International Center University of Florida

About the talk: Nilgun Bayraktar examines how film and art conceptualize and portray refugee imaginaries and engage with refugee experiences amidst bordering practices and temporalities of crisis. Focusing on the European "refugee crisis," it will explore how cinematic and artistic practices can challenge the crisis framework by envisioning alternative decolonial futures.

Nilgun Bayraktar (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor and Chair of the History of Art and Visual Culture Program at California College of the Arts. Bayraktar is a film and visual culture scholar specializing in the intersections between cinema, art, and cross-border mobility.

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