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In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Narratives of Economic Migration
In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Narratives of Economic Migration
University of Warwick, 19-20 September 2024
University of Warwick central campus
Zeeman Building, MS.05Link opens in a new window
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9.30 welcome, reception, coffee
10:00 1st session: Reframing the Cinematic Gaze in European Borderlands
Chair: Molly Harrabin (University of Warwick)
- Bengisu Kepsutlu (University of Leeds) ““The Perfect Refugee Doesn’t Exi…”: Migrant Girlhood, Neoliberal Feminism and Sports Labour in Sally El Hosaini’s The Swimmers (2022)”
- Dr Matthias Kispert (University of Westminster): “Europe beyond itself: colonial temporalities, border struggles and media representation in No More Beyond”
11.15 Keynote Lecture
Doing Decolonization’s Dirty Work: Refugee-Migrant Labour for the Film Sector
Dr Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow)
Chair: Jacopo Francesco Mascoli (University of Warwick)
12.15 – 13:30 Lunch
13.30 2nd session: Alternative (hi)Stories of Migration in Sea and Oceanic crossings
Chair: Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazár (University of Warwick)
- Fatma Ozen (York University, Toronto) "Alternative Voices of Migration: Deconstructing Representations in Diverse Visual Narratives"
- Zach Meltzer (University of Cape Town) “Water, Wounds, and Wraiths: Rethinking Trauma and Migration in Transnational African Cinema”
14:30 Coffee Break
15.00 3rd session: Cinematic Portrayals of Displacement and Transformation in the Middle East
Chair: Raghad Melfi (University of Warwick)
- Alessandra Fredianelli (University of Genoa) “Exploring the migratory condition in Syrian film production”
- Oğuzhan Dursun (George Mason University) “Exploring Societal Change through Migrant Portrayals in Late 20th Century Turkish Cinema”
- Hera Lorandos (King’s College, London) “Unveiling the Political Economy of Migration in Jumana Manna's "Wild Relatives" (2018): A Border Abolitionist and Decolonial Perspective”
17.00 end
Day 2
9.00 Keynote Lecture
Transnational Comics: Breaking the Frame of Memory
Dr Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool)
Chair: Silvia Vari (University of Warwick)
10.00 – 10.15 Coffee Break
10.15 – 12.00 4th session: Comics, Picturebooks, and Digital Resistance in Mediterranean Migration
Chair: Dr James Taylor (University of Warwick)
Dr Yu Feng (Shanghai Normal University) “Crossing the Mediterranean: Balancing Reality and Comfort through Metaphors in Migration Graphic Novels and Picturebooks”
Dr Mokshda Manchanda (BITS Law School) "Archiving the Crisis of Displacement: Comics and Migration"
Dr Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster) “Mocking the Border: Strategies of Visual Resistance in the Mediterranean”
Dr Driss Faddouli (Chouaib Doukkali University) “Investigating Migratory Aesthetics of Crossing the Sea in Moroccan Networked Visual Narratives. Media, Morocco, Illegal migration”
12 – 12:10 Closing remarks