The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to a conference, Escaping Violence: New Approaches to Forced Migration, on Friday, April 12. New School faculty, international scholars and global practitioners will address issues of unprecedented displacement and a disturbing retrenchment of the commitment to refugee protection around the world. Topics will include new conceptual lenses and innovative practical responses to forced migration. To register, please click here.
Joining New School faculty Brendan McCarthy, Anne McNevin, Everita Silina and Miriam Ticktin will be Mohammed Badran (Network for Refugee Voices), Simon Behrman (University of London), Seyla Benhabib (Yale University), David FitzGerald (UC San Diego), Jane McAdam (University of New South Wales), Rubén G. Rumbaut (UC Irvine), Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science) and Leah Zamore (NYU).
The conference will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Aristide R. Zolberg’s seminal work, Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World. Prof. Zolberg’s co-authors will provide remarks.