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)
