Workshops and events

Dr Edward Anderson received funding for the Lort Burn Specials North-East Culture and Politics night, which brings leading writers and cultural figures together in Newcastle for timely conversations around migration, postcolonialism, racism, and multiculturalism.

PhD Candidate Hayaat Fatemah received funding for the launch of SIMS – Scholarship on the Indian Muslim Sphere, an interdisciplinary research collective for UK-based early career scholars working in this area.

The IDRT provided funding to support pre-production workshops for Dr Rima Hussein’s dance theatre project A Land and a People – Topos as Living Memory. This project brings to life a series of poems, mainly written by Palestinian poets, through dance, music, and puppetry, to explore themes of displacement, homeland, and return, as well as gendered violence and abuse.

The IDRT provided Dr Faten Khazaei funding to host a workshop with Professor Nadia Fadil of KU Leuven about de-radicalisation policies in the EU in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war

Professor Daniel Laqua received funding to host a workshop New Research in Migration History, bringing together scholars from across the UK and Europe to discuss cutting edge research in this field.

We provided funding for Professor Jaime Miller’s workshop Researching with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Women: An Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Workshop on Ethical and Best Practice Approaches.  This workshop will host Dr Esther Sharma of King's College London, who will deliver an interactive knowledge exchange workshop for postgraduate researchers and academic staff on good practice in conducting research with migrant communities.

Dr Emma Patchett received funding to organise a screening of the film Blue Has No Borders, and to host an interdisciplinary roundtable discussing critical border studies and documentary film

Dr Aarti Ratna’s Anti-Racist Arts Appliance project received funding.  The project brings together racially minoritised local Leeds artists to question notions of home and belonging, and to reimagine what hopeful futures means to them.