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Stand-Ins and Extras: Exploiting Migration’s Precarity

Join us for this seminar with Dr Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow). Kay's work reveals how displaced persons fleeing from nations were it can be tricky or dangerous to shoot film productions, e.g. Pakistan, or Iraq, are often drawn into working as underpaid extras and 'local' crew on big budget film productions in their destination locations, which are being used as a substitute for these migrants' home country. Hosted by the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).

24 January 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Penthouse room, Collingwood College, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LT

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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the global story of money

Join us for this seminar with Dr Vladimír Pažitka - one of the authors of the remarkable 'Atlas of Finance' - a tour de force beyond data visualisation into the extraordinary, hidden story of money (one of the most compelling stories ever told!!) and its various exploits and shifting forms and identities through time. This seminar will reshape the way we think about what money is! Be there!! Co-hosted by Geography and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).

12 February 2025

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Lecture theatre W309, Geography West Building, Science Site, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE

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