Pilar Orero will be in conversation with Shiri Azenkot, and will present the use of VR and accessibility in the project SO-CLOSE.

Last week (15 June), an article by UAB team member Pilar Orero appeared at EuroScientist. We would like to invite you to familiarize yourself with her work

The conference “From So Far to So Close. Addressing the Refugee Phenomenon: History, Sociology, Technology”, dealt with various aspects of the refugee phenomenon, which forms the core of the SO-CLOSE Project.

The conference tackles the issue of refugees through three different perspectives: history, sociology and technology, which form the core of SO-CLOSE. The conference will be divided in three different sessions. The first one will delve into the history of forced displacement in 20th century Europe from three different case studies: the experience of female forced displacement during the Greek Civil War; the phenomenon of forced displacement in communist countries; and forced displacement during the 90's in former Yugoslavia.