2026 Annual Conference
Annual Conference 2026 – April 13-14, 2026 – Boston, MA
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Schedule
Day One – 4/13/2026 – 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750
| 8:30am – 9:00am | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00am – 9:30am | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30am – 10:30am | Book Talk: “Until I Find You” by Pulitzer Finalist Rachel Nolan |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm | Panel: Health, Technology, and Displacement |
| 12:15pm – 1:30pm | Lunch; Screening of short film “24 Hours Local” by Hamza Matayaqubov |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | Panel: Civil Networks |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:15pm – 4:45pm | Parallel Workshops [see descriptions]: Displaced from Belonging (10 spaces total); The SIM Project (20 spaces total); Workshop C |
Day Two – 4/14/2026 – 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750
| 9:00am – 9:30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:30am – 11:00am | Keynote: Laura Robson, Yale Elihu Professor of Global Affairs and History |
| 11:00am – 11:15am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | Parallel Workshops [see descriptions]: Collective Healing through Dance; Releasing your Voice (20 spaces total) |
| 12:15pm – 1:30pm | Lunch, Poster Sessions |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm | Book “Speed Dating” |
| 2:30pm – 2:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 2:45pm – 4:15pm | Panel: Deportations |
| 4:15pm | Brief Reflection and Closing Remarks |
Workshops
Workshop details to be announced.
Panels
Panel details to be announced.