Images of Maritime Migration: Impressions from the Andaman Sea and the Mediterranean Sea Images of Maritime Migration: Impressions from the Andaman Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
Film screening, documentary travelogue and panel discussion
Tuesday, 13.10.2026
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Place: IMPULSE - House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity (Adenauerallee 131 | 53113 Bonn)
Admission is free.
You can register by writing Dr. Maria Ullrich (maria.ullrich@uni-bonn.de) until October 5, 2026.
The event will be held in German.
The Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) Individuals and Societies, in collaboration with the Bonn Platform for Forced Migration Studies and IMPULSE – House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity, invites you to a dynamic exchange between the arts and academia.
How can images and narratives convey impressions of maritime (refugee) migration?
What challenges, ambivalences, and limitations arise when making experiences of migration visible?
And what new perspectives does the dialogue between art and academia open up?
Together, we would like to discuss how experiences of maritime (refugee) migration are (or can be) made visible and what possibilities transdisciplinary collaboration opens up. The focus is on the intersections of cinematic, photographic, and scholarly approaches that highlight different forms of storytelling and research.
The event includes a screening of "When the Water Horse Seeks a New Home", which deals with the flight of the Rohingya, as well as a documentary report from a research trip to Lampedusa. Taking these two maritime border regions—the Andaman Sea and the Mediterranean—as their starting point, artists and scholars will then discuss the perspectives, challenges, and responsibilities involved in visual representations of migration.
With:
- Prof. Dr. Antje Missbach3 (University of Bielefeld)
- Andrianus "Oetjoe" Merdhi 4(Filmmaker)
- Tilman Dominka5 (Photographer)
- Dr. habil. Mareike Gebhardt6 (University of Innsbruck)
- Begrüßung: Dr. Maria Ullrich 7(University of Bonn)
- Moderation: Dr. Benjamin Etzold8 (University of Bonn)
- Moderation: Dr. Lena Laube9 (University of Bonn)
Following the discussion, all participants are cordially invited to a small reception and to view the installation “THE FUTURE OF SCARS (WT/2026)” by Andrianus “Oetjoe” Merdhi & Yunus Arakani.
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Tuesday, 13.10.2026
Time: 04:00 – 06:00 pm
Place: IMPULSE - House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity (Adenauerallee 131 | 53113 Bonn)