SYMPOSIUM TRANSKULTURALITÄT 2021 – PROGRAMME


Schedule (all times CET):

Friday, 7 May 2021

3.003.30 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

3.304.30 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

4.305.00 pm

Break
 

5.007.30 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 am12.30 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

12.301.00 pm

Break
 

1.003.00 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)
 

3.003.30 pm Closing

Closing Remarks: Ursula Hemetek

Faris Cuchi Gezahegn
► METAMORPHOSIS//METAHUMAN PART IV – FINALE