The Visual Culture of Migration
Welcome to an online guest lecture by Dr. Ömer Alkin, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
The event is free and open for everyone.
This seminar is in English.
We don't know (yet) what migration is. Because its visual culture precedes us. Media, such as films, are a reservoir of this rather unknown knowledge and other films outside of the canon provide such knowledge, too. In this lecture, Ömer Alkin will try to trace both: the multi-knowledge of films and other filmic epistemologies on migration.
Bio:
Ömer Alkin, media and cultural scholar holding a Ph.D. from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, is currently project leader in his own German Research Foundation (DFG) research project “Aesthetics of Occidentalism: Yücel Çakmaklı’s Islamic-national Millî Sinema (National Cinema),1964-2006” at the Institute for Media Studies at Philipps University Marburg (project website: www.online.uni-marburg.de/okzidentalismus).
In addition to his academic activities, he is active in the field of intercultural education and filmmaking. His main research interests are digital learning, racism, migration, Islam and audiovisual culture, film, global identity politics such as occidentalism, and postmigration.
Personal website: www.oemeralkin.de
The event is arranged by IMSmemory and chaired by Dagmar Brunow and Nafiseh Mousavi.