This podcast was recorded at an Astor Visiting Fellow Lecture, held on Tuesday 25th January 2011 at The Taylor Institute in Oxford.

Sondra Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, (UCLA)spoke on the subject of “Gendered Violence and the Politics of Memory in Sudan’s Conflict Zones“.

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Podcasts of these lectures will be posted on Forced Migration Online as they become available. The first two lectures.

Seminars are held at 5.00pm on Wednesdays, at either the University of East London or the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. More details about upcoming seminars in the series are available on the RSC website.

• Seminar 1: Refugees, Exiles and other Forced Migrants in the late Ottoman Empire
• Seminar 2: Citizenship, Autochthony and the Question of Forced Migration

This podcast was recorded at a launch event for the fifth Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing which was held on Thursday 30th September 2010 at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, London.

The talk given by Dr Jason Hart & Claudia Lo Forte, was on the subject of the Policy Briefing – ‘Protecting Palestinian children from political violence: the role of the international community’.

Drawing on extensive field and desk research, the briefing considers the role of international and UN organisations in protecting Palestinian children.

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In a lecture focusing on forced displacement, protection and humanitarian action, Guterres called for international action on global refugee crisis.

The Harrell-Bond Lecture is held annually in honour of Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, founding former director of the Centre and of the academic field of refugee studies or forced migration studies.

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The title of her lecture was: ‘Improving responses: distinctiveness, partnership and professionalism’.

Dr Ferris was speaking at the Refugee Studies Centre‘s workshop on ‘Faith-based Humanitarianism: The Response of Faith-based Communities and Faith-based Organisations in the Context of Forced Migration’. The lecture took place in Oxford at The Vaults, University Church of St Marys, on Tuesday 22 September 2010.

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It features an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam.

‘Rwanda and the Great Lakes: A Personal View from the Oxfam Archive” is the second of a two-part series. In this recording, Maurice speaks about the Great Lakes emergency and the Rwanda genocide.

The first podcast focused on Maurice’s career in Sudan in the 1980s.

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It features an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam.

‘Sudan in the 1980s’ is the first of a two-part series. In this recording, Maurice speaks about his career as a Relief Coordinator in Sudan.

The second podcast in this series will be released next week. It will focus on the Great Lakes refugee crisis of the mid-1990s.

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On 23rd July 2010 Dennis McNamara, gave the endnote lecture at the Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School in Forced Migration.

McNamara, who has several decades of humanitarian experience mainly with UNHCR and OCHA in Asia and Africa, spoke on the subject of protection.

Dennis McNamara is currently Humanitarian Adviser at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, in Geneva.

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Prof. Sassen spoke on the topic of “The complexity of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?”

A podcast of this lecture is now available to listen to on Forced Migration Online.

Prof. Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She spoke about the limits of power and the complexities of powerlessness, using the examples of immigration and human rights to help to explore these abstract issues.

The Elizabeth Colson Lecture is held annually in honour of Professor Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Based on a recent RSC Policy Briefing on Iraq’s refugees – beyond tolerance, this one-day event provided a platform for an open discussion  on the situation of Iraqis displaced internally and Iraqis displaced in the region.

The keynote address was given by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Other participants included:

• Dr Nasir Al-Samaraie, Adviser to the Iraq Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Dr Philip Marfleet, Associate Director, CMRB, University of East London
• Dr Dawn Chatty, Deputy Director, RSC, University of Oxford
• Professor Adel Tweissi, Secretary General of the Higher Council of Science and Technology
• Mr Abed El-Baset Al Kabariti, Ministry of Interior, Government of Jordan
• Mr Arafat Jamal, UNHCR Deputy Representative in Jordan
• Ms Liana Paris, Displacement Monitoring Officer, IOM Iraq Mission

Key principles for consideration by policy makers were presented and discussed. The emphasis was on protection and durable solutions to displacement.

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