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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).
MeLa Research Field 3 (http://wp3.mela-project.eu/), composed by international institutions and led by the University of Glasgow, is organising an international conference on ’Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions’, 3-4 December 2012, to identify and explore innovative trans-national and trans-local partnerships, collaborations and policies between European museums, libraries & other public cultural institutions around the themes of European cultural and scientific heritage, migration and integration, and use of ICTs.
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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/
Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) and Giulia Grechi (University of Naples) undertook a research fieldwork visit to the SUDLAB premises in Naples, Italy in March 2012. SUDLAB is a successful no-profit R&D center focusing on contemporary arts and ICT for cultural applications. The center offers both a physical exhibition space and an online platform for collaborations and patnerships in Italy and internationally. We interviewed Antonio Perna, director of SUDLAB, and discussed with him the opportunities and challenge offered by collaborations at local and international level across diverse communities of practice. One example was the collaborative project Mediterraneo – Musica – Migrazione described by SUDLAB in the RF03 online survey. We also talked about the implications and effects of funding sources upon unfunded collaborations. This visit gave us a useful insight into the world of no-profit cultural associations that are using ICTs to address topics of interest for the MeLa [...]
Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, attended the Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) conference on “Engaging research”, co-convened by Prof. Rebecca Kay, on 2nd March 2012.
The University of Glasgow’s Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, NGOs and policy makers working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. As the title suggests, the conference brought together researchers and organisations to jointly develop ideas for research projects that would benefit both parties, through:
Short presentations from a range of academic partners showcasing their projects and focusing on process design/methods/challenges/lessons. Parallel Discussion Sessions to bring together organisations and potential researchers around central research questions with a view to trying to develop viable research projects.
The University of Glasgow academic community has a wide range of expertise in relation to refugees, asylum and migration. The City of Glasgow is host to the largest [...]
International Conference as part of the
MeLA* – European Museums in an Age of Migrations European Commission FP7-funded project
Organised by the International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies, Newcastle University 3-4 September 2012
Call for Papers
The imperatives surrounding the museum representation of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. This is in part because the political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, recognition of changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. These issues, taken historically, have particular significance for contemporary understandings of the role [...]
Lecture series
Dublin, 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012
How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture is a part of the lecture series EUNIC/UNIQUE Thoughts: Public Discussions on European Issues. The lectures will take place in the Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on 9 February, 15 March and 26 April 2012 from 2 to 5 pm.
Ireland is one of just two EU countries that has a majority of migrants from the EU member states. The diversity and scale of EU migration is a recent phenomenon though there is a long tradition of migration to Ireland from some EU-15 states, especially the UK, Germany and France. Ireland has also become home to a range of people from outside the EU including Nigeria, China, India, Philippines and Brazil. The lectures and panel discussions for each theme will assess how migrants are [...]
The research team at UNEW (Chris Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason and Susannah Eckersley) have developed a conceptual framework for their ongoing case study explorations.
This framework has developed out of a wide-ranging literature review on museums, migration, mobilities and their theories and subthemes (including for example: identity; diversity; multiculturalism; gender; politics; memory; trauma; post-colonialism). It is also based on an extensive review of relevant museums throughout Europe (EU member states, associated states, countries with agreements and countries situated within geographic Europe). A database has been created by UNEW which includes museums not only specifically focussed on migration (both immigration and emigration) as a discrete topic, but also national, regional and local museums which cover themes related to migration and mobility. These include such diverse museum ‘types’ as: history museums; Heimat museums; ecomuseums; ethnology, ethnography and folk museums; open air museums; city museums; museums specifically relating to diasporic and/or indigenous communities (such [...]
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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The EU-funded project MeLA is developing multi-disciplinary resources for investigating major European public museums, supporting their collaboration with libraries and public cultural institutions, and helping them to address contemporary challenges of globalization, European integration, and new media.
In MeLA Research Field 03 (Network of Museums, Libraries and Public Cultural Institutions) we wish to find out experiences of collaborative projects between transnational museums, libraries and other cultural institutions, focusing on multiculturalism, migration and the use of new media. Our geographic focus at this stage is on transnational and/or national partnerships within Europe and/or at extra-European level.
An online survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/MeLAproject-survey . The results of this survey will contribute to our investigation on innovative coordination strategies between museums and other cultural institutions, which will be presented to the European Commission.
Some information about this survey: – The survey consists of 30 research questions and it will take about [...]
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