Event Title
Human Mobility / Human Dignity: Ethics in the act of representing migration and detention
Description
As cameras, drones, and mobile devices capture the spectacle of humans migrating en masse, despite insurmountable obstructions, the pictures and recordings that circulate, in real time or later, produce consequences. This lecture will review the role of cultural producers, including artists and journalists, in the production of meaning during refugee migrations and situations of forced detention. Whether making us face an infinite ethical demand, as Levinas described, or making visible and audible the way hostile state policies are experienced in the everyday (Schreiber; Herd and Pincus), a look at how migration is pictured and heard is an ethical inquiry.
About the Lecturer: Lois Klassen is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Vancouver, Canada. In art and texts she has considered the nature of participation and representation. In 2018 she successfully defended the doctoral dissertation, Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada). Klassen holds a Master of Applied Art (Visual Art) from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Besides being a volunteer career mentor for newcomer-Canadians, and an enthusiastic participant in Vancouver’s various art scenes, Klassen serves as the coordinator of the Emily Carr University Research Ethics Board.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
6-2-2019 4:00 PM
End Date
6-2-2019 5:20 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Duration
1:14:40
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Refugees--In mass media; Emigration and immigration--In mass media; Mass media and immigrants; Refugees--Press coverage;
Type
Moving Image
Keywords
Human migration, Migration and forced detention, Refugee migrations
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Human Mobility / Human Dignity: Ethics in the act of representing migration and detention
Fairhaven College Auditorium
As cameras, drones, and mobile devices capture the spectacle of humans migrating en masse, despite insurmountable obstructions, the pictures and recordings that circulate, in real time or later, produce consequences. This lecture will review the role of cultural producers, including artists and journalists, in the production of meaning during refugee migrations and situations of forced detention. Whether making us face an infinite ethical demand, as Levinas described, or making visible and audible the way hostile state policies are experienced in the everyday (Schreiber; Herd and Pincus), a look at how migration is pictured and heard is an ethical inquiry.
About the Lecturer: Lois Klassen is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Vancouver, Canada. In art and texts she has considered the nature of participation and representation. In 2018 she successfully defended the doctoral dissertation, Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods (Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada). Klassen holds a Master of Applied Art (Visual Art) from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Besides being a volunteer career mentor for newcomer-Canadians, and an enthusiastic participant in Vancouver’s various art scenes, Klassen serves as the coordinator of the Emily Carr University Research Ethics Board.