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Spring 2018

Refugee Seminar Series: 
Spring 2018

Thursday - 4:30-6:00pm 
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ), 115 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511

JANUARY 25
Digital Refugees: Displacement and Connectedness
Sandra Ponzanesi, Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature; and Utrecht University, Gender and Postcolonial Studies

MARCH 1
Mass Violence and Mass Exodus: The Causes and Consequences of the Rohingya Crisis
Mayesha Alam, Yale University, Political Science Department; and Yale Law School, Global Health Justice Fellow

APRIL 12*
Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria and The civilian trauma response for the battle for Mosul
Ahmad Tarakji, President, Syrian Medical Society
Paul Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University, Director, Center for Humanitarian Health
*Yale School of Public Health, 47 College Street (CLP), Room 106B

APRIL 19* 
Exploring the food and nutrition security of Syrian refugees and host communities during a protracted crisis: the case of Lebanon 
Lamis Jomaa, American University of Beirut, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
* Laboratory of Epidemiology & Public Health (LEPH), 60 College Street, Room 126