NOT FAR BUT BEYOND -new chronicles crossing borders-

The concept of new-exile is a contemporary dimension of a multifaceted phenomenon: First, it has an economic-political basis stemming from persecution or conflict. It is directly linked to new modes of exchange and uneven development, being a kind of human resource transference, whose formation and reproductive costs are not paid by the destination countries. Second, the direct causes of forced migration can be identified as serious human rights violations or armed conflict, but these causes can often overlap with or be provoked by economic-political marginalization, poverty, environmental degradation, population pressure and poor governance. Third, it has been experiencing the establishment of a different form of transnational mobilization that transcends the demands of neoliberal capitalism for a transnational labour regime and extends beyond the borders of nation states. The essential characteristic of transnational space is crossing geographic, cultural and political borders, and the multiplicity of involvements; transmigrants develop new spheres of experience and new fields of social relations. These new transnational experiences challenge traditional notions related to migration. This pluri-local mobility can create multiple possibilities for new forms of agencies which to analyze new-exile would be the stratification of the mobilization.

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Program

Program

October 25, 2024 09:00 - 09:55 Alfalfa (GEW-Berlin / 5th Floor)

Welcome Drinks & Get Together

October 25, 2024 10:00 - 10:15 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

DAY I / Welcome & Introduction to the Gathering

New-exile Working Group (newG)

Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ
Hakan Altun
Latife Akyüz
Melehat Kutun
October 25, 2024 10:15 - 10:45 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Keynote

Gökçe Yurdakul – Keynote Speaker – Not Being Able to Go to a City: „New” and „Old” about Being in Exile

Gökçe Yurdakul
October 25, 2024 10:50 - 11:05 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Art-theme Keynote

Mustafa Altıoklar (Art-theme Keynote) – On Exile and Art

Mustafa Altıoklar
October 25, 2024 11:05 - 11:20 Die Terrasse am Rande von GEW

Coffee Break

October 25, 2024 11:20 - 12:45 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Reseding Academia: Cultivating Roots of Renewal

* Pınar Şenoğuz – Moderator * Bediz Yılmaz (Aca-theme Keynote) –Rhizome in the Making: Academics for Peace at Home and in Exile [ONLINE]  * Betül Yarar – Is there such a thing as ‘New Academic Humanitarianism’? Changing and Emerging Discursive and Organisational Strategies in Managing ‘Risk’ or ‘Scholars at Risk  [ONLINE] * Ergün Özgür – Critical […]

Bediz Yılmaz
Betül Yarar
Ergün Özgür
H. Pınar Şenoğuz
Latife Akyüz
Nevra Akdemir
October 25, 2024 12:45 - 13:55 Alfalfa (GEW-Berlin / 5th Floor)

Lunch Break

October 25, 2024 14:00 - 16:15 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Exilic Art: Convergence at the Crossroads

* Nagehan Tokdoğan – Moderator * Özlem Savaş – Living with and Acting on Trouble: Aesthetic and Affective Imaginaries of Post-Gezi Displacement * Gizem Aksu – A Post-human Reflection: Diving Deeper into the Immigrant Identity in Germany with a Reference to the Ocean * Işıl Eğrikavuk – But You Don’t Look Turkish: Creative Responses to […]

Gizem Aksu
Hakan Altun
Işıl Eğrikavuk
Nagehan Tokdoğan
Nurcin Ileri
Özgür Çiçek
Özlem Savaş
October 25, 2024 16:15 - 17:00 Die Terrasse am Rande von GEW

Coffee Break

October 25, 2024 17:00 - 18:00 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

New-exile Round Table & Discussion

October 25, 2024 19:00 - 19:30 newG Square (The Square)

Gastro Academia

* Zafer Yılmaz –  Moderator * Nevra Akdemir – Cooking Solidarity: The Warm Face of the Struggle of Academics for Peace in Germany (BAK-Almanya) via Community Kitchens in Berlin

Nevra Akdemir
Zafer Yılmaz
October 25, 2024 20:00 - 20:45 newG Square (The Square)

Multi Lingual Songs of Exile & Hope

Experiences of exile, displacement, forced migration, and genocide not only destroy those who endure them, but they also erode our shared humanity. It grinds people to dust…. All that remains are their stories, inscribed in songs. Yet, if we continue to face the same catastrophes, it is clear that humanity has not yet learned what […]

Zeynep Sibel Başaran
October 26, 2024 10:00 - 10:30 Alfalfa (GEW-Berlin / 5th Floor)

DAY II / Morning catch-up

October 26, 2024 10:30 - 10:40 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Welcome Back to the Ongoing Conversation

October 26, 2024 10:40 - 11:40 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Media-theme Keynotes

* Can Dündar – Are We Really Free in Exile?  * Şehbal Şenyurt Arınlı – Exile, Beyond the Generations… 

Can Dündar
Şehbal Şenyurt Arınlı
October 26, 2024 11:40 - 11:55 Die Terrasse am Rande von GEW

Coffee Break

October 26, 2024 11:55 - 13:20 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

New-exile Journalism: Uprooted Media in Flux

* Christine Hanke – Moderator * Gülcin Balamir Coşkun – Journalism in Exile: The Professional Networks and Challenges of Reporters from Turkey [ONLINE] * Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan – NGOization of Journalısm: Practices of Project- Based News-Making On Turkey from German Exile * Aslı Telli – Who Wears the BEST Hat of Super-diversity? Exiled Minds or S/Heroes […]

Asli Telli
Christine Hanke
Eylem Çamuroğlu Çığ
Gülçin Balamir Coşkun
Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan
October 26, 2024 13:20 - 14:35 Alfalfa (GEW-Berlin / 5th Floor)

Lunch Break

October 26, 2024 14:40 - 16:20 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

Politics and Activism in Exile: Navigating Resistance at the Crossroads

* Delal Aydın– Moderator * Hişyar Özsoy (Politico-theme Keynote) – On Precarity, Survival and Agency in Exile * Mustafa Şener – The Latest Wave of Political Migration from Turkey to Germany (2015-2022) * Sevil Çakır – The Kurdish Women’s Social and Political Engagements in Berlin and the Kurdish Diaspora * Latife Akyüz & Bilge Cömert […]

Delal Aydın
Hişyar Özsoy
Mustafa Şener
Sevil Çakır
Latife Akyüz
Bilge Cömert
Melehat Kutun
October 26, 2024 16:20 - 16:35 Die Terrasse am Rande von GEW

Coffee Break

October 26, 2024 16:35 - 17:10 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

... and Beyond

* newG – Moderation * Çağla Diner & Gülay Türkmen –Becoming a Minority in Germany: How Skilled Migrants from Turkey Navigate Status and Identity

Çağla Diner
Gülay Türkmen
October 26, 2024 17:10 - 18:00 Dandelion (GEW / Room 501-2)

New-Exile Round Table - Discussion & Conclusion

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