Summit on Mobility& Immobility
THINKING THROUGH MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
OCTOBER 2-6, 2023
Zoomlink:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/85877187007
About the Summit
Monday Oct. 2
930
The OSUN Summit on Mobility/Immobility is cohosted by The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives, the OSUN Civic Engagement Initiative (CEI), and Bard High School Early Colleges (BHSEC), and will take place in a blended format, with gatherings of faculty and students in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and The Bard High School Early College in the Bronx (New York, U.S.). Participating students and faculty are coming from 17 OSUN partners, including: Bard, Bard College
9:00
1200
Berlin, European Humanities University, American University of Bulgaria, Wits, SOAS, Cambridge, AQB, American University of Central Asia Parami University, Sciences Po, Uniandes, BRAC University, American University of Beirut, and others.
Opening Ceremony
8:00 Bronx
15:00 Kakuma (join via Zoom)
Aisha Khurram, (BCB graduate)
B r o n x K a k u m a
Steering Committee, Global Student Forum, "Setting the Stage: Youth
1400
Leadership in Advocating for Opening Access for the Displaced"
Guest Speaker from UNHCR
1600
The Summit is part of OSUN's broader commitment to raising awareness and opening access to higher education and research opportunities for those affected by displacement, in the lead up to the second UNHCR's Global Refugee Forum in December 2023 in Geneva. There, OSUN will convene a key panel on the power of networks to achieve change in the refugee education landscape and will serve as the co-lead on the 15by30 Multistakeholder Pledge, alongside UNHCR, the Government of Germany, and Times Higher Education. OSUN will also participate in a panel on third country pathways related to its cochairmanship of the Global Task Force on Complementary Education Pathways, as well as the panel at the Forum’s Plenary entitled “Refugee Higher Education and Self-Reliance: Achieving 15% Enrolment by 2030.”
Research Presentation
Laura-Albane Peyronnet and Dr. Ursula
Embola, BHSEC Manhattan student and Faculty
10:45
12:30
1:45
K a k u m a B r o n x
930 Workshop: What is Student Advocacy?
Examples from the Field. Ibrar Mirzai (BCB), Shukri Mohammed (Hubs), Mulki
Mohammed and Kamoso Bertrand (Hubs)
1200 Cultural Heritage Panel (join via Zoom)
Student Moderated
An Image of Belarus from the Perspective of “Others”
Alina Kalachova, Student, European Humanities University
Tracing the Trajectory of Rohingya
Creative Practices Among the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals in the Camps of Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Samirah Tabassum, Lecturer, BRACU
1400 Workshop: Setting the Stage for Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Kenya Refugee Camps
Gul Inanc, Founder of Opening Universities for Refugees
1600 Keynote Panel - Blended Learning Event
Student Moderated (join via Zoom)
Understanding the consequences of illegal mobility of Myanmar’s migrant workers in Thailand after the Military Coup
Myat Moe Kywe, Student, Parami University
Navigating Transitory Life Communities in the Darien Gap
Miguel Angel Castanede Barahona, MA
Student, Bard College
Keynote Panel - Blended Learning Event
Student Moderated
Searching for Peace, Fighting for Justice: Afro-Descendant Communities, Migration, and Community Action in 20th century Colombia
Jazmin Puicon, Faculty, Bard High School
Early College Newark
Post-Entry Challenges and Hidden Illnesses
Luka Gotsiridze, MA Student, Bard College
Navigating Transitory Life Communities in the Darien Gap
Paula Milena Suarez Sandoval, Research Associate, Universidad de los Andes
Planning for Displacement? Remaking and Undoing Racialization in Berlin’s Remnant Spaces
Jeff Jurgens, Faculty, Bard College
Research Presentation
Dr. Andrew Alger, Faculty, BHSEC Bronx
Climate Change Panel
Socio-economic Impacts of Forced Migration on Refugee Populations in Climate Change Crises
Eliya Christopher Nandi, Student, BRACU
Laila Sharif, MA Student, Bard College
Research Presentation
Laura-Albane Peyronnet and Dr. Ursula
Embola, BHSEC Manhattan student and Faculty
9:00
10:45
12:30
1:45
Gold Package K a k u m a B r o n x Tuesday October 3
K a k u m a
900 Panel: Refugee Capacity Building (join Zoom)
Gilbert Ntawyuankira, Student Moderator
Supporting Asylum and Refugee Rights in Eastern Europe
Dr. Felix Diaz (Faculty), Aelita Khusnutdinova and Orena Ymerasi (students), American University in Bulgaria
Investigating the Strength and Empowerment of Displaced African Youth: A
Kakuma Refugee Camp Case Analysis
Chris Onyedikachi,Student, BRACU
Revolutionizing Healthcare for Displaced
Populations: Portable Biotech Diagnostic Tools
Faisal Shah, Student, BRACU
Exploring 'Voluntary Exile' in Higher Education
Sonya Smyslova, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
1045 Panel: Politics of Displacement (join Zoom)
Student Moderated
Wage Differential Between Palestinian
Non-refugees and Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza
Dr. Sameh Hallaq, Faculty, Al Quds Bard
Addressing the Urgent Global Challenge: Forced Displacement & a Call for International Solidarity
Muhammad Qadeer Ashraf, Student BRACU
Resilience and Sex Work on Islands of the Sundarbans
Amrita DasGupta, Student, SOAS
Blended Event at
Kakuma and BHSEC Bronx
1530 Kakuma
830 Bronx
Keynote address
Ali Omar Duale, UNHCR Education Officer, followed by a film screening and discussion
“The Bridge”
Moderators:
Christian Baobab, Student, Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
Zoom link:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/85877187007
B r o n x & K a k u m a
Hubs Reception following the film discussion
BHSEC Bronx events continue
October 4
Wednesday,
Laura Kunreuther, Faculty, Bard College
Wednesday October 4 (cont)
10:15 Panel: Collective Memory
Witnessing Im/mobilities: Who says Art is Neutral?
Asli Telli, Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
Zarlasht Sarmast, Global Engagement
Coordinator, AUCA
Thursday October 5
Workshop: Design Thinking for the OSUN Certificate in Community-Based Learning and Civic Engagement
900
12:00
Panel: Language & Politics of Displacement
Within the Language of Exile
Anastasia Dzutstsati, MA Student, Bard College
Russia: A new return to inner emigration?
On immobility and the tradition of estrangement under totalitarian conditions
K. MA Student, Bard College
Exiles and Art: the Minsk Biennale
Dr. Jeffrey Taylor, European Humanities University
Images and sounds in dark times and places: on affection, care and prisoners’ communication inside jails
Mauro Tosarelli, MA Student, Bard College
1:15
Research Presentation
Desire Lines: lessons from queer worldbuilding
Rachel Nelson, Faculty, Bard Early College
New Orleans
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