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Karen Jacobsen, in conversation with Kate Risse

Name: Karen Jacobsen, in conversation with Kate Risse
Start: 2026-09-18T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Brookline Booksmith

Brookline Booksmith

279 Harvard Street, Brookline

Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

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Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with author Karen Jacobsen to discuss and honor the release of "Host Cities: How Refugees Are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings". She will be in conversation with writer Kate Risse. (via Brookline Booksmith)

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Karen Jacobsen

Karen Jacobsen is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Global Migration at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has won grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development and has consulted for nongovernmental and UN organizations, including the World Bank and UNHCR. She lives in Brookline, Massahusetts.