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Art, Data & Story: The Role of ADT-Assisted and Arts-Based Approaches in Shaping Migration Narratives

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
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Seminar exploring how digital tools & arts-based methodologies influence narratives about migration.

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1pm to 5pm

Interdisciplinary researchers from COMPAS and Bridging Divides will explore how digital tools and arts-based methodologies influence the production, interpretation, and circulation of narratives about migration in three seminars throughout the afternoon.

Full programme available: https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk[…]aping-migration-narratives.

This event is hybrid. Attendance is free, and all are welcome. Light refreshments provided.

Panel 1: Superdiversity & Data Visualisation
Featuring:
- Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS, UK
- Steven Vertovec, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science, Germany
- Daniel Hiebert, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada
- Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, US
- Van Tran, Professor of Sociology, International Migration Studies, Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, US

Panel 2: Welcoming Cities, Welcoming Infrastructure
Featuring:
- Professor Zhixi Zhuang, Associate Director, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
- Melissa Weihmayer, Researcher, Global Exchange on Migration, COMPAS, UK
- Melissa Kelly, Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK
- Cathy Yang Liu, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University, US

Panel 3: Arts-Based Participatory Methodologies
Featuring:
- Yvonne Su, Associate Professor, York University, Canada
- Cyrus Sundar Singh, Filmmaker, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
- Annie Wan, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Rob McNeil, Deputy Director, Migration Observatory, COMPAS, UK
- Stuart Fowkes, Founder of Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK

Speaker(s): Michael Keith (COMPAS), Melissa Weihmayer (COMPAS), Zhixi Zhuang (Toronto Metropolitan University), Robert McNeil (COMPAS)

Venue: Kellogg College - Mawby Room - Mawby Room Kellogg College 62 Banbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6PN United Kingdom

Department: School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography (Department)

Organiser: Dr Zhixi Zhuang

Host: Centre on Migration, Policy & Society (COMPAS)

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