TrekWars@OSU V: Refugees

Anarres Project

In this episode, we celebrate five years of TrekWars@OSU by considering the issue of refugees and displaced persons. In 2021, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees estimated that there were 82 million people displaced because of war, conflict, and human rights violations around the world. Some 30% of those are children. Starting in 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine produced another 7 million refugees, with almost half of them fleeing to neighboring Poland.

The TrekWars@OSU collective decided to consider whether the major science fiction franchises of Star Wars and Star Trek have any lessons to help us to think about dealing with the crises of refugees and displaced migrants today.

Joining Dr Joseph Orosco are longtime members of the TrekWars@OSU Collective:

Dr. Randall Milstein is the Sandy and Elva Eminent Professor of the University Honors College at OSU. He is Senior Instructor in the Physics department in the College of Science at OSU.

Dr. Diana Rohlman is Associate Research Professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences at OSU

Mohammed Shakibnia is an alumnus of Oregon State. He graduated in 2020 with bachelor's degrees in both Political Science and Philosophy. He is currently a graduate student in the School of Public Policy at OSU.

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