Panel Discussion at the UNB Art Centre -FR
Event Details:
Panel Discussion: TRACE: Tracing the Space of the Refugee Crisis.
At the UNB Art Centre
Join us for a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibit TRACE: Tracing the Space of the Refugee Crisis which runs until February 14, 2020 at the UNB Art Centre. This panel discussion is free and will be held in the Memorial Hall Auditorium.
Members of the panel will put the 2015 refugee crisis into a global context. Panellists will provide focus for a discussion about the factors leading to the crisis, human rights issues, the logistics of housing a large influx of people within urban spaces, the experience of being a refugee, while problematizing the designation of the term refugee and exploring the role of art in critically representing the refugee as an otherized subject.
Panellists include Antoine Cassar, Independent Poet and Activist, Qrendi, Malta; Olga Lafazani, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece; Behzad Khosravi Noori, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. Two other members will join via Skype: Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and Anwar Nilufary, Athens, Greece. Raluca Bejan, Assistant Professor in Social Work at Dalhousie University will moderate the discussion.
Trace: Tracing the Space of the Refugee Crisis is made possible through the financial support provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, St. Thomas University, CIRN-Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the UNB Art Centre.
The UNB Art Centre is located at Memorial Hall. The galleries are open 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. weekdays and for special events. The galleries are open on Thursday evenings until 9 p.m. Admission is free to members of the public. Everyone is welcome
For more information on the panelists, please visit the Facebook Event
Building: Memorial Hall
Room Number: Auditorium
Contact:
Lori Quick
1 506 453 4623
lquick@unb.ca
