The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata  and the Alliance Française du Bengale, in collaboration with the Kolkata based gallery CIMA  and Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal are organizing the interdisciplinary Indo - European Residency Project Kolkata.

As the world is now gripped with the Syrian refugee crisis and debates rage on their acceptance in various countries in Europe, it may be the right time to look back into some of the biggest refugee crises and human migration in recent history. The debates centre mostly around the broader theme of what impact the refugees would have if they are allowed to settle in a particular society.