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Seminar series: Art and Citizenship

Dates
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Location
Online

Seminar series - Identities, Citizenship and Justice Research Cluster

The Identities, Citizenship and Justice Research Cluster of The Open University Law School is pleased to announce the introduction of our 2024 seminar series. The seminar series will look at issues relevant to the cluster. 

Our cluster considers issues such as, what it means to belong or be excluded from community; the psychology of belonging; how identities are felt, formed, or socially constructed; what it means to be a citizen; how communities foster belonging through promotion of social good; and, immigration, asylum law and forced migration.

Professor Umut Erel - Migrants Performing Citizenship: Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods for Research

This talk introduces a participatory arts-based research project with migrant families, reflecting on how we might think of this research as an act of citizenship. It argues that by working together with migrant mothers and young girls, as well as organisations that focus on the rights of migrants and racialized people, we can co-produce knowledge that challenges social exclusion and racist and sexist subjugation of migrant girls and mothers. This project has the potential to not only generate new knowledge and insights, but it also illustrates that participatory arts-based research can be considered an act of citizenship contesting existing forms of citizenship that inscribe privileges and brings into being new modes of rights and rights-claiming subjects.

Dr. Agnes.Czajka - Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship

Based on the recently published Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship (ed. Agnes Czajka and Aine O’Brien), this presentation explores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the performance and production of radical democratic citizenship. The presentation focuses on theorising radical democratic citizenship and its role in democratic societies, and on understanding the contribution that art can make to its enactment.

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