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, 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.
• 3.05-4.10: Storytelling workshop: Dine Diallo (Giocherenda, Palermo and Stories in Transit) and Marina Warner with Hannah Machover (Stories in Transit)
• 4.10-4.20: 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, over a tasting of migrant food (Garden/Gallery)
• 7.00: Book launch by Josephine McDonagh (Garden/Gallery)