Panel program at 'On the Move' Lisbon

As part of VII CHAM International Conference On the Move – Diasporas, Mobilities and Transcultural Practices in a Changing World, (Lisbon, 15-17 April 2026) we are convening a panel on Migrant Artistic Communities: Transnational Trajectories and Practices of Inclusion (P03).

Chair: Szabolcs Musca (University of Bristol & University of Lisbon)

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Session 1: 2PM

Affectivity in Migration: empathic performance practices vs. mass spectacles of deportation

Graça Corrêa (Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)

Migrant Artistic Communities: Accessing Otherness in Inua Ellams’s Web Poem and Caleb Femi’s Photo-text Poetry

Maria Festa (University of Torino)

Session 2: 3.25PM

Translingual Art as Inclusion: Autoethnographic Interventions between Berlin, Lisbon, South Poland, and Macau

Kin Man Cheong (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidade Federal de São Paulo)

Queering Utopia. Queer Performative Practices in the Artistic Diaspora of Berlin

Charlotte Bank (LMU Munich)

Isolated and Connected: NowHere as an Artistic Home in Portugal

Cristiana Tejo (Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) & Mariana von Hartenthal

Facilitated by Migrant Dramaturgies Network, this panel will draw on a wide array of artistic-cultural productions emerging from migrant artistic communities, discussing the aesthetic and political strategies developed and mobilised in their cultural frameworks after the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’. Contributors to this panel are encouraged to engage with emerging migrant artistic positions on pan-European cultural ecologies and social shifts, reflecting on the unique vantage point these artistic communities offer over existing cultural canons and practices of exclusion and inclusion.

Further details at: https://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-periodicas.php?p=5529