ART SCIENCE dialogue Susanne Khalil Yusef
On March 18th from 4 to 6 PM, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery and VU dialogue stage 3D are inviting you for the final ART SCIENCE dialogue of the exhibition Foreign Land. In the exhibition and a series of ART SCIENCE dialogues we hope to develop a better understanding of migration and its different motivators, history, religion, economic changes, war, and colonialism.
This fourth ART SCIENCE dialogue will focus on the presentation by artist Susanne Khalil Yusef in the exhibition Foreign Land. Together with researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) – Bahija Aarrass, Pepijn Brandon, Yolande Jansen – and other participants, she will enter into dialogue about forced migration in times of conflict, and the history and actual situation of Palestinian people.
Susanne Khalil Yusef is a multi-disciplinary artist working in various media, such as murals, canvas paintings, textile, ceramic, video, light objects performances, bronze sculptures, cars, public participation and self-created archives. Her colourful immersive works are closely related to her own biography and experiences of her Palestinian background and living in diaspora.
Pepijn Brandon is professor of Global Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam. He also is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. His work focuses on the history of capitalism, war and economic development, and slavery.
Yolande Jansen is endowed professor of Humanism in Relation to Religion and Secularity for the Socrates Foundation at VU Amsterdam and associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She has published multiple works on anti-Palestinian racism, antisemitism, religion populism and decolonisation, like this essay in The Dutch Review of Books (in Dutch) and its English translation in Eurozine.
Bahija Aarrass is an assistant professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at VU Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on human rights and migration law, in particular the various ways in which migration law systems have implications for national and international human rights norms and how this is impacted by present day developments, such as digitalisation and populism.
Programme
16.00 VU ART SCIENCE gallery (NU Building)
viewing of Susanne Khalil Yusef’s work with the artist
16:30 3D (W&N Building)
ART SCIENCE dialogue with speakers and audience
17:30
Closing and after talk
Admission is free