Displacement Today
TSOS Lecture Series
21-22 October 2021
Brigham Young University, Provo
HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM/MARB
23 October 2021
Millcreek Community Library, SLC
2266 E EVERGREEN AVE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84109
TSOS is excited to announce its first lecture series, Displacement Today, from 21-23 October 2021. Geared toward higher education institutions, this lecture series will be given at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah, from 21-22 October and is sponsored by the Kennedy Center for International Studies.
As part of the lecture series, TSOS invites you to participate with us as we go live with our Global Refugee Archive, hosted by Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library ScholarsArchive, share stories of incredible resilience, endurance, and hope in the course of the two-day event, and perform the multimedia composition, The Story of Our Journey live on campus for the first time.
Following the lecture series at BYU, TSOS is giving an additional performance of The Story of Our Journey live on 23 October 2021 at the Millcreek Community Library. This event will be prefaced by an open hour where the public is invited to come and learn more about TSOS's work, specifically in the area of education, and advocacy on behalf of refugees. We encourage K-12, and high school teachers, administrators, and other educators to join us and ask us about our resources to enhance teaching opportunities.
Their Story is Our Story (TSOS) today announced the launch of the Global Refugee Archive, a database of refugee stories from around the world. The archive is housed at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library ScholarsArchive and is available to the public, academic researchers, and humanitarians alike.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
“Ribbon Cutting” – Global Refugee Archive
2:30 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
LECTURE: The Difficult Path to Immigration and Integration and Why We Should Care
Kristen Smith Dayley, TSOS Executive Director
3:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
LECTURE: Woman. Refugee. The Vulnerability and Resilience in Times of Global Migration
Liz Jevtic-Somlai, TSOS Associate Director
4:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
LECTURE: Educating for Inclusion and Diversity
Heidi Grimshaw, Director of Education
Sherianne Schow, Director of Advocacy
5:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
DISCUSSION ROUND: Refugees Among Us: Professor. Student. Father. Daughter. Mother. Volunteer. Refugee.
Carter Charles, Assistant Professor of Religious Education, BYU
Shurooq Al-Jewari, Community Program Coordinator, Utah, TSOS
Liz Jevtic-Somlai, Associate Director, TSOS
6:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
MULTIMEDIA COMPOSITION PERFORMANCE: The Story of Our Journey
Dylan Findley, Composer
Csaba Jevtic-Somlai, Solo Clarinet
7:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
Q&A WITH TSOS AFFILIATED ARTISTS
Dylan Findley, Csaba Jevtic-Somlai, Liz Thayer
8:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22
Power of One - How stories change our perception and influence civil society
Liz Jevtic-Somlai, TSOS Associate Director
Trisha Leimer, TSOS Associate Director
10:00 AM • MARB 222
Artistic Advocacy – When Art Expresses the Inexpressible
Dylan Findley, Csaba Jevtic-Somlai, and Liz Thayer
11:00 AM • MARB 222
Let Me Tell You My Story - Where Are they now?
Trisha Leimer and BYU TSOS Chapter
2:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
Preserving the Memory - Global Refugee Archive
Robin Peterson, Director of Archive
3:00 PM • HBLL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
Paper Presentation at the Sidney B. Sperry Symposium 2021
Liz Jevtic-Somlai and Robin Peterson
11:00 AM • JOSEPH SMITH BUILDING AUDITORIUM
EVENTS AT THE MILLCREEK COMMUNITY LIBRARY
2266 E EVERGREEN AVE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84109
OPEN HOUR
Come Learn About TSOS
3:00 PM
MULTIMEDIA COMPOSITION PERFORMANCE The Story of Our Journey Performance
Dylan Findley, Composer
Csaba Jevtic-Somlai, Solo Clarinet
4:00 PM
Some of the stories that move us at the TSOS Lecture Series 2021...Join us to hear more!
