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Anna Chiara Cimoli from Politecnico di Milano recently visited the Museo d’ Història de la Inmigraciò de Catalunya. Besides describing the museum activities, objectives and challenges, director Imma Boj discussed the temporary exhibition “El viatge de Gaye”, curated by Tatiana Donoso and Magda Bandera, which suggests through photography a relationship among a person, his/her migration story (real, imagined or refused) and the food he/she eats. This allows a reflection, suitable in particular for schools, about an ideal pyramid where, instead of nutrition elements, there is a series of values going from the most basic (phisiological necessities) to the intermediate (security, social acceptance, self-esteem) to the highest (self-fulfilment).
Anna Chiara also visited the “Pandalla global” (Global screen) exhibition in CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona).
The past twenty years saw an explosion of exhibitions fathoming the relations between art and science as well as numerous refurbishments of natural history or former colonial museums. Many of these displays and gallery transformations mobilised specimens, be it taxidermied animals or preserved human body parts. Objects were put into new contexts opening up their meanings, others disappeared in storage or travelled back to the countries where they were once collected. The conference will address the challenges institutions face when dealing with formerly living entities and consider the aesthetics and politics of their display. The idea is to discuss the use of specimens in temporary exhibitions, museums or university collections and the role curators, art and artists have been playing in the transformation of these spaces. We would also like to consider how preserved specimens have changed through the altering contexts in which they have been displayed: One could name [...]
Race and the Academy: A Discussion Goldsmiths College June 20, 4-6pm, New Academic Building, LG01 Free, register with s.ahmed@gold.ac.uk
Chaired by Sara Ahmed (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths) Panel Speakers: Joan Amin-Addo (English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths) Denise Ferreira da Silva (Centre for Ethics & Politics, Queen Mary) Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
We will ask how whiteness is institutionalised and discuss the difficulties and challenges of ‘embodying diversity’. We will aim to account for the political labour entailed in describing the morphing contours of the dynamics of ‘race’. We will work from the position that all racialised bodies can’t be placed on a flat playing field. Conditions of privilege are differentiated. There is an inter-play between conditions of inclusion and exclusion. Thus it is absolutely vital to be cognisant to how marginality itself is claimed and embedded in global circuits of productivity.
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Migration Letters has just released the 2nd issue of volume 9.
The content list can be accessed by clicking on the link: http://metapress.com/content/121389/
BME Conference – The Future of Education: New environments and new challenges for Black and Minority Ethnic researchers and academics.
Venue: University of Birmingham, Lucas House, Edgbaston, B15 2TT Date: Friday 29th June 2012 The conference aims to provide a focussed opportunity to consider the: • Contributions of BME researchers and academics to the development of knowledge related to ‘race’, ethnicity, education and society; • Discuss the challenges for BME researchers within an age of austerity and shifting policy with respect to ‘race’, ethnicity and education
To register for this event, please visit: http://www.eventelephant.com/berabmeconference Details can also be found at: http://www.bera.ac.uk/events/bera-bme-conference-2012
The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of European public administration scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries. It will analyse the impact of reforms in public management and public services that address citizens’ service needs and social cohesion in Europe. Evaluating the extent and consequences of NPM’s alleged fragmenting tendencies and the resulting need for coordination is a key part of assessing these impacts.
In eight related international research projects, COCOPS will map and analyse innovative mechanisms in the public sector to improve social and policy coordination, especially when the public sector is facing the public crisis. The research will contribute to our understanding of the impact of NPM by integrating sectoral and national analyses and to the development of future public sector [...]
Urban Migration Film Festival – February 15th 09:30-17:00 The free UCL Urban Migration Film Festival will take place on Wednesday 15th February 09:30-17:00. We will explore questions regarding urban migration today through the prism of clips from seminal films of the past century. You are invited to come for the day, bring a packed lunch and see the two films screened over lunchtime, or drop in to the morning or afternoon sessions. Whichever you choose, you are guaranteed a fascinating discussion with a panel of experts from architecture, anthropology, film studies, planning, psychiatry and art who will be joined by several of the film-makers.
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Call for Papers: Art Criticism & Globalisation Winchester School of Art University of Southampton & Tate Liverpool
10-14 September 2012
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Brainstorming seminar in Cambridge (03-06/08/2011) chaired by Dr. Gilly Carr, Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College.
POLIMI was invited to join a group of 8 Scholars discussing about possible Research schemes to investigate the Atlantikwall remains: a difensive infrastructure crossing Europe from cape North to Pireénes, lasting more than 6.000 Km with almost 12.000 buildings and schelters abandoned on the shores of Europe.
AW is a Military Heritage where large part of WWII painfull memories are melted together with the concrete used as construction material. The questions posed by slave and forced labor and their neglected stories, are topics of a undergoing negotiation among different countries (the one of perpetrators, the several of victims, the several hosting): Socio-cultural history, architecture and landscape, conflict archaelogy, are some of the disciplines involed by a such hudge invasive presence.
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