My book is out_Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion

Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the publication of my book, Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion. The book launch will be in June. Check this space.
You can find more information here.

Reframe Migration: From the Border Spectacle to the Aesthetics of Subversion_King's College 5 Feb 2018

Dear all,
I am giving a talk tonight at King's College on my research. All details in the picture attached. Hope to see you there.

Rights and Might: Cultural counter-narratives of the migrant and refugee experience | University of Westminster_Refugee week 22-25 June 2017

Dear all,
it's my pleasure to announce the upcoming conference I've had the pleasure to co-organise with a number of colleagues from the University of Westminster.

You can find all details in the eventbrite page, where you can also register.

For a draft programme see below

My interview for the Blog PERFORMNING BORDERS

Hi there,
Just wanted to share with you an interview with me by Alessandra Cianetti (co-director of Something Human) for her amazing Blog, Performing Borders: Conversations on Live Art  / Crossing  / Europe.
Enjoy it!

#MyEscape_Film screening Goethe Institut London 14 Nov 2016

 For many refugees a mobile phone is indispensable, if not a lifesaver. They use it to organise their travel, communicate with other refugees and their relatives back home, or to store memories of their lives before they started their journey. The documentary #MyEscape brings together a number of accounts of refugees who have made their way to Germany from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Eritrea via different routes, using their mobile phones to record their journeys. The documentary joins the footage they filmed with their reports given retrospectively during extended interviews after their arrival in Germany. We learn about their reasons for leaving, the dangers and difficulties they encountered during their travels as well as about their first impressions when arriving in Germany. The film ends with a short overview of how the protagonists settled in and what kind of activities they were engaged in at the time, leaving open how their lives would develop thereafter.

Germany 2016, colour, 90 mins. With English subtitles.
Director: Elke Sasse.

The screening will be followed by a Q & A with der director Elke Sasse
hosted by Marta Welander, Founder, Refugee Rights Data Project (RRDP)

Buy tickets here

Location: Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2PH

Photo Exhibition: Humans of Calais

Migration from the Perspective of Migrants

This photo exhibition of daily life in the refugee camp in Calais is the result of the research project Humans of Calais, which gives migrants a voice in order to understand their experiences from their own perspective. Residents of the Calais camp were given disposable cameras to record their daily lives in the camp. These visual snapshots, and the migrants’ narratives that accompany them, offer a unique insight into the ways in which migrants build their lives under difficult and makeshift circumstances, whilst also showing their ideas and dreams.
Researchers: Signe Sofie Hansen, Tara Flores, Ishita Singh and Layla Mohseni, MA Students from the Department of War Studies

Location: War Studies Meeting Room (K. 6.07)

Category: Culture, Exhibition

When: 11/11/2016 (17:00) - 02/12/2016 (17:00)