[ecrea] Camp Convivialities and Refugee Communications workshop

*Camp Convivialities and Refugee Communications:*
*A One-Day Workshop hosted by the Media and Development Group, 
University of Leicester*
*13 July 2016, Bankfield House Lecture Theatre, 132 New Walk, Leicester*
LINK: 
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/media/news-and-events/camp-convivialities-and-refugee-communications-a-one-day-workshop 


In September 2015, in the midst of Europe’s largest refugee crisis since 
World War 1, Mark Zuckerberg along with Bono and Bill Gates signed the 
Connectivity Declaration which pledges to bring the internet to UN 
refugee camps. Digital connectivity is imagined here to help refugees 
access support from the humanitarian community as well as maintain links 
to family and loved ones. While Facebook’s intervention is novel in 
reach and scale, many international humanitarian organizations including 
the Red Cross and Internews have recently emphasized technological and 
communications-centered solutions to enhance information management, 
two-way communication, and community engagement. At the same time, 
ethnographic research in refugee camps have shed light on people’s 
strategic uses of media to learn new languages, protest, or even seek 
escapist pleasures within exceptional conditions of “bare life.”

This workshop brings together academics, humanitarian agency 
representatives, civil society groups and artist communities to explore 
the diverse range of communication practices in refugee camps. 
Presenters engage with the camp as a complex and contradictory site of 
stasis and mobility, exclusion and hospitality, and extra-ordinariness. 
The presentations and final roundtable discussion aim to spark 
intersectoral collaborations on communication interventions and 
participatory action research.

1030-11: Registration and Opening Remarks
11-1145: Keynote by Marie Gillespie - Mapping Refugee Media Journeys: 
Smart Phones and Social Media Networks
1145-1245: Panel on Agency Interventions and Communications (Victoria 
Jack/Internews, Lucy Stockpool-Moore/Panos, Socrates Moutidis/Greek 
journalist)
1245-145: Lunch
145-3: Panel on Community Convivialities (Kajal Patel/Lightseekers, 
Jonathan Corpus Ong/Leicester, Maria Rovisco/Leicester, Good Chance Calais)
3-315: Coffee
315-345: Keynote by Myria Georgiou - Communication Architectures of the 
Border: A Humanitarianism/Militarization Nexus
345-4: Roundtable Discussion with All Participants

Conference Organizers: Jonathan Corpus Ong, Maria Rovisco, Maria Touri
Event is free but seats are limited. To book a place, please email the 
conference secretariat: Sandra Kaulfuss ((sandra.kaulfuss /at/ web.de) 
<mailto:(sandra.kaulfuss /at/ web.de)>). For any other inquiries, message 
Jonathan Corpus Ong ((jonathan.ong /at/ cantab.net) 
<mailto:(jonathan.ong /at/ cantab.net)>).


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Jonathan Corpus Ong, PhD

Lecturer in Media & Communication
University of Leicester
Room 203 Bankfield House
132 New Walk
Leicester LE1 7JA United Kingdom

Email: (jco10 /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(jco10 /at/ le.ac.uk)>

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