State of Democracy Lecture with Dina Nayeri
Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium
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Reconsidering Refugees and Immigration: A Conversation with Dina Nayeri
Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, then turns to her own shocking and illuminating experiences, which grow into a reckoning with believability in our culture. "Who Gets Believed?" is as deeply personal as it is profound in its reflections on morals, language, history, compassion, and the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another.
Nayeri offers a new understanding of refugee life, confronting dangers from the metaphor of the swarm to the notion of “good” immigrants. With surprising and provocative questions, her other book, "The Ungrateful Refugee," recalibrates the conversation around the refugee experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to be forced to flee your home, and to journey across borders in the hope of starting afresh.
Dina Nayeri is an Iranian-American writer and recently joined the faculty at the University of St. Andrews. This conversation will be conducted by Kristi Andersen, professor emerita of political science and senior research associate of the Campbell Institute.
Category
Research Support
Type
Lectures and Seminars
Region
Campus
Open to
Alumni
Faculty
Parents and Families
Staff
Students, Graduate and Professional
Students, Prospective
Students, Undergraduate
Cost
No cost
Organizer
MAX-Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Accessibility
Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
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We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.