Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of The Rohingya Refugees

Liminal Encounters: Counternarratives of the Rohingya Refugees
The 3rd Annual Symposium of “Borderlands of Sonic Encounter”
An International Balzan Prize Project (2023–28) led by Professor Philip V. Bohlman

Friday, January 23 - Panel Discussions & Keynote by Tin Mar Oo | Franke Institute for the Humanities
Saturday, January 24 - Panel Discussion & Workshop | Rohingya Culture Center of Chicago
Saturday, January 24 - Concert of Rohingya tarana songs | Bramble Arts Loft 

An interdisciplinary symposium on the intersections between diaspora, statelessness, and borders/borderlands through an exploration of creative practices and multimedia production and circulation among and about the Rohingya people. 

Organized by: Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Tomal Hossain, PhD Candidate and Project Assistant, University of Chicago, and Vicky Mogollón Montagne, Postdoctoral Instructor and Project Assistant, University of Chicago

All events are free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies, Crossing Borders Music, Franke Institute for the Humanities, International Balzan Foundation, UChicago Department of Music, and UChicago Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity.