THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14
08:50 AM – 09:00 AM ・ Opening Remarks
09:00 AM – 10:00 AM ・ KEYNOTE TALK
Iro KATSARIDOU (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – Taking A Stance: Refugee Crisis in Greece and Museum Policies
10:00 AM – 12:00 AM ・ PANEL I (on-site) moderated by Daniel Ungureanu
Diana Angoso DE GUZMÁN (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – Nomadic Sensibility: Migration, Materiality, and the Politics of Shelter in the Works of Merz and Kato
Izabela KOWALCZYK (University of Arts, Poznan) – Birds as migrants and as a metaphor of human migrants
Daria BRASCA & Tamara ZUMBÜHL (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy; Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – HSLU, Switzerland) – Unpacking the Discourse: Migration Representation in Contemporary Art in Switzerland
Veronica KAMEI (School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) – Contestations and Collaborations: The Aar Paar Project and the Re-Imagined Abstraction of Migratory Aesthetics
12:00 AM – 02:00 PM ・ Lunch Break
02:00 PM – 04:00 PM ・ PANEL II (online) moderated by Daniel Ungureanu
Klara KEMP-WELCH (Courtauld Institute of Art in London) – “The Romanians are Coming”: Labour Migration and the Politics of the Observational Documentary
Cristian NAE (ICMA Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art, UNAGE Iași) – The Witness and the Archive: Cartographies of Migration in Contemporary Art
Raha KHADEMI (Kaarnamaa Institute of Art & Visual Culture) – Memory and Identity in Exile: A Review of First Post-Exile Works of Sonia Balassanian
Laura BRAVO (University of Puerto Rico) – Hurricanes and Other Colonial Disasters: Migration Processes in Puerto Rican Art in the 21st Century
04:00 PM – 05:00 PM ・ KEYNOTE TALK
Viviana USUBIAGA (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Gimme Shelter. Contemporary Artistic Practices in the World Mirage
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
10:00 AM – 12:00 AM ・ PANEL III (online) Moderated by Cristian Nae
Ejjebli SANAE (University Mohamed I, Marocco) – Echoes of Exile: The Artistic Quest for Truth Amidst Global Turmoil
Ornela BARISONE (Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio, Buenos Aires) – Art and Translanguage to bridge understanding about immigration: a Collaborate International Online Learning (COIL) experience
Anna Sejbæk TORP-PEDERSEN (KU Leuven, Belgium) – Cartography and migration
Gheorghe CECAN (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi) – Giorgio Agamben and the singularity between ontology and politics: The impossibility of bare-life and the exceptionality of the ordinary
Mirela ȘTEFĂNESCU (ICMA Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art, UNAGE Iași) – Review on the exhibition Limbo Schengen, CIAC Baia Turcească Iași
