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 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
      • 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.
  • 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)
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