AD White House Room 109
April 21st & April 22nd, 2023
Friday 9am-8pm; Saturday 9am-3.30pm
Refugees Know Things: Podcast Launch and Installation
Saida Hodžić (Cornell University)
Listen to podcast episodes featuring conversations with refugee scholars, artists, and activists.
“Refugee Patriots, Refugee Punks,” with Mimi Thi Nguyen (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
“Building Power: Hope is a Verb,” with Zrinka Bralo (Migrants Organise, London)
“Critical Refugee Studies,” with Sabrina You and Yến Lê Espiritu (University of California San Diego)
“Building Power: Hope is a Verb,” with Zrinka Bralo (Migrants Organise, London)
“Critical Refugee Studies,” with Sabrina You and Yến Lê Espiritu (University of California San Diego)
Transnational Network and Conversations about Salvadoran/Central American Migration: Podcast Installation
Sofia Villenas (Cornell University) and Patricia Rodriguez (Independent Scholar and International Analyst/Advocate, Earthworks: Ending Oil & Gas Mining Pollution)
Listen to podcast episodes featuring stories of migration and the right to stay. A collaboration between Cornell University, Ithaca College, US-El Salvador Sister Cities, the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), and WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca.
Video Performance: Saltwater at 47 (2016, 5min 46 sec)
Selma Selman (Resident, Rijksakademie Amsterdam)
A video performance about a Roma woman getting her first passport and going on her first seaside vacation at age 47; addressing themes of dispossession, un/citizenship, and family love.
Video Performance: Haram (2019, 10 min)
Selma Selman (Resident, Rijksakademie Amsterdam)
Haram speaks of religion and waterboarding. No matter which God I believe in – as a woman who disobeys social rules that I’m subjected to, I am constantly making sins. In order to clean myself of my accumulated sins, I am washing myself with pure water. This work is also related to state practices of waterboarding and the struggle to maintain oneself while drowning in a foreign land as both refugee and immigrant.
Short Film: Sindhi Kadhi (2018, 8 min)
Natasha Raheja (Cornell University)
A short film about the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and her Partition refugee grandmother as they cook a traditional Sindhi recipe, recalling the quality of lotus root and other ingredients in Pakistan.