Glenn and Wyn attended a research seminar held at the School of European Studies, Cardiff University. Colleagues from the University of Glamorgan (Dr Sharif Gemie, Dr Fiona Reid & Laure Humbert) were presenting their research project called Outcast Europe. Details at: http://history.research.glam.ac.uk/news/en/2009/feb/09/outcast-europe-cardiff-seminar/
We were particularly struck at the discussion surrounding definitions of refugees, and of how one can trace a long history of refugees being portrayed as, for example, victims, tricksters, rogues or (quite rarely) as heroes (i.e. victims of the Holocaust on the Exodus ship in 1947). We agreed to have further meetings with the Outcast Europe team, as well as Cardiff Uni colleagues based at the Institute for the Study of European Visual Culture.
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