Today our guest is Dr. Umut Erel. Her research employs an intersectional approach and explores how gender, migration and ethnicity inform practices of citizenship. We talked about her research and how collaboration between researchers,

Website of Pasar Project: ⁠https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar?nocache=65d4eb08351ff⁠

⁠"Collaborations Between Academics, Artists and Activists: Transforming Public Understandings and Representations of Migration Issues." In Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities, ⁠

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8_10

Today our guest is Dr. Wiebke Sievers. She has been working as

Dr. Sievers’ website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isr/team/rg-urban-transformation/wiebke-sievers

Open access book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8

This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Emine Fisek. We will be talking about how the theater’s representation of migrant subjects has developed after post-crisis both in Europe and Turkey.

Refugee Tales: https://www.refugeetales.org/

Balat Monologlar Muzesi: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/balat-monologlar-muzesi

Gabriel’in Düşü: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/gabrielin-dusu

Grand Hotel Cosmopolis: https://www.on-curating.org/issue-25-reader/the-grandhotel-cosmopolis-augsburg-germany.html#.Y-VNa-xBwbk

Clean City: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/clean-city

This interview is under the

https://taiwanreyhanlicentre.com/en/about/

How Taiwan is helping Syrian refugees in Turkey:

Welcome to The Other Stories podcast series. This interview is under the first theme of the   podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Silvia Aru. Silvia Aru is an assistant professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Turin. Her research interests encompass migration policies and their socio-spatial impacts and related issues of justice and socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion. Today, we mainly talk about her two projects titled “Eufemia” and My "Diary from the border":

My "Diary from the border": https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/2a1d944d-dd84-49c7-a238-b74c4fa00c70/Diary_Ventimiglia_compressed.pdf.

The catalogue of the Exhibition 'Eufemia' in the Italian-English version: https://www.laboratoriosociologiavisuale.it/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Catalogo-Eufemia-Ita-Eng-WEB.pdf

"Beyond Inhabitation lab": https://beyondinhabitation.org/.

This interview is under the first theme of the   podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is the artist Dr. Bogdan Mihai Florea. Dr. Florea has written a PhD thesis titled “Actor in a Second Language” at Department of Theatre at University of Bristol. The thesis discusses emigrant actors and acting 2nd language in the context of the practice-based research conducted with Nu Nu Theatre, a company that focuses its work on the question of who a Second-Language Actor is and who he/she can become.

Nu Nu Theatre | Bristol | Facebook

www.nunuplatform.com

Ileana Gherghina – Theatre maker

This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on artistic projects globally. Today our guest is the artist Elizabeth Kwant. We talk about her project titled ‘In Transit’ where she performs migrants’ stories in key sites across Europe. Elizabeth Kwant lives and works in Manchester. From 2015 -2019 she founded and curated Zellij Arts, an artist led project exhibiting the work of emerging artists from The Middle East, North Africa and diaspora. Kwant’s work investigates contemporary geo-political issues; migration, immigration, displacement and representation. She has produced and participated in a number of socially engaged arts projects with refugees and asylum seekers in partnership with local organisations.

https://www.instagram.com/elizabethkwantstudio/?hl=en

https://www.elizabethkwant.com/

This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants in Turkey with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is the artist and social anthropologist Eva Rapoport. Today, we will be talking about her work as a coordinator of the Istanbul branch of the Ark (Kovcheg) – an organization that is helping Russian political emigrants. We will discuss her research on political emigrants in Istanbul and her digital art project titled ‘Imagine/unimaginable’ employing an AI to visualize the reflections of the shock and trauma of witnessing a familiar world suddenly falling apart.

https://jathilan.me/about

This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is the artist barbara caveng. Today, we will be talking about her KUNSTASYL which was created as a project by an individual artist and developed to a complex organism with a branched structure, partly working as an independent artistic collective. We believe that this initiative and her future projects have become particularly important as yet another refugee movement has developed recently in the heart of Europe.

https://caveng.net/en/

https://caveng.net/en/portfolio/kunstasyl/

We continue our conversations on the relationship between art, culture, migration and social cohesion, which we started with the "The Other Stories" exhibition. Today, we will talk about the work of Migration Jam on good practices and lessons learned in Turkey regarding the adaptation of immigrants and the development of a culture of living together, which is the 3rd theme of the podcast. In this episode of our podcast series titled Other Stories, our guests are Amal Jibril, Suha Nabhan and her cat Zumrut.

https://www.instagram.com/migrationjam/?hl=en

https://migrationjam.com/