Events and Media

This area gathers information about workshops, conference participation, engagement activities, and press releases and other news stories about the project.

Organized Workshops

  • Jennifer Cromwell, Caitlin Nunn, and Sarah Linn. Moving Histories: Migrating Objects, Communities, and Narratives in the Contemporary Museum. Online, 15 December 2021.

Conference Participation

  • Sarah Linn. “The museum as a space of social care for refugee young people.” Keynote speaker, Second International Conference on Culture and Mental Health, Dr Guislain Museum, Ghent (Belgium), 27–29 November 2024.
  • Caitlin Nunn, Dana Almousselli, Ferdos Beit Lafteh, Mariam Zorba, and Senna Yousef. “Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: Ancient objects and migrant-background young people at Manchester Museum.” Undisciplining II, The Lowry, Salford, 10–12 September 2024.
  • Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Caitlin Nunn, and Jennifer Cromwell. “Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory counter cartography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities.” Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2023, London, 27–30 August 2023. 
  • Caitlin Nunn, Sarah Linn, Senna Yousef, Goldis Gorji, and Jennifer Cromwell. “Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: Re-presenting (neo)colonial inheritances with migrant-background young people in the contemporary museum.” British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2023, Manchester, 12–14 April 2023.
  • Caitlin Nunn, Sarah Linn, Jennifer Cromwell, and Deniz Daryaei Sarabi. “Ancient history, contemporary belonging: re-presenting (neo)colonial inheritances with refugee-background young people in the contemporary museum.” 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Oslo, 29 June – 1 July 2022.

Invited Seminars and Workshops

  • Caitlin Nunn, Dana Almousselli, Ferdos Beit Lafteh, Mariam Zorba, and Senna Yousef. Contribution to the panel “Enabling ‘the system’ to better support ethical participatory research,” Supporting Ethical Participatory Research, University of Manchester (organised by the Young Foundation, UKRI, and the UK Participatory Research Network), 1 November 2024. 
  • Sarah Linn and Jina Lee facilitated a participatory creative cartography workshop at the Innovative Methods in Migration Research event based on the creation of Unprovenanced Map, which is part of the project’s exhibition. Manchester Metropolitan University, 25 June 2024.
  • Caitlin Nunn, Ferdos Beit Latfeh, Dana Almousselli. “Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: Re- Presenting (Neo)Colonial Inheritances with Migrant-Background Young People in the Contemporary Museum.” University of Wolverhampton Community Research and Development Seminar (online), 15 May 2024.
  • Caitlin Nunn and Senna Yousef. “Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: Exploring Migration Across Time.” ‘Who Do We Think We Are’ workshop for Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project, Lancaster, 27 October 2023.
  • Jennifer Cromwell, Caitlin Nunn, and Sarah Linn. “Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: A Creative Exploration of the Migration of Ancient Historical Objects with Migrant-Background Young People.” University of Lincoln School of Heritage and Humanities Research Seminar, Online, 18 January 2023.

Podcasts

Press Releases

  • Manchester Metropolitan University News Report, 24 March 2023: “New exhibition re-examines historical artefacts”.
  • Manchester Metropolitan University Press Release, 24 May 2021: “Young people from refugee backgrounds to create new biographies of museum’s ancient historical objects”.
  • UKRI Citizen Science award announcements, 24 May 2021: “Citizen science awards to put public at heart of key research”.