About the event
On Wednesday 16 March 2022, Fyvie Hall played host to a team of erudite speakers associated with HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces) who shared their cutting-edge research and art practice with the audience and engaged in a conversation on how migration communities make place and construct multicultural identities in global London.
This well-attended event, which is part of the World in Westminster Festival, was chaired by Dr Cangbai Wang to showcase the innovative research carried out by HOMELandS that focused distinctly on the intersection between mobilities, languages and spaces in a global context. Professor Terry Lamb gave the opening remark and sighted, amongst others, the importance of migration research as a useful lens to celebrate cultural and ethnic diversity in the university.
Celia Jenkins and Umit Cetin made the first presentation, “Alevi Kurds in the UK: paving the way towards recognition of a new ethnoreligious identity”. While Petros Karatsareas drew our attention to the Greek-speaking migrants in London with a special focus on the relations between food, language and identity.
The third talk, titled “Art and migration”, was given by artist Dima Karout, who is Curator and Creative Director with over 15 years experience in curating exhibitions, managing art projects and designing adults’ learning programmes. She shared with the audience two of her recent art projects.
The fourth presentation delivered by Xiao Ma, a doctoral researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Westminster, presented preliminary findings of a study of London Chinatown food heritage trail as part of her doctoral project. She critically explored the issue of place, authenticity and ownership of heritage and the contested notion of migrant community through the lens of food heritage.
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