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
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)
Read the second Homing Interview! A dialogue with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (www.hondagneu-sotelo.org), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 24 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
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)
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
Read the first Homing Interview! A dialogue with Irene Cieraad (Delft University of Technology), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 10 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
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
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
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
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 