davis1Dr. Saeed Talajooy and Sanaz Raji would like to invite you to a film screening and UK premier of three short films by Iranian-American film-maker, Shahrzad M. Davis on Wednesday, 25th of March 2009 at 5:30pm, Engineering Building, Malet Place, Room 1.02.
The films all deal with aspects of migration, identity, and sexuality. After the screening, [...]
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March 21, 2009
UCL Mellon Programme Presents Three Short Films by Shahrzad M. Davis
July 29, 2008
A Blog on Cultures of Migration in Italy
A friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Federica Mazzara, a fellow at the UCL Mellon Programme, has recently started a blog, entitled, Moving Boarders: The Aesthetics of Migraton. I had the opportunity to meet Federica this past December and in March, she organized a workshop on the Aesthetics of Migration at UCL which I had [...]
February 21, 2008
Nakba 60 Oral History Day
www.nakba60.org.uk
in association with SOAS Palestine Society and LSE SU Palestine Society
Present
ORAL HISTORY DAY
Saturday 1 MARCH 2008
(free admission)
Please book in advance at: rsvp@nakba60.org.uk
The Eye of the Spoken Word: Oral History and The 1948 Nakba
The Oral History Day event brings [...]
February 11, 2008
Weapons of Massive Laughter
I am a connoisseur of humor and satire. In fact, on those days that I feel blue and find life a bit overwhelming, I retreat into my room and watch a few YouTube clips of stand-up by Dave Chapelle (famous for his Comedy Central show, Chapelle Show), Margaret Cho, and Russell Peters among others. Sometimes, [...]
January 27, 2008
Long hiatus, so let’s get this show on the road!
Dear reader:
It’s been a while since my last op-ed piece but that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been exciting and interesting developments going on in need of debate and examination. My intention in the beginning was to create a once a week op-ed piece that would explore diaspora, migration and identity politics happening everyday, whether [...]
January 22, 2008
Please click on the image to find out more about the contribution of the Irish to the British construction industry.
October 12, 2007
Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe
International Conference to be held at
the University of Copenhagen
8-10 November 2007
Literature by migrants – those not at home where they write – foregrounds many questions concerning cultural and linguistic identity, not least the relationships between identity, language and territory. Fundamentally, such literature challenges the categories according to which literary disciplines have traditionally (that is, since [...]
