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“Art and Refugees Symposium @ IU Global and International Studies Building, Room 1060, 355 N. Jordan Ave. Bloomington, IN

When:
April 6, 2017 @ 8:30 am – 6:30 pm
2017-04-06T08:30:00-04:00
2017-04-06T18:30:00-04:00

There are more than 65 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world. The impact of this upsurge of refugees, the most the world has ever known, has only begun to be fully felt. Education, national security, humanitarian aid, social services, policies, economics, children, families and identities are being impacted in communities all over the world. This is a true global issue that may have roots in places such as Syria or Somalia but is quickly transcending the boundaries of displacement camps, receiving countries, and war-torn nations. Further, like all major global challenges, there is not one way to tackle this issue; it calls for collaborations and conversations that integrate multiple perspectives, peoples, and nations. For a university, which also has a responsibility to act as well as to educate students and communities, the response requires conversations across disciplines and across the social sciences and the humanities.
This day-long symposium will combine scholarship, performance, practice, and an art installation and will investigate the complex intersection of art and refugees. The symposium views art as a social and political agent and as an illustration of human struggles and accomplishments. Symposium participants will explore the refugee situation alongside an array of artistic expressions, as well as the artists, sociopolitical contexts, analytic frameworks, and global trends from which art about refugees is created and defined. And, in so doing, participants will explore the refugee experience through multiple lenses, from the political and cultural, to the aesthetic, economic, intimate, and historic. As the Bloomington community is also dealing with its debated refugee situation (at one point, Syrian refugees were going to be allowed to settle in Bloomington this Spring), and with the recent presidential executive order, this topic is an extremely timely one and participants will also be asked to consider this issue from a U.S. local perspective. The symposium’s overall goal is to use art as an entry point to more meaningfully and intimately understand the experience of refugees.

Symposium Schedule
8:30 AM, Coffee and Registration*
9:00 Introductions*
9:15 AM-10:30 AM, Panel 1: Humanitarian and Refugees in a Global Context*
10:45-12:15 AM, Panel 2: Refugees, Art, and Rethinking Geographies*
12:30-1:30 PM, Lunch
1:45-3:15 PM, Panel 3: Displacement, Stories, and Communities*
3:30 PM, Multi-media performance: Finding Home – Shine the Light*
5:00 PM, First Thursdays Festival Exhibit at the Showalter Art Plaza by Charlotte Schmitz and performance by Rahim Alhaj

*Panels and multi-media performance will take place in the Global & International Studies Building room 1060.

Confirmed participants

  • Maurizio Albahari, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Notre Dame
  • Rahim Alhaj, Virtuouso oud musician & Iraqi-born refugee, New Mexico
  • Judah Cohen, Associate Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies, IU
  • Elizabeth Dunn, Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies, IU
  • Debbie Haber, Executive Artistic Director at DEEP Arts and Creator & Writer of Moses Man: Finding Home, Rochester, New York
  • Amy Horowitz
  • David Marshall, Documentary director, Blue Sky Project, New York
  • Charlotte Schmitz, Professional photographer, Germany
  • Oliver Shao, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology & Folklore, IU
  • Katherine Silvester, Professor of English, IU
  • Frances Trix, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, IU

Sponsors

  • Center for the Study of Global Change
  • Center for the Study of the Middle East
  • Inner Asia & Uralic National Resource Center
  • Institute for European Studies
  • Russian & East European Institute
  • African Studies Program
  • Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
  • College Arts & Humanities Institute

 

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