{"id":379,"date":"2016-02-01T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-02-10T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T12:12:27","slug":"seminar-series-david-herd-kent-on-11-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2016\/02\/01\/seminar-series-david-herd-kent-on-11-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar series: David Herd (Kent) on 11 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The University of Kent, Paris<br \/>\nIn conjunction with its partner institutions<br \/>\nCordially invites students and guests to its<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/paris\/news.html?view=387\">Spring Seminar Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/herd.html\">David Herd<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor of Modern Literature<br \/>\nUniversity of Kent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Walking with refugee tales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In June 2015 the Refugee Tales project staged a walk in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees. Following the route of the old Pilgrims\u2019 Way, the principal aim of the walk was to counter the silence surrounding indefinite immigration detention and in the process to call for the practice to be stopped. Arguing that a policy such as indefinite detention is only sustainable when its human consequences are kept from view, the project set out to communicate the stories of people who have experienced the asylum system in the UK. This talk will reflect on the lessons learned by Refugee Tales. It considers the implications of communicating stories of refugee journeys in a culturally charged landscape such as southern England, and asks why, as the debate around refugees and asylum seekers appears to be shifting, the practice of indefinite detention is so rarely raised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Thursday, 11 February 2016<br \/>\n18.30<br \/>\nGrande salle, <a href=\"http:\/\/globalcenters.columbia.edu\/paris\/\">Reid Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Free and open to the public<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Please confirm your presence by writing to<br \/>\nparis@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent, Paris In conjunction with its partner institutions Cordially invites students and guests to its Spring Seminar Series David Herd Professor of Modern Literature University of Kent Walking with refugee tales In June 2015 the Refugee Tales project staged a walk in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees. Following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}