Spring 2018 Consortium Convening
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Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education—Spring 2018
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A convening of the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education, comprised of Bennington, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, and Vassar Colleges.
10:00 am
Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees: Scale, Trends, Governance Challenges…and “Solutions”
Keynote address by Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Convener, Transatlantic Council on Migration; Distinguished Transatlantic Fellow and President Emeritus, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) & MPI Europe
11:00 am
Discussion with Andrea Galindo, International Human Rights Consultant and Lawyer; Vahidin Omanovic, Director of the Center for Peacebuilding, Sanski Most, Bosnia; and Sari Samakie, Student and Activist
1:00 pm
Student Conversations
How students at Bard, Bennington, Vassar and Sarah Lawrence are participating in the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
2:30 pm
Faculty Conversations
How faculty at Bard, Bennington, Vassar and Sarah Lawrence are developing curriculum and participating in the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
The Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education is committed to developing new, horizontal, and more egalitarian models of global educational solidarity to address the refugee crisis and to educate our students to be engaged citizens in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.