Some Reflections on Current Research Interests, Concepts, Paradigms, and Problems in Refugee History
Jul 03, 2024 | 6:00pm (CET)
Public keynote lecture at the University of Tübingen (Großer Übungsraum 2, Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen) | Speaker: Susanne Lachenicht (Universität Bayreuth)
This keynote lecture is part of the fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies "Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries" taking place Tübingen July 3–6, 2024. The lecture is open to the public (in person) and will also be streamed via Zoom for non-conference participants who are interested in joining.
Refugee history has developed since the 2010s as a field of research without a clear theoretical and methodological framework. While it is certainly more than studies of different groups of refugees, and while it has a clear focus on actors and agency, Refugee History may need to develop a more reflexive mode regarding its agendas as well as its theoretical and methodological tools. This paper offers some thoughts on what it means to historize the refugee experience and how older methods from historiography, the social sciences, and literary theory might help assess agency in refugee history.
To register to attend via Zoom, please send email to refugee-history@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de (subject: "Keynote lecture")
About the Speaker
Susanne Lachenicht is professor of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University, Germany. She works on Europe and the Atlantic World with a special focus on the Age of Revolution, media, diasporas, religious migrations, knowledge transfer and transformation as well as temporalities in the early modern world. She has been a visiting fellow/professor at the Université de Toulouse II, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, the Université d’Angers and at All Souls College, Oxford. Her publications on the topic of migrations include Hugenotten in Europa und Nordamerika. Migration und Integration in der Frühen Neuzeit (Frankfurt/Main, New York 2010), (as ed.) Religious Refugees in Europa, Asia and North America (Hamburg 2007), (as ed. with Kirsten Heinsohn) Diaspora Identities. Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present (Frankfurt/Main, New York, Chicago 2009), (as ed. with Dagmar Freist), Connecting Worlds and People. Early Modern Diasporas (London 2016), (as ed. with Marianne Amar, Isabelle Lacoue-Labarthe, Mathilde Monge and Annelise Rodrigo) Négocier l’accueil / Negotiating asylum and accommodation,thematic issue of Diasporas. Migrations, circulations, histoire 35/2 (2020), “Learning from Past Displacements? The History of Migrations between Historical Specificity, Presentism and Fractured Continuities,” Humanities 7 (2018), and (as ed.) Between Macro and Micro History. Scales in Migration Studies, thematic issue of Yearbook of Transnational History 7 (2024).