Previous Event
Sumud & Sanuk: A Critical Refugee Studies Virtual Conference
November 19–20, 2021
Day 1 Program, November 19
Paper Titles, all bios for grantee panelists can be found here.
Session 1: Graduate Student Grantees
Brent Eng, “Of Bakeries: Life, Bread, and Repair amongst Syrians in Tripoli”
Ahmed Correa-Alvarez, “Border Memories: Stories of Resistance and Resilience of Marielitos”
Melina Economou, “Creating Space: Community and Belonging among Refugees in Greece”
Saugher Nojan, “Wellbeing and Resilience Across Generations: Afghan Refugees “Doing Culture” and Resisting Anti-Muslim Racism”
Session 2: Graduate Student Grantees
Vianny Gavilanes, ”‘Newcomer’ Students: Narratives of Refugeness/Migration and Educational Possibilities”
Christiane Assefa, “Grounding Buna: Locating East African Refugee Women’s Knowledge Production through Oral History and the Archive “
Samantha Streuli, ““Health Interventions and Resilience with Somali Refugees”
Rebecca Wear and Lisa Dring, “Utaki (Sacred Sites): Underwater but Unforgotten”
Session 3: Faculty Grantees
Tammy Ho, “BurmAmerica: Refugee Re-settlement, Food, and Resilience”
Alexander Fattal, “Images of Resilience”
Yehuda Sharim, short film screening titled “Letters2Maybe”
Session 4: Community Org Grantees
United Taxi Workers of San Diego, “Refugee Drivers as Gig Survivors”
Cham Refugees Community, “Documenting the Past and Future: Stories from Cham Muslim Community Elders and Youth (Cham Refugees Community Documentary Film and Youth Film Competition)”
Southeast Asian Student Coalition, “20 Years In Solidarity”
Majdal Community Center, “Arab Youth Summer Camp for Emerging Leaders”
Session 5: Artist Grantees
Rita Phetmixay, “HEALING OUT LAO’D”
Michelle Bernardino, “Regresemos amor hasta el futuro: Cultivando futuros de buenvivir a través del arte y cosecha con comunidades desplazadas”
Krysada Phounsiri, “Secret, No More - An Expression of Humanity”
Day 2 Program, November 20
Paper Titles
Session 1:
Sarah Grant, “Coffee at What Cost? Monoculture, Indigeneity, and Resistance in Vietnam”
Sylvia Tiwon, “Clove, Nutmeg, and the Invention of Scarcity.”
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, “From Moana Nui to the West Berkeley Shellmound, Indigenous Solidarities and Protecting the Sacred”
Session 2:
Haleh Zandi, “Sowing Seeds of a Local Peace Economy”
Lidieth Arevalo, “Ethical storytelling: The importance of Authentic Immigrant Stories by Immigrant Storytellers”
Session 3:
Patricia Rojas-Zambrano, “Stories of home, loss, and healing: how participatory media, storytelling and arts-based processes promote immigrant and refugee wellness”
Nicole Barakat, “al-qalb yasmaa/the heart listens”
