SYMPOSIUM TRANSKULTURALITÄT 2021 – PROGRAMME
Schedule (all times CET):
Friday, 7 May 2021
3.00–3.30 pm Opening
Welcome Address: Gerda Müller, Vice Rector for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Introductory Remarks: Ursula Hemetek, Director of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology as well as the Music and Minorities Research Center, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Musical Performance:
Tonica Hunter, artistic/music curator of "METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN", and Faris Cuchi Gezahegn
► Curatorial Statement
Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Dora Deliyska
► METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART I
3.30–4.30 pm
Keynote Lecture: Brigitta Kuster, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Chair: Evelyn Annuß)
► Burning Seas: Junctions and Disjunctions. Mediterranean Sea Crossings and the Audiovisual "Affectics" of Migration
4.30–5.00 pm
Break
5.00–7.30 pm
Film Screening: ► Purple Sea by Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed
Panel Discussion: ► Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed, Philip Scheffner (Chair: Evelyn Annuß)
Saturday, 8 May 2021
11.00 am–12.30 pm
Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Ciara Moser
► METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART II
Keynote Lecture: Ilker Ataç, Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)
► Is Urban Citizenship the Right Answer to the Crisis of European Border Politics? Entanglement of Non-State Actors with the Local Municipalities Across Europe
Faris Cuchi Gezahegn, Miriam Adefris, Ganaël Dumreicher
► METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART III
12.30–1.00 pm
Break
1.00–3.00 pm
Paper Presentation: Anja Brunner, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
► Contesting (Musical) Boundaries: Women Musicians from Syria in Austria and Germany
Paper Presentation: Ioannis Christidis, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
► Challenging Europeanity: Syrian Refugees, Musical Acts of Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism from Below
Paper Presentation: Evrim Hikmet Öğüt, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
► Street Music Practice as Social Non-Movement: Syrian Musicians' Claim on the Public Space
Panel Discussion: Anja Brunner, Ioannis Christidis, Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)
3.00–3.30 pm Closing
Closing Remarks: Ursula Hemetek
Faris Cuchi Gezahegn
► METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART IV – FINALE