Culture and Migration. How can cultural institutions in Europe contribute to an intercultural society?
Europe is facing nowadays very important issues on migration, identity and mobility. The political response on immigration has till now been confined to a security problem. Nevertheless, Europe must also step up to the challenge of deepening its knowledge and awareness of its own cultural diversity and try to shape a possible European identity steeped in diversities. Through few European examples this seminar will try to answer the following questions via an interdisciplinary approach: How can intercultural dialogue, culture and arts, lead to a better understanding of cultural diversity and migration? More specifically: how museum and cultural programming can help us to think differently the question of migration, mobility and identity?
14 October 2015 (9am -3:30pm): Open conference organised by EUNIC Norway in Litteraturhuset (Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo, Norway) Participants: Saphinaz Amal Naguib (Norway), Sabrina Morena (Italy), Catherine Withol de Wenden (France), Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (Spain), Arnd Kolb (Germany), Katherine Watson (The Netherlands)
PROGRAM
09:00 Welcome by Ulrich Ribbert, EUNIC Norway
09:10 Introduction by Saphinaz-Amal Naguib, Norway
09:30 Sabrina Morena, Italy:
Intercultural Dialogue: Getting to know each other and
doing thingstogether. Two Italian experiences
10:00 Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, France:
The Governance of Interculturalism in France
KyrreTexnæs: “Visual Summary”
10:30 Questions & Answers
10:45 Break
11:00 Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Spain
After Belonging: Contemporary states of residence for
a life in transit
11:30 Arnd Kolb, Germany:
Overcoming Obstacles: New concepts for a Central
Museum of Migration in Germany
KyrreTexnæs: Visual Summary
12:00 Questions & Answers
12:15 Lunch
13:00 Saphinaz-Amal Naguib:
Sharing cultures: Museums and heritage of migrations
in Scandinavia
13:15 Katherine Watson, Netherlands
13:45 General debate with all participants
14:45
Questions & Answers
