Dear all There won’t be a regular IMS seminar tomorrow, but we will have a special, online guest lecture in the afternoon, organized by the IMS memory group: "The visual culture of migration" with Ömer Alkin, tomorrow, Wednesday, 17 November, 13.15-15.00 CET Bio: Ömer Alkin, media and cultural scholar holding a Ph.D. from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, is currently project leader in his own German Research Foundation (DFG) research project “Aesthetics of Occidentalism: Yücel Çakmaklı’s Islamic-national Millî Sinema (National Cinema),1964-2006” at the Institute for Media Studies at Philipps University Marburg (project website: www.online.uni-marburg.de/okzidentalismus<http://www.online.uni-marburg.…)s>). In addition to his academic activities, he is active in the field of intercultural education and filmmaking. His main research interests are digital learning, racism, migration, Islam and audiovisual culture, film, global identity politics such as occidentalism, and postmigration. Personal website: www.oemeralkin.de<http://www.oemeralkin.de/?fbclid=IwAR2qtiG1xfcau0jm8rS… The event is arranged by IMSmemory and is chaired by Dagmar Brunow and Nafiseh Mousavi. The seminar will be only online, at https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64279715687. Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Signe Kjaer Jensen / PhD Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Literature Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>