Paolo Boccagni will participate in IMISCOE's Annual conference next week at ICM - Aubervilliers - Paris. Within a session on "Death, dying and memorialisation", convened by A. Hunter (University of Glasgow) on July 2 (10-50-12-20), Paolo will give a presentation on Homing on death through migration studies: A conceptual inquiry and its implications. See the abstract below. Homing … Leggi tutto HOMING @ IMISCOE 2025: DECENTERING MIGRATION STUDIES (PARIS, 1-4 JULY)
Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture at the University of Fulda, next May 20 at 4.30 pm, as a part of the "Researching Community" series of the DFG-funded research impulse 'Shaping Future Society‘ (SaFe). Paolo's lecture will be on Homing Revisited – Approaching Ordinary Struggles and Emerging Dilemmas of Future-Oriented Mobilities. Homing, revisited: approaching ordinary struggles and emerging dilemmas … Leggi tutto HOMING @ FULDA UNIVERSITY: Homing Revisited: Approaching Ordinary Struggles and Emerging Dilemmas of Future-Oriented Mobilities
Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation at the 20th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). Paolo's presentation, in the session 'Global Agenda: Border and Migration 2', will be on Private memory as public concern: Revisiting proximity to death in forced migration through ethnography as care. See the abstract below. Global Agenda - … Leggi tutto HOMING @IASFM CONFERENCE: FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN AN URBANIZING WORLD (JAKARTA, 21-23 JANUARY)
Paolo Boccagni will give a lecture on "Death in migration: an emerging research field in life course, transnational and border studies" at the University of Ghana next 16 and 17 October. He will also convene a workshop with PhD students from the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana.
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)
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)
Former hominger Luis Eduardo Pérez-Murcia has recently published a paper on the experience of home in relation to death and funerals among the members of transnational families. The paper, in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,draws on the author's HOMInG fieldwork with Peruvian and Ecuadorian people in Spain and in the UK. More info below. … Leggi tutto ‘MY SOUL STILL HURTS’: BRINGING DEATH AND FUNERALS INTO THE AGING-MIGRATION-HOME NEXUS (L.E. PEREZ MURCIA, ‘JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES’, 2022)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 