HOMING SEMINAR (MAY 6, 10 CET): Exploring the sacralization of migrant homes: religious rituals, objects and spaces as ways of home-making (BY BARBARA BERTOLANI)

HOMInG's seminar 53_21 will be held on May 6th, at 10am CET, by Barbara Bertolani. Can the everyday lived religious experience in migrants’ homes be considered as something that allows for a social appropriation and construction of domestic space by its inhabitants? In this HOMInG seminar Barbara Bertolani will explore the ritualization of migrants’ dwellings … Leggi tutto HOMING SEMINAR (MAY 6, 10 CET): Exploring the sacralization of migrant homes: religious rituals, objects and spaces as ways of home-making (BY BARBARA BERTOLANI)

Adriano Cancellieri: Why home-making matters – Perché il “fare casa” è importante (video)

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)

HOMInG @ ESCAPES 2017

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