ASYFAIR Conference Programme

Conference Programme Overview

All times in BST (British Summer Time).

The full conference programme, with abstracts, speakers’ biographies and bibliography can be downloaded as a .pdf further below.

Day 1 – Wednesday, 30 June 2021

9:30 – 10:15	Opening & Welcome
10:30 – 12:15	SESSION 1	International Experiences of Refugee Status Determination
		Credibility I: Credibility Assessments and Discretion
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch Break
13:15 – 15:00	SESSION 2	Legal Representation, Legal Aid and Information
		Credibility II: Religious Conversion Asylum Cases
		The Challenges of Asylum Adjudication in Italy: Perspectives from the Field
15:15 – 17:00	Keynote	Prof. Nick Gill – ‘Inside Europe’s Asylum Appeals’

Day 2 – Thursday, 1 July 2021

9:30 – 11:15	SESSION 3	Vulnerability I: Vulnerability in Refugee Status Determination
		Asylum in Europe and the Common European Asylum System (CEAS)
11:30 – 13:15	SESSION 4	Vulnerability II: Children in Refugee Status Determination
		Asylum Determination and Adjudication in the UK
		Country of Origin Information in Refugee Status Determination
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch Break
14:15 – 16:00	SESSION 5	Vulnerability III: Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Refugee Status Determination
		Effects on Refugee Status Determination and Asylum Adjudication
16:15 – 17:45	Keynote	Prof. Ashley Terlouw – ‘The Dilemma of Discretion: Deciding by the Rules or by Heart in Asylum Cases?’

Day 3 – Friday, 2 July 2021

09:30 – 11:15	SESSION 6	Case Law and Evidence
		Fairness and Access to Justice
11:30 – 13:30	Roundtable	Nick Gill (chair), John Campbell, Cristiano D’Orsi, Tobias Eule, Livia Johannesson, Rebecca Hamlin, Anthony Good, Austin Kocher, Ashley Terlouw, Helena Wray
13:35 – 14:00	Closing Remarks