Friday, November 12, 2010

What’s happening at STAR Conference 2010?

Here is a glimpse at the weekend programme for the STAR National Conference 2010: including workshops, talks, debates and party…

Conference Programme

Refugees: The Global Issue in Your Back Yard’
Student Action for Refugees Annual Conference
20th & 21st November
Oxford House, London E2 6HG

Saturday 20th November


10:15am: Registration

11:20am: Welcome! Emma Williams, Chief Executive STAR

11:40am: Keynote Address by Helen Bamber OBE: Victims of Torture

12:00pm: Keynote Address by Mehri Jafari: The Student and Women’s Movement in Iran

12:20pm: Break

12:30pm: Question Time panel debate

  • Helen Bamber OBE (Helen Bamber Foundation)
  • Nick Oakeshott (Asylum Aid)
  • Azar Sheibani (Head of RAGU)
  • Chaired by Nat Avdiu (Student Trustee & Southampton STAR)

13:30pm: Lunch

14:30pm: Workshops (First Session):

  • Detention of Asylum Seekers (Sarah Campbell, Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID))
  • Refugee & Asylum Seeking Children: Rights and Entitlements (Kamena Dorling, Children’s Legal Centre)
  • Introduction to Asylum in the UK (Carys Davis, Refugee Action)
  • Rights vs. Reality: Assisting Asylum Seekers and Refugees to Access Health care (Lucinda Hardwick, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture)
  • Human Rights Abuses (Paul Dillane, Amnesty International)

15:30pm: Break

15:50pm: Keynote Address by: Julian Huppert MP (Lib Dem)

16:30pm: Workshops (Second Session, repeated as above)

17:30pm: Collective Simple Act! Photograph

18:30pm: Food and Party!

Sunday 21st November


9:00am: Breakfast

9:40am: Morning welcome!

10:00am: Equal Access to higher education campaign

10:40am: STAR Cairo

11:00am: Annual General Meeting, STAR Board of Trustees
Followed by Extraordinary General Meeting

11:30am: Break

11:45am: STAR’s Achievements: Richard Malfait, Sophie Cottrell & Emma Williams

12:45pm: Lunch

13:30pm: Workshops

  • Volunteering with Refugees (Emily Crowley, STAR National)
  • Campaigning Skills (Anna Musgrave, Refugee Council)
  • Promoting positive images of refugees (James Fisher, STAR National)
  • Organising Events and Fundraising (Emma Williams and Kevin Dunbar, STAR National)

14:45pm: Summary and Evaluation

15:00pm: End of conference

Posted by STAR team on 12/11/2010 at 03:18 PM