On March 26 at 1pm Paolo Boccagni will give an invited talk at the University of Windsor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology. The talk will be on "Homing" as an everyday optic on migrant trajectories of local integration: Beyond assimilation vs transnationalism. More info on http://www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/173/paolo-boccagni-visiting-speaker
HOMInG's PI Paolo Boccagni will give a seminar at the Observatorio Vasco de Inmigracion, Universidad del Pais Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, next January 31 at 11am. The seminar, in Spanish, will be on "Home-making in migration: Home as a place, aspiration and symbol for the study of lives on the move". More info: @ikuspegi_eus; www.ikuspegi.eus/documentos/convocatorias/seminario_paolo_boccagniOK.pdf La … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ Observatorio Vasco de Inmigración: “la casa como lugar, aspiración y símbolo para estudiar vidas en movimiento”
At the London annual conference of the Home Renaissance Foundation - A Home: a Place of Growth, Care and Wellbeing - Paolo Boccagni will present a paper on Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing: Towards a “positive deconstruction” of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home (London, the Royal Society … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HRF 2017
HOMInG's PI Paolo Boccagni has co-convened two sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology (Toronto, 15-21 July 2018): one, with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (RC31), on Migrant home-making in the era of fortified borders: Reproducing the past, resisting the present, redefining the future?; another, with Margarethe Kusenbach (RC43), on Researching home: Choices, challenges, opportunities. Abstract submission online, up to September 30: http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
HOMInG Workshop (June 5-6): videos of the session "Homing meets critics" (with Sara Bonfanti, Aurora Massa, Alejandro Miranda) and of the following presentations: Annabelle Wilkins, Friedemann Neumann, Anna Pechurina, Lauren Wagner, Robin Vandevoordt, Anna Perraudin, Irene Pellegrini, Agnieszka Trąbka.See on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqJwCSFSWu3HM274aNmAnw RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION QUESTIONS, METHODS, PROSPECTS An international workshop within the ERC HOMInG Project ERC … Leggi tutto RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: MORE VIDEOS
HOMInG Workshop (June 5-6): videos of the two keynotes (Pierrette Hodagneu-Sotelo and Cathrine Brun) and of the introduction to the workshop (Paolo Boccagni). See on our youtube channel:
HOMInG's researchers Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda will be at the forthcoming IMISCOE annual conference in Rotterdam (June 28-30, Erasmus University Rotterdam). Among other initiatives, a Symposium on Migration and the search for home will take place on June 29, 10.50-12.20. Participants will include Godfried Engbersen, Marco Martiniello, Marta Bivand Erdal, Maja Frykman, Alistair Hunter, Dirk Geldof and Paolo … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ IMISCOE 2017
Sara’s comments The International Workshop on Home & Migration held last week in Trento kicked off the HOMInG team’s research enterprise. The event was an ambivalent success: in terms of networking it proved enjoyable and promising, fueling new collaborations, in terms of theme coherence instead it exposed the inherent contradiction in studying ‘home’, a catch-it-all … Leggi tutto Three comments on the International Workshop on Home & Migration
The ISA RC 43 (Housing and the Built Environment) will hold its annual conference at the City University of Hong Kong, next June 18-21: "Unreal state? Rethinking housing, class and identity". On Monday June 19 afternoon, within a session on "Migration, mobility and class ", Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation on "Feeling at home: … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ ISA RC 43, HONG KONG (JUNE 18-21)
50 scholars from 3 continents and 17 different countries gathered on June 5 and 6 at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento at the 'Researching Home and Migration' International Workshop. Rich discussions emerged on the material, social and symbolic dimensions of home under conditions of displacement and extended mobility. The idea that home is … Leggi tutto Thanks for participating in the ‘Researching Home and Migration’ International Workshop
Extended Program (pdf) RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION QUESTIONS,METHODS, PROSPECTS An international workshop within the ERC HOMInG Project ERC StG no 678456 (2016-21), http://homing.soc.unitn.it, twitter.com/erchoming University of Trento, Dpt. Sociology 5–6 June, 2017
International Workshop on RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: QUESTIONS, METHODS, PROSPECTS An International workshop within the ERC HOMInG project 5-6 June, 2017 Department of Sociology and Social Research via Verdi 26, Trento Definitive program (pdf) Online registration open until June 6: http://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociologia/21185/erc-homing-project Photo: "Sleeping area for refugees and refugees' clothes is drying of on the rope in the temporary … Leggi tutto RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: FINAL PROGRAMME
All welcome to register on http://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociologia/21185/erc-homing-project Online Registration The online Registration will close on May 24 Organizing Commeette: Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti, Aurora Massa, Alejandro Miranda Contacts and information: homing@unitn.it Registration fees Researchers in a permanent position: Euro 70,00 Researchers in a non-permanent position, students, researchers from ISA "B" and "C" countries: Euro 50,00 The registration fee … Leggi tutto RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN
Two HOMInG researchers will participate, next week, in the 2017 conference of SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) on Ways of Dwelling: Crisis, Craft, Creativity (Gottingen, March 27-30). Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation on Homing in migrants' everyday lives - a conceptual framework (session Home04- Makeshift homing, March 29 at 8.30am). Sara Bonfanti … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ SIEF 2017 – Ways of Dwelling
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 