"Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art" – Joining the fields of transnational feminist studies with critical refugee studies, this talk introduces the concept feminist refugee epistemology (FRE) to re-conceptualize war-based displacement as not only about social disorder and interruption but also about social reproduction and innovation. FRE does more than critique Western media representation of refugees; it underlines the refugees' rich and complicated lives, the ways in which they enact their hopes, beliefs, and politics, even when they live militarized lives.

Yến Lê Espiritu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

For more info:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/critical-migration-and-refugee-studies-series-y%E1%BA%BFn-l%C3%AA-espiritu-feminist-refugee-epistemology

Brown University
Monday, March 19, 2018