Asylum Narratives Colloquium 29 Sept 2017

Published: 19 September 2017

This one-day event will look at asylum narratives from a variety of perspectives. Photo: V. Nedeljkovic.

2‌9 September 2017
St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Ireland

This one-day colloquium will look at asylum narratives from a variety of perspectives, analysing and discussing the voice and place of asylum seekers in Ireland. Speakers include academics and practitioners, artists and poets, and the day will conclude with the staging of the play "Éire, Land of a Hundred Thousand Welcomes".

Prof Alison Phipps, UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts will provide the Keynote Address "Broken World, Broken Word: Resilience in the Arts of Languaging Border Distress".

To view the full programme click here.   

This event is free but registration is required.

Photo courtesy of Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Asylum Archive

Photo courtesy of Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Asylum Archive


First published: 19 September 2017

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