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)
The research team of HOMInG will contribute to the International Summer School in Ethnography (5th edition) which will take place in Trento next September 10-15. Guest speakers will include M. Butcher, J.W. Duyvendak, S. Jansen and C. Mattiucci. The school is addressed to PhD students and postdocs across social sciences. The 2017 edition will be … Leggi tutto HOMInG and the Trento Summer School in Ethnography: extended deadline (May 14)
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)
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
Three HOMInG research fellows have eventually been selected, and will start working on the project next month. They are social anthropologists Sara Bonfanti and Aurora Massa, and cultural sociologist Alejandro Miranda. Looking forward to homing them!
Researching home and migration: questions, methods, prospects An international workshop within the ERC HOMInG Project 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 … Leggi tutto Researching home and migration: extended deadline (April 2)
The research team of HOMInG will contribute to the International Summer School in Ethnography (5th edition) which will take place in Trento next September 10-15. Guest speakers will include M. Butcher, J.W. Duyvendak, S. Low and C. Mattiucci. The school is addressed to PhD students and postdocs across social sciences. The 2017 edition will be … Leggi tutto HOMInG and the Trento Summer School in Ethnography
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
A session on the home-making potential of reception and housing initiatives for asylum seekers in Italy will be part of the 4th Annual conference of ESCAPES, an Italian research network on forced migration. The conference will take place in Parma next June 8-9. The session Dall'accoglienza al fare casa is convened, in Italian, by Cristina … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ ESCAPES 2017
The first round of postdoc selections, prior to the start of HOMInG's comparative fieldwork, is now concluded. About 50 applications were received from sixteen different countries. While one candidate out of two was native of Italy, about 20% were either Mexican or Turkish, and the rest from a number countries across four continents: Ecuador, Iran, … Leggi tutto HOMInG in progress
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
The second HOMInG seminar (in Italian), within the meeting of SIAA (applied anthropology), gathered some anthropological case studies on home and migration. Participants: Roberta Altin (Social mapping of asylum seekers in reception facilities in Trieste); Sara Bonfanti (Domestic ethnography of Punjabi families in Italy); Giuseppe Grimaldi (Uses and meanings of the houses of Tigrina returnees … Leggi tutto Migration and home-making: insights from applied anthropology in Italy (video)
The first 2017 seminar of HOMInG will be with sociologist Loretta Baldassar (University of Western Australia). Prof. Baldassar will give a presentation based on her well-established research on "visits home" over the course of Italian migration to Australia. All welcome! HS_1/017, January 17, 3pm: Loretta Baldassar (UWA), Visits Home as kinning and consumption: pilgrimage, rite … Leggi tutto A SEMINAR ON “VISITS HOME” WITH LORETTA BALDASSAR (UWA)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 