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CATEGORIES:Conference/Workshop,Panel Discussion,Roundtable,Presentation,Sym
 posium
DESCRIPTION:Scholars\, artists\, and organizers who understand the violence
  of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders\, m
 ilitarized imperialisms\, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s liv
 es and foreclose right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations\, p
 erformances\, films\, installations\, conversations\, and dialogues that re
 imagine connections between here and there\, the past and present\, persona
 l and political.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a hybrid keynote. R
 egister in advance to save your spot in person! \n\nThursday\, April 20\, 2
 023\, 4.30pm\, Physical Sciences Building 401: Opening Keynote\n\nOpening R
 emarks\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\n\n4.45 KEYNOTE DIALOGUE\n\nOn Re
 fugee Grief: An Intergenerational Remembrance\n\nYến Lê Espiritu (Universit
 y of California\, San Diego)\n\nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (University of Cali
 fornia\, Los Angeles)\n\nThis intergenerational remembrance is a portal to 
 a discussion on refugee grief\, not as a private or depoliticized sentiment
  but as a resource for enacting a politics that confronts the conditions un
 der which certain lives are considered more grievable than others.\n\nModer
 ator: Carla Hung (Cornell University)\n6.15 pm Reception: Word of Mouth\n\n
 To join the keynote virtually\, register in advance.\n\nPanels on Collabora
 tions\, Enclosures\, Routes\, Lives and Deaths\, and Borders\n\nFRIDAY Apri
 l 21\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Cornell Express\n\n9AM COLLABORATI
 ONS: JOINING FORCES\n\nIdentity and the Search for Belonging: From Palestin
 e to Syria\, to Europe\, and Back\n\nNell Gabiam (Iowa State University)\; 
 Abu Salma Khalil and Adam Khalil (Toulouse\, France)\n\nA conversation abou
 t a documentary film about the journey of Palestinian refugees from Syria t
 o Europe\, narrating the experience of displacement of the Khalil family an
 d that of other Palestinian refugees who shared this journey. \n\nLetters f
 rom Inside U.S. Detention\nJane Juffer (Cornell University) and Carla\n\nA 
 dialogue that situates the letters Carla wrote Jane from inside immigration
  detention as a part of the genre of the testimonio.\n\nCollaborative Advoc
 acy against Toxic Land Use and Migrant Detention\n\nEmma Shaw Crane (Columb
 ia University) and Guadalupe De La Cruz (American Friends Service Committee
 )\n\nA presentation about two collaborative research projects in South Flor
 ida investigating the intersection of confinement and environmental racism 
 and a reflection on possibilities for just collaboration between researcher
 s and organizers to end migrant detention.\n\nModerator: Chantal Thomas (Co
 rnell University)\n\n10.45am Break\n\n11AM ENCLOSURES: MOVEMENTS\n\nRe-Plac
 ing Memories through Land Based Practices\n\nTroy Richardson (Cornell Unive
 rsity) \n\nA presentation on the layered histories of violence toward Indig
 enous peoples in the US southeast orchestrated to deny Indigenous peoples a
 ccess to their homelands and the ongoing struggles for and successes in mai
 ntaining land-based practices for Indigenous resilience and resistance.\n \
 nBarzakh as Method\, Barzakh as Process: Making Sense with the In-between i
 n the Strait of Gibraltar\n\nA. George Bajalia (Wesleyan University)\n\nBui
 lding from ethnographic work in Tangier\, Bajalia presents on forms of bein
 g-in-common that exist outside of\, or adjacent too\, categories of belongi
 ng such as migrant\, immigrant\, refugee\, and asylum-seeker.\n \nMigrant E
 ncounters in Bihać: Anthropologies of Dislocation\, Extraction\, and Refusa
 l\n\nAzra Hromadžić (Syracuse University)\n\nA reflection on multiple dislo
 cations –the migrants’\, the locals’\, and the author’s —to illuminate know
 ledge production\, ethnographic extraction\, and refusal in the Balkans and
  beyond. \n\nRecords in Limbo: On the Lore of Crossing Borders\n\nAmir Husa
 k (The New School)\n\nA work-in-progress narrated/live documentary cinema p
 erformance about the experiences of refuge and displacement - including Hus
 ak's own - as a thorny body of knowledge in constant need of rethinking. \n
 \nShort Film: The Stitch (2018\, 8 min)\n\nAsiya Zahoor (Cornell University
 )\n\nThis silent film portrays a challenging topography of a Kashmiri villa
 ge near the Line of Control\, a de facto border between India and Pakistan\
 , as traversed and observed by a girl who engenders an alternative reality 
 and cartography via her art.\n\nModerator: Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell Unive
 rsity)\n\n1.15pm Lunch: Angkor Cambodian \n\n3PM ROUTES: KNOWLEDGES\n\nOld 
 Benjamin the Refugee\n\nVinh Nguyen (University of Waterloo)\n\nA narration
  of Nguyen’s physical retracing of Walter Benjamin’s 1940 escape route via 
 the Pyrenees across the French-Spanish border to explore Benjamin’s refugee
  experience\, and in turn\, the import of his thought for refugee studies.\
 n\nWanted: Refugee Returns to Germany\n\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\
 n\nA reflection on the different meanings of the terms “wanted” and “return
 \,” exploring refugees as deportable and criminalized legal subjects and fo
 rmer refugees/new precarious migrants as desired essential workers in the c
 ontext of the German state and Bosnian post-war refugee returns.\n \nDepart
 ure Scene: Redacted Intimacies among UnCitizens in Jordan\n\nEda Pepi (Yale
  University)\n\nA reflection on the redaction of intimacies that arose duri
 ng Pepi’s sudden departure from her fieldwork in Jordan\, where dependent n
 ationality forbids women\, but not men\, from passing their citizenship to 
 children they have with foreigners.\n\nThe Place of Liminality in Writing E
 xperiential History\n\nMostafa Minawi (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection 
 on liminality of existence as a multi-generational refugee and the author’s
  resulting interest in researching and writing about historical characters 
 living inhabiting a liminal space.\n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Co
 rnell University)\n\nDefiant Dreams\n\nSharifa Elja Sharifi (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\nA depiction of multiple displacements from Afghanistan and the art
 ist's defiant dreams. \n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\n5.15PM GHOSTS: FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR\n\nJe
 ff Palmer (Cornell University)\n\nGhosts tells the story of three Kiowa boy
 s’ daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko\, Oklahoma i
 n 1891\, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment.\n 
 \nModerator: Ami Yayra Tamakloe\, Cornell University\n\n6.15 Dinner: Asempe
  Kitchen\n\nSATURDAY\, April 22\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Gimme C
 offee\n\n9AM LIVES AND DEATHS\n\nStories No One Wants to Hear: Refugeehood 
 and Diasporic Unbelonging in Bosnian Chicago\n\nLarisa Kurtović (University
  of Ottawa)\n\nA series of sketches of diasporic life of Bosnian refugees—i
 ncluding petty cigarette smugglers\, truck drivers\, and those taken by the
  precursors of what is today known as the opioid epidemic—in the late 1990s
  Chicago\, asking what is left of the refugee experience in the absence of 
 a happy end. \n\nK’s Suicide\n\nMilad Odabaei (Princeton University)\n\nA n
 arrativization of K.’s story of return to Iran and suicide relating the lim
 its of language and legibility to the queer experience of refugees.\n \nThe
  Feeling of Interruption\n\nAbosede George (Barnard College)\n\nA reflectio
 n on the recurrent feeling of life being interrupted that was the author’s 
 condition as an undocumented person. \n\nProactive Grief (A Second Installm
 ent)\n\nEman Ghanayem (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how Palestini
 ans grieve and anticipate death through the author’s personal reflections o
 n family and community.\n\nModerator: Brian V. Sengdala (Cornell University
 )\n\n11am Break \n\n11.15AM BORDERS: ANCESTORS \n\nLeave Not What You Carry
 : Reflections on Kinship\, Belonging\, and Identity at the Haitian-Dominica
 n Border\n\nKarina Edouard (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on the auth
 or’s grandparent’s migration and her experience at the Haitian-Dominican bo
 rder exploring the contradictions\, tensions\, and afterlife of border cros
 sing as an entry point into what it means to be of a community\, not simply
  in one.\n \nUn/Settling: Living Borders\, Materializing Elsewheres\n\nArad
 hana Sharma (Wesleyan University)\n\nAn autoethnographic meditation on unse
 ttled and disarticulated life alongside borders\, examining family lore and
  ethnographic vignettes that emerge out of the division of Punjab and the c
 onstruction of India and Pakistan in 1947\, illuminating the condition of o
 ngoing displacement and un/settlement in a world of ever-evolving borders.\
 n\nAn Un/Official Archive: Passports\, Phone Diaries\, and Prints\n\nNatash
 a Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how my Sindhi refugee gran
 dmother's personal archive from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition speaks to
  the ways nations\, states\, and families come together and fall apart acro
 ss colonial borders in South Asia.\n\nConnected Fields: Embodying Ethical D
 haqan in Canada\n\nHannah Ali (Cornell University)\n\nA presentation on Som
 ali-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area who turn to dhaqan – an embodied 
 African philosophy that prioritizes connections to ancestral land\, elders\
 , and the Somali language – to navigate social exclusions and craft ethical
  futures of community\, family\, and friendship that contest the modern Can
 adian state.\n\nModerator: Sarah R. Meiners (Cornell University)\n\n1.15 pm
  Lunch: Loumies\n\n2.15 PM WRITING SESSION FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION: YOUR
  PRESENTATION MAKES ME THINK OF\n\n3.30 pm Symposium End\n\nINSTALLATIONS\n
 AD White House Room 109\nFriday 9am-8pm\; Saturday 9am-3.30pm \n\nRefugees 
 Know Things: Podcast Launch and Installation \nSaida Hodžić (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n \nListen to podcast episodes featuring conversations with refugee s
 cholars\, artists\, and activists. \n\n“Refugee Patriots\, Refugee Punks\,”
  with Mimi Thi Nguyen (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)\n\n“Buil
 ding Power: Hope is a Verb\,” with Zrinka Bralo (Migrants Organise\, London
 )\n\n“Critical Refugee Studies\,” with Sabrina You and Yến Lê Espiritu (Uni
 versity of California San Diego)\n\nTransnational Network and Conversations
  about Salvadoran/Central American Migration: Podcast Installation\n\nSofia
  Villenas (Cornell University) and Patricia Rodriguez (Independent Scholar 
 and International Analyst/Advocate\, Earthworks: Ending Oil & Gas Mining Po
 llution) \n\nListen to podcast episodes featuring stories of migration and 
 the right to stay.  A collaboration between Cornell University\, Ithaca Col
 lege\, US-El Salvador Sister Cities\, the Association for the Development o
 f El Salvador (CRIPDES)\, and WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca.\n\nVideo Perf
 ormance: Saltwater at 47 (2016\, 5min 46 sec)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, R
 ijksakademie Amsterdam)\n \nA video performance about a Roma woman getting 
 her first passport and going on her first seaside vacation at age 47\; addr
 essing themes of dispossession\, un/citizenship\, and family love.\n\nVideo
  Performance: Haram (2019\, 10 min)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, Rijksakadem
 ie Amsterdam)\n\nHaram speaks of religion and waterboarding. No matter whic
 h God I believe in - as a woman who disobeys social rules that I’m subjecte
 d to\, I am constantly making sins. In order to clean myself of my accumula
 ted sins\, I am washing myself with pure water. This work is also related t
 o state practices of waterboarding and the struggle to maintain oneself whi
 le drowning in a foreign land as both refugee and immigrant. \n\nShort Film
 : Sindhi Kadhi (2018\, 8 min)\n\nNatasha Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA s
 hort film about the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her Par
 tition refugee grandmother as they cook a traditional Sindhi recipe\, recal
 ling the quality of lotus root and other ingredients in Pakistan.\n\nCospon
 sored by Anthropology\, Feminist\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies\, the Socie
 ty for the Humanities\, South Asia Program\, Southeast Asia Program\, Histo
 ry\, Asian American Studies\, American Studies\, European Studies\, Reppy I
 nstitute\, Migrations Inititiative\, Government\, Performing and Media Arts
 \, the Institute for Comparative Modernaties\, the South Asia Program\, the
  Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program\, the American Indian and Ind
 igenous Studies Program\, Africana Studies\, Near Eastern Studies\, and the
  Latina/o Studies Program. \n\nMITWSrg originated in the mid-1980s as a fac
 ulty caucus in the English Department. It is now a research group that incl
 udes faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students in the humani
 ties and the social sciences from various departments in the College of Art
 s and Sciences – and beyond. For more information\, please email mitws@corn
 ell.edu if you would like MITWSrg to be the sole or primary sponsor for an 
 event you are planning to organize in minority\, indigenous\, or third worl
 d studies\, please send a brief proposal to MITWS’s faculty coordinators Pr
 ofessor Helena Maria Viramontes at hmv2@cornell.edu\, or Professor Satya P 
 Mohanty\, at mohanty@cornell.edu.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a 
 hybrid keynote. Register in advance to save your spot in person! To join th
 e keynote virtually\, register here.
DTEND:20230420T220000Z
DTSTAMP:20260316T023711Z
DTSTART:20230420T203000Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium
UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42519138132773
URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/displaceddetainedundeterredacreativecr
 iticalsymposium
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Conference/Workshop,Panel Discussion,Roundtable,Presentation,Sym
 posium
DESCRIPTION:Scholars\, artists\, and organizers who understand the violence
  of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders\, m
 ilitarized imperialisms\, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s liv
 es and foreclose right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations\, p
 erformances\, films\, installations\, conversations\, and dialogues that re
 imagine connections between here and there\, the past and present\, persona
 l and political.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a hybrid keynote. R
 egister in advance to save your spot in person! \n\nThursday\, April 20\, 2
 023\, 4.30pm\, Physical Sciences Building 401: Opening Keynote\n\nOpening R
 emarks\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\n\n4.45 KEYNOTE DIALOGUE\n\nOn Re
 fugee Grief: An Intergenerational Remembrance\n\nYến Lê Espiritu (Universit
 y of California\, San Diego)\n\nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (University of Cali
 fornia\, Los Angeles)\n\nThis intergenerational remembrance is a portal to 
 a discussion on refugee grief\, not as a private or depoliticized sentiment
  but as a resource for enacting a politics that confronts the conditions un
 der which certain lives are considered more grievable than others.\n\nModer
 ator: Carla Hung (Cornell University)\n6.15 pm Reception: Word of Mouth\n\n
 To join the keynote virtually\, register in advance.\n\nPanels on Collabora
 tions\, Enclosures\, Routes\, Lives and Deaths\, and Borders\n\nFRIDAY Apri
 l 21\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Cornell Express\n\n9AM COLLABORATI
 ONS: JOINING FORCES\n\nIdentity and the Search for Belonging: From Palestin
 e to Syria\, to Europe\, and Back\n\nNell Gabiam (Iowa State University)\; 
 Abu Salma Khalil and Adam Khalil (Toulouse\, France)\n\nA conversation abou
 t a documentary film about the journey of Palestinian refugees from Syria t
 o Europe\, narrating the experience of displacement of the Khalil family an
 d that of other Palestinian refugees who shared this journey. \n\nLetters f
 rom Inside U.S. Detention\nJane Juffer (Cornell University) and Carla\n\nA 
 dialogue that situates the letters Carla wrote Jane from inside immigration
  detention as a part of the genre of the testimonio.\n\nCollaborative Advoc
 acy against Toxic Land Use and Migrant Detention\n\nEmma Shaw Crane (Columb
 ia University) and Guadalupe De La Cruz (American Friends Service Committee
 )\n\nA presentation about two collaborative research projects in South Flor
 ida investigating the intersection of confinement and environmental racism 
 and a reflection on possibilities for just collaboration between researcher
 s and organizers to end migrant detention.\n\nModerator: Chantal Thomas (Co
 rnell University)\n\n10.45am Break\n\n11AM ENCLOSURES: MOVEMENTS\n\nRe-Plac
 ing Memories through Land Based Practices\n\nTroy Richardson (Cornell Unive
 rsity) \n\nA presentation on the layered histories of violence toward Indig
 enous peoples in the US southeast orchestrated to deny Indigenous peoples a
 ccess to their homelands and the ongoing struggles for and successes in mai
 ntaining land-based practices for Indigenous resilience and resistance.\n \
 nBarzakh as Method\, Barzakh as Process: Making Sense with the In-between i
 n the Strait of Gibraltar\n\nA. George Bajalia (Wesleyan University)\n\nBui
 lding from ethnographic work in Tangier\, Bajalia presents on forms of bein
 g-in-common that exist outside of\, or adjacent too\, categories of belongi
 ng such as migrant\, immigrant\, refugee\, and asylum-seeker.\n \nMigrant E
 ncounters in Bihać: Anthropologies of Dislocation\, Extraction\, and Refusa
 l\n\nAzra Hromadžić (Syracuse University)\n\nA reflection on multiple dislo
 cations –the migrants’\, the locals’\, and the author’s —to illuminate know
 ledge production\, ethnographic extraction\, and refusal in the Balkans and
  beyond. \n\nRecords in Limbo: On the Lore of Crossing Borders\n\nAmir Husa
 k (The New School)\n\nA work-in-progress narrated/live documentary cinema p
 erformance about the experiences of refuge and displacement - including Hus
 ak's own - as a thorny body of knowledge in constant need of rethinking. \n
 \nShort Film: The Stitch (2018\, 8 min)\n\nAsiya Zahoor (Cornell University
 )\n\nThis silent film portrays a challenging topography of a Kashmiri villa
 ge near the Line of Control\, a de facto border between India and Pakistan\
 , as traversed and observed by a girl who engenders an alternative reality 
 and cartography via her art.\n\nModerator: Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell Unive
 rsity)\n\n1.15pm Lunch: Angkor Cambodian \n\n3PM ROUTES: KNOWLEDGES\n\nOld 
 Benjamin the Refugee\n\nVinh Nguyen (University of Waterloo)\n\nA narration
  of Nguyen’s physical retracing of Walter Benjamin’s 1940 escape route via 
 the Pyrenees across the French-Spanish border to explore Benjamin’s refugee
  experience\, and in turn\, the import of his thought for refugee studies.\
 n\nWanted: Refugee Returns to Germany\n\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\
 n\nA reflection on the different meanings of the terms “wanted” and “return
 \,” exploring refugees as deportable and criminalized legal subjects and fo
 rmer refugees/new precarious migrants as desired essential workers in the c
 ontext of the German state and Bosnian post-war refugee returns.\n \nDepart
 ure Scene: Redacted Intimacies among UnCitizens in Jordan\n\nEda Pepi (Yale
  University)\n\nA reflection on the redaction of intimacies that arose duri
 ng Pepi’s sudden departure from her fieldwork in Jordan\, where dependent n
 ationality forbids women\, but not men\, from passing their citizenship to 
 children they have with foreigners.\n\nThe Place of Liminality in Writing E
 xperiential History\n\nMostafa Minawi (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection 
 on liminality of existence as a multi-generational refugee and the author’s
  resulting interest in researching and writing about historical characters 
 living inhabiting a liminal space.\n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Co
 rnell University)\n\nDefiant Dreams\n\nSharifa Elja Sharifi (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\nA depiction of multiple displacements from Afghanistan and the art
 ist's defiant dreams. \n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\n5.15PM GHOSTS: FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR\n\nJe
 ff Palmer (Cornell University)\n\nGhosts tells the story of three Kiowa boy
 s’ daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko\, Oklahoma i
 n 1891\, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment.\n 
 \nModerator: Ami Yayra Tamakloe\, Cornell University\n\n6.15 Dinner: Asempe
  Kitchen\n\nSATURDAY\, April 22\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Gimme C
 offee\n\n9AM LIVES AND DEATHS\n\nStories No One Wants to Hear: Refugeehood 
 and Diasporic Unbelonging in Bosnian Chicago\n\nLarisa Kurtović (University
  of Ottawa)\n\nA series of sketches of diasporic life of Bosnian refugees—i
 ncluding petty cigarette smugglers\, truck drivers\, and those taken by the
  precursors of what is today known as the opioid epidemic—in the late 1990s
  Chicago\, asking what is left of the refugee experience in the absence of 
 a happy end. \n\nK’s Suicide\n\nMilad Odabaei (Princeton University)\n\nA n
 arrativization of K.’s story of return to Iran and suicide relating the lim
 its of language and legibility to the queer experience of refugees.\n \nThe
  Feeling of Interruption\n\nAbosede George (Barnard College)\n\nA reflectio
 n on the recurrent feeling of life being interrupted that was the author’s 
 condition as an undocumented person. \n\nProactive Grief (A Second Installm
 ent)\n\nEman Ghanayem (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how Palestini
 ans grieve and anticipate death through the author’s personal reflections o
 n family and community.\n\nModerator: Brian V. Sengdala (Cornell University
 )\n\n11am Break \n\n11.15AM BORDERS: ANCESTORS \n\nLeave Not What You Carry
 : Reflections on Kinship\, Belonging\, and Identity at the Haitian-Dominica
 n Border\n\nKarina Edouard (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on the auth
 or’s grandparent’s migration and her experience at the Haitian-Dominican bo
 rder exploring the contradictions\, tensions\, and afterlife of border cros
 sing as an entry point into what it means to be of a community\, not simply
  in one.\n \nUn/Settling: Living Borders\, Materializing Elsewheres\n\nArad
 hana Sharma (Wesleyan University)\n\nAn autoethnographic meditation on unse
 ttled and disarticulated life alongside borders\, examining family lore and
  ethnographic vignettes that emerge out of the division of Punjab and the c
 onstruction of India and Pakistan in 1947\, illuminating the condition of o
 ngoing displacement and un/settlement in a world of ever-evolving borders.\
 n\nAn Un/Official Archive: Passports\, Phone Diaries\, and Prints\n\nNatash
 a Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how my Sindhi refugee gran
 dmother's personal archive from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition speaks to
  the ways nations\, states\, and families come together and fall apart acro
 ss colonial borders in South Asia.\n\nConnected Fields: Embodying Ethical D
 haqan in Canada\n\nHannah Ali (Cornell University)\n\nA presentation on Som
 ali-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area who turn to dhaqan – an embodied 
 African philosophy that prioritizes connections to ancestral land\, elders\
 , and the Somali language – to navigate social exclusions and craft ethical
  futures of community\, family\, and friendship that contest the modern Can
 adian state.\n\nModerator: Sarah R. Meiners (Cornell University)\n\n1.15 pm
  Lunch: Loumies\n\n2.15 PM WRITING SESSION FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION: YOUR
  PRESENTATION MAKES ME THINK OF\n\n3.30 pm Symposium End\n\nINSTALLATIONS\n
 AD White House Room 109\nFriday 9am-8pm\; Saturday 9am-3.30pm \n\nRefugees 
 Know Things: Podcast Launch and Installation \nSaida Hodžić (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n \nListen to podcast episodes featuring conversations with refugee s
 cholars\, artists\, and activists. \n\n“Refugee Patriots\, Refugee Punks\,”
  with Mimi Thi Nguyen (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)\n\n“Buil
 ding Power: Hope is a Verb\,” with Zrinka Bralo (Migrants Organise\, London
 )\n\n“Critical Refugee Studies\,” with Sabrina You and Yến Lê Espiritu (Uni
 versity of California San Diego)\n\nTransnational Network and Conversations
  about Salvadoran/Central American Migration: Podcast Installation\n\nSofia
  Villenas (Cornell University) and Patricia Rodriguez (Independent Scholar 
 and International Analyst/Advocate\, Earthworks: Ending Oil & Gas Mining Po
 llution) \n\nListen to podcast episodes featuring stories of migration and 
 the right to stay.  A collaboration between Cornell University\, Ithaca Col
 lege\, US-El Salvador Sister Cities\, the Association for the Development o
 f El Salvador (CRIPDES)\, and WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca.\n\nVideo Perf
 ormance: Saltwater at 47 (2016\, 5min 46 sec)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, R
 ijksakademie Amsterdam)\n \nA video performance about a Roma woman getting 
 her first passport and going on her first seaside vacation at age 47\; addr
 essing themes of dispossession\, un/citizenship\, and family love.\n\nVideo
  Performance: Haram (2019\, 10 min)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, Rijksakadem
 ie Amsterdam)\n\nHaram speaks of religion and waterboarding. No matter whic
 h God I believe in - as a woman who disobeys social rules that I’m subjecte
 d to\, I am constantly making sins. In order to clean myself of my accumula
 ted sins\, I am washing myself with pure water. This work is also related t
 o state practices of waterboarding and the struggle to maintain oneself whi
 le drowning in a foreign land as both refugee and immigrant. \n\nShort Film
 : Sindhi Kadhi (2018\, 8 min)\n\nNatasha Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA s
 hort film about the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her Par
 tition refugee grandmother as they cook a traditional Sindhi recipe\, recal
 ling the quality of lotus root and other ingredients in Pakistan.\n\nCospon
 sored by Anthropology\, Feminist\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies\, the Socie
 ty for the Humanities\, South Asia Program\, Southeast Asia Program\, Histo
 ry\, Asian American Studies\, American Studies\, European Studies\, Reppy I
 nstitute\, Migrations Inititiative\, Government\, Performing and Media Arts
 \, the Institute for Comparative Modernaties\, the South Asia Program\, the
  Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program\, the American Indian and Ind
 igenous Studies Program\, Africana Studies\, Near Eastern Studies\, and the
  Latina/o Studies Program. \n\nMITWSrg originated in the mid-1980s as a fac
 ulty caucus in the English Department. It is now a research group that incl
 udes faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students in the humani
 ties and the social sciences from various departments in the College of Art
 s and Sciences – and beyond. For more information\, please email mitws@corn
 ell.edu if you would like MITWSrg to be the sole or primary sponsor for an 
 event you are planning to organize in minority\, indigenous\, or third worl
 d studies\, please send a brief proposal to MITWS’s faculty coordinators Pr
 ofessor Helena Maria Viramontes at hmv2@cornell.edu\, or Professor Satya P 
 Mohanty\, at mohanty@cornell.edu.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a 
 hybrid keynote. Register in advance to save your spot in person! To join th
 e keynote virtually\, register here.
DTEND:20230421T220000Z
DTSTAMP:20260316T023711Z
DTSTART:20230421T130000Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium
UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42519150160770
URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/displaceddetainedundeterredacreativecr
 iticalsymposium
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Conference/Workshop,Panel Discussion,Roundtable,Presentation,Sym
 posium
DESCRIPTION:Scholars\, artists\, and organizers who understand the violence
  of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders\, m
 ilitarized imperialisms\, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s liv
 es and foreclose right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations\, p
 erformances\, films\, installations\, conversations\, and dialogues that re
 imagine connections between here and there\, the past and present\, persona
 l and political.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a hybrid keynote. R
 egister in advance to save your spot in person! \n\nThursday\, April 20\, 2
 023\, 4.30pm\, Physical Sciences Building 401: Opening Keynote\n\nOpening R
 emarks\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\n\n4.45 KEYNOTE DIALOGUE\n\nOn Re
 fugee Grief: An Intergenerational Remembrance\n\nYến Lê Espiritu (Universit
 y of California\, San Diego)\n\nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (University of Cali
 fornia\, Los Angeles)\n\nThis intergenerational remembrance is a portal to 
 a discussion on refugee grief\, not as a private or depoliticized sentiment
  but as a resource for enacting a politics that confronts the conditions un
 der which certain lives are considered more grievable than others.\n\nModer
 ator: Carla Hung (Cornell University)\n6.15 pm Reception: Word of Mouth\n\n
 To join the keynote virtually\, register in advance.\n\nPanels on Collabora
 tions\, Enclosures\, Routes\, Lives and Deaths\, and Borders\n\nFRIDAY Apri
 l 21\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Cornell Express\n\n9AM COLLABORATI
 ONS: JOINING FORCES\n\nIdentity and the Search for Belonging: From Palestin
 e to Syria\, to Europe\, and Back\n\nNell Gabiam (Iowa State University)\; 
 Abu Salma Khalil and Adam Khalil (Toulouse\, France)\n\nA conversation abou
 t a documentary film about the journey of Palestinian refugees from Syria t
 o Europe\, narrating the experience of displacement of the Khalil family an
 d that of other Palestinian refugees who shared this journey. \n\nLetters f
 rom Inside U.S. Detention\nJane Juffer (Cornell University) and Carla\n\nA 
 dialogue that situates the letters Carla wrote Jane from inside immigration
  detention as a part of the genre of the testimonio.\n\nCollaborative Advoc
 acy against Toxic Land Use and Migrant Detention\n\nEmma Shaw Crane (Columb
 ia University) and Guadalupe De La Cruz (American Friends Service Committee
 )\n\nA presentation about two collaborative research projects in South Flor
 ida investigating the intersection of confinement and environmental racism 
 and a reflection on possibilities for just collaboration between researcher
 s and organizers to end migrant detention.\n\nModerator: Chantal Thomas (Co
 rnell University)\n\n10.45am Break\n\n11AM ENCLOSURES: MOVEMENTS\n\nRe-Plac
 ing Memories through Land Based Practices\n\nTroy Richardson (Cornell Unive
 rsity) \n\nA presentation on the layered histories of violence toward Indig
 enous peoples in the US southeast orchestrated to deny Indigenous peoples a
 ccess to their homelands and the ongoing struggles for and successes in mai
 ntaining land-based practices for Indigenous resilience and resistance.\n \
 nBarzakh as Method\, Barzakh as Process: Making Sense with the In-between i
 n the Strait of Gibraltar\n\nA. George Bajalia (Wesleyan University)\n\nBui
 lding from ethnographic work in Tangier\, Bajalia presents on forms of bein
 g-in-common that exist outside of\, or adjacent too\, categories of belongi
 ng such as migrant\, immigrant\, refugee\, and asylum-seeker.\n \nMigrant E
 ncounters in Bihać: Anthropologies of Dislocation\, Extraction\, and Refusa
 l\n\nAzra Hromadžić (Syracuse University)\n\nA reflection on multiple dislo
 cations –the migrants’\, the locals’\, and the author’s —to illuminate know
 ledge production\, ethnographic extraction\, and refusal in the Balkans and
  beyond. \n\nRecords in Limbo: On the Lore of Crossing Borders\n\nAmir Husa
 k (The New School)\n\nA work-in-progress narrated/live documentary cinema p
 erformance about the experiences of refuge and displacement - including Hus
 ak's own - as a thorny body of knowledge in constant need of rethinking. \n
 \nShort Film: The Stitch (2018\, 8 min)\n\nAsiya Zahoor (Cornell University
 )\n\nThis silent film portrays a challenging topography of a Kashmiri villa
 ge near the Line of Control\, a de facto border between India and Pakistan\
 , as traversed and observed by a girl who engenders an alternative reality 
 and cartography via her art.\n\nModerator: Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell Unive
 rsity)\n\n1.15pm Lunch: Angkor Cambodian \n\n3PM ROUTES: KNOWLEDGES\n\nOld 
 Benjamin the Refugee\n\nVinh Nguyen (University of Waterloo)\n\nA narration
  of Nguyen’s physical retracing of Walter Benjamin’s 1940 escape route via 
 the Pyrenees across the French-Spanish border to explore Benjamin’s refugee
  experience\, and in turn\, the import of his thought for refugee studies.\
 n\nWanted: Refugee Returns to Germany\n\nSaida Hodžić (Cornell University)\
 n\nA reflection on the different meanings of the terms “wanted” and “return
 \,” exploring refugees as deportable and criminalized legal subjects and fo
 rmer refugees/new precarious migrants as desired essential workers in the c
 ontext of the German state and Bosnian post-war refugee returns.\n \nDepart
 ure Scene: Redacted Intimacies among UnCitizens in Jordan\n\nEda Pepi (Yale
  University)\n\nA reflection on the redaction of intimacies that arose duri
 ng Pepi’s sudden departure from her fieldwork in Jordan\, where dependent n
 ationality forbids women\, but not men\, from passing their citizenship to 
 children they have with foreigners.\n\nThe Place of Liminality in Writing E
 xperiential History\n\nMostafa Minawi (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection 
 on liminality of existence as a multi-generational refugee and the author’s
  resulting interest in researching and writing about historical characters 
 living inhabiting a liminal space.\n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Co
 rnell University)\n\nDefiant Dreams\n\nSharifa Elja Sharifi (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\nA depiction of multiple displacements from Afghanistan and the art
 ist's defiant dreams. \n\nModerator: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n\n5.15PM GHOSTS: FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR\n\nJe
 ff Palmer (Cornell University)\n\nGhosts tells the story of three Kiowa boy
 s’ daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko\, Oklahoma i
 n 1891\, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment.\n 
 \nModerator: Ami Yayra Tamakloe\, Cornell University\n\n6.15 Dinner: Asempe
  Kitchen\n\nSATURDAY\, April 22\, AD White House\n8.30am Breakfast: Gimme C
 offee\n\n9AM LIVES AND DEATHS\n\nStories No One Wants to Hear: Refugeehood 
 and Diasporic Unbelonging in Bosnian Chicago\n\nLarisa Kurtović (University
  of Ottawa)\n\nA series of sketches of diasporic life of Bosnian refugees—i
 ncluding petty cigarette smugglers\, truck drivers\, and those taken by the
  precursors of what is today known as the opioid epidemic—in the late 1990s
  Chicago\, asking what is left of the refugee experience in the absence of 
 a happy end. \n\nK’s Suicide\n\nMilad Odabaei (Princeton University)\n\nA n
 arrativization of K.’s story of return to Iran and suicide relating the lim
 its of language and legibility to the queer experience of refugees.\n \nThe
  Feeling of Interruption\n\nAbosede George (Barnard College)\n\nA reflectio
 n on the recurrent feeling of life being interrupted that was the author’s 
 condition as an undocumented person. \n\nProactive Grief (A Second Installm
 ent)\n\nEman Ghanayem (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how Palestini
 ans grieve and anticipate death through the author’s personal reflections o
 n family and community.\n\nModerator: Brian V. Sengdala (Cornell University
 )\n\n11am Break \n\n11.15AM BORDERS: ANCESTORS \n\nLeave Not What You Carry
 : Reflections on Kinship\, Belonging\, and Identity at the Haitian-Dominica
 n Border\n\nKarina Edouard (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on the auth
 or’s grandparent’s migration and her experience at the Haitian-Dominican bo
 rder exploring the contradictions\, tensions\, and afterlife of border cros
 sing as an entry point into what it means to be of a community\, not simply
  in one.\n \nUn/Settling: Living Borders\, Materializing Elsewheres\n\nArad
 hana Sharma (Wesleyan University)\n\nAn autoethnographic meditation on unse
 ttled and disarticulated life alongside borders\, examining family lore and
  ethnographic vignettes that emerge out of the division of Punjab and the c
 onstruction of India and Pakistan in 1947\, illuminating the condition of o
 ngoing displacement and un/settlement in a world of ever-evolving borders.\
 n\nAn Un/Official Archive: Passports\, Phone Diaries\, and Prints\n\nNatash
 a Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA reflection on how my Sindhi refugee gran
 dmother's personal archive from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition speaks to
  the ways nations\, states\, and families come together and fall apart acro
 ss colonial borders in South Asia.\n\nConnected Fields: Embodying Ethical D
 haqan in Canada\n\nHannah Ali (Cornell University)\n\nA presentation on Som
 ali-Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area who turn to dhaqan – an embodied 
 African philosophy that prioritizes connections to ancestral land\, elders\
 , and the Somali language – to navigate social exclusions and craft ethical
  futures of community\, family\, and friendship that contest the modern Can
 adian state.\n\nModerator: Sarah R. Meiners (Cornell University)\n\n1.15 pm
  Lunch: Loumies\n\n2.15 PM WRITING SESSION FOLLOWED BY A CONVERSATION: YOUR
  PRESENTATION MAKES ME THINK OF\n\n3.30 pm Symposium End\n\nINSTALLATIONS\n
 AD White House Room 109\nFriday 9am-8pm\; Saturday 9am-3.30pm \n\nRefugees 
 Know Things: Podcast Launch and Installation \nSaida Hodžić (Cornell Univer
 sity)\n \nListen to podcast episodes featuring conversations with refugee s
 cholars\, artists\, and activists. \n\n“Refugee Patriots\, Refugee Punks\,”
  with Mimi Thi Nguyen (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)\n\n“Buil
 ding Power: Hope is a Verb\,” with Zrinka Bralo (Migrants Organise\, London
 )\n\n“Critical Refugee Studies\,” with Sabrina You and Yến Lê Espiritu (Uni
 versity of California San Diego)\n\nTransnational Network and Conversations
  about Salvadoran/Central American Migration: Podcast Installation\n\nSofia
  Villenas (Cornell University) and Patricia Rodriguez (Independent Scholar 
 and International Analyst/Advocate\, Earthworks: Ending Oil & Gas Mining Po
 llution) \n\nListen to podcast episodes featuring stories of migration and 
 the right to stay.  A collaboration between Cornell University\, Ithaca Col
 lege\, US-El Salvador Sister Cities\, the Association for the Development o
 f El Salvador (CRIPDES)\, and WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca.\n\nVideo Perf
 ormance: Saltwater at 47 (2016\, 5min 46 sec)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, R
 ijksakademie Amsterdam)\n \nA video performance about a Roma woman getting 
 her first passport and going on her first seaside vacation at age 47\; addr
 essing themes of dispossession\, un/citizenship\, and family love.\n\nVideo
  Performance: Haram (2019\, 10 min)\n\nSelma Selman (Resident\, Rijksakadem
 ie Amsterdam)\n\nHaram speaks of religion and waterboarding. No matter whic
 h God I believe in - as a woman who disobeys social rules that I’m subjecte
 d to\, I am constantly making sins. In order to clean myself of my accumula
 ted sins\, I am washing myself with pure water. This work is also related t
 o state practices of waterboarding and the struggle to maintain oneself whi
 le drowning in a foreign land as both refugee and immigrant. \n\nShort Film
 : Sindhi Kadhi (2018\, 8 min)\n\nNatasha Raheja (Cornell University)\n\nA s
 hort film about the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her Par
 tition refugee grandmother as they cook a traditional Sindhi recipe\, recal
 ling the quality of lotus root and other ingredients in Pakistan.\n\nCospon
 sored by Anthropology\, Feminist\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies\, the Socie
 ty for the Humanities\, South Asia Program\, Southeast Asia Program\, Histo
 ry\, Asian American Studies\, American Studies\, European Studies\, Reppy I
 nstitute\, Migrations Inititiative\, Government\, Performing and Media Arts
 \, the Institute for Comparative Modernaties\, the South Asia Program\, the
  Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program\, the American Indian and Ind
 igenous Studies Program\, Africana Studies\, Near Eastern Studies\, and the
  Latina/o Studies Program. \n\nMITWSrg originated in the mid-1980s as a fac
 ulty caucus in the English Department. It is now a research group that incl
 udes faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students in the humani
 ties and the social sciences from various departments in the College of Art
 s and Sciences – and beyond. For more information\, please email mitws@corn
 ell.edu if you would like MITWSrg to be the sole or primary sponsor for an 
 event you are planning to organize in minority\, indigenous\, or third worl
 d studies\, please send a brief proposal to MITWS’s faculty coordinators Pr
 ofessor Helena Maria Viramontes at hmv2@cornell.edu\, or Professor Satya P 
 Mohanty\, at mohanty@cornell.edu.\n\nThis is an in-person symposium with a 
 hybrid keynote. Register in advance to save your spot in person! To join th
 e keynote virtually\, register here.
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