War, Displacement, and Migration in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Event

Time:: 13:30 - 17:30
Date:: 26 April 2024
Venue:: Hartley Suite, Highfield Campus, Building 38

For more information regarding this event, please email Dr George Gilbert at g.gilbert@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

The Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies invites all Sotonians to an event entitled 'War, Displacement, and Migration in Eastern Europe and Eurasia’ which will be held on Friday 26th of April 2024, from 1.30 - 5.30pm. This series of talks will be an opportunity to learn about the effects contemporary conflicts in Eastern Europe, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border have on local populations.

Professor Jane Falkingham will open the day while Professor David Owen will offer closing remarks.

During the event we will have a chance to listen to Professor Jasmine Dum-Tragut (University of Salzburg) talking about the expulsion from Artsakh (also know as Nagorno-Karabakh) of the indigenous Armenian population and its impact on Armenia; to Dr Sam Knapton (University of Nottingham) offering new insights into the queer dimensions of displacement after the Word War II and to Dr Alun Thomas (Staffordshire University) historicising the recent clashes on Tajik-Kyrgyz border.

The event will end with a Q&A session and a chance to network over tea and coffee.

Programme of Activities

1.30 pm – arrival, tea and coffee

2.00 pm – Talks followed by Q&A and discussion

Prof Jane Falkingham – Opening Talk
Dr Sam Kanpton - Fraught Liminal Spaces: Queer Displacement post-1945 in Europe
Prof Jasmine Dum-Tragut – Forced to Migrate: The Fate of the Armenians of Artsakh
Dr Alun Thomas - The Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Conflict: Historical Roots and Current Causes
Prof David Owen – Closing Remarks

4.30 – 5.30 pm – tea, coffee, networking

Event information

Guests can join this event in person or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.

If you select an online ticket, you will recieve further details in due course on how to join.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Dr George Gilbert g.gilbert@soton.ac.uk or Dr Janek Gryta j.gryta@soton.ac.uk.