Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders

“Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders” is the first Spring 2023 event of the ongoing series of Global Humanities Seminars “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities,” sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement and co-organized by Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Initiative for Multilingual Studies, and the Department of Italian Studies. The series showcases interdisciplinary work about forced migration and refugees involving narrative, arts, identity, and language.

This event involves a conversation with two language and migration scholars who have been working together with migrants in Italy and New Zealand.

Gerardo Mazzaferro (University of Turin) will discuss the documentary he produced jointly with young asylum seekers about their migration experience. His work is part of a project financed by the European Union to support the integration of migrants and refugees in the education systems of member countries.
Corinne Seals (Victoria University of Wellington) will share what she has learned from several community-researcher partnerships, particularly the creation of an online gallery called “Belonging in the Diaspora”, with digital installations that narrate personal journeys of forced mobility by artists from three diaspora communities: Ukrainians in Aotearoa New Zealand, Trinidadians in the United Kingdom, and Chinese in Australia. The project was funded with a grant from the British Academy.

Both speakers will reflect on the challenges and rewards that working with migrants and refugees presents for academics.

Webinar registration here: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bqrdFmWvSyKrMFcY-zFt1g