Tuesdays • 4:30 pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
*Fall 2020 Seminars will be hosted online via Zoom
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Fall 2020
SEPTEMBER 29
Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq
Salma Mousa, Stanford University – Immigration Policy Lab and Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
OCTOBER 13
Outsourcing Otherness: Race and Belonging in the Morocco-EU Border
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University – Council for African Studies
OCTOBER 27
A Market for Work Permits
Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University – Department of Economics
NOVEMBER 3
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Theresa Betancourt, Boston University – School of Social Work, and Harvard Medical School
NOVEMBER 17
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
Chris Blattman, University of Chicago – Pearson Institute and Harris Public School
DECEMBER 1
Brother or Invaders? How Crisis-Driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior
Sandra Rozo, University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business
Spring 2020
JANUARY 28
Let Them In: Representing Refugees in the Age of the Invisible Wall
Julie Kornfeld, Yale University – Law School and Refugee Rights and Stephen Poellot, Yale University – Law School and Fordham University School of Law
FEBRUARY 4
The Preferred Solution? Repatriation and the Resolution of Refugee Situations
Megan Bradley, McGill University - Department of Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development
FEBRUARY 25
Refugee Compacts: bridging evidence, policy, and politics for more sustainable approaches to protracted displacement
Cindy Huang, Refugees International
MARCH 3
Allowing Migrants to Work: Impacts of Giving Job Permits in Labor Markets
Ana María Ibáñez, Inter-American Development Bank
APRIL 1*
Early childhood development in the Syrian and Rohingya refugee response regions
Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University – Applied Psychology and Alice Wuermli, New York University – Low-Income Countries Program
* Wednesday, 1:00-2:30pm School of Management - EVANS Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue, 2400 Class of 1980 Classroom
APRIL 7*
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Theresa Betancourt, Boston University – School of Social Work and Harvard Medical School
* Postponed to November 3rd, 2020
Fall 2019
SEPTEMBER 24
The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt, Gerasimos Tsourapas
Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham
October 8
Not Only in the Mediterranean: Humanitarian Challenges of Migration in and Out of Africa*
Steven W. Smith, Duke University
October 22
India’s National Register Process in Assam: The Idea of Citizenship and the Future of Those Declare Non-Citizens
Sushant Singh, Indian Express Newspaper
October 29
Hosting the Rohingya
C. Austin Davis, American University
November 5
Migration Policies at the Crossroads: Between Nationalist and Populist Repression and Long-Term Strategic ‘Facilitation’ of Mobility
François Crépeau, McGill University
November 15 - FRIDAY*
The Political Value of Time
Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University - Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave*
Spring 2019
January 16
New Methods of Discussing Gender Norm Change and Sensitive Subjects: A Case Study of Body Map Panels with South Sudanese refugees
Hilary Matfess, Graduate Student, Political Science & Medicine, Yale University
January 16
Instrumentalizing Mental Health in Jordan: International Aid, Practitioners, and the Syrian Refugee
Erik Kramer, Graduate Student, Medicine, Yale University
January 23
Dangerous alliances-cooperation between the EU and third states in migration
Lena Riemer, Fox Fellow, Yale University
February 20
Crimes of Rescue: Humanitarian Smuggling and the Limits of Legitimate Criminalization
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
February 27
Understanding Legal Recourse for Refugees in Turkey
Pilar Brito, Graduate Student, Law School, Yale University
March 27
Host and Refugee Communities in Bangladesh: Data and Policy
C. Austin Davis, Assistant Professor of Economics, American University
April 03
Child protection and migration: The human rights consequences of the European Migration policy
Vasileia Lucero Digidiki, Instructor, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Fall 2018
SEPTEMBER 19
Africa’s Sanctuary City: Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi, Kenya
Derese Kassa, Iona College
OCTOBER 3
Global Health Connections & Care of Vulnerable Populations
Aisha Sethi, Yale University
NOVEMBER 7
What is Happening in Nicaragua? From an Accidental Activist
Lorna Solis, Founder, Blue Rose Compass
NOVEMBER 14
Host and Refugee Communities in Bangladesh: Data and Policy
C. Austin Davis, Post-Doctoral Associate, Yale University; and American University
Spring 2018
January 25
Digital Refugees: Displacement and Connectedness
Sandra Ponzanesi, Columbia University
March 1
Mass Violence and Mass Exodus: The Causes and Consequences of the Rohingya Crisis
Mayesha Alam, Yale University
April 12
Humanitarian Diplomacy in Syria
Ahmad Tarakji, President, Syrian Medical Society
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
Spring 2017
March 2
HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in Lebanon
Kaveh Khoshnood, Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale University
March 30
Humanitarian Experiences and Everyday Life during the West African Ebola Outbreak
Kristen McLean, MPH, Yale University
April 6
The Framework of Refugee Protection in the United States: International Obligations and Domestic Laws
Maya Prabhu, MD, LLB, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Law and Psychiatry Division, Yale University