Workshop Programme

The 1st Joint QMUL-ULIP Postgraduate Colloquium
TERRE D’ASILE / TERRE D’EXIL
Historical Perspectives on Refuge & Asylum in 20th Century France
The University of London Institute in Paris
Saturday, 10 October 2015 | 9 rue Constantine, Paris 75007
09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast and Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome Remarks
The Queen Mary French Forum (Dan Callwood, Dr. Charlotte Faucher,
Frank Mikus, Eoghan Moran, Katherine Rossy)
The University of London Institute in Paris (Dr. Anna-Louise Milne)
Queen Mary University of London (Professor Julian Jackson)
09:45 - 11:15 Entangled Histories: Exile & Asylum on the Franco-Spanish Borderland
Chair: Dr. Charlotte Faucher (Queen Mary University of London)
1. “Not Tourists, but Recruits for the United Front’, Problematizing Asylum in
Interwar France: The Case of the Spanish Political Exiles of 1934-35”
- Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary University of London)
2. “Sur le chemin de l’exil, de la 'retirada' à l’internement: chronique sur les
républicains espagnols dans les camps de concentration français (première moitié
du XXe siècle)”
- María de los Ángeles Hernández Gómez (Université Blaise Pascal
Clermont-Ferrand)
3. “When ‘Asylum’ Ends: France’s Coerced Repatriation of Spanish Refugees in
1939”
- Kerrie Holloway (Queen Mary University of London)
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Refugees in Exile: The Reception of Migrants on French Soil
Chair: Dan Callwood (Queen Mary University of London)
1. “Asile et exil en France durant la Grande Guerre”
- Dr. Chantal Dhennin-Lalart (Lille Université Charles de Gaulle)
2. “From Traumatic Experiences to an Atypical Reception? A Case Study on
Cambodian Refugee Migration to France, 1975-1990”
- Laura Wollenweber (Jacobs University Bremen)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 European Asylum Since the Cold War
Chair: Eoghan Moran (Queen Mary University of London)
1. “Le récit de vie: présentation de soi devant les institutions; le cas de journalistes
exiles à la Maison des Journalistes à Paris”
- Veli Pehlivan (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
2. “OVR France: An Example of Solidarity”
- Dr. Nicoleta Serban (University of Bucharest & École des hautes études
en sciences sociales)
3. “‘The Newspaper of the Poor’: An Analysis of the Production of Incomplete
Citizenship among Romanians in France at the End of the 20th Century”
- Elena Popa (Indiana University)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15 Beyond the Hexagon: Refuge & Exile from a Global Perspective
Chair: Frank Mikus (Queen Mary University of London)
1. “Refuge to Refugee: Examining Conceptualizations of Refugee Students using
Michel Foucault’s Tragic Structure”
- Sarah Ritter (Boise State University)
2. “La réparation (Wiedergutmachung) comme raison d’être: les études sur l’exil
(Exilforschung) dans l’aire germanophone”
- Dr. Kristina Schulz (L’Institut d’Histoire de Berne)