Call for Papers: “Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum”
Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum
Symposium
Tuesday 24 June 2025
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Creative encounters and exchanges between refugees and receiving communities in contexts of North-South and South-South migration.
- The relationship between artistic practices and infrastructures of the asylum-industrial complex.
- Representations of border crossings, border ‘spectacles’, and internal borders of exclusion.
- Creative initiatives emerging in the context of new dispersal policies extending across urban and rural/remote areas.
- Creative practices in response/relation to hostile environments.
- Arts and asylum advocacy.
- The spatial politics and aesthetics of displaced arts.
- Place-based creative initiatives for asylum seekers and refugees facilitated by local government, charities, and NGOs (e.g. community performances, exhibitions, art installations, festivals, and storytelling projects).
- Multilingualism, translation, and language acquisition in/through displaced arts.
- Evolving public policy on creative strategies of refugee integration.
- Collaborative and creative methodologies in migration studies.
- Connections between contemporary geographies of asylum and histories of colonialism, de-industrialisation, and austerity.
- Transnational creative solidarities across geographies of asylum.
- Technologies of asylum and forms of digital storytelling.
- Creative engagements with the temporalities of asylum.
- Future imaginaries of asylum.
Please submit abstracts (250 words) for fifteen-minute papers and a short bio (100 words) to [email protected] by Wednesday 15 January. Speakers will be notified by Friday 31 January.
The symposium is being organised by former IASH Fellow Dr Annie Webster (University of Edinburgh) and will take place in-person at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.
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