regulations)
- Studies of the conceptual history of refugees and exile (legal history, administrative practice, cultural history, etc.)
Papers will be pre-circulated five weeks before the seminar to allow maximum time for peers and invited senior scholars to engage in discussions on the state of the field. The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. The seminar is hosted by Jan C. Jansen (UDE), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University) and Simone Lässig (GHI). The participants will be joined by a group of leading senior scholars in the field of refugee history, including Delphine Diaz (University of Reims-Institut universitaire de France), Ilana Feldman (George Washington University), Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) and Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth).
The seminar is supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the University of Duisburg-Essen, the ERC project “Atlantic Exiles”, the German Historical Institute, InZentIM and the KHK/GCR21. For more information on the seminar and its previous cohorts, visit its website at https://rhs.hypotheses.org.
Please submit a brief CV (max. 2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 750 words in English in one PDF by November 21, 2022, via the submission form below. Please contact us at events@gcr21.uni-due.de if you encounter any problems with submitting your information online. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2022.
