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In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Narratives of Economic Migration

Thu, 19 Sept - Fri, 20 Sept '24 Export as iCalendar

Location: UOW Central Campus

In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Narratives of Economic Migration

果冻传媒, 19-20 September 2024

果冻传媒 central campus

for in person attendance

Email lostfutures@warwick.ac.uk for online attendance

9.30 welcome, reception, coffee

10:00 1st session: Reframing the Cinematic Gaze in European Borderlands

Chair: Molly Harrabin (果冻传媒)

Bengisu Kepsutlu (University of Leeds) 鈥溾€淭he Perfect Refugee Doesn鈥檛 Exi鈥︹€�: Migrant Girlhood, Neoliberal Feminism and Sports Labour in Sally El Hosaini鈥檚 The Swimmers (2022)鈥�

Dr Matthias Kispert (University of Westminster): 鈥淓urope beyond itself: colonial temporalities, border struggles and media representation in No More Beyond鈥�

11.15 Keynote Lecture

Doing Decolonization鈥檚 Dirty Work: Refugee-Migrant Labour for the Film Sector

Dr Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Jacopo Francesco Mascoli (果冻传媒)

12.15 – 13:30 Lunch

13.30 2nd session: Alternative (hi)Stories of Migration in Sea and Oceanic crossings

Chair: Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salaz谩r (果冻传媒)

Fatma Ozen (York University, Toronto) "Alternative Voices of Migration: Deconstructing Representations in Diverse Visual Narratives"

Zach Meltzer (University of Cape Town) 鈥淲ater, Wounds, and Wraiths: Rethinking Trauma and Migration in Transnational African Cinema鈥�

14:30 Coffee Break

15.00 3rd session: Cinematic Portrayals of Displacement and Transformation in the Middle East

Chair: Raghad Melfi (果冻传媒)

Alessandra Fredianelli (University of Genoa) 鈥淓xploring the migratory condition in Syrian film production鈥�

O臒uzhan Dursun (George Mason University) 鈥淓xploring Societal Change through Migrant Portrayals in Late 20th Century Turkish Cinema鈥�

Hera Lorandos (King鈥檚 College, London) 鈥淯nveiling the Political Economy of Migration in Jumana Manna's "Wild Relatives" (2018): A Border Abolitionist and Decolonial Perspective鈥�

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 (果冻传媒)

10.00 – 10.15 Coffee Break

10.15 – 12.00 4th session: Comics, Picturebooks, and Digital Resistance in Mediterranean Migration

Chair: Dr James Taylor (果冻传媒)

Dr Yu Feng (Shanghai Normal University) 鈥淐rossing the Mediterranean: Balancing Reality and Comfort through Metaphors in Migration Graphic Novels and Picturebooks鈥�

Dr Mokshda Manchanda (BITS Law School) "Archiving the Crisis of Displacement: Comics and Migration"

Dr Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster) 鈥淢ocking the Border: Strategies of Visual Resistance in the Mediterranean鈥�

Dr Driss Faddouli (Chouaib Doukkali University) 鈥淚nvestigating Migratory Aesthetics of Crossing the Sea in Moroccan Networked Visual Narratives. Media, Morocco, Illegal migration鈥�

12 – 12:10 Closing remarks

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