Narrating the Border: Migrant Agency and Storytelling across the Mediterranean
MED-BO
- URL: http://www.Med-Bo.com
- Event Date: 2026-02-11 ~ 2026-02-12
- Abstract Submission Date: 2025-10-15
- Submission Date: 2025-10-15
- Organizer: UN- Qadi Iyad University
- Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Background
Migration across the Mediterranean continues to be shaped by restrictive policies, border externalisation, and humanitarian crises. Yet within and against these forces, migrants speak—through stories, songs, films, posts, performances. Their narratives challenge silence, reframe victimhood, and assert agency.
This conference centers migrant storytelling as a powerful form of resistance and self-definition. We seek to explore how migrants actively construct meaning and visibility across hostile geographies—through oral history, literature, visual culture, digital media, and beyond.
Conference Objectives
We aim to critically engage with how migrant narratives shape identity, expose injustice, and imagine alternative futures. We welcome diverse formats—from academic papers to creative presentations—that highlight migrant agency, self-representation, and narrative innovation in transit, exile, or diaspora.
Note: All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration or previously presented at any other conference or event.
Key Questions
- How do migrants reclaim their voice through narrative practices?
- What is the role of form (oral, digital, artistic) in shaping migrant storytelling?
- How are stories created, silenced, or circulated through institutions and technologies?
- What ethical responsibilities arise when collecting or analyzing migrant narratives?
- Key Themes
- Migrant self-representation in literature, visual art, and cinema
- Testimony and oral history from zones of transit or detention
- Digital storytelling and social media as narrative platforms
- Silences, omissions, and ethics in migrant representation
- Narratives of race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, and class in migration
- Institutional mediation (NGOs, journalism, academia, curatorial work)
- Storytelling as future-making and refusal
Key Information
Conference Title
Narrating the Border: Migrant Agency and Storytelling across the Mediterranean
Dates
🗓️ February 11–12, 2026
Location
📍 Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco,
Format
In-person
Language
English
Funding
Fully funded (includes travel, accommodation, meals)
Eligibility
Contributions must be original, unpublished, and not previously submitted or presented elsewhere
Target Participants
Scholars, artists, activists, filmmakers, students
Deadline for Abstracts
📬 October 15, 2025
Notification of Acceptance
📢 November 15, 2025
Submission Type
Individual papers, panels, workshops, creative formats
Abstract Length
250–300 words + short bio
Contact Email
📨 [Insert contact email here]
🗓️ Calendar Snapshot
October 15, 2025
📬 Abstract Submission Deadline
November 15, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance
January 2026
📄 Final program circulated
February 11–12, 2026
🗓️ Conference takes place
✅ Funding Details
This conference is fully funded. Accepted participants will receive:
- Round-trip travel (economy class)
- Hotel accommodation (3 nights)
- On-site meals (coffee breaks, lunches, dinners)
- Visa support and local transport if needed
❗No registration fees will be required.
✉️ Submission Guidelines
Please send your abstract (250–300 words) and a short bio (max 100 words) to:
📧 [Insert Email]
📅 Deadline: October 15, 2025
📝 Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not previously presented at any other conference. Proposals under review elsewhere will not be considered.
For collective panels or artistic submissions, please indicate any technical requirements or special formats in your proposal.
For questions and queries please contact the confrence coordinator. zakaelamouri35@gmail.com
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