Migrant Forms: Creative Futures
A symposium, followed by the launch of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, edited by Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams (punctum books, 2025)
Cripps Building (Auditorium and Gallery Garden)
Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge
16 June, 2025
Advance registration is requested. Please register at the following link by 9 June: https://events.humanitix.com/migrant-forms-creative-futures
Programme
- 9.00-9.25: Arrival, with coffee and pastries
- 9.30-9.40: Welcome and Introduction
- 9.40-11.00: Round-table on ‘Migrant Forms’: Annabel Brett, Supriya Chaudhuri, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Simon Goldhill, Dragana Jurišić, Issam Kourbaj, Subha Mukherji, Marina Warner, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh. Curated by Rowan Williams
- 11.10-12.30: Moving Things: Faraj Alnasser, Dine Diallo, Jonathan Gil Harris (in absentia), Gabriel Josipovici, Dragana Jurišić, Issam Kourbaj, Subha Mukherji, Jane Partner and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh; with a response from Aaron Rosen
- 12.35-1.15: Lunch and coffee
- 1.20-3.00: Migrant Ecologies: Convened by Jason Scott-Warren
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- Talks:
- Yota Batsaki: Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Mobilities
- Daniel Margócsy:When mountains, cloves, and the Javanese are on the move
- Thomas Simpson: Migrants’ ecologies: Moving beyond “Indigenous and Local Knowledge” in histories of environmental sciences
- Poems:
- Mina Gorji and Rachel Spence.
- Talks:
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- 3.05-4.05: Storytelling workshop: Dine Diallo (Giocherenda, Palermo and Stories in Transit) and Marina Warner with Hannah Machover (Stories in Transit)
- 4.05-4.20: quick tea break
- 4.30 -5.35: Music and migration: Mohamed Sarrar with Elias Matar from Good Chance Theatre; Amit Chaudhuri with Adam Moore
- 5.45-6.55: Rooting Food
- 5.45-6.35: A conversation with Faraj Alnasser, Roopa Gulati, Gamze Ineceli, Subha Mukherji, Claudia Roden. Curated by Bee Wilson.
- 6.40-6.55: Poetic responses by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Anthony Vahni Capildeo (Garden/Gallery)
- 7.00: Book launch by Josephine McDonagh (Garden/Gallery)




