About this Project
Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe is an international Research Network which brings together researchers who, in consultation with filmmakers, representatives from the film and media industry and the cultural sector, explore the evolution of migrant and diasporic cinemas in contemporary Europe over the past twenty-five years
The AHRC Research Network
Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe is a Research Network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme. The work of the Network, information about relevant films and resources and forthcoming events and publications are documented on this website.
Latest News:
‘Welcoming Strangers’ Conference at Royal Holloway
Daniela Berghahn, who was awarded a HARC Fellowship entitled 'Welcoming Strangers' by Royal Holloway, University of London, during the academic year 2011-12, is organising an international, interdisciplinary postgraduate conference together with a team of five postgraduate students at her university. The conference is held on Friday, 27 April 2012, at Royal Holloway campus in Egham. Professor Robin Cohen,Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford and currently Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme will give the keynote address, entitled 'Before the Welcoming: The Origins of Difference, the Beginnings of Convergence'. The second Keynote speaker is Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donad, currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Centre for World Cinema at the University of Leeds and normally based at RMIT University, Melbourne. She will explore 'The Dorothy Complex: Children and Migration in World Cinema'.