Event Details:
- Date: Friday, 28 November 2025
- Time: 2:00–5:00 pm (UK time)
- Venue: Students’ Union Building, Room 101, St Andrews.
- Registration here: Attendance is free but registration is required due to limited capacity.
This event will explore the histories and human experiences of displacement across the twentieth century, examining how forced migration and resettlement have shaped identities, communities, and nations. Whether through war and conflict, ideological division, or the search for new opportunities, displacement leaves intelligible marks on the human experience.
Through film viewing, talks, and discussions, the session will highlight the social, political, and emotional dimensions of being uprooted. By reflecting on personal narratives and collective memory, participants will gain deeper insight into the ways displacement continues to shape understandings of home, belonging, and cultural identity in our contemporary world.
Organised by the Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) in collaboration with Baylor University’s Study Abroad Programme and the Student Mobility Office.
Speakers:
Dr. Stavroula Pipyrou – “Child Displacement in Cold War Italy”
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research
Dr. Gonul Bozoglu – “The Journey and the Grief”
Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies
Dr. Volha Biziukova – “Elusive promise of temporary protection: experiences, strategies, and dilemmas of displaced Ukrainians in Vienna“
Research Fellow in Social Anthropology
Dr. Jeffrey Murer – “Fluid Subjects: The global conflicts of settlement, displacement, labour shifts, and capital flows that set people in motion”
Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence