Paolo Boccagni will give a talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong next 11 January. The talk, as a part of the Anthropology Department Social Impact Series, will be on Dreaming of mobility from an immobile presence and present: sneakers and their symbolic power in a place for asylum seekers. Discussant: prof. Gordon Matthews. Between 2018 and 2022 I did an ethnography in … Leggi tutto HOMING @ CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: ‘DREAMING OF MOBILITY FROM AN IMMOBILE PRESENCE AND PRESENT’
Paolo Boccagni will participate in the Third conference of the Thanatic Ethics Network in Hong Kong, 8-9 January, about Death “Matters”: The (Im)material and the Sensory in Death in Migration. Paolo's presentation is about Coping with the absence that is always present: Sensorial Traces and Impingements of Death in the Everyday Lives of Young West African Migrants in Europe. See … Leggi tutto HOMING @ THANATIC ETHICS #3: ‘THE (IM)MATERIAL AND THE SENSORY IN DEATH IN MIGRATION’ (EDUCATION UNIVERSITY HONG KONG, 8-9 JANUARY)
Within the forthcoming RC21 Conference in Santiago de Chile (24-26 July 2024), on The politics and spaces of encounters, Paolo Boccagni and Margarethe Kusenbach (University of Southern Florida) have convened a session on Scales of displacement and emerging spaces of encounter and mobilization: Seeking common ground across cities, disciplines, and social groups (Panel 28). See the abstract below. Deadline for online … Leggi tutto CALL FOR PAPERS @RC21_SANTIAGO 2024: SCALES OF DISPLACEMENT AND EMERGING SPACES OF ENCOUNTER AND MOBILIZATION (DEADLINE: 31 DECEMBER)
Paolo Boccagni will give an invited talk at Newcastle University, nexit 28 November at 4pm, as a part of the Sociology Research Seminar of 2023/2024. The presentation will be about Coping with the absence that is always present: Sensorial traces and impingements of death in the everyday lives of young West African migrants in Europe.' Abstract … Leggi tutto HOMING @ NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY:: ‘COPING WITH THE ABSENCE THAT IS ALWAYS PRESENT’ (28 NOVEMBER)
Two postdoctoral positions have just been opened at the University Trento for a post-doc researcher to work, together with Paolo Boccagni, in a MUR-PRIN funded project on Unveiling the social lives of shared housing between strangers in Italy (SHARE_DIV). Applications are welcome from researchers from across social sciences, ideally with a strong ethnographic background. Each position is 16 months … Leggi tutto CALL FOR POSITIONS: POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS (PRIN – SHARE_DIV PROJECT, DEADLINE: DECEMBER 3)
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti will give an online presentation of their coedited book Finding home in Europe next 6 November at 5pm CET. Their lecture is part of the MoMo Lecture Series (Moving Mobilities Online) convened by the EASA Anthropology and Mobility (ANTHROMOB) Network. Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in‐depthinterviews with transnational migrants … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ANTHROMOB_EASA: FINDING HOME IN EUROPE (ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH, 6 NOVEMBER)
Paolo Boccagni will participate in the 2023 International conference of NIAS, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Within the broader interdisciplinary topic of "Belonging and Mobility", Paolo will coordinate a "sphere" on "Dwelling / Homing". See the whole conference programme here.
Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture on 'The city as home?' next Tuesday, 17 October (3pm), at Utrecht University - Open Dialogue session, convened by the Open Cities Platform. The lecture revisits the recent debate on home and homemaking on extra-domestic scales, including the city one, drawing also on the multi-sited qualitative fieldwork of ERC HOMInG. How far the city public … Leggi tutto HOMING @ UTRECHT UNIVERSITY – OPEN CITIES PLATFORM: ‘THE CITY AS HOME? WAYS, PROSPECTS AND DILEMMAS OF HOMEMAKING IN THE PUBLIC’ (17 OCTOBER)
Paolo Boccagni, as an international fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris), will give a seminar in the Migration and Mobility series of Science Po - CERI next 25 September at 5pm. See the complete title and abstract below. "More future" through migration? Temporal suspension, glimpses into the future and struggles for normality among young West African men in the Italian asylum … Leggi tutto HOMING @ SCIENCE PO – CERI: “MORE FUTURE” THROUGH MIGRATION? (PARIS, 25 SEPTEMBER)
Paolo Boccagni will participate in the international workshop 'Home-coming and Home-making: Conversations between Architecture and Anthropology' at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Gottingen, next 20-21 September. The workshop is convened by Xiang Ren (University of Sheffield ) and Victoria Sakti (MPI-MMG). The title of Paolo's presentation is Home is the place where I … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘HOME-COMING AND HOME-MAKING: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY’ (20-21 SEPTEMBER, MPI-MMP GOTTINGEN)
Within the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society in London, Paolo Boccagni and Annabelle Wilkins have convened a session on Home and migration: a conversation across geographies of place-making on the move (31 August, 4.20 - 6pm). The session will involve a number of colleagues to discuss their research in relation to the newly published Handbook on home and migration (Edward Elgar, 2023). The list … Leggi tutto HOMING @ RGS-IBG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ‘A CONVERSATION ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES OF PLACE-MAKING ON THE MOVE’
Paolo Boccagni will give a seminar at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, next 3 July at 11 local time, on As if it were home: On the promise of home as a metaphor of and into social reality. See the title and abstract below! As if it were home: On the promise of home … Leggi tutto HOMING @ INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY (WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY): ‘AS IF IT WERE HOME’ (3 JULY)
Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation at the UNSW City Analytics Lab, Sydney, next 30 June. The seminar is part of the CFRC Seminar Series and is accessible online. More details below. House, home, both, neither: on the reach, boundaries and dilemmas of "home" in an asylum centre Home and homemaking are recurrent questions in the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (SYDNEY): ‘HOUSE, HOME, BOTH, NEITHER’
Paolo Boccagni will participate in the forthcoming World Congress of ISA, the International Sociological Association, in Melbourne. Together with Raelene Wilding from La Trobe University, Paolo has set up a panel on Smartphones As Micro-Homes, Away from Home? Comparing Forms of Portable and Digital Homemaking Among Migrants and Displaced Young People (Monday 26 June from 3.30pm). Moreover, Paolo will give … Leggi tutto HOMING @ XX ISA WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY (MELBOURNE, JUNE 25 – JULY 1)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 