Additional positions:
Visiting Professor, Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Email: katgra@prio.org
News
Thursday, 8 Dec 2022
In two new special issues of Conflict and society and Music and Arts in Action, the editors, PRIO researchers Katarzyna Grabska & Cindy Horst, and Katarzyna Grabska & Roy Huijsmans respectively, bring together important new research contributions.
Katarzyna is a social anthropologist, her research focuses on gender, generation, youth,
displacement, refugees, return of dispalced populations, impact of war on gender and generational relations, and identities, access to rights for refugees in
urban settings, art and activism in the context of war and conflict. Katarzyna has researched since 2002 on displacement and forced migration issues
in Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Jordan, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. She works with visual media, art-based research, feminist methodologies, and
participatory methodologies.
Since 2002, she has been carrying out a
longitudinal study of gender relation transformations among Nuer from South
Sudan in Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan and in Sudan, Khartoum.
She collaborates often with artists in her research,
and
engages with art-based research to understand issues of belonging,
displacement, mobilities and identities. She
also is a film-maker.
2005 – 2010 DPhil Development Studies/Migration/Anthropology at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK PhD Thesis: In-Flux: (Re)negotiations of Gender, Identity and 'Home' in Post-War Southern Sudan
1997 – 1999 M.A. in International Relations, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, , Bologna, Italy/Washington, DC
1994 – 1997 B.Sc.(Econ) International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Board member of the Khartoum American School – 2014-2016, Khartoum Sudan
Board member and founder of the Barbara Harrell-Bond Foundation – since July 2017
Board member of Association des Mediatrices Interculturelles (AMIC), Geneva, Switzerland – since June 2018
(2018) Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary, documentary: producer, researcher and writer; with Enrico Falzetti.
(2016) 2 Girls, documentary, researcher and producer. Received 10 first prizes – see below; screened worldwide.
(2015) "Time to look at girls: Migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia", documentary, researcher and producer.
(2005) "The Art of Flight', fabularised documentary about Sudanese refugees in Cairo, researcher and associate producer, Nomads Productions, June.
(2001) "Frankfuhrter Bahnhof" – documentary about homeless people, research and production assistant, ZDF Television, November.
(1999) The Crash" documentary about the international financial crisis, research assistant and production intern, Washington Media Associates, June.
(2019) January-March. "120 cows: violence against women" (120 vaches: des violences faites aux femmes) - St. Font, Lyon, France. Coproduction of the exhibition in collaboration with artists, researchers, refugee women and civil societxy associations.
Book Chapter in Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
Book Chapter in The Horn of Africa as an Innovative Political Space: State of Play and Lessons from a Globalised Region.
Book Chapter in Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research
Journal Article in Music & Arts in Action
Journal Article in Music & Arts in Action
Journal Article in Music & Arts in Action
Journal Article in Conflict and Society
Journal Article in Conflict and Society
Edited Volume
Book Chapter in In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
Now more than ever we can see how the impact of war and violence changes societies and people. Artists are often at the frontline of documenting, sharing and transforming experiences of war, violent conflict, exile and displacement.
In two new special issues of Conflict and society and Music and Arts in Action, the editors, PRIO researchers Katarzyna Grabska & Cindy Horst, and Katarzyna Grabska & Roy Huijsmans respectively, bring together important new research contributions.
Exploring inspiration, motivation and artistic creation of artists engaged with themes of war, conflict, displacement and social (in)justice.
PRIO Senior Researcher Kasia Grabska has participated in an IMISCOE Migration Podcast episode, entitled "On co-production and collaborative research with refugees". The episode can be found here.
The new book Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, edited by Katarzyna Grabska and Christina R. Clark-Kazak, assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created in spaces of displacement, and how it is reproduced through narratives.
Please be invited and save the dates for the INSPIRE seminar series autumn 2021! The seminars will take place monthly, on Wednesdays from 12:00-13:00 CET, online, with invited researchers and artists.
On June 3rd 2021, the INSPIRE research platform was launched with a live performance by Faytinga and a presentation of artwork by Diala Brisly. The research platform can be explored at inspire.gallery
On October 5-6th a workshop on creative methods was held for the INSPIRE project. The goal was to discuss creative approaches to study inspiration and social justice. Workshop participants were INSPIRE team researchers; Katarzyna Grabska, Cindy Horst, Marte Nilsen, Trude Stapnes and Sara Christophersen as well as invited artists and academics; Anna Konik (visual artist and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), George Mahashe (artist, photographer, academic and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), Solveig Korum (Senior Advisor at Kulturtanken and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), Cathy Wilcock (musician and academic) and Marisa Cornejo (visual artist).
Katarzyna Grabska has presented papers at two conferences;
On September 15th the INSPIRE advisory board and INSPIRE researchers had their first meeting. Due to corona virus restrictions the meeting was held online.