Stories in Transit I

Stories in Transit I - Telling the Tale in Times of Conflict
Palermo
26-28 September, 2016
The programme can be downloaded here, and to view photographs from the workshop, please click here.
A report of the workshop process can be found here, with more links to the organisations and speakers involved.
Participants
Students of Centro Provinciale per l’Istruzione degli Adulti (CPIA)
Yodit Abraha
Maria Amidu - visual artist; interested in the social relationships between people mediated by things, usually objects and places; a graduate of the Royal College of Art in glass and ceramics, and exhibited nationally and internationally as maker before pursuing a social practice. See more here.
Félix Assouly - from NGO Bibliothéques sans Frontiéres, which empowers people through access to information, education and culture
Maria D’Agostino - Director, Scuola italiano per stranieri University of Palermo
Daniel Baker -
Tamim al-Barghouti - poet
Clelia Bartoli - teacher, writer, and coordinator of the educational experiment Polipolis at the "CPIA - Palermo 1," dedicated to unaccompanied foreign minors; lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Palermo, she has served as an expert at the Italian Ministry of Integration
Ignazio E. Buttitta - Presidente, Foundazione Ignazio Buttitta
Marie-Elsa Bragg - priest, lecturer and novelist
Martino Lo Cascio - Associazione Nottedoro
Giuppa Cassara - physician, Clinica Legale Palermo
Valentina Castagna - lecturer, translator, writer, former Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck College (University of London), worked for several years as an independent interpreter and translator for the Law Courts of Palermo
Daniela Corona - literary scholar, University of Palermo
Selma Dabbagh - - novelist and human rights and international criminal lawyer, author of the novel Out of It (2011)
Chloe Davies
Ester Gendusa - literary scholar, University of Palermo
Sarah Glazer
Chelsea Gokcay - the Metabolic Studio
Sindi F. Gordon - film-maker and writer, University of Sussex
Ben Haggarty - storyteller; listen u>here to Haggarty speak at the workshop
Mark Haworth-Booth - poet
Kate Higginbottom - director, performer and writer with a background in theatre, physical theatre, film, music and dance. Her principle work as director has been with Nicole & Martin, creating staged versions of Grimm’s tales. Listen u>here to her talk from the workshop
Luke Jones
Yousif Latif Jaralla - storyteller
Joanna MacGregor - pianist, composer; Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music
Fabrizio Micari - Rettore, University of Palermo
Laura di Michele - literary scholar, University of L'Aquila
Badia Obaid - Arabic-speaking Zipang Mesopotamian Storyteller with a repertoire of stories from ancient Iraq; born in Baghdad, has a long career in the Arabic world and in the UK as an actress, voice-over artist, writer, reporter, presenter, and producer with work in theatre, film, television, and radio
Alice Oswald - poet
Peter Oswald
Rosario Perricone - Direttore, u>Museo Internazionale delle Marionette A. Pasqualino
Elio Di Piazza - literary scholar, University of Palermo
Matthew Reynolds - Professor of English and Comparative Criticism and Tutorial Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Sarah Riggs - u>poet and translator
Alessandra Rizzo - English language and translation scholar, University of Palermo
Ester Russo - psychologist, psycotherapist, group analyst and an expert in ethno-psychiatry; worked with a u>Médecins sans Frontières project in the province of Trapani for the psychosocial support to the guests of CAS (non-ordinary shelter centres), and in the ports of Southern Italy to support the families and the victims of accidents at sea
Giovanni Saverio Santangelo - literary scholar, University of Palermo
Chris Smith - Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews; former Director, u>British School at Rome
Khaled Soliman al-Nassiryi - poet and film director, u>On the bride's side (2014)
Daria Settineri - anthropologist, University of Milano-Bicocca
Lyndsey Stonebridge - historian and literary scholar, University of East Anglia; listen to her talk from the workshop u>here
Wafa' Tarnowska - published children's writer, storyteller and translator
Anna Tedesco - musicologist, University of Palermo
Philip Terry - poet, professor at the University of Essex, where he teaches Creative Writing; writer and editor of The Penguin Book of Oulipo (2019)
Camilla Toulmin - from International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo - lawyer, lecturer on right of asylum and constitutional status of foreigners, and member of the doctoral committee on “Human Rights: Evolution, Protection and Limits” at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Palermo; Director of ADIF
Marina Warner - writer and cultural historian, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, Fellow of the British Academy and President-Elect of the Royal Society of Literature
Steve Willey - poet and lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, co-founder of Watadd, a research and creative writing network that explores the intersection of Western and Arabic poetic traditions to create new communities through poetry
Stevie Wishart - musician and composer, B.A. Hons Music (University of York), MLitt (Unviersity of Oxford), fruitful and passionate career in experimental as well as traditional music, focusing on the ability of music to bring people together; listen u>here to her presentation from the workshop series
Dagmawi Yimer - film director, read more here
Andrea Zarza Canova archivist with a BA in Philosophy, postgraduate studies in Records and Archives Management at the University College London, studied sound and music technology at the London College of Communication, she has taught workshops about sound and listening to children, and is a curator of World and Traditional Music and an audio preservation engineer
Supported by the Metabolic Studio, with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.
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