[acc-cca-l] Fwd: BORDER TROUBLE SYMPOSIUM April 26-29 Migration, Research Creation & Policy

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With apologies for cross-postings, please join us April 26-29...


HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND JOURNALIST BEHROUZ BOOCHANI TO DELIVER KEYNOTE AND SPEAK ON REFUGEE STORYTELLING AT “BORDER TROUBLE: MIGRATION, RESEARCH CREATION ART & POLICY” SYMPOSIUM
Register now https://bordertrouble.eventbrite.ca
Find the full program here<https://www.projectfindinghome.net/upcoming-symposium-border-trouble-migration-research-creation-and-policy/>

Toronto, ON- When Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist/journalist was in a refugee detention camp sanctioned by the Australian government, he secretly made a film on his smartphone, “Chauka Please Tell Us the Time"<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauka,_Please_Tell_Us_the_Time>, and wrote a book, No Friend But the Mountains” to share his harrowing story with the world. He is one of several participants in the symposium Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation Art & Policy April 26-29, 2021, in which the power of migrants telling their own stories to influence governments and communities, will be discussed.

In addition to Boochani event (on April 28 4PM EDT) the 4-day, free online conference, co-hosted by Ryerson and London South Bank Universities  will include 3 other interactive sessions, including:

●      April 26 2PM EDT: A workshop exploring LGBTQ+ human rights stories through performance, led by UK-based artist Sebastian Aguirre.
●      April 27 2PM EDT: A panel discussion featuring three migrant art-practitioners/companies exploring what it means to create migrant-situated knowledge through creative practice.
●      April 29 2PM EDT: A final session bringing together researchers from Project Finding Home to discuss findings of their three-year SSHRC-funded project. They’ll speak to: best practices in research creation; observations on participatory video w LGBTQ+ asylum seekers; translating findings into policy.

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?
●      How can research creation enhance, contradict, complement, or reinvent the official process of crossing a border, finding housing and striving for citizenship?
●      How can arts-based research impact policy?

The symposium is the culminating event of Project Finding Home<https://www.projectfindinghome.net/>, a Ryerson-based SSHRC-funded 3-year international project led by professors Marusya Bociurkiw , Elena Marchevska,  and Caroline Lenette, exploring the complex intersection between forced migration and new place-making strategies through art and storytelling.


For more information, visit https://www.projectfindinghome.net/ , or contact Nooreen Hussain at nooreen.hussain at ryerson.ca<mailto:nooreen.hussain at ryerson.ca>.


Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw B.F.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Media Theory
RTA School of Media
Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St., Toronto M5B 2K3

Website:https://marusyab.wixsite.com/marusya-bociurkiw
Blog: http://recipesfortrouble.com

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

PI, Finding Home: Migration, Placemaking & Research-Creation<https://www.projectfindinghome.net/>
(SSHRC-Funded research-creation project).

In Development: "Before #MeToo<https://www.beforemetoodocumentary.com/>": 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

How to pronounce my name: http://nmdrp.me/marusyabociurkiw










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