Hunar Symposia 2022: Session 3A Place And Identity Making

Описание: Hunar Symposia 2022: Delivered alongside an international art exhibition, the event sought to amplify marginalised voices from across the globe by bringing together scholars and arts practitioners to explore imaginative and critical responses to conflict, and to reflect carefully on intersecting and ongoing histories of State violence, colonialism, dispossession, and other forms of traumatic social upheaval. email [email protected] or visit https://hunarsymposia.com/

Speakers:
Eleonora Cerqua - Posters for Rojava

I am an archaeologist, specialised in archaeological and historical research and a teacher of the Italian language and culture. I have a bachelor’s degree in “History and Conservation of the Artistic Heritage” and a master’s degree in “Archaeological Science and Historical and Archaeological Research Methods” both of them issued by Università degli Studi “Roma Tre” (Italy). Since March 2021, I am a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at UTS with a research project focusing on Italian social centres. Since February 2022, I am delivering Italian language and culture tutorials at UTS.

Cindy Evans (video) - Legacies of Gruppe Effekt: West German Art and politics in the aftermath of ‘68

Cindy Evans is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. She is an art historian of modern and global contemporary art with special interests in postwar Germany and the Balkans and a focus on social art history and cultural geopolitics. Her dissertation “Effekt’s Nonaligned Network: “Third Way” Art and Politics in 1960s West Germany” examines the art and activism of the 1960s Munich-based West German artist collective the Effekt Gruppe (1965-1968) and situates Effekt within “third-way” politics and transnational avant-garde practices as informed by the Nonaligned political movement and New Tendencies art network, both based in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Rosemary Joiner - Practice-based creative research as an alternative mode of research: Creative writing and research into volunteerism, altruism and activism

Rosemary Joiner is a PhD candidate at the Federation University School of Arts in the Future Regions Research Centre. Her research focuses on practice-based creative research to measure and capture the impact of volunteering. She is particularly interested in understanding what practice-based creative research allows that traditional research methods do not across various disciplines.
She has a Master of Arts (Writing) degree and has over 15 years’ industry experience as a leader of community participation and volunteer engagement.