WORKSHOP 2
Date: 29 Septmber - 1 October, 2021
Venue: Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3, France
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September 29
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Welcome Cocktail / Apéritif dinatoire
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September 30
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Opening of the Workshop
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Panel 1: Setting the Stage for Thanatic Ethics: From Hyperinvisibility to Hypervisibility
Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak (EMMA / UPVM)
Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire, Preston / IBAR / MIDEX)
Invisibility, Fugitivity and Hypervisibilty in Excavating Black Atlantic Lives in the North: Engaging with the Work and Words of Jade Montserrat
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Panel 2: Bodies of Water
Chair: Alan Rice (UCLAN)
Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Atlantic expeditions, the Mediterranean refugee ‘crisis’, and the pitfalls of transhistoricity in adaptations of Théodore Géricault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa’
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi (University of Silesia, Poland)
“Saving”, Slavery and Refugees at the Maritime Borders of Europe
Panel 3: Bodies at the Border
Chair: Marianne Drugeon (EMMA / UPVM)
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Ravinder Singh Rana (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Migrants and migratory spaces: a political and ideological construct
Anja Benedikt (Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Frankfurt)
Resistance and Remembrance in Border Art: A Response to the Violence of EU Border Regimes and Migrant Deaths in Tunisia
Gwen Cressman (Université de Strasbourg)
The Migrant Body as Presence and Absence at the Canadian and Mexican Borders
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Panel 4: In Conversation with Amine Sabir
Chair: Yumna Masarwa (School of Art/IAU)
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‘Le Voyage dans la Boîte’
Film Screening and dialogue with the director Amine Sabir
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October 1
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Panel 5: Representing Precarity
Chair: Claudine Raynaud (EMMA / UPVM)
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Corinne Duboin (Université de la Réunion)
Migrant Deaths, Borderscapes, and Necropolitics in Edwidge Danticat’s (Non)Fiction
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez (University of Huelva, Spain)
A Thanatic Genre: Crime Fiction and Refugee Vulnerability in Ausma Zehanat Khan
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Mike Lehman (Georgia Tech University, USA)
Waste, Aesthetics, and Human Rights: Remapping Human Rights from Below in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
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Panel 6: Burial and Funerary Remembrance
Chair: Thomas Lacroix (Science-Po Paris)
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Yumna Masarwa (School of Art, American College of the Mediterranean / The Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence)
The Transnational Afterlives of European Muslims
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Nada Afiouni (Université Le Havre Normandie)
Evolutions in Muslim burial practices in Le Havre in the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic?
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Elsa Gomis (University of East Anglia)
Between the magical and the sordid. Artistic gestures as funerary rites for missing migrants
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Panel 7: Respect, Redress and Repair
Chair: Lawrence Aje (EMMA / UPVM)
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Justine Feyereisen (University of Oxford / Université libre de Bruxelles, Fondation Wiener-Anspach)
Black Corpses Matter: The Atlantic Ghosts, a Cosmopoethical Utopia of Repair
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Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen, Germany)
Abjective Violence as White Pedagogy
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Collective discussion and Looking Forward
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Panel 8: The Body, a site for remembrance, liberation and healing justice
Chair: Alix de Morant (RIRRA 21 / UPVM)
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Screening of the dance short ‘La visite’ (Dir. Tommy Pascal, 2020)
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A Conversation with Wanjiru Kamuyu about An Immigrant’s Story
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