Our concluding Sawyer Seminar — part of the Center on Forced Displacement’s larger annual conference — will consider the future of borders in a world of simultaneously increasing border fluidity and solidity, and what that may mean for the future of the refugee protection regime. Having closely analyzed the emergent phenomenon of border externalization in the EU and US from a host of different disciplinary perspectives over the course of the seminar series, we end by turning our gaze to the future, considering how the reshaping of border management policies and practices in recent years — indeed the reshaping of the border itself — is also likely to reshape the future of refugee protection, transform identities and forms of (national) belonging, foster new technologies of control, deterrence, and liberation, and perhaps even bring us closer to a world without borders altogether. The conference will bring together interdisciplinary scholars, researchers, artists, practitioners, students and engaged community members from around the world to discuss and debate these border futures and the myriad challenges and opportunities they may create forcibly displaced communities.
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Panels:
Day 1 - Tuesday, April 23
Panel 1 | Transformations of Identity and Belonging
Keynote | T. Alexander Aleinikoff (The New School)
Day 2 - Wednesday April 24
Panel 2 | The Future of Border Technologies
Panel 3 | No Futures, No Borders
Panel 4 | Curating the Border