Inscribing Belonging

Seminar 

What does it mean to belong, and who gets to decide? In this seminar, Erin Cory will explore migration not only as movement across borders, but as an embodied, storied, and deeply creative process. Drawing from her research at the intersections of migration, media, and identity, Cory will discuss how unconventional methods—such as tattooing and podcasting—can open up new ways of understanding migrant experience. Tattoos emerge as intimate archives of memory, resistance, and self-making, while podcasting becomes a space for co-creating knowledge, amplifying migrant voices, and troubling the researcher–researched binary. Through these practices, Erin Cory considers how migration is narrated, visualized, and felt—both individually and collectively—and how creative methods can help us listen differently to stories of movement, loss, and home.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, and questions from participants. This seminar is held on Zoom and open to the public.

Erin Cory

Erin Cory is a media scholar at Malmö University, committed to arts-oriented activist media praxis. Cory has taught and researched in the US/Mexico border region, Denmark, Sweden, Lebanon, and Uganda. Cory’s work often spans art, community and research, and Cory has recently partnered with The Cultural Avenue Uganda to carry out a digital storytelling project for refugee and host communities. Erin Cory is the co-director of the MA programme in Media & Communication Studies and co-director of Medea Lab, both at Malmö University.

Link

https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/67531209692?pwd=oX6QQf06pJI5NNZ5bMH0TLPXo3j9WH.1

About the series

The seminar series Circulation and Locality in Critical Border Studies is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES. 

Technical info 

If you want to ask questions or make comments, please use a headset with a microphone. In addition to the link above, you can participate by calling in, please write to Mia Krokstäde at mia [dot] krokstade [at] cors [dot] lu [dot] se (mia[dot]krokstade[at]cors[dot]lu[dot]se) for information on this.