Inspire Change: The artistic turn in migration studies

Transformative Spaces of Belonging-Migration and Art-Based Research: Umut Erel

Today our guest is Dr. Umut Erel. Her research employs an intersectional approach and explores how gender, migration and ethnicity inform practices of citizenship. We talked about her research and how collaboration between researchers, participants, artists and activists has the potential to open up a space where other ways of being together can be imagined and rehearsed.   Website of Pasar Project: ⁠https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar?nocache=65d4eb08351ff⁠ [https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar?nocache=65d4eb08351ff]   ⁠"Collaborations Between Academics, Artists and Activists: Transforming Public Understandings and Representations of Migration Issues." In Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities, ⁠ [ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8_10] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8_10

Inspire Change: The artistic turn in migration studies

Today our guest is Dr. Wiebke Sievers. She has been working as migration researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 2003. She recently completed an edited book titled Cultural Change in "Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities". [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8]   Dr. Sievers’ website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isr/team/rg-urban-transformation/wiebke-sievers [https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isr/team/rg-urban-transformation/wiebke-sievers] Open access book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8 [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8]

Theater as an “Emancipating” Mechanism: Emine Fisek

This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Emine Fisek. We will be talking about how the theater’s representation of migrant subjects has developed after post-crisis both in Europe and Turkey. Refugee Tales: https://www.refugeetales.org/ [https://www.refugeetales.org/] Balat Monologlar Muzesi: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/balat-monologlar-muzesi [https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/balat-monologlar-muzesi] Gabriel’in Düşü: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/gabrielin-dusu [ Welcome to The Other Stories podcast series. This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Emine Fisek. We will be talking about how the theater’s representation of migrant subjects has developed after post-crisis both in Europe and Turkey. Refugee Tales: https://www.refugeetales.org/ Balat Monologlar Muzesi: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/balat-monologlar-muzesi Gabriel’in Düşü: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/gabrielin-dusu Grand Hotel Cosmopolis: https://www.on-curating.org/issue-25-reader/the-grandhotel-cosmopolis-augsburg-germany.html#.Y-VNa-xBwbk Clean City: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/clean-city] Grand Hotel Cosmopolis: https://www.on-curating.org/issue-25-reader/the-grandhotel-cosmopolis-augsburg-germany.html#.Y-VNa-xBwbk [https://www.on-curating.org/issue-25-reader/the-grandhotel-cosmopolis-augsburg-germany.html#.Y-VNa-xBwbk] Clean City: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/clean-city [https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/clean-city]

Build for Integration: Taiwan–Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens: Dr. CHIU Chen-Yu (Cho)

This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants in Turkey with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is Dr. CHIU Chen-Yu (Cho). Since 2016, Cho has worked voluntarily as the architect for consolidating the program and design of the Taiwan–Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens. Since 2020, he has further acted voluntarily as the founding Director of the Centre for implementing its humanitarian programs and collaboration of local NGOs, business sectors and grassroots. https://taiwanreyhanlicentre.com/en/about/ [https://taiwanreyhanlicentre.com/en/about/] How Taiwan is helping Syrian refugees in Turkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfolewWb-7U

My "Diary from the border" Comics: Silvia Aru

Welcome to The Other Stories podcast series. This interview is under the first theme of the   podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Silvia Aru. Silvia Aru is an assistant professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Turin. Her research interests encompass migration policies and their socio-spatial impacts and related issues of justice and socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion. Today, we mainly talk about her two projects titled “Eufemia” and My "Diary from the border": My "Diary from the border": https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/2a1d944d-dd84-49c7-a238-b74c4fa00c70/Diary_Ventimiglia_compressed.pdf [https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/2a1d944d-dd84-49c7-a238-b74c4fa00c70/Diary_Ventimiglia_compressed.pdf]. The catalogue of the Exhibition 'Eufemia' in the Italian-English version: https://www.laboratoriosociologiavisuale.it/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Catalogo-Eufemia-Ita-Eng-WEB.pdf [https://www.laboratoriosociologiavisuale.it/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Catalogo-Eufemia-Ita-Eng-WEB.pdf] "Beyond Inhabitation lab": https://beyondinhabitation.org/ [https://beyondinhabitation.org/].