ISCRAM 2009

The 2009 meeting of the International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) will be held in Göteborg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009. While the window for submitting CFPs for the general programme is closed, several other opportunities for contribution are still available, including:

- a PhD colloquium (deadline 10 March)
- a student poster session (deadline 10 March)
- a pre-conference workshop on mobile information technology for emergency response (deadline 20 March)
- a practitioners' workshop (deadline 2 April)

Papers and presentations from the 2008 and 2007 ISCRAM proceedings are available on the conference site.

WebCast: Humanitarian Studies Conference

The first World Conference on Humanitarian Studies begins Wednesday, February 4, in Groningen, The Netherlands. Happily, those of us who cannot attend will still be able to view live broadcasts through a streaming service provided by the university. The service is only supported by Internet Explorer, though, not Firefox and other browsers. Worth trying out though.

Internal Displacement Conference

Participants in "Ten Years of Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement" began their discussions today in Oslo. You can follow the proceedings at the conference web site, which has posted transcripts of speeches, background documents, and some videos of presentations.

Webcasts of Recent Meetings/Presentations

5th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference - 2008 and Beyond: Immigration Challenges the New Administration Will Confront, 20 May 2008 [access]

Climate Change, Migration & Environmental Refugees. Professor Andy Pitman, Dr Jane McAdam and Anna Samson, speaking UNSW, 23 May 2008 [access]

Five Years Later, A Hidden Crisis: The Plight of Iraqi Refugees. George Biddle, Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), speaking at Princeton University, 21 April 2008 [access]

Fourth IASFM Conference Podcast

The theme of this fourth podcast is "The Voices of the Displaced in Forced Migration Research," chaired by Elzbieta Gozdziak, with Eftihia Voutira, Giorgia Donna, Arild Birkenes and Zachary Lomo as the panelists. The panel discussion was preceded by poetry readings by Stephanos Stephanides and Mehmet Yashin.

Previous IASFM podcasts are available on the FMO podcast page.

Third IASFM Conference Podcast

The IASFM conference podcasts are being released weekly now. The theme of this third podcast is "Regions at the Crossroads: Transregional Forced Migration," chaired by Susan Forbes Martin, with Aicha Belarbi, Ahmet Icduygu, Mark Schlakman, Susan Kneebone, and Jeffrey Crisp as the panelists.

Second IASFM Conference Podcast

As reported on the Forced Migration Discussion List and the Forced Migration Blog, the second podcast from the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) plenary session at the January 2008 conference is now available on Forced Migration Online (FMO).

This podcast includes the keynote address ‘Palestine refugees in the contemporary context: a view from UNRWA’ by Karen Abu Zayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA, followed by a panel discussion ‘The situation of refugees in the Middle East’ chaired by Maysa Ayoub, and including Helen Young, Patricia Fagen and Shahira Samy.

For other recordings in the series, visit the podcasts page on FMO.

FMO Podcasts: IASFM Conference

Forced Migration Online (FMO) announced today that it has released the "first podcast of a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)." Held in Cairo in January 2008, the "opening plenary event covered the subject of ‘Emerging patterns of irregularity and their effects among migrants and refugees in the Middle East’."