"Refugees and Religion"
Workshops, conferences 2018
- Start: Sep 27, 2018
- End: Sep 28, 2018
- Location: Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht
Conference report by Peter van der Veer
For more details please contact vdvoffice(at)mmg.mpg.de.
Thursday 27 September
9.00-9.45 Arrival and Coffee
09.45 Welcome by Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University)
10.00-11.10: Panel 1 (Moderator Birgit Meyer)
Wayne te Brake (Purchase College State
University of New York)
War, Migration, and the Politics of
Religious Pluralism
Peter van der Veer (Max Planck
Institute, Göttingen and Utrecht University)
German
Refugees
11.10-12.20 Panel 2 (Moderator Janet Hoskins)
Phi Vân Nguyen (University of Saint-Boniface)
Victims of Atheist Persecution. The Role
of Cold War Transnational Religious Solidarity in Refugee Protection - The Case
of Vietnam
Tam Ngo (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
& Radboud University Nijmegen) and Nga Mai (Max Planck Institute,
Göttingen)
In Search of a Vietnamese Buddhist Space
in Germany
12.20-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.40 Panel 3 (Moderator Phi Vân Nguyen)
Janet Hoskins (University of Southern
California)
Refugees in the Land of Awes: Vietnamese
Arrivals and Departures
Thien-Huong Ninh (Cosumnes River College)
The
Virgin Mary Became Asian: Diasporic Nationalism Among Vietnamese Catholic Refugees
in the US and Germany
14.50-16.00 Panel 4 (Moderator Birgit Meyer)
Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Radboud
University Nijmegen)
Language and Religion in the (Re)Making
of the Syriac Orthodox communities in Europe
Rafaela Eulberg (University of Bonn)
A
Darśan-Picture as a Journeyed Memento
of Refugees: An Example of the Materiality of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu Traditions
in Exile
16.10-17.20 Panel 5 (Moderator Peter van der Veer)
Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin)
‘Are We an Elected People?’ Religion
and the Everyday Experience of Young Congolese Refugees in Kampala
Abdoulaye Sounaye (Leibniz Zentrum
Moderner Orient, Berlin)
Ritual
Space and Religious Practice: Young West African Muslims in Berlin, Germany
Drinks
Dinner (for speakers and moderators)
Friday
28 September
09.30
Coffee
9.45-11.15 Panel 6 (Moderator Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam)
Salah Punathil (University of Hyderabad)
Migrant
‘Illegality’, Camp and Violence Against Muslims in the Assam State of North
East India, South Asia.
Ala Uddin
(University of Chittagong)
The
Refugee Crisis and Religious Engagement: Suffering, Shelter, and Survival of
the Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh
Marie Kortam (French Institute
of the Near
East, Beirut)
Healer
and Resistance by Religion in the Absence of Social and Legal Security in
Palestinian Camps
11.30-12.40: Panel 7 (Moderator Margreet van Es, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Alexander Nagel (University of Göttingen)
Religious Diversity in German Refugee
Accommodation Centers: Micro-Politics of Spatial Separation and Religious
‘Emission Control’
Carmen Becker (University of Hannover)
Becoming a Refugee: Muslimness and
Secularity in the Constitution of the ‘Refugee’
12.40-13.45: Lunch
13.45-15.15: Panel 8 (Moderator Birgit Meyer)
Susanne Stadlbauer (University of
Colorado Boulder and University of Wyoming)
Secrecy, Secrets, and Emergent Religious
Identities: Conversion to Christianity Among Refugees in Germany
Annelise Reid (Utrecht University)
The Making of Belief in Secular Times: Negotiating
Inclusion Within the Dutch Asylum Context
William Wheeler (Manchester University)
Conversion Through Destitution: Religious
Belief and Legal/Bureaucratic Disbelief Within the UK Asylum System
15.30-16.40: Panel 9 (Moderator Peter van der Veer)
Conference report by Peter van der Veer
Christoph Grüll (University of
Groningen)
Faith in an Open Society: Spiritual, Legal,
and Political Care in Faith-Based Refugee Responses
Markha Valenta (Radboud University
Nijmegen)
Naked in
the Sanctuary: The Religious Resistance
16.50-17.45: General Discussion
Drinks