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On Apr 23, Professor Ian Goldin held a Seminar to discuss about “How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future”. Goldin is Professor of Globalisation and Development and director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; together with Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan, he is the author of the book Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will define our Future (published by Princeton University Press in September 2011).
The recent Seminar was meant as an opportunity to debate about the role of migrants throughout history, as the engine which fueled human progress. The talk highlighted how their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In the contemporary more interconnected world, characterized by increased migration flows, Goldin looks at the profound advantages that such dynamics have for countries and migrants the world over, and proposes new approaches [...]
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After its first presentation at Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in Rome, the travelling exhibition “La Memoria del Mare. Oggetti Migranti nel Mediterraneo / The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean” is going to appear at the Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa. The exhibition, curated by Anna Chiara Cimoli and promoted within the MeLa Research Field 06, will be displayed at Saletta dell’Arte (Calata de Mari 1) from 6th to 28th February 2013.
“Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean” is meant to present a private museum located in Zarzis, in South Tunisia, a place where many sea currents meet; this experience ensued from the work of Mohsen Lihidheb, who has been collecting, amassing, organizing objects for many years, claiming his right to take care of them, to create artworks with them, and to transform them on and on through time, proposing an innovative form [...]
A view of the exhibition. Photo: Paulo Lobo.
From 14 December to 17 February, the photo exhibition La face cachée des mots is on display at the Kreutzbeg Museum, Berlin. Conceived and produced by the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines in Dudelange, Luxemburg, it deals with the theme of the relationship between migration and democracy, and it does so by questioning artists in a visual form. Paulo Lobo, photographer born in Portugal, took pictures of musicians, poets, actors, painters etc. in an empty swimming pool, putting them in a dialogic dimension in respect to a sentence they has previously written or chosen. The result is sometimes cryptic, sometimes funny, other times bitter, but it always succeeds in stimulating reflection about one’s perception of identity and of its possible visual translations.
The exhibition is curated by Christine Muller and Dario Cieol.
Martin Düspohl, director of Kreutzberg Museum, led [...]
The Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg recently published on its website the contents of the “Titanic and Emigration” conference, which took place from 8th to 10th November 2012. Both short video-comments of the speakers about the exhibition, and the audio files of the talks, are now available.
The speakers were Sinead Sheppard (major of Cobh), Aislinn Merz (Deutsches Auswandererhaus, Bremerhaven), Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly (Red Star Line, Antwerp), Seamus Rooney (Belfast City Council), Pierangelo Campodonico (Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa), Hans Storhaug ( Norwegian Emigration Center, Stavanger ; President of AEMI).
Objects belonging to shipwrecked migrants collected by Moshen Lihidheb. In the left can there’s a gris-gris, a Senegalese talisman. Mattia Insolera/Luzphoto.
The Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in Rome is hosting some MeLa events, in the framework of the “Idee migranti” call for ideas. Two MeLa proposals were selected in the call, which accompanied the exhibition [S]oggetti migranti, produced in the framework of the READ-ME 2 project: The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean by Anna Chiara Cimoli and Crossing bodies-Postcolonial visions by Routes Agency, partner of MeLa in this specific occasion.
The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean is an exhibition about a private museum located in Zarzis, in South Tunisia, a place where many sea currents meet. Here Mohsen Lihidheb has been collecting, amassing, organizing objects for many years, claiming his right to take care of them, to create artworks [...]
How do museums in Europe represent histories and experiences of migration? How do they fashion identities connected to European places as destinations and places (sometimes multicultural ones) to live or to travel through? What is the relationship between European places and non-European ones, where they share historic connections resulting from colonialism or labour force agreements? How might we understand and study museum representations pertaining to place, identity and migration in contemporary Europe?
These questions are addressed in this book, which is the first of a series authored by researchers at Newcastle University in the context of the MeLa Project, Chris Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason and Susannah Eckersley. The book sets out the theoretical and methodological premises for MeLa Research Field 01, focused on Museums and Identity in History and Contemporaneity, and aimed at developing policy-relevant arguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations, for questions of contemporary European [...]
This volume, produced within MeLa Research Field 03 activities and edited by Perla Innocenti, collects a series of essays, case studies and interviews exploring diverse European perspectives on interdisciplinary collaborations between cultural institutions. Twenty international scholars and practitioners from seven European countries discuss cross-domain partnerships, cultural identity and cultural dialogue, heritage for the arts and sciences, European narratives, migration and mobility, and describe real-life case studies in museums, libraries, foundations, associations and online portals.
The book aims at forming the basis for analysis and discussion of European cultural cooperation at translocal and trasnational level, providing scenarios, direct experiences and materials that can be further extended, enhanced and be a source of inspiration within the MeLa project network and beyond.
Weaving together real-life contexts and processes of collaboration, networking and partnership, this work provides an overview of emerging cooperation patterns and challenges, obstacles and potentialities in digital and physical settings. [...]
The intention of the contributions in this volume is to explore the parameters and paradigms of the contemporary museum—its spaces, practices and avowed purposes—in the light of the critical interrogations raised by postcolonial criticism and analyses. How are we to re-think museum studies, exhibitionary practices and archiving procedures within the radical revaluation of Occidental modernity? Such an investigation witnesses the latter’s historical and cultural premises being exposed to questions and possibilities it has rarely authorized. When the unsung bodies, cultures and histories of colonialism and Empire return to ghost the contemporary world—this, too, is “globalization”—then the manner of picturing and framing the memories of that past and present becomes a pressing and contested matter. Are we merely to adjust and enlarge an inherited frame of understanding to incorporate this critical encounter, or is something more required?
Edited by Beatrice Ferrara, the book collects essays by: a.titolo, Danilo Capasso, Iain [...]
‘Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions’
International conference, Glasgow, 3-4 December 2012
Organised by History of Art, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
as part of EC-funded FP7 project European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLA)
http://wp3.mela-project.eu/wp/pages/research-field-03-international-conference-overview
Full conference programme with abstracs and biographies: http://www.mela-project.eu/upl/cms/attach/20121119/181830286_6888.pdf
Registration is FREE at http://mela2012conference.eventbrite.com/ by 23 November 2012 and includes a delegate pack, lunches, refreshments, and wine reception.
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