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International Conference

Diaspora, Mobility, Nomadism, Diversity

Skopje, 23-24 November 2016

National Gallery, Cifte Amam, Skopje

Conference program

 

23.11.2016, Wednesday

Day one

10.00-12.00

Robert Alagjozovski, Darka Radosavljevic

Conference opening

 

Monika Mokre

Inclusion and Exclusion by the Arts

 

Alexandra Lazar

Artivism, Brexit and the Good Migrant

 

Lidija Dimkovska

To write about diaspora and to live in diversities

 

12.00-12.30 coffee&tea break

 

12.30-14.30

Elizabeta Šeleva

Personal Notes On A Diasporic Nostalgia

 

Melentie Pandilovski

The Phenomenology of Diasporic Experiences - from the Corporeal and Digital to the Biotechnological

(skype connection, Australia)

 

Yane Calovski

Residency vs. Residence: The Pursuit Of Self-Escape

 

Sabina Guzik

Refugee, migrant, tourist: The thing about changing places.

(presentation with photo-show)

 

14.30.-15.30

General discussion

 

24.11.2016

Thursday

Day two

10.00-12.00

Ivaylo Ditcev

Mobility as ritual, status, identity.

 

Irena Bekić, Duga Mavrinac

Between There and There: Anatomy of Temporary Migrations

 

Arian Leka

We, our people, and our çorba, too

 

12.00-12.30 coffee&tea break

 

12.30-13.30

Dragoslav Dedovic

Between the crab-walk and the butterfly net

 

Liljana Simic Deru

Intercultural ethics – media diversity representation

 

13.30-14.30

Marko Stamenkovic

Hello from the other side: Europe, Migration, and The Emperor’s New Clothes

(presentation-performance)

 

14.30.-16.00

End discussion and conference conclusions

This inter- and multi-disciplinary, two-sessions conference seeks to re-examine the concepts of diaspora, mobility, nomadic experiences, frequent travels, art and cultural residencies. Whether they are individual or collective, economically or politically, movement of people across territories have strong impact on societies, their development but also conflicts.

Major issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

- What is the role of diaspora in the nation-building urgency and identity-centered preoccupation?

- When ambivalence and contradiction appears in the artistic memories of the homeland?

- In which way the new models of mobility, nomadic experiences, frequent travels, short term stays in other countries as art and cultural residencies, influence and shape someone’s artistic practice and poetics?

- Why traditions are significantly invented in retrospective affiliations?

- Where is the space of the transmigrational groups and non-citizen classes, such as immigrants, economic migrants, exiles, refugees and illegal aliens?

- How are the voluntary diasporic subjects different from those whose lives have been mapped by exile and forced economic migration?

- How is diaspora being remapped through cyberscape?

- Can there emerge different kind of citizenship - flexible, diasporic, and nomadic?

 

The papers are based on three modules of research:

- analytical academic papers, which would be debated during the conferences;

- Case studies as well as research-based policy recommendations;

- presentation in situ of concrete artistic or cultural projects on the issues of diaspora or by diasporic artists.

 

The working language of the conference is English.

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