ASYLUM NARRATIVES COLLOQUIUM, DCU ST PATRICK’S CAMPUS, DRUMCONDRA 29 SEPTEMBER 2017

9.30-9.50:

Registration

9.50-10.00

Welcome ((Dr Jennifer Bruen, Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, DCU (Heaney Auditorium, Room G114)

10.00-11.15: Asylum and Refugee Narratives (Heaney Auditorium, Room G114) Chair: Dr Annie Ó Breacháin (School of Arts Education and Movement, DCU) ● Hidden in Plain Sight: Asylum Narratives in Direct Provision (Dr Veronica Crosbie, SALIS, DCU) ● Storytelling Methodology (Dr Peter Sheekey, Dublin City Intercultural Language Services) ● DCU MELLIE storytelling project (Julie Daniel, Verena Wulf, Zuhur Muse, Dr. Bronagh Catibusic-Finnegan) 11.15-11.45: Coffee (Foyer E Block) 11.45-12.00

Poetry Reading, Christiana Obaro (Mosney DP Resident) (E224)

12-1.pm:

University of Sanctuary Panel & Workshop (E224) Chair: Tian Yu Lloyd (Places of Sanctuary, Ireland) Panel: Philip McKinley (Chaplain, DCU), Dr Mairead Moriarty (Assistant Dean International, UL), Dr Chris McDermott (Lecturer in Law, AIT),

1-2pm

Lunch 1

2-3.30pm:

Asylum Arts Round Table (Heaney Auditorium, Room G114) Chair: Dr Agnès Maillot (SALIS, DCU) ● The Art of Loss and Hope: the Syrian Cultural Caravan (JeanPhilippe Imbert, SALIS, DCU) ● Asylum Archive: an Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland (Vukasin Nedeljkovic, DIT) ● Flight Risk (Ellie Kisyombe, Our Table; Kevin Brew, RTE) ● Border Crossings (Caoimhe Butterly, Independent Film-maker)

3.30-4pm:

Coffee

4-5pm:

DCU Sanctuary Keynote Address: (Heaney Auditorium, Room G114) Prof Alison Phipps (OBE, UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts): Broken World, Broken Word: Resilience in the Arts of Languaging Border Distress. Introduced by: Prof Brian MacCraith (President, DCU) Chair: Dr Veronica Crosbie (SALIS, DCU)

5-6.00pm:

Asylum Archive photography exhibition (Cregan Library) Reception (Cregan Library Foyer)

6-7.30pm:

Éire: Land of a Hundred Thousand Welcomes (Auditorium, B108) Play directed by Laura Doak; devised and performed by Mount Temple Comprehensive School students. Q&A: Sharon McArdle, (School of Arts Education and Movement, DCU)

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