Migration and Aesthetics Research Colloquium IV: Our Migration History

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Our Migration History is a community-based inclusive participatory project which seeks to promote learning on current and past immigrant narratives at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The project encourages students to engage in inclusive participatory research in order to help collect, document and share minority lived experiences of immigration to Norway. In partnership with the Stavanger Museum, the University of Stavanger, the Dembra teacher education network, and Norwegian high schools, the Our Migration History project includes a dynamic team of students, many of whom have their own lived experience of migration and will be presenting during the Migration and Aesthetics research colloquium IV. The research team also includes the award-winning Iranian cartoonist and former ICORN freelance artist, Ali Dorani, who has helped develop the digital storytelling part of the project.

In this presentation, our team will introduce the Our Migration History project and elaborate on how different aesthetic approaches were incorporated into the topic of migration, including sharing the creative process behind the project’s animation video and the choice and use of selected images in the photo story-telling activity. Illustrating the in-class activities we will also present personal accounts of migration from our team members. We look forward to sharing our work with you!
 
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Linn Normand is  an Assistant Professor in History at the Department of Culture and Languages at the University of Stavanger Norway and Program Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center. She is  lead-PI of the “our migration history” project, which is funded by the Peder Sather Foundation at UC Berkeley. She has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford with an interdisciplinary research background in international relations, history, education, and migration studies. Her most recent publication (2020) “From blind spot to hotspot: representations of the ‘immigrant others’ in Norwegian curriculum/schoolbooks (1905-2013)” in the Journal of Curriculum Studies highlights the overlooked immigrant narratives in Norwegian educational textbooks over time. 

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