Rights and Might: Cultural counter-narratives of the migrant and refugee experience | University of Westminster_Refugee week 22-25 June 2017

Dear all,
it's my pleasure to announce the upcoming conference I've had the pleasure to co-organise with a number of colleagues from the University of Westminster.

You can find all details in the eventbrite page, where you can also register.

For a draft programme see below

Lampedusa: Debating representation of migration in an age of 'crisis' (2 March, 6:30pm.)

Dear all,
it's my pleasure to announce an upcoming event at the University of Westminster, where I will present on my research together with artists Maya Ramsey, Lucy Wood and Côme Ledésert.
Don't miss it! The event is free but registration is required. 

My interview for the Blog PERFORMNING BORDERS

Hi there,
Just wanted to share with you an interview with me by Alessandra Cianetti (co-director of Something Human) for her amazing Blog, Performing Borders: Conversations on Live Art  / Crossing  / Europe.
Enjoy it!

Lampedusa Migration Network_ Manchester 4th of July 2016

Another exciting forum on Lampedusa happening soon in the UK. Really looking forward to joining this.
Dr Letizia Alterno (University of Manchester) has organized a symposium designed as a discussion-led event which will engage both academia, the general public and refugee participants in a conversation about the disquieting and extremely pressing issues of detention, migration and asylum in the context of Lampedusa, recently identified as a HOTSPOT by the European Commission (See EU Hotspot Approach). The aim is to discuss and investigate the current EU and local policies governing the illegal detention of hundreds of asylum seekers who managed to reach the coast of Lampedusa in southern Italy during the past few months. Planned as a “bottom-up” event aiming to enable refugees into a position of legitimacy, the occasion will provide ample space for refugees to tell their stories about both the crossing and the inhuman conditions of detention in Lampedusa. In case the presence of refugee participants cannot be guaranteed, their written and oral narratives would function as primary informant source to catalyse conversation.

All details here
Registration is fee but required.

Jacopo Giorgi (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), 'Mixed Flows in Southern Europe. Lampedusa and Beyond' - Thursday 21 March 2013, 5pm.

It's my pleasure to invite you to this upcoming lecture:

UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies
UCL Migration Research Unit
Present

Jacopo Giorgi (Protection Associate – UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
Mixed Flows in Southern Europe. Lampedusa and Beyond

Thursday 21 March 2013, 5pm.
UCL, 20 Gordon Street, London,
WC1H 0AJ London
room: Christopher Ingold G21 Ramsay LT

chair: Federica Mazzara (UCL SELCS)

ALL WELCOME

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Jacopo Giorgi began his professional career with UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2003 in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he worked on facilitating return of refugees and displaced persons and supporting projects aimed at creating a framework for asylum in the country. In 2006-2007 he ran a training projects on protection of civilians in conflict for the African Union Mission (AMIS) staff engaged in Darfur (Sudan) on behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). At the internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) he dedicated himself to popularizing the African Union Convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons , also known as the Kampala Convention. Since 2007 is at the UNHCR Regional Representation for Southern Europe, where he has been covering various positions on the Italian territory.

Network for Migration and Culture

Dear all,

exciting news from Denmark! The Network for Migration and Culture: The Interrelations of Migration, Culture and Aesthetics (NMC) - a national/ international network funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research - is organizing two exciting conferences revolving around the issue of the aesthetics of migration.

Please see below for details:

1. The first is called Displacements. Forced Migration and the Arts, and will be held at Aarhus University, Denmark, 3-5 October 2013.
This is the call for paper (deadline 15 April 2013)
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Hamid Naficy, Parvati Nair and Madeleine Dobie.

2. The second is called Crossroads - Europe, Migration and Culture, and will be held at the University of Copenhagen, 24-25 October 2013.
This is the call for paper (deadline 31 January 2013)

Gender and Migration - Marmara University (Istanbul) 11-13 May 2013

Another excting upcoming conference called Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and Policy Implications that will be held at Marmara University (Istanbul), 11-13  May 2013.

The conference is organised by the London Centre for Social Studies (LCSS) in collaboration with the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE), the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University, and the Department of Sociology at Marmara University.

This international conference invites expert contributions on the following areas:

• Transnationalism, diasporas and gender
• Gender and labour migration
• Gender-based violence and forced migration
• Migration and gender in the media
• Healthcare and migrant women
• Gender and migrant family relations
• Gendered experiences in Turkish migration

Find details about the call for paper here (deadline 22 February 2013)

W.J.T. MITCHELL Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance 16 June 2011

it's my pleasure to announce an upcoming event that I have organized at UCL on the 16th of June 2011.
Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) will give a lecture on
"Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance".
There will be two respondents: Prof. Parvati Nair (Queen Mary Hispanic
Cultural Studies) and Dr Ingrid Boccardi (UCL Laws).

Please find all details here. The event is free but a registration is required.

For any further information please contact me

Hope to see you there!