Conference Programme

Session 1

To live to tell the tale: curating (non-)belonging(s) through autoethnography, drawing and film

Ahmed M. Al-Awthan - In the shadow of two worlds: a refugee’s tale of oppression and transformation from the lenses of auto-ethnographic approach

Natalija Cera - (In)visible hermeneutic labour underpinning migrant belonging performances

Hamutal Sadan - ‘Because I have no spirit in my mind, I have no strength [to draw]’: How has the incarceration of asylum seekers in a detention centre shaped the conditions in which they create art?

Ningfei Xiao (Shannon) -Performing Dialogue(s) Before Sunset: A Feminist posthuman autoethnography along Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Harbour

Session 2

Manifesting against exclusions, performing the desire to belong: from visual art and songs to punk and carnival

Sergey Katsuba -Hate crime and visual art

Stephen Millar- ‘We Are Not Sectarian’: Performing irony in Northern Ireland's loyalist music scene

Marc Rontsch -(Un)silenced and (dis)belonging: Sounding South African whiteness in Hog Hoggidy Hog’s Oink!.

Andrew Snyder -Structural xenophobia: the struggle for the viability of Lisbon’s Brazilian carnival

Session 3

Navigating (non-)belonging in the aftermath of war(s)      

Camille Maalawy - Mezzaterra-Meeting Point

Ailbhe Kenny - Making music while seeking asylum: negotiating the politics of belonging

Natalie Kirschstein -Repertoires of (non)belonging: music impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou -Becoming visible in a protest: performing belonging by exerting the right to the public space.

[after-conference BYO gathering]