The first Migration and Mobility Network networking event of the 2020-2021 academic year focuses on Migration and Museums, with participants from the Migration Museum, COMPAS, and the University of Oxford.

Speakers:

Aditi Anand, Head of Creative Content at the Migration Museum recently awarded the Radical Changemaker award from the Museums Association. Aditi will talk about some of her work at the Migration Museum.

Denis Kierans, Migration Observatory and Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, COMPAS, University of Oxford. Denis will speak about his work helping the artists ANAGRAM realise their creative project, A Face to Open Doors, for Imperial War Museum London’s Refugee Season.

Rachael Kiddey, British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Rachael will discuss the ‘Made in Migration’ project, a project which uses collaborative archaeological methods to enable refugees to document their lived experience of displacement through material and visual culture, and in so doing, present a more humanised perspective of contemporary migration

Emil Beddari, MSc Student at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Emil will talk about how aesthetic choices in refugee representation respond to, reproduce, and resist existing migration discourses.

Objectives:

During this event, scholars and practitioners will reflect on the role of museums in representing migrants, shaping discourses surrounding migrants, and critically engaging the public with issues of mobility and migration. Speakers will share their work and reflections through 5 minute presentations, which will be followed by discussion.

Beyond networking, the objective of this session is to stimulate a rich and interdisciplinary discussion on the intersection of migration and museums. As such, everyone working on migration and mobility academia or beyond is invited to join as the diversity of voices and perspectives will benefit the conversation.

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MMN Networking Event: Migration and Museums