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Invitation to 'Human and Non-Human Migration and Mobility Symposium' Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton Monday 25 March 2019 Book now (until 20 March): https://shop.brighton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/arts-humanities/academic-conferences/humannonhuman-migration-and-mobility-symposium Waged £30; unwaged £15 Programme: 9.45- Welcome, coffee 10.00am. Panel 1. Media, representations and talk about migration and mobility ‘Media, Migration and Identity in a City of Compounded Crises: Towards a Research Framework’ - Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi (LSE, London) ‘Mobile Urban Cycling Protest’ - Frauke Behrendt (University of Brighton) ‘Representations of climate migration in the discourse of international organisations and newspapers’ - Valentina Boschian Bailo, University of Udine 11.15am. Roundtable: Climate induced migration ‘Communicating climate change induced migration: How the story is told and what more is to be done’, Maria Sakellari, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (University of Brighton) Respondents: Mark Doidge, (University of Brighton); Julie Doyle (University of Brighton) 12.30pm. Lunch 2.00pm. Panel 2. Film, artlife and creating/curating movements toward and from home ‘La Familia – An Essayistic Road Movie in Development’ - Minou Norouzi, (Goldsmiths College, University of London) ‘N-400 and the performance of displaced Identity in Buffalo, NY’ - Eliseo Ortiz (University of Colorado at Boulder) ‘Artist Diasporas: The Nature of Home and Belonging in Lives on the Move’ Emma Duester (University of Roehampton) ‘Errant objects: telling stories of migrant heritage through artworks inside and outside museums’ - Katy Beinart (University of Brighton) 3.30pm. Panel 3. Borders, informality, and re-placing meanings of space in and outside the city ‘Obliterating the threshold: the ephemeral materialities of encampment in Calais, France’ - Maria Hagan (University of Cambridge) ‘Sindh in Karachi: A topography of separateness, connectivity, and laterality in Pakistan’ - Nichola Khan (University of Brighton) ‘Blissful displacements: Diasporas, Place-making and Mobility in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn’ - Toma Peiu (University of Colorado Boulder) 4.45pm. Plenary- drawing disparate threads together 6.30pm- Dinner (optional) Book - https://shop.brighton.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/arts-humanities/academic-conferences/humannonhuman-migration-and-mobility-symposium Waged £30; unwaged £15 Organiser: Nichola Khan [log in to unmask] Queries: Elodie Marandet [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------