Registration from 1pm; Event 1.30pm - 4.30pm.

Co-hosted by the IMISCOE SC on Methods and the ISS21 Migration & Integration Research Cluster

Across all of these modalities, the challenge of analysing visual data including visual sense data is often under-considered. Visual data is interconnected with textual data, but it is separate from it. This event is focused on how methods that use visual and visual sense data are understood, reproduced and used by scholars who work in the field of migration studies. This event is focused on the importance and usefulness of building on current literature on the visual component of methods in migration. There is a dearth of discussion on how migration studies can benefit from new knowledge in relation to analysis of art works, pictures, films and theatre and methodologies which utilise visual data as a specific technique to investigate migration aspects. We add a further innovation of considering data gathered through the visual sense in methods such as walking methodologies and multi-site mobility. In analysis and writing, textual representations often take precedence, with visual data being relegated to a supporting role. This workshop considers the visual and visual sense data in its own right.

Keynote Speaker: Prof Umut Erel, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.

Keynote will be followed by a Panel with presentations and discussion.

Bio

Prof Umut Erel Brief Biography: Prof Erel’s research employs an intersectional approach and explores how gender, migration and ethnicity inform practices of citizenship. Her current research focuses on migrant families and citizenship. She was PI on an ESRC funded research grant on ‘Participatory Arts and Social Action Research (PASAR): Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods' Potential for Co-producing knowledge’ (January 2016 - December 2017) http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar. Prof Erel was director of the Research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (2021-24), led the Justice, Borders, Rights stream of Citizenship and Governance SRA (2018-2020), before this having co-directed the Research Programme Migration and Belongings, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. Dr Erel co-led the OU's contribution to a collaboration between academics, arts and activists on the Who Are We? Project, exploring issues of belonging, participation, citizenship and migration through an annual 6 day multi-platform event at the Tate Exchange project (https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/who-are-we-2019 and whoareweproject.com).

Register at:  Visual Methods Event 

Event Organisers: Dr Mastoureh Fathi and Dr Angela Veale; Contact details: mastoureh.fathi@ucc.ie and a.veale@ucc.ie