Seminar Series Fall 2023: Artistic Activism and Solidarity in an Age of Borders and Hostile Environments

16th October

Speaker: Damani Patridge, University of Michigan. (Co-organized with the School of European Languages, Cultureand Society, UCL.

Title: Blackness as a Universal Claim

18th October

Speaker: Sue Clayton, Goldsmiths College

Title: Film Screening: Calais Children and A Case to Answer – In Conversation with the Director

1st November

Speaker: Yasmin Fedda, Queen Mary

Title: Stories without Borders – Film Outputs from the Protracted Displacement Economies Research Project

15th November

Speaker: Ed Emery, SOAS

Title: War in Our Times: A Militant Agenda for Migrant Musics

22nd November

London Migration Film Festival

Title: Opening Gala Film Screening: Riceboy Sleeps Q&A

23rd November

London Migration Film Festival

Title: Film Screening: No U-Turn Q&A

24th November

London Migration Film Festival

Title: Film Screening: Eat Bitter Q&A

6th December

Speaker: Kaveh Abbasian, University of Kent

Title: Refugee Filmmaking and its Radical Potential at the Time of “The Death of Cinema”