Migration, Identity, Memory
This two-day workshop on “Migration, Identity, and Memory”, brings together academic scholars, students, community organisers, and Cambridge residents with an interest in migration. The programme aims to highlight the diversity of scholarship and community activity on this topic, and includes academic sessions, a poster exhibition, a poetry reading session, and a musical performance, as well as keynote lectures and roundtables with academics and practitioners. We are particularly grateful to Lord Alf Dubs for his ongoing support of activities with regard to migrants and refugees in Cambridge, and look forward to hearing from him on the second day of the symposium.
There is a historic relevance of migration to the University of Cambridge. A well-known anecdote describes the institution’s founding in 1209 by scholars in search of a safe haven. Pembroke's is working towards becoming a College of Sanctuary within the Cities of Sanctuary movement.
Programme
Thursday 21 March
| 9:00 | Registration | Foyer |
| 9:20 | Opening remarks | Recital Room, 4 Mill Lane |
| 9:30 |
Panel 1 - Displacement and BelongingChair: Oudai Tozan (Faculty of Education) Oksana Starshova (Faculty of English/Pembroke College) Migration and sense of place in literary imagination Mariia Lupak (Cambridge Ukrainian Studies) The role of Lina Kostenko'spoetry in preserving Ukrainian identity of emigrants overseas Ukraine Oudai Tozan "Living in a world of ambivilence": dilemmas facing academics in exile |
Recital Room |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 |
Panel 2 - Migration and Integration 1Chair: Anna Yunatska (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics/King’s College) Maria Abreu (Department of Land Economy/Pembroke College) Economic geography, identity, and electoral preferences: the case of the Welsh Brexit vote Lorraine Nasser (University of Cambridge) Exploring Identity in Migration: from the Middle East to the West Anna Yunatska (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics/King’s College) Language, Institutional Micro-Culture, and Intercultural Awareness: the Case of Displaced Ukrainians in/at Cambridge |
Recital Room |
| 13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | Keynote Address: Loraine Gelsthorpe (Institute of Criminology/Pembroke College) The Criminalisation of Migrants | Auditorium |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Elizabeth Walsh in conversation with Mary Jacobus (Faculty of English) Manufacturing a Border crisis: Forests, Migrants, and Film-Making. A Conversation about Agnieszka Holland's Green Border | Auditorium |
| 16:30 | Break | refreshments in the Foyer |
| 17:00 | Poetry Reading with Mina Gorji (Faculty of English/Pembroke College) | Foyer |
| 9:30 - 17:30 | Exhibition: Migration, Identity, Memory | Foyer |
Friday 22 March
| 9:30 |
Panel 3 - Cross-Cultural Representations (Recital Room)Chair: Quan Wang (Beihang University, Beijing & visiting scholar at the Faculty of English) Olha Kushniruk (Faculty of Music/Darwin College) National Identity in the Ukrainian Music Laurisa Sastoque (Cambridge Digital Humanities/St John’s College) Four Lokos (An Excerpt) Quan Wang (Beihang University, Beijing & visiting scholar at the Faculty of English) Memory, Ghostwriting, and Identity: Unreliability in “No Name Woman” |
Foyer |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 |
Panel 4 - Migration and Integration 2Chair: Beja Protner (Department of Social Anthropology) James Gardom (Faculty of Divinity/Pembroke College) Christianity at the Margins of Society. Diaspora Christianity – Cambridge Anna Chechel (Cambridge Judge Business School/Jesus College) Women-Led Impact Entrepreneurship in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: A Case Study of Ukraine Beja Protner (Department of Social Anthropology) Folded space-time: Refugee confinement and carceral resistance among Kurdish and left-wing exiles from Turkey/North Kurdistan in Greece |
Recital Room |
| 13:00 | Coffee break | |
| 14:00 |
Panel 5 - Children in MigrationChair: Brian Walker (Justice and Society Research Centre, Institute of Criminology) Jafia Naftali Camara (Centre for Lebanese Studies) Refugee Stories: Education: Obstacles and Aspirations Olga Ryabchenko (Faculty of History/Jesus College) "With Ukraine in my heart": European Roads of a Ukrainian Teenager |
Recital Room |
| 15:00 | Keynote Address: A Conversation with Lord Alf Dubs BOOK NOW | Auditorium |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 |
Panel 6 - Postcolonial Migrations, Identity and CitizenshipChair: Jesse Ng (Faculty of English) Seetha Tan (Department of Sociology) Sensory storytelling: the role of recipes, taste and embodied knowledge in postcolonial migration Brian Walker (Justice and Society Research Centre, Institute of Criminology) ‘I Thought No One Would Care’: Identity, (Mis)Recognition and the Windrush Scandal Jesse Ng (Faculty of English) Art of the Hong Kongers in Britain |
Recital Room |
| 19:00 | Musical Performance: Music Moves with Us BOOK NOW | Auditorium |
| 09:30 - 19:00 | Exhibition: Migration, Identity and Memory | Foyer |
In association with: Cambridge Convoy Refugee Action Group and Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign.
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