As migration becomes a norm in modern life, encounters between civilizations go beyond superficial exchanges, leading to profound inner transformations. Migrants shed instinctive resistance and, navigating the tension between homeland and foreign lands, forge themselves into new prisms—reflecting the genes of their native cultures while integrating the spectrums of diverse civilizations.​

The cultural dissonance felt upon returning home underscores the reality of globalization: in constant flux, everyone becomes a stranger to their own culture.​

This floor-talk aims to decode how contemporary individuals reconstruct their identities within multiple cultural frameworks through cross-cultural life narratives. As boundaries dissolve in our era, each mobile individual demonstrates that belonging might be the art of continually breaking boundaries and reorganizing the self.​

When identity shifts from a single coordinate to a complex, intersecting grid, perhaps the question is no longer “Where is home?” but “How do we carry our own world as we journey?” In this process, each of us is both an observer and a problem-solver.​

Date & Time: May 1st (Thursday), 2:00–4:00 PM