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Refugee Week 2024
Here is the event listing for Refugee Week 2024 (Feb 19-24). Unless stated otherwise, events are in-person. If you would like an online option for any event, please contact Anne-Marie at am.curtin@ucc.ie
Refugee Week 2024 Schedule of Events
| Date | Time | Location | Event (short) | Full title | Speaker/s | Type | In conjunction with: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All week | All day | The Hub Atrium | Art Exhibition | Creative | Fáilte Refugees (student society) | ||
| All week (from Tues) | All day | The Glucksman | Truth Be Told | Truth Be Told: A Creative Agency exhibition that explores messaging, media and visual storytelling | Creative | The Glucksman | |
| Monday 19th | All day | WGB | Travelling Map | Fáilte Refugees | |||
| Monday 19th | 12:00-13:15 | ORB255 | Racism and the Rise of the Far Right | Racism and the rise of the far right – historical and international perspectives | Drs Piaras MacÉinri and Amin Sharifi Isaloo, UCC | Talk | ISS21 Migration & Integration Research Cluster |
| Monday 19th | 14:00-15:00 | Boole Library Seminar Room | Scholars at Risk and HEIs | The work of SAR and the role of member universities like UCC |
Dr Sarah Field, Prog. Officer, SAR Europe | Talk | SAR Ireland/UCC Network |
| Monday 19th | 18:30-20:30 | Boole 2 | Born in Gaza | Born in Gaza + short additional Al Jazeera Documentary for recent context | Film Screening | Fáilte Refugees | |
| Tuesday 20th | All day | BHSC | Travelling Map | Informative | Fáilte Refugees | ||
| Tuesday 20th | 11:00-12:00 | Áras na Laoi G02 | Facilitating Integration | Facilitating Community Integration: The Sanctuary Runners Experience | Graham Clifford of Sanctuary Runners | Talk | Sanctuary Runners |
| Tuesday 20th | 13:00-14:00 | Mardyke Track | Sanctuary Run | Join us for a lunchtime run with UCC Staff AC | Social/Outdoor/Sport | UCC Staff Athletics Club & Sanctuary Runners | |
| Tuesday 20th | 18:00-20:00 | Film Screening Room/Auditorium (Kane Basement B10.b) | Human Flow | Human Flow - a film by Ai Weiwei | Film | School of Film, Music and Theatre | |
| Tuesday 20th | 19:00-20:30 | Franciscan Well | Quiz Night | Social | Fáilte Refugees, UCC MSF Soc, UCC Mountaineeing Soc, UCC EWB Soc, UCC Comedy Soc | ||
| Wednesday 21st | All day | The Hub | Travelling Map | Informative | Fáilte Refugees | ||
| Wednesday 21st | 11:00-14:00 | The Marquee @ The Hub | Pop-up International Café | Social/Informational | Fáilte Refugees with Slavic, Islamic, Jewish, and Europa societies | ||
| Wednesday 21st | 11:00-12:00 | WGB G14 | Researching Child Trafficking | Raising Awareness of Child Trafficking & Exploring Potential Research Collaborations | J.P. O'Sullivan, MECPATHS | Talk | MECPATHS, ISS21 Poverties, Social Justice & Inequalities Cluster and the IHRG in Med & Health |
| Wednesday 21st | 13:00-14:00 | WGB 226 | Refugee and migrant children in schools | Supporting the integration and inclusion of refugee and migrant children in schools: evidence and practice | Dr Shirley Martin with reps from Millstreet Community School and Blarney street NS. | Report Findings Presentation & Experiences of Champion Schools | ISS21 IMMERSE / Schools of Sanctuary |
| Wednesday 21st | 14:00-15:00 | WGB 226 | Language as experienced as a migrant | Translating ethnographic writing on migrants and outreach work with refugees for mixed audiences | Dr J.C. Macarie & Roos Demol | Conversation | ISS21 Precnights & International Community Dynamics |
| Wednesday 21st | 15:00-16:00 | WGB 226 | Education Pathways and the EU Passworld Project | Building Education Pathways for Refugee Students: UCC’s Experience (OBD) | Ruth Hally, UCC and Tessa Cornally, NascInformation/Discussion | Presentation/Discussion | Nasc |
| Thursday 22nd | All day | North Mall Campus | Travelling Map | Fáilte Refugees | |||
| Thursday 22nd | 10:00-11:30 | Dora Allman Room (Hub) | Open Book Day | From global to local - refugees and education | Seminar/Talk/Discussion | UNHCR & Schools of Sanctuary | |
| Thursday 22nd | 12:00-13:30 | Dora Allman Room (Hub) | Forced migration, health and dignity | European Union governance of forced migration: Impacts on Health and Dignity | Dr Apostolos Veizis, INTERSOS Hellas | Talk | ISS21/ Applied Social Studies |
| Thursday 22nd | N/A | The Glucksman | Art in the Classroom | School Tours/Art in the Classroom (OBD) | Educational/Creative | The Glucksman & Schools of Sanctuary | |
| Thursday 22nd | 15:00-16:00 | The Shtepps (Hub) | Depositions Poetry | A reading by Anton Floyd Deposition (OBD) | Anton Floyd | Poetry/Talk | ISS21/Collective Social Futures |
| Thursday 22nd | 18:30-20:30 | Aula Maxima | Bridges over Borders | Bridges over Borders: Annual Fáilte Refugees Conference | Conference | Fáilte Refugees | |
| Friday 23rd | 10:00-11:00 | The Shtepps (Hub) | Reflections | Refugee Week Reflective Space | Guided, quiet reflection | The Chaplaincy | |
| Friday 23rd | 13:00-14:00 | Áras na Laoi Common Room | Coffee and Chat | Coffee and Chat | Social | LGBT+ Staff Network / Race Equality Network | |
| Friday 23rd | 18:00-20:00 | Aula Maxima | A Very Open Mic Night | Open Mic Night with Olympio and Cork Migrant Centre | Everyone! :-) | Artistic/Creative/Social | Cork Migrant Centre/UCC Dept. Music/UCC Societies Office |
| Saturday 24th/Sunday 25th (TBC) | TBC | Fountainstown | Brr! :-) | Sanctuary Swim | Social/Outdoor/Sport | Sanctuary Runners |
Abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Building |
|---|---|
| BHSC | Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road |
| ORB | O'Rahilly Building, UCC Main Campus |
| WGB | Western Gateway Building, Western Road |
Linked events
Outside of UCC Refugee Week, events have been running either directly or indirectly linked to refugee matters:
Tuesday, February 13, a Praxis-coordinated anti-racism workshop was run entitled Embracing Identity: Navigating Racism, Stigma, and Equity. For more information click here. This workshop was run with financial assistance from the University of Sanctuary Working Group.
Thursday, February 15, Drs Samantha Morgan-William, School of Law and Vittorio Bufacchi, School of Philosophy, held an open debate Understanding Genocide: A Conversation betweren Philosophy and Law. They also published an article in the Irish Examiner, entitled We must first understand genocide to determine if it is happening.