Lampedusa: Migratory Space, Memory and Aesthetics_A UCL one-day Symposium 23 October 2014 3-6pm.

Dear all,
It's my pleasure to share with you the details of a one-day symposium I am organizing at UCL on the 23th of October 2014. The event is sposored by the UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society and by the UCL Italian Department.

Lampedusa: Migratory Space, Memory and Aesthetics
The spatial dimension of Lampedusa and the Mediterranean has never been of greater political relevance than it is today. While boat migrants and refugees approaching Lampedusa are de-individualised by the media, detained by law enforcement, or find their anonymous resting place in the waters of the Mediterranean, recent documentaries, festivals, video-art and heritage sites - on and beyond the island - have attempted, in different ways, to put a face on the migrant and review the Mediterranean passage.
This one-day conference aims to facilitate a crucial conversation about the aesthetic potential of the contemporary nomadic condition of migrants as a way to resist imperial and Eurocentric subjugation of these subjects. This conversation will consider various perspectives on the issue of migration in Lampedusa, from the geographical discourse around space to the conservation of memory and the legacy of migration in aesthetic forms.

Speakers include: Sandro Triulzi (Director of the Migrant Memories Archive): Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography); Ilaria Vecchi (film-maker and activist) and Valentina Zagaria (writer and director).


For full programme see below. For further details pease contact me: f.mazzara@ucl.ac.uk

:::All Welcome:::

Lampedusa: Migratory Space, Memory and Aestheics

23 October 2014

UCL Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street

London , WC1N 1PF, room 118

3.pm -3.15pm

Welcome and Introduction

Federica Mazzara (UCL SELCS)

3.15pm - 3.45pm

Alessandro Triulzi (Director of Migrant Memories Archive)

Working with migrants in Italy: sharing thoughts and problems

3.45pm -4.15pm

Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography)

Space, migration and memory

4.15pm – 4.30pm

break

4.30pm – 5.00pm

Ilaria Vecchi (film-maker and activist)

The collective Askavusa: The museum of migration and the Lampedusa in festival

5.00pm – 5.30pm

Valentina Zagaria (writer and director)

Performing Lampedusa in ‘Miraculi’

5.30pm – 6.00pm

Round Table with all the speakers

Chair: Federica Mazzara (UCL SELCS)

Other useful links:
Askavusa
Porto M (Museo delle migrazioni a Lampedusa  |  Museum of Migration in Lampedusa)