Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Alganesh

Alganesh is a documentary following Dr Alganesh Fessah’s work with Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia and her attempts to secure refugees’ rights and liberate kidnapped and tortured prisoners in the Sinai desert. The film explores refugees’ experiences prior to arriving and at the refugee camps in Ethiopia.

The film screening of Alganesh (60 minutes) will be followed by a panel discussion with the co-director Marianna Beltrami and two City St George’s academics Dr Hallam Tuck and Dr Sara Silvestri. Dr Anna Katila will chair the event.

Speakers

Marianna Beltrami is a documentary filmmaker with a background in Politics (Warwick University) and Environmental Governance (Oxford University). She also works with the Aurora Vision media production company and is currently Integral Ecology Media Officer at the Laudato Si Institute in Oxford. Alganesh was her first documentary, made in collaboration with the award-winning director, Lia Beltrami.

Dr Hallam Tuck is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Department for Sociology and Criminology. Within the field of Border Criminology, his research examines how anxieties about race, immigration, and foreign-national offenders have transformed criminal justice and migration control. Alongside this research, Hallam maintains an interest in the comparative study of border controls across national jurisdictions. He is currently collaborating with Dr Dorina Damsa (Norwegian Institute for Social Research) and Dr Nicole Marie Ostrand (University of Oslo) on a project exploring immigration, border control, and the welfare state in the US, UK, and Norway.

Dr Sara Silvestri is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at City St George’s, where she teaches modules on religion and politics with particular attention to migration, security, and diversity issues. She has published on the politics of Islam in Europe, on the role of faith in conflict and peace building and on religion and diplomacy. She is currently researching the role of the Christian churches (especially the Catholic Church) in the Global Governance of migration and refugees. Sara is a Bye Fellow of St Edmund’s College and a member of the Interfaith Programme Research Forum. She has worked extensively with the media and the policy sector internationally.

If you have any questions about the event or accessibility, please email Anna Katila at anna.katila@citystgeorges.ac.uk.