Call for Speakers
On Thursday, 28 March 2024, between 2pm and 7.30pm UK time, we are hosting an open forum or indaba on forced migration and the arts.
We are keen to hear from refugee and non-refugee artists, activists, academics, arts and culture professionals, practitioners and organisations on the work you are doing and the challenges and possibilities you see in this work.
If you would like to speak as part the forum or indaba, please register here.
February Conversation
You are also invited to "Gaza Genocide: Artists and Writers Speak" which is taking place online on Saturday, 10 February 2024, from 6pm till 7.30pm.
To attend, register here.
As part of the February 10 conversation, Atef Alshaer, a Senior lecturer in Arabic Studies at the University of Westminster; Rawand Arqawi, Director at Fragments Theatre (Jenin), and a big driving force in the project Mayday; Selma Dabbagh, a writer of fiction and a lawyer; Zoe Lafferty, Associate Artistic Director, The Freedom Theatre (Palestine), and founder of Artists on The Frontline, and Caroline Rooney, an arts activist and Professor Emeritus of African and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Kent will be looking at the strategies Israel uses to silence Palestinian artists, intellectuals and journalists.
Alshaer, Arqawi, Dabbagh, Lafferty and Rooney will also offer perspectives on how the arts and alternative journalism can and are challenging the silencing, gaslighting, disinformation and violence inherent in the mass atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza, and the settler colonial violence and crimes against humanity it is encouraging in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Books
Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2023), among other things, offers accounts of daily life in Britain. The anthology also features contributions from emerging and established writers from around the world on the myths and fictions Britain likes to tell about itself and how these need to be contested and subverted. The anthology manifests the hope that through the power of poetry and creative writing, readers and writers alike can cultivate empathy and envision and bring about a more just world.
Call for Manuscripts
Yana Meerzon and Steve Wilmer, editors of the Palgrave Studies in Performance and Migration book series have released a call for manuscripts and welcome personal inquiries and book proposals from prospective authors who might be interested in contributing to the series.