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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:The 2025 Erasmus Lectures: "The Early Modern Making of the Refugee: Inventing Refugee Identities"
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SUMMARY:The 2025 Erasmus Lectures: "The Early Modern Making of the Refugee: Inventing Refugee Identities"
DESCRIPTION:<p>The 2025 Erasmus Lectures in the History and Civilization of The Netherlands and Flanders.</p><p>Speaker: Geert Janssen (University of Amsterdam).</p><p>Sponsors: &nbsp;Erasmus Lectureship in the History and Civilization of The Netherlands and Flanders and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard University.</p><p>Refugees have existed since antiquity, yet it was in the early modern era that they first emerged as a clearly defined social category. This lecture investigates when, where, and why certain migrant groups began to describe themselves as ‘refugees’, and shows how the war-ridden Low Countries became an unlikely crucible for the formation of refugee identities. It also considers the unintended consequences of this discursive invention - particularly for displaced communities that failed to meet its confessionalized criteria.</p><p><a href="https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/early-modern-making-refugee-inventing-refugee-identities">Click here for more information.</a></p>
LOCATION:Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
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DTEND:20251028T230000Z
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