Symposium on Death at Sea: Migration and Art

You can now book your ticket for the Symposium on Death at Sea: Migration and Art sponsored by the University of Westminster, and part of the exhibition Sink Without Trace.
Looking forward to seeing you there. 

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. 

The Mediation of Migration_18 Nov 2016 London School of Economics

An LSE Department of Media and Communications Symposium

One million migrants crossed the borders of Europe in 2015, in, what came to be known as the “refugee crisis”. This Symposium focuses on the mediation of this “crisis” at a trans-European and local level, in order to address the questions:

• How is “the refugee crisis” communicated in European media?
  
• How do refugees appear in “our” media?
  
• How do border agents use media in their reception of refugees?
  

Drawing on findings from the “Migration and Media” research project, funded by the Dept. of Media and Communications at LSE, the Symposium is organized as a series of conversations between LSE scholars and leading migration and media researchers and practitioners.

The aim of Symposium is to reflect on the urgent ethico-political challenges of “the crisis”, as these emerge at the intersection of human mobility, security, care and media. But its aim is also to enable us to engage with important moments in the mediation of “the crisis”. These moments are addressed through academic work but also through creative and journalistic work.

Registration reqired (SOLD OUT)

Programme

09:00- 09:30 Registration, tea and coffee

09:30- 11:00 Welcome, Prof. Nick Couldry, Head of Media and Communications Dept, LSE

Keynote speech Dr Vicki Squire, University of Warwick

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45

Panel One: Making or covering “a crisis”? Europe’s media representations

Lilie Chouliaraki, Myria Georgiou and Rafal Zaborowski, LSE

Kai Hafez, University of Erfurt

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch – with poster presentations from the Migration and Media team

13.45-15:30

Panel Two: Refugee visibilities and invisibilities

Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE

Myria Georgiou, LSE

Frank Johansson, Director of Amnesty International, Finland

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:15

Panel Three: Communication architectures of borders and routes  

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, LSE

Marie Gillespie, Open University

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18.00-20.00 Fuoccoamare/Fire at Sea

Sheikh Zayed Lecture Theatre, NAB

Introduction and Chair: Pierluigi Musaro, University of Bologna

Film introduced by the Director via videolink  

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.

Podcast of lecture in Princeton

Dear all,
for those of you who are interested in my lecture at the Symposium in Princeton last March, here is the podcast

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!

Symposium in Princeton: "Across the Borders of Desire: Italy as a Land of Departure and Destination"_31 March-1 April 2011

Dear all,
I'd like to draw you attention to this Symposium that will take place at the Princeton University in March around the topic of "Across the Borders of Desire: Italy as a Land of Departure and Destination".
I have been invited to give a talk. I am very excited about it. The other guest speaker will be Julio Monteriro Martins
You can find more details about the call for paper (deadline 15 of February) and the rationale here.
More details about the programme will be available soon.

CFP_Within and Without: Representing Diasporas in Europe: Cardiff, 13 May 2011

Within and Without: Representing Diasporas in Europe
School of European Studies, University of Cardiff
May 13th 2011

Europe is a diasporic continent, with Belgian, British, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish populations scattered across the globe. Yet it is also home to diasporic communities based in Europe, coming from both within and outside of the continent. The aim of this symposium is to explore the way in which diasporas in Europe are depicted in literature, film and the press, exploring the ways in which a sense of cultural and geographical dislocation inform concepts of identity, otherness and (un)belonging in the host nation. The symposium will examine the intersections between cultural, religious and pan-European identities within the diasporic community, in the destination culture and in contact zones.
Contributors are invited to address European diasporas within Europe (such as the Italian communities in Britain) and/or diasporas from outside the continent (such as the Turkish communities in Germany).

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):
- Explorations of ethnic identity in the literatures of the diaspora, and the host nation
- Depictions of 'home' in diasporic cultural production
- The shaping of cultural memory in the diaspora
- Press coverage of the diasporic culture in the host nation
- Comparison of integration of European populations within European and non-European diasporas (e.g. Italians in Germany and the U.S)
- Ghettoization and blending
- Iconography of the diaspora
- The construction of space (rural and urban, private and public, blurred boundaries)
- The diasporic gaze
- Orientalism in one continent
- Theoretical approaches to diasporic writing

The one-day symposium will take place on Friday May 13th 2011 at the School of European Studies, University of Cardiff.
There will be a fee of 15GBP, which includes lunch, tea and coffee and a wine reception.
Abstracts of 300 words, and a brief biography, should be sent to:
Dr Liz Wren-Owens (Wren-OwensEA@cardiff.ac.uk) by January 31st 2011.

UCL Global Migration Symposia Series

7 June 2010

Mitko Panov (filmmaker)
Film screening “The War is Over” (2009) and conversation with director Mitko Panov

Followed by a Q&A with director Mitko Panov, script consultant Gareth Jones and film critic Nevena Dakovic.

The event is co-hosted by the UCL Mellon Programme and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Time: 7-10.30pm
Venue: The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ

About the event: This film by award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Mitko Panov is a fictionalised account of a family exiled to Switzerland during the Kosovo crisis. It is an intimate narrative that explores the experience of forced migration: the fraught decision to leave; the process of integration and adaptation to a new country; the impact on the family; and always, the yearning for homeland. Join us at the Frontline Club, a media club and venue championing independent journalism, for the screening, a panel discussion and a Q&A with Panov, film professionals and critics.

About the director: Mitko Panov was born in Macedonia and now lives and works in Switzerland. He studied Directing at the Polish National School for Film, TV and Theatre in Lodz. He has received a number of international awards for his films including the 1991 Cannes Golden Palm for best short for his reconstruction of the Warsaw ghetto in WITH RAISED HANDS, a special jury award at the Clermont Ferrand film festival 2000, and a Best Balkan Film Award at the Drama Short-Film Festival in Greece. Panov has taught at the New York University Graduate Film Department, the German State School for Film and TV in Munich, and the University of Texas at Austin-RTF. He is a founding member of the New York Film Academy, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Sundance Institute Fellow. The War is Over is his feature fiction debut.

Book your place: A limited number of free tickets are available for UCL students and staff. Please email intercultural-interaction@ucl.ac.uk for details. Public booking (£8 early birds, £10 standard) commences in May from The Frontline Club.

UCL Global Migration Symposia Series

13 May 2010

Prof. Elspeth Guild (University of Nijmegen; Partner, Kingsley Napley)
Examining the Relationship between Migration and Security

Discussant: Anneliese Baldaccini, Executive Officer Amnesty International EU

Co-hosted by the UCL Centre for Law and Governance in Europe

Accredited with 1.5 CPD hours
(Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board)

Time: 5.30-7pm; followed by a reception

Venue: Roberts G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre,
Roberts Building, Torrington PLace, London WC1E 7JE

Abstract: Migration and security have a troubled relationship both in law and politics in Europe today. As the UK General Election looms, the debate in the UK around migration - both within the EU and from outside it - seems destined to attract much attention. In this presentation I will examine the multiple meanings of migration in the UK and EU: what does it mean to be a citizen, a foreigner or a migrant, where and why? In this inquiry the question of security becomes central: what security concerns are revealed by the way in which individuals are categorised and to what ends?

About the speaker: Elspeth Guild is an internationally acknowledged expert in the field of European immigration law. She is Professor of European Migration Law at the University of Nijmegen, a Partner at Kingsley Napley and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies. She is also a visiting professor at the LSE in London and at the College of Europe, Bruges. She previously acted as Special Advisor to the House of Lords Inquiry into Economic Migration in the EU, and is involved in training judges in EU law. She is frequently requested to make submissions to parliamentary committees on the subject and she acts as an expert to international organisations such as the European Commission, UNHCR, and the Council of Europe. Her most recent monograph is Security and Migration in the 21st Century (Polity, 2009).

About the discussant: Anneliese Baldaccini is Executive Officer Asylum and Immigration at Amnesty International EU in Brussels. She was formerly a committee specialist for the House of Lords European Union Committee and JUSTICE’s human rights legal officer

Please book your place here.

1st UCL Global Migration Symposium_ "Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas".

**** 1st UCL Global Migration Symposium ****

Professor Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College, US)
"Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas".

Chair: Dr Claire Dwyer (Migration Research Unit, UCL Geography)
Discussant: Professor John Eade, Director of CRONEM, University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor in the Migration Research Unit.

10 March 2010
5.30-7pm
Roberts Lecture Theatre 106
Roberts Building Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

All are welcome, but places are limited. Please reserve your place here.

The event is followed by a drinks reception in the Roberts Building Foyer.

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Cosmopolitanism today is no longer the exclusive province of elites. Labour migrants, sojourners, religious believers, and refugees are also open to the world, although they interact with it differently than their professional counterparts. In fact, in today's world, cosmopolitanism is a necessity not a choice. What are the rights and responsibilities of global citizenship?
How can we begin to imagine a community that extends beyond national borders and where do the elements come from with which to create it?


Peggy Levitt is a Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. Her books include "God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape" (New Press 2007), "The Transnational Studies Reader" (Routledge 2007), "The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation" (Russell Sage 2002), and "The Transnational Villagers" (UC Press, 2001).

The series is sponsored by UCL Research Challenges and the UCL Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction.