Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki played a central role at Migrant Forms: Creative Futures, a one day symposium held at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
The gathering brought together artists, academics, writers, and even chefs from across the world to explore the relationship between crossing borders and border-crossing art.
The event also acted as a pre-launch for Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, a new book co edited by Dr Din-Kariuki, Professor Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, which will be published by the American press punctum books this summer.
The book is a collection of essays and reflections which explore what the experience of migration does with, and to, knowledge, and how its own ways of knowing find expressive form.
It includes contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, including migrants with diverse histories.
Din-Kariuki’s work on this subject is shaped not only by her academic expertise on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travel but by her family’s own history of migration, including a grandfather who arrived in Kenya from India as a stowaway in the 1930s.
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