"Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts" Aarhus University 3-5 October 2013

hi there!
please find here useful information about an upcoming event organized by a research network based at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). They are doing lots of interesting things around the topic of migration and culture.

Between the 3rd and the 5th of October I'll join the conference called "Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts'. Among the keynote speakers there will also be Hamid Naficy and Parvati Nair. You can find full details by clicking on the link above.

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.

Migration, Discrimination and Belonging Transnational Spaces in Post-colonial Europe (Warwick University 6th of March, 2013)

Registration is still open for the IAS Seminar on “Migration, Discrimination and Belonging”, to be held at the University of Warwick on the 6th of March 2013.

Full details here

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)

Graziella Parati's lecture at UCL_7 March 2013

Dear all,

it's my pleasure to invite you to an upcoming lecture by Prof. Graziella Parati (Dartmouth College) at University College London on the 7h of March 2013. Pleae find all details in the poster below and for further information please email me.

Call for Reviews - Crossings. Journal of Migration and Culture

Dear all,
as you probably know I am the review editor of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture.
I am looking for two reviewers for next issue. See below the list of books I have available at the moment. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing one of these interesting books.
The review should be approximately 800-1000 words.
Please contact me at f.mazzara@ucl.ac.uk.

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Matthew Carr, Fortress Europe. Dispatches from a Gated Continent, London: Hurst, 2012, 295 pages.

Eric D. Smith, Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction. New Maps of Hope, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 244 pages.

H. Adlai Mursoch, Creolizing the Metropole. Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film, Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2012, 391 pages.

Roland Sintos Coloma, et.al. (eds.), Filipinos in Canada. Disturbing Invisibility, Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2012, 441 pages.

Saloni Mathur, (ed.), The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, New Haven-London: Yale UP, 2011, 272 pages.

Keith Jakobs, Experience and Representation. Contemporary Perspective on Migration in Australia, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, 164 pages.

Radhika Chopra, Militant and Migrant. The Politics and Social History of Punjab, London-New York: Routledge, 2011, 150 pages.

Harald Bauder, Immigration Dialectic. Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation, Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 2011, 305 pages.