Parallel to the International Summer School in Ethnography, a "trilogue" on researching home across disciplines will take place on 13 September at 4pm, at the Dpt. of Sociology (HOMInG seminar no. 6/2017). This will involve a sociologist (Jan Willem Duyvendak), a geographer (Melissa Butcher) and an anthropologist (Stef Jansen). All welcome!
An author-meets-critics session on "The home-migration nexus: Theory, research, prospects" will take place at the next Annual international conference of the Royal Geographic Society in London. The session, on Friday 1 September at 9am, will involve Marco Antonsich, Paolo Boccagni, Jorgen Carling, Melissa Fernandez, Louise Meijering and Lauren Wagner. More info: http://conference.rgs.org/AC2017/289
HOMInG seminar no. 5/17 with Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham), July 3, Dipartimento di Sociologia. "The camp as a social and political space" This paper engages with current debates on the sociology of camps and camp-like institutions in contemporary society. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Italy in ‘nomad camps’ where forcibly displaced Roma from … Leggi tutto Nando Sigona: “The camp as a social and political space” (video)
Migration and search for home: a symposium Rotterdam, IMISCOE Annual Conference 2017. June 29, 2017. Participants: Paolo Boccagni, Marco Martiniello, Marta Bivand, Maja Frykman, Alistair Hunter, Dirk Geldof, Godfried Engbersen. The Home-Migration Nexus was extensively discussed at a symposium at the IMISCOE annual conference, based on P. Boccagni's book Migration and the search for home.
HOMInG seminar no. 5/17 will be with Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) next July 3, Monday, at 4pm, Dipartimento di Sociologia. All welcome! The camp as a social and political space This paper engages with current debates on the sociology of camps and camp-like institutions in contemporary society. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in … Leggi tutto The camp as a social and political space: A seminar with Nando Sigona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_L7sxNTPw&t=2524s Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California): "Black and brown on common ground". HOMInG Seminar, Department of Sociology and Social Research, May 16 2017 How do Latino and African American men create a sense of place, belonging and civic culture through their homo-social gatherings in parks and community gardens, and what is the role of … Leggi tutto Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo: “Black and brown on common ground” (Video)
Irene Cieraad, a well-know anthropologist of domestic space and material culture based at TU Delft, gave the third HOMInG seminar of 2017. Her talk traces anthropological approaches on the study of domestic environments, as well as the historical development of home in Western culture. In examining multiple conceptualisations of home, Cieraad foregrounds the significance of … Leggi tutto Irene Cieraad: Anthropological perspectives of home (VIDEO)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California) will be a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento in May-June 2016. Next May 22, at 2.30pm, Pierrette will give a seminar on how Latino and African American men create a sense of place, belonging and civic culture. All welcome! Abstract: How … Leggi tutto Black and Brown on Common Ground: a seminar with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
The third 2017 seminar of HOMInG will be with Irene Cieraad, an anthropologist at TU Delft, The Netherlands. Irene, a well-known anthropologist of domestic space and material culture, will give a seminar on Anthropological perspectives of home next May 9, Tuesday, at 2.30pm (Dpt. of Sociology). Her main discussant will be Ester Gallo. As usual, … Leggi tutto Anthropological perspectives of home: a seminar with Irene Cieraad
As a part of the Institute of Historical Research ‘Studies of Home’ series, convened by the Centre for Studies of Home (Queen Mary University - Geffrye Musuem of the Home), Paolo Boccagni will give a seminar on Homing: a conceptual and research agenda on migrants' home experience. The seminar will be held on Wednesday 3rd May at 5.30pm … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CENTRE FOR STUDIES OF HOME (LONDON, MAY 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9S-7svB-fQ The second HOMInG seminar of 2017 (in Italian), with Adriano Cancellieri (IUAV, Venice), has emphasized the significance of home-making as an anthropological need and an emotionalized, emplaced and embodied day-to-day experience. Based on his own fieldwork and theoretical elaboration, Adriano makes a case for six dimensions to be constitutive of a progressive sense of … Leggi tutto Adriano Cancellieri: Why home-making matters – Perché il “fare casa” è importante (video)
The second 2017 seminar of HOMInG, with Dr. Adriano Cancellieri (IUAV, Venice), will provide an original account on the construction of people's sense of home. The seminar, in Italian, will take place at the Dpt. of Sociology in Trento next March 21 at 11am. Giuseppe Sciortino and Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento) will be the main discussants. See … Leggi tutto “I feel at home here”: a seminar with Adriano Cancellieri
Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning - and beyond The first 2017 seminar of HOMInG has been with Loretta Baldassar (UWA) on visits home - her long-standing topic of research, related to several cohorts of Italian migrants in Australia. Issues of care, distance, polymedia, co-presence and home are also touched upon. Theoretically, Loretta argues … Leggi tutto Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning – and beyond (video)
Researching home and migration: questions, methods, prospects An international workshop at the University of Trento, 5-6 June, 2017 Home, as a social setting, experience, or category, has raised increasing attention in a number of research domains, including migration and its consequences in and across societies. While several case studies have been done around this topic, … Leggi tutto Researching home and migration: questions, methods, prospects. An international workshop
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 