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HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Antoine Burgard & Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps

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Dates:9 October 2018
Times:16:00 - 18:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Antoine Burgard, Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps
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HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate research students.

First Speaker: Antoine Burgard

Title: A limited world of possibilities? Understanding young Holocaust survivors experiences of displacement.

Description: Through the case study of a group of young Holocaust survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, this presentation will discuss how historians and other migration scholars can understand patterns of displacement and individual trajectories of children and youth.

Second Speaker: Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps

Title: Helping all the victims? The ICRC and the Congo crisis (1960-1965)

Description: For the Red Cross, which claimed to be a worldwide movement, the decolonization process in Africa and its consequences represented a real challenge. Focusing more particularly on the troubles that followed the independence of the Belgian Congo, this paper analyses how racism and paternalism among ICRC’s members and delegates influenced their responses to the crisis. More specifically, it highlights how such conceptions led to the establishment of a hierarchy between the victims, and questions their impact on the development of the Red Cross movement in Africa.

For more information about the Institute, our anniversary, events, and more, visit: https://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/about/10-years-hcri/

Speakers

Antoine Burgard

Role: Postdoctoral Fellow

Organisation: Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)

Biography: Antoine Burgard holds a History PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). He is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (University of Manchester) and a fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris.

Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps

Role: Visiting Fellow

Organisation: Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI)

Biography: Marie-Luce is a visiting fellow at the HCRI and a lecturer at the history Department of the University of Geneva. She has just published a book on the humanitarian operations during the Nigerian Civil War and is currently working on a research project on the beginnings of the Red Cross Movement in Africa.

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