Lampedusa in Festival 19-23 July 2012

Support the Lampedusa in festival. Find all details about the Festival here.

Love in the Time of the Frontier - Film Screenings UCL 16 May 2012

It's with great pleasure that I announce this coming event. The Italian journalist Gabriele del Grande, known especially for his contribution to the study of immigration into Italy and for the incredibly informative blog he has created called Fortress Europe (an indespensable source of information on migratory catastrophes) will be at UCL on Wednesday 16th of May 2012. He will present the three short movies he produced, by director Alexandra D'Onofrio who will also be present. The event is organized by Alice Elliot (UCL Social Anthropology) Hope to see you there! [Wednesday 16th of May 2012, 5-7pm. UCL Anthropology Department, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Daryll Forde Seminar Room] Download the flyer of the event below!

Call for Paper: DISPLACEMENT, RESISTANCE, REPRESENTATION: Culture and Power in Contexts of Migrancy 28-29 June 2012 Queen Mary University of London

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CONFERENCE
Call for Papers

DISPLACEMENT, RESISTANCE, REPRESENTATION:
Culture and Power in Contexts of Migrancy


The Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of
London is pleased to announce a Call For Papers for a conference to be
held on June 28th and 29th 2012.

This conference takes its cue from the mobilization of popular modes
of resistance witnessed in the course of 2011 both through the Arab
Spring and the Occupy movement. Its aim is to connect such mass
resistance to wider existing contexts of collective displacement and
migrancy. By focusing on cultural representation (understood in the
widest sense to include the media and the arts), it seeks to address
the role of culture in negotiating resistance and representation for
those who have been displaced or cast into migrancy for a variety of
reasons that range from the economic to the political to the ecological.

Proposals for papers are invited on a range of topics of global and
comparative focus relating to questions of representation for the
displaced. The following themes are some examples of the questions and
issues that will be addressed:
- the role of culture in negotiating displacement
- the role of culture in forging modes of resistance
- the political relevance of cultural representation for the displaced
- negotiation and empowerment in contexts of displacement

Proposals are invited from academics, postgraduate research students,
artists, cultural performers and those working in the areas of culture
and migration. Papers should last no more than 20 minutes. Abstracts
and a brief bio-data of 250 words should be sent to Professor Parvati
Nair (p.nair@qmul.ac.uk) by no later than May 2nd 2012.

Call for Papers: Imaginary Europe _13 September 2012

A call for papers for those interested in the construction of 'imaginary versions of Europe'. Deadline for submitting an abstract is the 12th of March 2012.
Find all details here.

MIGRATIONS_exhibition at the Tate Britain

This ia a terrific exhibition. I went with my fourth year students and we were all impressed by the wide range of items displayed from 1500 to the present day.
Please go if you can. The exhibition remains open till 12 August 2012.

UCL Urban Migration Film Festival_UCL Archeology 15 February 2012

This is a promising film festival on Urban Migration. It is organized by the UCL Department of Anthropology. I'm planning to go, and can't wait to watch some of these films. Please note a registration is required.

Call for Papers: special issue on Gender, Religion and Migration

An interesting CALL FOR PAPER on the interconnection of migration, religion and gender.

Please find all detais here.

Deadline for sending an abstract is Monday 27 February 2012.