<nettime-ann> Symposium "A Second Home: Mediating Borders and Hospitalit

From: isabel.lofgren@gmail.com

Please be most welcome to the symposium “A Second Home: Mediating Borders and Hospitality” - an international symposium bringing together media and artistic perspectives on refugees, migration and citizenship, at Filmhuset, Stockholm on March 8th, from 9 to 5.30 pm.

See the description below and attached program

Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/259320567833441/

Program, abstracts and bios: https://artmediahospitality.wordpress.com/

All the best,

Isabel

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Welcome to a Global Media Café dedicated to “A Second Home: Mediating Borders and Hospitality - A symposium bringing together academic and artistic perspectives on refugees, migration and citizenship”. The event starts at 9:00 am, followed by 4 sessions and roundtable discussions, and ends at 5:30 pm.

PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, PRESENTATIONS include

Fataneh Farahani, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Christian Christensen, Rebecca Bengtsson, Anna Roosvall, TomáŠ Rafa, Florencia Enghel, Temi Odumosu, Erik Berggren and Kosta Ekonomou, UNICORN - artists in solidarity, Abir Boukhari, Macarena Dusant, Jon Brunberg, Anusha Caroline Andersson, Per Hüttner & Jasper de Rycker, and Andrea Hvistendahl.

Description:

“A Second Home” is a metaphor for what Sweden and a number of other host countries have aspired to become during an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe: a second home for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war zones and political conflict. Definitions of “home” and “homeland” have been increasingly entangled with escalating violence and public debate, resulting in polarization around conceptions of territorial and cultural belonging while new nationalisms and geopolitical realities arise. The recent case of the Syrian refugees has been a poignant example, revealing the widespread fields of tension.

This symposium brings the concept of hospitality to bear on some of the most pressing social, cultural and political questions of our time. Hospitality implies an ethical relationship and pertains to which degree we are open to receiving the Other in a framework of civic duties and entitlements, but also with reverberations in the politics of representation, language and the creation of an aesthetic materiality. It necessitates ongoing public deliberation on how conditions of membership are created and sustained, and how peoples, cultures and difference can coexist, resources be shared, actions taken, and histories remembered.