Amplifying Global Majority voices through Arts and Humanities research

About the event

Join us for a free online event hosted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), in partnership with AHRC’s Wales and South West Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Cluster.

Discover how Arts and Humanities researchers in Wales and South West England are collaborating with local partners in Global Majority communities on innovative methods to help amplify Indigenous, minority and historically excluded voices through AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funded projects:

• Co-creating tools with displaced Yazidi communities in Iraq to reclaim agency, weaving generational oral storytelling into dynamic, community-led cartographies.
• Developing a creative new platform for writers and artists from northern Nigeria to publish works, challenging the tradition of competing for publishing opportunities and validation in Global North-based magazines and platforms.
• Arts-based collaboration with Tehuelche and Mapuche Indigenous communities as they challenge traditional historical narratives on Welsh settlement in Patagonia.
• Improving archival access to British South Asian theatre history and practice.

Hear about the successes and challenges of creating groundbreaking creative routes to challenge dominant geopolitical narratives, supporting cultural preservation as well as political visibility.

Chair: 

• Dr Yan Wu, Associate Professor in Media and Communications Studies, Swansea University.

Speakers:

• Sana Murrani, Associate Professor in Spatial Practice, University of Plymouth - Borderless Cartographies: Mapping Survival Displacement and Resistance with the Yazidi Community in Iraq.
• Geraldine Lublin, Associate Professor in Modern Languages; Co-Director of Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas, Swansea University - Problematising History: Indigenous perspectives on Welsh settlement in Patagonia.
• Kate Skinner, Professor of African History, University of Bristol - Reel Change: using Historical Film to Inform Gender Activism in Ghana.
• Jerri Daboo, Professor of Performance, University of Exeter - Unveiling archives: new approaches to the public accessibility of British South Asian theatre history and practice, and the production of a toolkit on archives.

This is the third in a series of events on topics where we are celebrating some of the fantastic work supported through the AHRC IAAs. We hope to inspire and facilitate cross-institution and interdisciplinary discussions across the seven universities in the cluster. This event is free and open to all who are interested in impact at all stages.