Migrant Forms: Creative Futures (16 June 2025)

Migrant Forms: Creative FuturesBook Cover: Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms

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 Foyer)
Magdalene College, Cambridge
16 June, 2025

Provisional programme

9.00-9.25: Arrival and coffee

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, Gabriel Josipovici, Issam Kourbaj, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Subha Mukherji, Dragana Jurišić, Dine Diallo; with responses from Jane Partner and Aaron Rosen

12.45-1.25: Lunch and coffee

1.30-3: Migrant Ecologies: Yota Batsaki, Daniel Margócsy, Thomas Simpson, Mina Gorji, Rachel Spence. Convened by Jason Scott-Warren

3.10-4.30: Storytelling workshop: Dine Diallo with Marina Warner

4.30-4.40: Tea

4.45 -5.45: Music and migration: Mohamed Sarrar and Elias Matar from Good Chance Theatre; Amit Chaudhuri and Adam Moore

6-6.40: Rooting Food: Faraj Alnasser, Roopa Gulati, Gamze Ineceli, Subha Mukherji, Claudia Roden. Curated by Bee Wilson. Poetic responses from Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Anthony Vahni Capildeo

6.40: Book launch and drinks reception

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, edited by Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams (punctum books, 2025)

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