In this seminar we gather art practitioners and academics
for a conversation about these questions, focusing on comic art and animation.
This art form is extremely versatile and has been used to tell powerful stories
about migration, refugees and borders as well as serving as a tool for research
and dissemination.
Program
12.00 – 12.05 Welcome
Jørgen Carling, Research Professor
12.05 – 12.25 Threads. A comic book
description of the life and people of the unofficial Calais refugee camp, the
“Jungle”.
Kate Evans, cartoonist, author and public speaker
12.25 – 12.45 Victims of Borders. Animation as a
tool to tell stories about the war in Syria.
Wael Toubaji, animation artist
12.45 – 12.55 Comments on the power of
storytelling through art in research on refugees – both as methodological and
dissemination tool.
Cindy Horst, Research Professor
12.55 – 13.05 Comments on how Arab comic
artists have treated the issue of borders during and after the Arab Spring in
2011.
Jacob Høigilt, Senior Researcher
13.05 – 13.30 Q & A
A light lunch will be served.
Kate Evans
Kate Evans is a cartoonist, author and public speaker. Her
latest project is Threads,
a cartoon reportage from a brief stint volunteering at the Calais ‘refugee
camp’. Among her other works is Red Rosa, the
graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg, released by Verso in 2017, which was selected
as a ‘graphic book of the year’ choice by both the Independent and Observer
newspapers.
Wael Toubaji
Wael Toubaji is an animation artist who
works on subjects related to human rights and conflicts. Besides working on
animation projects about the disappeared people in Colombia and LGBTI rights in
Uganda he has worked on many projects about the Syrian tragedy, including “A Perilous Journey” (2015) and “Islamic State’s Most Wanted”, the winner of
Reason Media Awards in 2016.