SIG Leader: Joanna Kosmalska, University of Łódź, Poland
The Migration SIG brings together international scholars, writers, artists, cultural practitioners and translators to explore how contemporary migration works of art reshape our understanding of migration. By tracing migration narratives across literature, theatre, film, visual arts and other creative forms, the group explores how artistic practices generate new perspectives on mobility, culture, society, multiculturalism, multilingualism and transnationalism.
We use the term “migration arts” in a broad sense: it encompasses literature, theatre, film, performance, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, digital art, music, dance, VR and AR art and other hybrid and interdisciplinary forms of creative practice. While our primary focus is on works produced since the 1990s—when, as Manfred B. Steger notes, journalists and scholars began to use the term “globalisation” to talk about the changes they were observing in various fields such as business, economics, social sciences and humanities—we also remain attentive to earlier traditions and other disciplines that inform today’s understandings of migration.
