A Routes conversation on creative approaches to expressing experiences of asylum appeals, seminar
This event focuses on creative approaches to expressing experiences of asylum appeals. Everyone is welcome!
Dr Isabel Arce Zelada, a postdoctoral researcher at the University College Dublin, will be speaking on the arts-based methods used in her project and how they enabled counter-narratives to emerge, by allowing people to perform identity migrations within the project and revalue their desires as central to interrogating the violence of the asylum process that they experience.
| A Routes - Migration, Mobility, Displacement seminar | |
|---|---|
| Speaker(s) | Dr Isabel Arce Zelada |
| Date | 28 May 2025 |
| Time | 16:00 to 17:00 |
| Place | Zoom |
| Intended audience | Everyone welcome! |
| Organizer | Nick Gill |
Event details
Dr Isabel Arce Zelada is a European Research Council (ERC) Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, working on the project "Solidarity, Sovereignty, and Sanctuary on the Seas. A Global History of Boat Refugees since the 1940s (SOS)" focusing specifically on Cuban and Haitian refugees in the 1980s and 90s. She will be speaking on the arts-based methods used in her projects and how they enabled counter-narratives to emerge, by allowing people to perform identity migrations within the project and revalue their desires as central to interrogating the violence of the asylum process that they experience.
The desires each person expressed in their art revealed the dissonance between their lived experience and the human rights protections supposedly at the heart of the asylum system. A system professing to champion human rights but often unable or unwilling to uphold them. The desires expressed in this project unlock questions of future alternative justices, and alternative governance, that have profound implications for how we understand the asylum system and the people subjected to it. If anyone wants to read a little bit more about it there is a blog post with a video about the project here: https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/as-researchers-may-we-refuse-to-erase
Dr Arce Zelada is a social anthropologist, having completed their PhD at the University of Hull, looking at the narrative inequality within the UK asylum system and the experiences of people going through it. The PhD project founded the Who We Are art collective (2022-2024) that exhibited the artworks created during and after the project in three separate exhibitions. Their MRes and MA were both conducted at the University of Aberdeen and dealt with the political discourse in Cuba (2018) and the UK asylum appeal hearings (2019).
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