Vanessa Agnew – Academy in Exile

10. October 202416. January 2025

Vanessa Agnew (ed.): What We Brought with Us: Things of Exile and Migration, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024

What We Brought with Us: Things of Exile and Migration In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and autobiographical vignettes, this richly illustrated volume … more info

18. January 202426. January 2024

Symposium: Humanities in Exile

Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, October 17, 2023

In partnership with the University Alliance Ruhr, TU Dortmund University, Academy in Exile, UC International and the College of DAAP School of Art, the Taft Research Center hosted this symposium on the multifaceted role of the … more info

14. October 202116. January 2025

Marius Brereton: „Wir schaffen das – We’ll Make It“, Lübeck: Sefa Verlag, 2021

Vanessa Agnew, Academy in Exile Council Member and Director of the Critical Thinking Program at Freie Universität Berlin, has released the children’s book “Wir schaffen das – We’ll make it” under the pen name Marius Brereton. This is the story of a child fleeing with his … more info

10. June 202114. June 2021

Vanessa Agnew’s article has been nominated for the American Musicological Society’s H. Colin Slim Award

Vanessa Agnew’s article, ‘Songs of Flight: War and Genocide Reenactment on the Refugee Route’, Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, ed. A. Fauser and M. Figueroa (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020), has been nominated for the American Musicological Society’s H. … more info

14. September 202021. January 2025

Refugee Routes (lead: Prof. Dr. Vanessa Agnew; language: English)

This course was developed by Director of the AiE Critical Thinking Program at FU Berlin, Professor Dr. Vanessa Agnew, in collaboration with four AiE fellows – Dr. Zeynep Türkyılmaz, Dr. Sayed Mahdi Mosawi, Dr. Olga Selin Hünler, and an anonymous contributor.

This MA/advanced undergraduate course … more info

2. September 202016. January 2025

Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, Jane O. Newman (eds.), Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing

Available here.Available with open access here. Abstract The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and … more info

2. January 202028. January 2025

Academy in Exile’s Second Annual Conference “Dire Times: Critical Thinking Then and Now”

lnternational ConferenceJanuary 16-17, 2020 Freie Universität Berlin

Dire Times: Critical Thinking, Then and Now, co-convened by Vanessa Agnew (UDE/ANU), Kader Konuk (UDE) and Susanne Zepp-Zwirner (FU Berlin). The gathering of invited speakers met at the Freie Universität in Berlin on January 16–17, 2020. Among our speakers were people … more info