When people move, what kinds of stories do they tell? What happens to those narratives when they circulate around the world? Does their refraction through translation and adaptation make for a different kind of story? Most importantly: can narratives of migration ever form a coherent whole, and should they have to?

Five speakers from different disciplines will be trying to answer these questions and more during this discussion, presented by the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme. The event is open to all and will be followed by a screening of Michael Winterbottom’s In this World (2002). Lunch will be provided free of charge.

Programme

10.00 Presentations

Dr Ulrike Draesner (Visiting Fellow, New College): Havoc and Ado: How to cross borders and cause maximal trouble

Dr Andreas Kossert (Research Fellow at the Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin): The other Germans: Post-war society and its refugees from the East

Dr Katie Brown (Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, Bristol): Translating Venezuelan narratives of migration

Dr Mette Louise Berg (Senior Lecturer, Social Science, UCL): title TBC

Geetha Reddy (PhD Candidate in Psychology, LSE): Migration among the diaspora: The construction of racial identity for the access of power, privilege and belonging

11.30 Refreshments

12.00 Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Screening of Michael Winterbottom’s In this World (2002), 85 mins.

This event takes place in conjunction with the Ludwig Lecture Dead as a Dodo? Why Literature Matters in Times of Migration and Unrest given by Ulrike Draesner at New College, McGregor Matthews Room, 5pm, 25 February 2017. More information here: mmp.mml.ox.ac.uk/eugene-ludwig-lecture-2017-ulrike-draesner.

The organisers, Chiara Giovanni and Jana Maria Weiss, are grateful to the support of the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities in making this event possible.