Migration, creativity, radical care: Practising care beyond and against the hostile environment
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Join us for a half-day interdisciplinary symposium bringing together researchers, creative practitioners and activists to explore meanings of care and to imagine how collective care can be built within our research, creative practices and beyond. The symposium will consist of reflective discussions, collective manifesto-writing, and a range of creative activities to engage with questions relating to:
The relationships between care, power and creativity;
The potential and limits of care within contexts of austerity and increasingly limited funding for arts/migration-related work;
The urgency of care and creativity within the violence of the UK’s border regime;
The challenges and possibilities for embedding care within research/arts-led practice/solidarity work;
The meanings of ‘radical’ and ‘collective’ care as opposed to notions of care that can be subsumed within neo-liberal and individualist logics of ‘self-care’.
Contact name: Olivia Sheringham
Tags:
- Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre
- Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS)
- Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
- Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
- Conferences/workshops
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Film screening
- Public lecture or event
- Raphael Samuel History Centre
- School of Social Sciences
- Social Sciences Festival
- University of Sanctuary