[ecrea] event: camp convivialities and refugee communications

CAMP CONVIVIALITIES AND REFUGEE COMMUNICATIONS
13 July 2016, Bankfield House Lecture Theatre, 132 New Walk, Leicester

You are invited to this event hosted by the Media and Development Group 
and supported by the Media Cultures Cluster at the University of 
Leicester and the British Council Newton Fund.

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.

10:30-11:00- Registration and Opening Remarks
11:00-11:45- Keynote by Marie Gillespie - Mapping Refugee Media 
Journeys: Smart Phones and Social Media Networks
11:45-12:45- Panel on Agency Interventions and Communications (Victoria 
Jack/Internews, Nicki Bailey/BBC Media Action, Socrates Moutidis/journalist)
12:45-1:45- Lunch
1:45-3:00- Panel on Community Convivialities (Kajal Patel/Lightseekers, 
Jonathan Corpus Ong/Leicester, Maria Rovisco/Leicester, Lucy 
Stackpool-Moore/Watipa)
3:00-3:15- Coffee
3:15-3:45- Keynote by Myria Georgiou - Communication Architectures of 
the Border: A Humanitarianism/Militarization Nexus
3:45-4:00: 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 (sk630 /at/ le.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(sk630 /at/ le.ac.uk)>




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