Event overview
'Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023'.
The Graduate School is delighted to be welcoming Dr Sana Murrani, Associate Professor in Spatial Practice at the University of Plymouth, to deliver the autumn term keynote lecture. This will be followed by a postgraduate researcher social in the Whitehead Building Foyer.
In this lecture, Sana Murrani critically and visually explores the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023 and presents a fresh perspective on how ordinary Iraqis create refuge across the spaces of the home, the urban environment, and border geographies. She advances a manifesto for spatial justice that calls for a deep, integrated understanding of place, memory, and trauma, and comprehensive strategies in the making of refuge spaces that also resonate in a wider, global context.
The Graduate School Autumn Term Keynote is co-sponsored by the Migrant Futures Institute. Established with the support of a grant from Oak Foundation, the Migrant Futures Institute will work together with migrants and refugees, and with partners in the UK and internationally, to co-produce new knowledge and opportunities, challenge ways of thinking that create division and hostility, and help generate more hopeful futures for people who move, and the people among whom they live, work and settle.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Dec 2024 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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