[acc-cca-l] Fwd: CFP: Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation Symposium May 22-23, Ryerson

Marusya Bociurkiw marusya at ryerson.ca
Tue Feb 4 06:27:42 MST 2020


*Call for Proposals*

*Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation Symposium*

*May 22-23*

*Ryerson University*



Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research Creation,  a 2-day symposium
May 22-23 at Ryerson University in Toronto, invites scholars,
policy-makers, artists, migrants and other stakeholders to join us in round
table discussions, performances, and a migration-themed community arts
fair. The symposium is the culminating event of a SSHRC-funded 2-year
international project examining the concept of home for forced migrants of
all identities, using arts-based research.



The symposium will address some of the following questions: How can art
practice become a space where citizenship is performed by homeless or
underhoused refugees and asylum seekers? How can these practices be
mobilized as knowledge that can impact the host culture? What happens when
the spaces where people live are temporary, ephemeral and disconnected from
the traditional architectural understanding of a house? How can research
creation enhance, contradict, complement, or reinvent the official process
of crossing a border, finding housing and striving for citizenship? What is
the relationship of archive and memory to migration, and how can art
remediate archival loss? How can migration arts, advocacy and research
impact policy and the grassroots and/or government level?



The symposium will group these questions under the following themes in the
form of 4-5 round tables:



*LGBT Migration, Research Creation & Media Advocacy *

*Forced Migration: From Arts-based research to policymaking *

*Media Poetics of Placemaking & Displacement *

*Hosting Migrants: Hospitality as Placemaking*

*Archives of Migration: affects, ephemerality, memorialization*



We will also host a performance/film evening and a community arts fair.
Formats can include scholarly papers, performance pieces, interactive
workshops, and reading. We welcome proposals from scholars, artists,
migrant artists, performers, poets, organizers, and any combination thereof.



*Please send a 150 word abstract/proposal/description along with a bio to*



*Marusya Bociurkiw*

*Marusya at ryerson.ca <Marusya at ryerson.ca>*

*Deadline Feb 20, 2020*



Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw B.F.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Media Theory
Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St., Toronto M5B 2K3
Website*:**https://marusyab.wixsite.com/marusya-bociurkiw*
<https://marusyab.wixsite.com/marusya-bociurkiw>

Director, *The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought*
<http://www.studioformediaactivism.com/>

PI, *Finding Home: New Approaches to Migration & Housing Through
Research-Creation*
(SSHRC-Funded research-creation project).

Co-PI, *Archive/Counter Archive *(SSHRC-Funded research project)

In Development: *"Before #MeToo"*: *A documentary remediating Canada's
feminist media revolution of the 1980's and what it has to say to the
#MeToo generation.*

Board of Directors, *Buddies in Bad Times Theatre*

Faculty Representative,
* Ryerson Faculty Association*
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