Forced displacement event to mark Refugee Week (17-23 June)
Date: 18 June, Tuesday at 11am – 4.30pm
Place: Byre Theatre
The event is organised to mark annual Refugee Week, established in 1998 in the UK to align with World Refugee Day to recognise ‘the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary’. https://refugeeweek.org.uk/about/
Staff & student at St Andrews from different disciplines will share their work to remember forcibly displaced people and peoples over different geographies and histories.
The event is supported by School of Art History EDI committee, the Museums, Galleries and Collections Institute and the Centre for Minorities Research (CMR).
Contact: Gönül Bozoğlu ([email protected])
Programme
11.00 Welcome & Introduction
11-15 – 13.15 pm – Short Talks & Discussion
Kate Cowcher, School of Art History, The Addis Spring in Exile: Ethiopian Artists, Witness and Revolution
Jessica Gerschultz, School of Art History, “Upcycled Blues”: Collective Quilting on Tripoli’s Syria Street
Hannah Dean, School of Management, TBC
Stavroula Pipyrou, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, For a fistful of tears: Child displacement and leaving in silence
13. 15 Break & Refreshments
13. 45 – Film Screenings & Discussion
Lucy Brown, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, Forced displacement, on Film
Gönül Bozoğlu, School of Art History, The Journey and the Grief, film by Gönül Bozoğlu & Evripidis Karydis
Victoria Donovan, School of Modern Languages, My Favourite Job? Film by Sashko Protyah
16.00 – 16.30 Final words, chaired by Bruno Brulon Soares, School of Art History