Roopa Suchak, South Asia workstream lead, BBC
19 Oct: ‘How the BBC reaches digital audiences in South Asia’
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‘How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour’ – Nic Newman, digital media strategist and research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Nic Newman, digital media strategist and research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
12 Oct: ‘How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour’
Nora Khayi: The Secrets of St Hugh’s Library
Originally located in a small room in Norham Gardens, St Hugh’s Library moved to the Main Building in 1916 and then to its current location in 1936. Packed with treasurers such as John Gould’s The Birds of Great Britain and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, The Howard Piper Library tells a hidden story of Women and Oxford at the dawn of the twentieth century. This guided tour will unlock its secrets and offer a unique glimpse into a long-lost world.
Ms Nora Khayi was Assistant Librarian at St Hugh’s College in 2009 before becoming Librarian in 2013. She previously worked at the Taylor Institution Library and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a member of various library committees in the South East of England.
This event is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries.
Shelter in flux, by Cathrine Brun @ Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2016
‘Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration’
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design.
About the speaker: Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University)
Cathrine Brun is Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) in the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. Previously she was Professor of Human Geography and Director of Research and Director of the Norwegian Researcher School for Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
She has worked for 20 years on forced migration as a result of conflict and disasters. Currently she is working particularly on humanitarianism in protracted displacement and chronic crises and with housing for forced migrants. Much of her work has been in urban contexts and in camps. As a human geographer, she is interested in how, in chronic crises and displacement, the relationships between people and places change due to displacement, with a view to understanding the relationships between displaced and their hosts and notions of housing and home. Her work often emphasises how people who experience crises deal with adversity – especially how they strategise and manoeuvre in the course of encounters with institutions and regimes.
Cathrine’s work has also engaged with the ethics and politics of humanitarianism, the experiences and practices of humanitarians, and the unintended consequences of humanitarian categories and labelling practices, particularly in the context of long-term conflict and displacement. Temporal and spatial dimensions of both forced migration and humanitarianism are cross-cutting themes in her work.
Collaborating with colleagues, organisations and citizen groups in Sri Lanka, Georgia and more recently Malawi, she has developed innovatory methods for ethnographic fieldwork, participatory action research and real time research. She is interested in how such methodological insights may contribute to improving knowledge production, particularly among humanitarian organisations.
Lessons from 15 years of post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects in India @ Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Michaelmas Term 2016
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker: Tom Newby (CARE International)
Tom Newby was appointed Head of Humanitarian at CARE International UK in 2016. He previously led CARE International’s Emergency Shelter Team, which is based at CARE International UK, since December 2013. He is a chartered structural engineer with significant private sector experience in the UK and USA, and worked in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, managing shelter programmes for two different organisations. He has been a trustee of Engineers Without Borders UK for many years and led the organisation early in its history.
Complicit or emancipatory? Architecture, space and design in humanitarian operations
RSC Public Seminar Series
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Michaelmas Term 2016
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker: Dr Camillo Boano
Dr Camillo Boano is an architect, urbanist and educator. He is Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London (UCL), where he directs the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development. He is also co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Camillo has over 20 years of experience in research, design consultancies and development work in South America, Middle East, Eastern Europe and South East Asia.
As an academic interested in practice, he combines interests in critical architecture, spatial production, transformations, urbanism with the exceptional circumstances of disasters, conflicts and informality. His interest in investigating the material and dialectical production of spaces emerged out of experiences of being a development practitioner in South America in the early 1990s and in war ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Dr Boano’s research and consultancy roles have included work in Nicaragua, Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand. This involved collaborations with numerous institutions, including UNHCR, UNDP, Refugee Study Centre, EU, Oxfam GB, Italian Civil Protection, World Bank and several architectural practices.
The settlement approach: integrating programming at community level @ Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Michaelmas Term 2016
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker: Tom Corsellis
Dr Tom Corsellis is the Executive Director of Shelter Centre, an NGO dedicated to supporting the global shelter and settlement community in developing and maintaining consensus resources, guidance and tools. Hosted initially by the University of Cambridge from its foundation in 2004, Shelter Centre developed from an earlier initiative, ShelterProject.org, which undertook research and development on sector standards, equipment and technical guidance, including Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations.
Tom Corsellis was a founding member of both initiatives. He has been developing and delivering training and blended learning in the humanitarian sector for over 20 years, mainly on shelter and settlements, and Camp Coordination & Camp Management (CCCM), for agencies including RedR, DFID, ECHO, IFRC and UNHCR, as well as IASC clusters. Tom has worked operationally for many agencies, including CARE, DFID, IOM, MSF, Oxfam, UNHCR and the World Bank, in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Dwelling in an emergency shelter: between geopolitics and everyday life @ Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Michaelmas Term 2016
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker: Irit Katz
Dr Irit Katz is an architect and a researcher. She recently completed her PhD at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge as a Girton College Scholar, affiliated to the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research. Her PhD research examines camps in Israel-Palestine as a spatio-political instrument used in order to achieve political objectives, and she currently studies the camps created along Europe’s migration routes.
Irit obtained her BArch degree (Cum Laude) in Architecture from Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, and her MA (Magna Cum Laude) in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies from Bar Ilan University. She has worked as an architect in Tel Aviv from 2002-2006 and in London from 2006-2011, specializing in urban planning and housing schemes.
Irit’s research centres on the spatial, geopolitical and social aspects of camps, from their emergence in the 19th century to their current global proliferation. She examines how camps, whether employed by colonial, national and global powers as instruments of control, or constructed ad hoc by displaced populations as makeshift spaces of refuge, are used as versatile mechanisms by which modern societies and territories are administered, negotiated and reorganised.
Building structures in Calais refugee camp @ Refugee Studies Centre
RSC Public Seminar Series
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Michaelmas Term 2016
Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design. The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker: Grainne Hassett
Grainne Hassett is a practising architect, Senior Lecturer and member of the Advisory Board at the new School of Architecture, University of Limerick (SAUL). She regularly reviews work in other Irish Architecture Schools and has reviewed work at Yokohama, Turin, Stockholm and Strathclyde Schools of Architecture.
Her practice, Hassett Ducatez Architects is committed to a close connection between architecture and its own research. As architectural thinking advances through its negotiation of the architectural project within society, with technology, art, law, financial instruments and other myriad strategies, this practice is the field of her research. The work has received the Downes Medal for Architectural Excellence, 11 prestigious architectural awards in Ireland, been nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe prize and the UK YAYA prize, and has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale amongst other featured, lectured, published, or exhibited scenarios nationally and internationally.
The compatibility of Christian faith and scholarship: a physics professor’s perspective
The Graduate Christian Forum is a place for conversation between postgrads and faculty from across the Christian community in Oxford. We hold talks every Monday evening on a wide range of issues linking academic research and the Christian faith. Talks begin at 19:30 with light refreshments before.