Organized by Markus Hallensleben (UBC) and Erin Goheen Glanville (UBC/SFU)
Our interdisciplinary workshop brings together fi lmmakers and scholars who incorporate participant centred storytelling as p art of their work and research. The workshop is an opportunity for particip ants to discuss current artistic and scholarly collaborative storytelling p rojects that challenge collective core narratives of diversity\, migration and settlement.
As part of UBC’s narratives working group\, this even t explores the topic of storytelling as activist scholarly and educational method\, as well as an argumentative and political tool for unsettlement. W e propose a storytelling turn in activist (post)migration studies in order to disrupt colonialism and unsettle Eurocentric cultural politics of divers ity. We further hope that our workshop will help to critically engage with colonial structures and narratives of settlement in Canada\, including the search for an intersectional and relational place-based understanding of be longing.
All films will be made available through streaming beforehan d (some for the first time in Canada and in English). All content will be a vailable upon registration. Please note that all Webinars will be o pen to the public. However\, active participation in the talking circle dis cussions of Webinars 1\, 3\, and 4 will be by invitation only. Please go to the full program for further information.
WEB INAR 1/Roundtable (April 7\, 9-11 PST) – Postmigrant Narratives I< /p>
- Welcome by Musqueam First Nation
- Robert Knight (New York): Strangers in a Strange Land (2019). A docume ntary on the Refugee Tales project and solidarity walk in the UK (https://www.refugeetales.org)\; Comin g of Age: Growing Up in Utica\, NY (2000). A documentary about a rust belt city in Central New York that has among the largest refugee population in the US.
- Hans Christian Post (Copenhagen): We a re here (2017). A documentary film on postmigrant theatre and society in De nmark that features asylum seekers as artists.
- Max Czollek< /strong> (Berlin) The Best Supper: From the Bubble to the Charts (2020). A film in the style of the postmigrant Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. It provokes a n ew Jewish-Muslim cultural core narrative of belonging that counter-acts aga inst an hegemonic culture in Germany.
Moderation: Moritz Schr amm (SDU)\; Discussant: Christina Clark-Kazak (Ot tawa U)
WEBINAR 2/Public Talk (April 8\, 11-12:30 PST) – Postmigrant Narratives II
- Regina Römhild (Humboldt U\, Berlin): "Other Europes in Moments of Post-Otherness" as part of the Migr ation Center Lecture Series\, co-sponsored by UBC Institute for European St udies and the Ziegler Lecture Series of the Dept. of CENES.
Moderatio n: Markus Hallensleben (UBC)
WEBINAR 3 /Roundtable (April 9\, 9-11:00 PST) – Unsettling Narratives I
< p>- Welcome by Musqueam First Nation- Jules Koostachin (UBC): KaYaMenta: Sharing Truths about Menopause (2020). A short documentary that weaves raw\, funny\, honest and intimate interviews of five Indigenous sisters\, Dr. Anita Tannis and the documentarian as the y delve into the mysteries of menopause. To humanize these experiences\, th ey provide a personal understanding of menopause through an Indigenous wome n’s lens.
- Erin Goheen Glanville (UBC): Borderstory (20 20). A multimedia documentary narrating the word ‘border’ as part of the Wo rn Words listening research project on refugee discourse.
Discussant: Kirsten Emiko McAllister (SFU)
WEBINA R 4/Roundtable (April 9\, 11:30-1:00 PST) – Unsettling Narratives II
- Ryan McMahon (Couchiching First Nation in Treat y 3 Territory): C olonization Road (CBC\, 2016) by Michelle St. John McMahon. A docu mentary about the history of road names in Ontario that addresses the disco urses of decolonization and reconciliation in Canada.
- Peter Klein (UBC): Turning Points (2020). A documentary shorts series pro duced in collaboration with Indigenous storytellers in Yellowknife\, NWT\, on alcohol use\, addiction\, and healing.
Discussant: Geraldi ne Pratt (UBC)
The event is sponsored by UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies.
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