Speaker Bio
Dr. John Nassari is a forced migration scholar, and an award-winning photographer, author and filmmaker based in London. Nassari was a Senior Lecturer in Refugee Studies at the University of East London from 2007 to 2013 and served as Program Committee Chair for the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus. His interests include refugee identity, memory and narrative, and the formation of refugee lives in visual practice. He has conducted extensive research on Cypriot refugees and has published numerous journal articles, including ‘Postmemory blues: the predicament of arriving and returning,’ which he discussed during this talk.