UC Riverside Presents ‘Toward a Critical Refugee Studies: A Symposium’

Conference about globally displaced populations on May 25 By Mojgan Sherkat on May 16, 2016 Tomorrow I Leave, 2010. Image courtesy of Lin and Lam RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – What would you do when your, as Kenyan-born Somali poet Warsan Shire phrases it, “home is the mouth of a shark?” Artists, activists, and academics will gather to tackle that topic at the University of California, Riverside with a symposium on global displacement. The conference is called, “Toward a Critical Refugee Studies,” and will [...]