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Border Trouble: Migration, Research Creation, Art & Policy
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Four day online conference with symposium co-hosted by Ryerson and London South Bank Universities. The symposium is the culminating event of Project Finding Home, a SSHRC-funded 3-year international project exploring the complex intersection between forced migration and new place-making strategies through art and storytelling. April 26-29. Free. Register http://bordertrouble.eventbrite.ca
When Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist/journalist/writer was in the Australian-run offshore refugee detention camp, in Manus Island, Pa
This article inspired me to start writing. I did not want to respond to them by adding a comment, so I started writing a short fictional story based on real events called Close the Eyes of Your Conscience.” It ended up getting published by Meanjin this September. I was not fluent in English so I wrote the story in Farsi. In January 2019 I met Omid Tofighian on Manus Island and I spoke to him about my writing. He was keen to translate it. This was the beginning of my collaboration with Omid, and we have produced a lot of work together since. We have plans to do a lot more. All the writing, translations and research is done on a mobile phone.