Elika Ansari, alumna of the School of International Relations and Dina Nayeri, Reader in the School of English – both published authors who have written about seeking refuge – speak to Dr Jeffrey Murer, Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence in the School of International Relations.

This is the fifth episode of the first series of the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network podcast series Ad Lib. You can access a transcript of this episode using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/4pz54s79

In this recording, you will hear the voices of:

Elika Ansari, (MA 2012, MLitt 2014). Elika Ansari has spent the past 10 years of her life working and volunteering withrefugees and asylum seekers in Belgium, Greece and the U.K. She is the writer of 'The Five Stages of Moria: 'The Worst Refugee Camp on Earth’.

You can find and follow Elika on Instagram @elikaansari and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryam-elika-ansari-56b5685b/

Dina Nayeri, Reader, School of English, University of St Andrews. Dina Nayeri is the author of several books, including The Ungrateful Refugee and Who Gets Believed.

You can explore Dina’s work further at www.dinanayeri.com/  

Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer is the Senior Lecture on Collective Violence and the Founding Director of the Centre for Art and Politics in the School of International Relations.  He is a prize-winning writer and teacher and has been awarded research grants from among others, the British Council, the Carnegie Trust and the Independent Social Research Foundation. In 2019 he was named a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. 

You can find out more about Jeffrey’s work by visiting https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/jeffrey-stevenson-murer

Credits:

Recorded on online and at the Laidlaw Music Centre by Jonathan Kemp and Udayan Meshram.

Audio editing and transcription by Kimberly Rampasan (MSc2024).

Produced by Catherine Dunford (BSc 2007, PhD 2012).

Music by Cruen from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/city-streets