State of Asylum: Current Issues and Future Directions in UK Asylum Policy

03:30-06:00pm

Younger Hall Seminar Room 1, North Street, St Andrews

Join the CCRHR as we host a group of leading scholars on UK asylum and immigration policy from across the UK to share their insights and to foster an interdisciplinary and constructive discussion on current challenges, emerging research, and possible future directions in the UK’s approach to asylum. Organised with the support of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. Staff, students, and members of the public are all welcome.

Palestine and the Arts

04.00 PM – 05.30 PM

Stewart Room, Younger Hall, University of St Andrews

Artist Leena Nammari, poet Yousif Qasmiyeh, and children’s writer Feda Shtia will be in conversation about their practice. Organised in collaboration with the Centre for Poetic Innovation.

Poetry Workshop

11.00 AM – 01.00 PM

Bute Building, A11, St Mary’s, University of St Andrews

Yousif will discuss a selection of poems from his two volumes Writing the Camp and Eating the Archive. Organised in collaboration with the Centre for Poetic Innovation. Please email [email protected] for copies of poems.

Poetry Reading

06.00 PM

School III, St Salvador’s Quad, University of St Andrews

Poetry reading by noted Palestinian poet Yousif Qasmiyeh and contributors to SINK magazine. Organised in collaboration with SINK magazine and the Centre for Poetic Innovation.

Interdisciplinary Rights Conversation 2: Being Human

04.00 – 06.00 PM

School V, St Salvador’s Quad, University of St Andrews

An interdisciplinary panel discussion where scholars from International Relations, Literature and Social Anthropology explore what ‘the human’ means in human rights.

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Inaugural Annual Lecture: Baroness Shami Chakrabarti

06.30 – 08.00 PM

Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews

Join us at our inaugural annual lecture with leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.

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The Poetics and Politics of Embodiment: A Discussion with Artist Sonia Khurana

3.00 – 5.00 PM

Butts Wynd 10, University of St Andrews

Visual artist Sonia Khurana, introduced by Prof Griselda Pollock, explores the body, power and displacement through her interdisciplinary practice.

Race, Citizenship, and Rights: The Case of Britain in the 1950s

03.00 – 05.00 PM

Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall, University of St Andrews

In discussion with Allan Hepburn.

Global Learnings from the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy

02.00 – 04.00 PM

Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall, University of St Andrews

With Alison Phipps, Dan Fisher, Esa Aldegheri, Hyab Yohannes and Tawona Sithole.

Interdisciplinary Rights Conversations 1: Meeting Our Contemporary Moment

05.00 – 07.00 PM

Arts Seminar Room 5, New Arts Building, University of St Andrews

CCRHR launched its Interdisciplinary Rights Conversations series with a dialogue on how imagination can renew and expand human rights.

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