Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
Date: Friday, 31/Oct/2025
8:00am
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4:00pm		 Registration
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
You can pick up your nametag and lanyard at the registration table.
9:00am
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9:15am		 Opening session
Location: Saga S-114
Welcome to the New Frontiers Conference 2025! Kolbrún Þorbjörg Pálsdóttir, Dean, School of Education, University of Iceland will deliver the opening address.
9:15am
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10:15am		 Keynote - Laura Robson - Youthful peril, youthful promise: Rhetoric versus reality around refugee children and young people
Location: Saga S-114
Laura Robson is Professor in the Department of History and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. She is a scholar of international and Middle Eastern history, with a special interest in questions of refugeedom, forced migration, and statelessness.
10:15am
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10:45am		 Coffee/Tea Break
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Migrant youth integration and Educational Inclusion: Exploring the process of migration, inclusive relational practices and school climate
Location: Saga S-312
Chair: Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir
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 Critical and Intersectional Approaches in Migration Research
Location: Saga S-346
Chair: Lara Hoffmann
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12:15pm
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1:15pm		 Lunch break
Lunch is not included in the conference ticket. Participants can purchase lunch in the nearby canteens and restaurants.
1:15pm
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2:45pm		 Children and Youth at the Margins: Disability, Visibility, and Empowerment
Location: Saga S-346
Chair: Hrafnhildur Kvaran
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 Artistic Expressions: Creative Outlets and the Refugee Experience
Location: Saga S-312
Chair: Magnús Bernhardsson
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2:45pm
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3:15pm		 Coffee/Tea Break
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
3:15pm
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5:15pm		 ESRCI refugee children project – presentation
Location: Saga S-114
Apart and a Part: New Frontiers in Researching Resettlement Refugees in Iceland In this panel and roundtable, the inter-disciplinary group of eleven scholars associated with the multi-year research program that hosts this conference, will highlight some of the initial results of their ongoing work. After an overview of the scope and ambition of the project, they will describe the methodology, the process, the challenges, the implications and some of the initial insights that they have gained in the last three years. This research and data collection has taken place all of over Iceland including in small, remote villages to the metropolitan region of Reykjavik. The topics that the team has explored includes well-being, inclusion, language acquisition, education, trust, community building, communication, policies, expectation management, the role of volunteers and translators, and the various stages of resettlement. As they reflect on their efforts, success and findings and consider the next steps, they welcome feedback and advice as they prepare further academic work as well as providing policy recommendations for the various stakeholders and practioners in the resettlement process in Iceland.
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6:15pm		 Welcome Reception
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow participants, speakers, and organizers in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Light refreshments will be served, and everyone is warmly encouraged to attend.