Dear all,
for those of you who are interested in my lecture at the Symposium in Princeton last March, here is the podcast
Friday, April 22, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
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!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Conference: The Diasporic Family in Cinema: SOAS (University of London) 21 May 2011
Very interesting upcoming conference at SOAS, (University of London) the 21th of May 2011.
I have already registered. I am very much looking forward to listening to the very interesting papers and to joining the screening of 'When we Leave' by Feo Aladag who will be present for a discussion afterward.
All details about the programme, the venue and the registration are available here
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Summer School Global Migration and Development_Utrecht 4-15 july 2011
International Development Studies of the Department of Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, the Netherlands is offering a 2-week summer school programme on Global Migration and Development, at the advanced bachelor level.
The course will take place from 4 July to 15 July 2011.
For more information and application procedures, please visit the website:
The course will take place from 4 July to 15 July 2011.
For more information and application procedures, please visit the website:
CFP Cultural Encounters_Exeter 21-22 May 2011
Call for Papers
Cultural Encounters: Researching Ethnicities, Identities, and Politics in a Globalised World
Host institution: Exeter Centre for Ethno‐Political Studies, University of Exeter
Dates: Saturday 21st –Sunday 22nd May 2011
The Exeter Centre for Ethno‐Political Studies (EXCEPS) is pleased to announce its inaugural postgraduate conference. We aim to bring together high‐quality postgraduates from the UK and abroad, working in the field of ethno‐politics. This event will allow young researchers to discuss questions of methodology, approach and general research ideas and issues that arise in the field.
Breaking from traditional conference formats, the conference will function more in terms of a large‐scale workshop. Students will be given the chance to present their work and engage in a group discussion, exchanging ideas about research in ethno‐politics. The overall hope is to form a research community at the postgraduate level to enhance networking and collaboration across universities and disciplines.
In EXCEPS, we aim to undertake and promote advanced empirical and theoretical research by integrating methodologies and approaches from a wide range of disciplines within our activities. We seek to problematise notions of ethnicity and identity, and explore how and why political and social life is affected by agendas and aspirations defined by 'ethnicity' or the sense of belonging to a particular community.
Students working at the postgraduate level in a field related to ethnicity, broadly defined, are invited to submit an abstract of their research. Prospective sub‐themes might include, but are not limited to:
• Migration and Diaspora
• Belonging and Otherness
• Conflicts and Regulation
• Ethnopolitics and International Law
• Terrorism and Mobilisation
• Gender and Ethnonationalism
• Culture and Memory
The conference will emphasise active involvement in an interactive, informal setting, focusing on discussion of methodology and challenges in ethno‐political research in a cross‐disciplinary context. A presentation might consist of a thesis chapter, a research proposal or a subtheme of the dissertation. For interested delegates, there is the possibility to submit their paper to the EXCEPS Working Paper series for consideration.
Please send your abstract of about 250 words along with relevant information about place of study and degree to Christine Difato at cad209@ex.ac.uk by 25 March 2011. To facilitate a worthwhile discussion, only a limited number of places are available.
Any further questions can be addressed to Christine Difato (cad209@ex.ac.uk) or Anaïd Flesken (af299@exeter.ac.uk)
For more information about our activities, see the EXCEPS web site and the PGR Network Ethnicity blog.
Cultural Encounters: Researching Ethnicities, Identities, and Politics in a Globalised World
Host institution: Exeter Centre for Ethno‐Political Studies, University of Exeter
Dates: Saturday 21st –Sunday 22nd May 2011
The Exeter Centre for Ethno‐Political Studies (EXCEPS) is pleased to announce its inaugural postgraduate conference. We aim to bring together high‐quality postgraduates from the UK and abroad, working in the field of ethno‐politics. This event will allow young researchers to discuss questions of methodology, approach and general research ideas and issues that arise in the field.
Breaking from traditional conference formats, the conference will function more in terms of a large‐scale workshop. Students will be given the chance to present their work and engage in a group discussion, exchanging ideas about research in ethno‐politics. The overall hope is to form a research community at the postgraduate level to enhance networking and collaboration across universities and disciplines.
In EXCEPS, we aim to undertake and promote advanced empirical and theoretical research by integrating methodologies and approaches from a wide range of disciplines within our activities. We seek to problematise notions of ethnicity and identity, and explore how and why political and social life is affected by agendas and aspirations defined by 'ethnicity' or the sense of belonging to a particular community.
Students working at the postgraduate level in a field related to ethnicity, broadly defined, are invited to submit an abstract of their research. Prospective sub‐themes might include, but are not limited to:
• Migration and Diaspora
• Belonging and Otherness
• Conflicts and Regulation
• Ethnopolitics and International Law
• Terrorism and Mobilisation
• Gender and Ethnonationalism
• Culture and Memory
The conference will emphasise active involvement in an interactive, informal setting, focusing on discussion of methodology and challenges in ethno‐political research in a cross‐disciplinary context. A presentation might consist of a thesis chapter, a research proposal or a subtheme of the dissertation. For interested delegates, there is the possibility to submit their paper to the EXCEPS Working Paper series for consideration.
Please send your abstract of about 250 words along with relevant information about place of study and degree to Christine Difato at cad209@ex.ac.uk by 25 March 2011. To facilitate a worthwhile discussion, only a limited number of places are available.
Any further questions can be addressed to Christine Difato (cad209@ex.ac.uk) or Anaïd Flesken (af299@exeter.ac.uk)
For more information about our activities, see the EXCEPS web site and the PGR Network Ethnicity blog.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
MIGRANT CINEMA AND WRITING IN POST-COLONIAL ITALY: Warwick 24 Feb., 25 Feb., 2 Mar. 2011
The Department of Italian at Warwick is pleased to announce a series of three events on Migrant Cinema and Writing in Post-colonial Italy. These events focus on different aspects of Italian contemporary literature and culture such as migration,post-coloniality, orality, diaspora, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationhood and subalternity. Writers Ribka Sibhatu and Kaha Mohamed Aden will present at the University of Warwick their literary work as well as the documentaries, in which they tell of the legacy of Italian colonialism and their migratory experience to Italy, respectively from Eritrea and Somalia. The discussion of social and historical themes and questions in post-colonial Italian literature, is helpful in order to determine how the amnesia over the colonial past influences the mis-representation of immigrants to Italy.
Thursday 24th February 2011
Research Symposium: A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?
Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick
Ramphal Building - Gillian Rose Room - R3.25
17.30 – 19.00 A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?
Ribka Sibhatu
Respondents:
Neil Lazarus (University of Warwick)
Jennifer Burns (University of Warwick)
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Friday 25th February 2011
Contemporary Rome: Engaging with the Past, Projecting the Future
Department of Italian Studies, University of Warwick
Humanities Building - Room H545
15.00 – 16.00 Film Screening: Simone Brioni’s Aulò (ITA, 2011, 40’)
(Ribka Sibhatu, an Italian writer of Eritrean origins who lives in Rome, tells her story of migration and discusses the history of Italian colonialism. The film is in Italian, without English subtitles.)
16.00 – 16.30 Post-colonial Rome
Discussion with Ribka Sibhatu
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.00 Il museo diffuso di Testaccio e il progetto Porticus Aemilia.
Renato Sebastiani, Alessia Contino, Boudewijn Kaiser, Krien
Clevis, Gert-Jan Burgers (Royal Netherlands Institute at Rome)
18.00 – 19.00 Film Screenings: The Postmodern Palimpsest. A series of short documentaries shot in Rome, created by Masters students at the Manchester School of Architecture. This event precedes the conference ‘The Post-modern Palimpsest: Narrating
Contemporary Rome’, which will take place at the University of Warwick the following day.
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Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Challenging Official Historiography: Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy
Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies)
IAS Seminar Room- Milburn House
14.00 – 15.00 Orality and Literacy in the Narratives of Some Italian Migrant Writers.
Kombola Ramadhani Moussa (University of Reading)
15.00 – 16.00 Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy Videoconference with Alessandro Portelli (Università La Sapienza, Roma)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 Film Screening: Simone Brioni’s La quarta via (ITA, 2009, 40’)
(Kaha Mohamed Aden narrates her memories of Mogadishu and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The film has English subtitles.)Introduced by Elizabeth Ramirez Soto (Department of Film Studies, University of Warwick)
17.30 – 19.30 Fra-intendimenti. Kaha Mohamed Aden presents her collection of short stories Fra-intendimenti (Roma, Nottetempo, 2010) Respondent: Federico Faloppa (University of Reading)
This event is preceded by the interdisciplinary seminar '1968 and the Value of Oral History', which will take place on Wednesday 23 February 2011, 10 am- 6pm. For any questions please contact the organiser Simone Brioni: s.brioni@warwick.ac.uk
Generously supported by the IALT.
Thursday 24th February 2011
Research Symposium: A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?
Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick
Ramphal Building - Gillian Rose Room - R3.25
17.30 – 19.00 A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?
Ribka Sibhatu
Respondents:
Neil Lazarus (University of Warwick)
Jennifer Burns (University of Warwick)
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Friday 25th February 2011
Contemporary Rome: Engaging with the Past, Projecting the Future
Department of Italian Studies, University of Warwick
Humanities Building - Room H545
15.00 – 16.00 Film Screening: Simone Brioni’s Aulò (ITA, 2011, 40’)
(Ribka Sibhatu, an Italian writer of Eritrean origins who lives in Rome, tells her story of migration and discusses the history of Italian colonialism. The film is in Italian, without English subtitles.)
16.00 – 16.30 Post-colonial Rome
Discussion with Ribka Sibhatu
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.00 Il museo diffuso di Testaccio e il progetto Porticus Aemilia.
Renato Sebastiani, Alessia Contino, Boudewijn Kaiser, Krien
Clevis, Gert-Jan Burgers (Royal Netherlands Institute at Rome)
18.00 – 19.00 Film Screenings: The Postmodern Palimpsest. A series of short documentaries shot in Rome, created by Masters students at the Manchester School of Architecture. This event precedes the conference ‘The Post-modern Palimpsest: Narrating
Contemporary Rome’, which will take place at the University of Warwick the following day.
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Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Challenging Official Historiography: Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy
Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies)
IAS Seminar Room- Milburn House
14.00 – 15.00 Orality and Literacy in the Narratives of Some Italian Migrant Writers.
Kombola Ramadhani Moussa (University of Reading)
15.00 – 16.00 Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy Videoconference with Alessandro Portelli (Università La Sapienza, Roma)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 Film Screening: Simone Brioni’s La quarta via (ITA, 2009, 40’)
(Kaha Mohamed Aden narrates her memories of Mogadishu and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The film has English subtitles.)Introduced by Elizabeth Ramirez Soto (Department of Film Studies, University of Warwick)
17.30 – 19.30 Fra-intendimenti. Kaha Mohamed Aden presents her collection of short stories Fra-intendimenti (Roma, Nottetempo, 2010) Respondent: Federico Faloppa (University of Reading)
This event is preceded by the interdisciplinary seminar '1968 and the Value of Oral History', which will take place on Wednesday 23 February 2011, 10 am- 6pm. For any questions please contact the organiser Simone Brioni: s.brioni@warwick.ac.uk
Generously supported by the IALT.
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