De-Placement: Constructing and Mapping Place in Collaboration with Artists

Extension of the formal report using images to present a more visual exploration of project findings.Arts and Humanities Research Counci

Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

This material has been published in Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture, edited by: Martin Pitts, University of Exeter, Miguel John Versluys, Universiteit Leiden. Published: December 2014. ISBN: 9781107043749© Cambridge University PressThe book is available via: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781107338920Book chapte

Mid-Term 1st Report

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Some Text for that which is Beyond Text: Ask not of art What does it Mean? but Where does it take me?

Text accompanying the De-placing Future Memory exhibition.Arts and Humanities Research Counci

Final Report

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Representation of Whom? Ancient Moments of Seeking Refuge and Protection

Within the ancient corpus we find depictions of people seeking refuge and protection: in works of fiction, drama and poetry; on wall paintings and vases, they cluster at protective altars and cling to statues of gods who seemingly look on. Yet the ancient evidence does not lend itself easily to exploring attitudes to refugees or asylum seekers. Hence, the question that begins this investigation is, representation of whom? Through a focus on the Greco-Roman material of the Mediterranean region, drawing on select representations, such as the tragedies Medea and Suppliant Women, the historical failed plea of the Plataeans and pictorial imagery of supplication, the goal of the exploration below is not to shape into existence an ancient refugee or asylum seeker experience. Rather, it is to highlight the multiplicity of experiences within narratives of victimhood and the confines of such labels as refugee and asylum seeker. The absence of ancient representations of a generic figure or group of the ‘displaced’, broadly defined, precludes any exceptionalising or homogenising of people in such contexts. Remaining depictions are of named, recognisable protagonists, whose stories are known. There is no ‘mass’ of refuge seekers, to whom a single set of rules could apply across time and space. Given these diverse stories of negotiation for refuge, another aim is to illustrate the ways such experience does not come to define the entirety of who a person is or encompass the complete life and its many layers. This paper addresses the challenges of representation that are exposed by, among others, thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Liisa Malkki and Gerawork Gizaw

Ideas and Themes for Workshop 2

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Workshop 1 Presentation Abstracts

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Workshop 2 Programme

Programme of the De-placing Future Memory workshop held 24-25 September, 2009 at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, the University of Exeter.Arts and Humanities Research Counci

De-Placing Future Memory project data

Arts and Humanities Research Council1) Artwork images.zip contains JPEG and TIFF images of artwork produced during the projec