fear+hope
Conference, Exhibition & Concert
Schedule
Exhibition will be available to view throughout the conference and concert.
9:30 – Registration
10:00 – Introduction to conference: Dr. Chris Hartney
10:20 – Law and sovereignty
Dr. Dimitris Vardoulakis: The Return of the Refugee
George Newhouse: The legal duty of care owed to detainees
Question time – 10 Minutes
11:10 – tea break
11:30 – Asylum Seekers from Afghanistan: Present dilemmas
Abdul Karim Hekmat: The forced deportation of Hazaras to Afghanistan
Hadi Hosseini: Poetry recital
Question time – 10 Minutes
12:10 – lunch break
1:00 – Refugee Rights and Advocacy
David Allinson: ‘Rights for the Rightless? Towards a Non-Statist Defence of Human Rights for Asylum Seekers’
Ian Rintoul: Hope against the odds – The campaign to free the refugees
Question time – 10 Minutes
1:50 – Mental Health and medical ethics
Dr. Jill Gordon: Post traumatic stress disorder: When fear overwhelms hope
Anson Fehross: The Ethics of Non-Therapeutic Radiology: X-Ray Imaging and Refugees.
Question time – 10 Minutes
2:40 – tea break
3:00 – The Refugee in Art and Literature
Saleh Saqqaf: Refugee Theatre and GAAAP performance
Zoe Alderton: Australian Jesus Welcomes the Refugees: Art as a Tool of Social Embrace
Question time – 10 Minutes
3:50 – Keynote address
Prof. William Maley: Public Panics and Mad Methodologies: Some Pathologies of Refugee Policy
Question time – 10 Minutes
4:30 – The Refugee Art Project
Dr. Omid Tofighian: Redefining persecution/responses to earlier papers
Bilquis Ghani: The Taliban verses Ustad Mashal
Dr. Safdar Ahmed: The Art of Exile
Question time – 10 Minutes
5:30 – close
5:30-6pm – concert registration and payment
6.30pm – Concert begins
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