Monday, March 4 | 4:30 p.m.
Steitz 102
Refuge Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
Climate change, urbanization, digitalization
The lecture will begin 4:30 p.m. in Steitz 102 immediately followed by a reception and celebration of the book launch of The 1951 Refugee Convention: A Commentary in the Steitz Atrium.
This event is free and open to the public.
Evan Easton-Calabria is a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She has conducted research with refugees and displaced communities, including work at the intersection of climate, conflict, and vulnerable populations. She holds a Masters and PhD in International Development. She is the author of over 75 publications aimed at policy, practitioner, and academic audiences. This includes two books, Refugees, Self-Reliance, Development: A critical history (Bristol University Press, 2022) and The Global Governed: Refugees as providers of protection and assistance (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Dr. Easton Calabria recently published, with co-author Prof. Claudena Skran, a chapter on “The Historical Development of International Law,” in The 1951 Refugee Convention: A Commentary ed. by A. Zimmermann and T. Einarsen.
