Displacement Workshop on Collaborative Work
Join UCL History for a panel discussion and networking event on 'How can historians of displacement work collaboratively with artists, government, and the third sector?’.
Displacement Workshop on Collaborative Work
19 Mar 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
The nature of research on displacement within the academy invites opportunities to connect and collaborate, to place this work within a wider network of activities and stakeholders invested in the causes, processes and consequences of dislocation and displacement. In this roundtable conversation, we invite three speakers who have worked collaboratively on displacement beyond the academy through multiple genres to reflect on this practice as well as questions of ethics and positionality.
Professor of Migration and Diaspora Studies and co-director of the Thomas Coram Research Institute
UCL Social Research Institute
Mette Louise Berg is a social anthropologist with research interests in migration, asylum, diasporas and migrant transnationalism; urban diversity; gender, belonging and generation; decolonial and collaborative research methods. Her early work focused on Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. More recently she has worked on migration, diversity, and asylum in the UK. Mette is Professor of Migration and Diaspora Studies and co-director of the Thomas Coram Research Institute, UCL Social Research Institute.
Artist
Issam Kourbaj was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and at Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived in Cambridge, UK, since 1990. Since 2011 his artwork has related to the Syrian Crisis and reflects on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage.
Project Leader
Lydia Powell is a Project Leader specialising in changing power dynamics in community projects. She co-produces history projects and makes social change with communities, influenced by her background in History, Migrants’ Rights and International Development.
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
UCL staff
Availability
Yes