Invitation: 05/11/2024 – Seminar and Q&A with Dr. Ceren Yüksel, Living Refugee Archive Seminar Series
Welcome to the first of our Living Refugee Archive Seminar Series events here at the University of East London. For this seminar, we are very happy to be able to welcome Dr Ceren Yuksel, Senior Lecturer at the UAL Creative Computing Institute and Course Leader for the postgraduate MA Internet Equalities course.
Ceren is an alumni of the UEL’s postgraduate MA Course in Refugee Studies and she is the creator of Refugee Data Minder, a digital archive raising questions on the misplaced accountability in international refugee protection by housing narratives of injustices and rights violations unaccounted for in data. In this seminar, Ceren will be introducing the Refugee Data Minder and the rationale for the archive’s creation, primarily the gap between the rights outlined in international refugee law and the actual experiences of refugees in UNHCR’s digital media representations. This seminar will explore the how digital media technologies, guided by the principles of digital humanities scholarship, can be utilised to identify and address instances of rights violations committed through UNHCR’s direct and indirect actions or acts of omission.
This Seminar will include a presentation by Dr. Yuksel followed by a Q&A Session hosted by UEL Archivist Paul Dudman (Living Refugee Archive). We very much welcome UEL staff and students to this Seminar alongside external participants and members of the public. Booking will be via the Eventbrite link above.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Paul V Dudman at p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk
Bio:
Ceren Yüksel is Senior Lecturer and MA Internet Equalities Course Leader at the UAL Creative Computing Institute, with background in digital humanities, humanitarian data and communication systems.
Before joining academia in 2019, Ceren pursued a career as a humanitarian professional for 15 years, primarily with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in multiple forced displacement settings. She spearheaded data and technology related projects and initiatives ranging from local to global scales such as the global refugee data analytics and reporting tool, community-based paralegal and legal aid mapping system to end statelessness, and the Community of Practice for Data. Ceren holds a doctoral degree in Creative and Critical Practice from the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex.
Further Information
Available on the Living Refugee Archive at: https://www.livingrefugeearchive.org/event/seminar-and-qa-with-dr-ceren-yuksel/
Seminar and Q&A with Dr. Ceren Yüksel
Date: Tuesday, 5th November 2024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Location: University of East London, Docklands Campus, East Building: Room EB.G.08
Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-refugee-archive-seminar-and-qa-with-dr-ceren-yuksel-tickets-1053449639229