CHASE Dialogues is a discussion series foregrounding the significant roles the arts and humanities have played and continue to play in big discussions today.

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How can storytelling be deployed as a tool to resist dehumanisation and participate in political critique? Can immersive performance decolonise discourse on culture and migration? What can experimental visual arts tell us about experiences of diaspora and migration? How can the spatial politics of music production affect shifting conceptions of identity? In what ways can the arts and humanities inform policy making on international migration?

Panellists will discuss how art and cultural production of various forms can affect representation, agency, resistance, celebration and politics in relation to migration and culture. Cultural expression allows humans to assert their identities and reclaim their narratives. The interplay of art and cultural production with migration and culture is multifaceted, and by engaging with these themes, artists and cultural producers not only reflect the realities of migration but also shape the socio-political landscape, fostering understanding and connection across diverse communities.

Join the discussion with the panellists:

1. Subhadip Mukherjee is a scholar of contemporary literature and CHASE-funded doctoral researcher at University of Kent

2. Holly Maples is a theatre director, performance maker, cultural historian, educator and researcher, presently lecturing at the University of Essex

3. Dot Zhihan Jia is an art curator working around diasporic communities, discourse of languages, and issues of gender, presently working at Studio Voltaire and lecturing at Goldsmiths

4. Tariq Jazeel is a cultural geographer working at the intersections of human geography, South Asian studies and postcoloniality, presently teaching at UCL

The panel is moderated by Jennifer Allsopp (Birmingham Fellow, and Founder and Co-Chair of Birmingham University of Sanctuary).

This is the second of three events scheduled in CHASE Dialogues series. By providing thought-provoking dialogues on current challenges faced by society, the series showcases the value of the arts and humanities working shoulder to shoulder with other disciplines, fosters collaboration and promotes multidisciplinary approaches to research. These discussions highlight the mutual benefits of conversations beyond conventional arts and humanities research and into collaboration with STEM-related fields, broadening perspectives and considering innovative approaches to a better future. In doing so, the series celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CHASE consortium – for the past decade, CHASE institutions have been making interventions informed by pressing questions and challenges through their ambitious doctoral training.

SAVE THE DATE for Dialogues’ final event!

• 28 January 2025, 7pm at the Royal Institution, London

  Theme: Museum and Restitution