The application deadline for the 2018 Summer school in Ethnography has been postponed to May 25. The Sixth edition of the International Summer School in Ethnography will take place @UniTrento next September 10-14. This edition is convened by Paolo Boccagni and Ester Gallo (Dpt. of Sociology, University of Trento). Guest speakers will include Henrike Donner (Goldsmith, University … Leggi tutto Summer School in Ethnography 2018: Extended deadline (May 25)
Within the Annual conference of the British Sociological Association in Newcastle, next April 10 (9-10.30am), Paolo Boccagni will convene a 'special event' on Researching home, sociologically. The session will include contributions by Caroline Blunt (When and Why Are We at Home (In Our Research)? Adaptability, Hospitality and Attachment); Anna Pechurina (The Study of Diasporic Identities through Home-Making Practices); and Paolo Boccagni (Home Tours: Towards … Leggi tutto HOMING @ BSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE (NEWCASTLE, 10 APRIL)
Paolo Boccagni and Alejandro Miranda will participate in the annual meeting of the Council for European Studies (CES) in on March 28-30. Paolo and Alejandro will present their work in a session on Domopolitics, and beyond; on the political mobilization of 'home' in Europe and North America (March 29), together with Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Kivisto and Fenneke Wekker. … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ CHICAGO’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EUROPEANISTS (CES)
On March 26 at 1pm Paolo Boccagni will give an invited talk at the University of Windsor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology. The talk will be on "Homing" as an everyday optic on migrant trajectories of local integration: Beyond assimilation vs transnationalism. More info on http://www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/173/paolo-boccagni-visiting-speaker
999 questions (and a few answers) on dwelling: art and homemaking in Milan by Paolo Boccagni “What can art tell us about home?”, Olivia Sheringham and Richard Baxter wondered some years ago (see the wrap-up post on the "Workshop on home and art" which took place at the Geffrye Museum, London, in May 2015: www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/news/2015/items/what-can-art-tell-us-about-home.html). … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “999 questions (and a few answers) on dwelling: art and homemaking in Milan”
The Sixth edition of the International Summer School in Ethnography will take place @UniTrento next September 10-14. This edition is convened by Paolo Boccagni and Ester Gallo (Dpt. of Sociology, University of Trento). Guest speakers will include Henrike Donner (Goldsmith, University of London), Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne), Michele Lancione (University of Sheffield) and Maruska … Leggi tutto Trento Summer School in Ethnography 2018: call for applications
On migrant ways of making home in the public, beyond symbolic ethnicity - notes from my pilot fieldwork in Madrid by Paolo Boccagni I've often been to Madrid, albeit only for short periods. This is what most academics do as they bounce, luckily but also a bit sadly, from one conference to the next. … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: On migrant ways of making home in the public, beyond symbolic ethnicity – notes from my pilot fieldwork in Madrid
HOMInG's PI Paolo Boccagni will give a seminar at the Observatorio Vasco de Inmigracion, Universidad del Pais Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, next January 31 at 11am. The seminar, in Spanish, will be on "Home-making in migration: Home as a place, aspiration and symbol for the study of lives on the move". More info: @ikuspegi_eus; www.ikuspegi.eus/documentos/convocatorias/seminario_paolo_boccagniOK.pdf La … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ Observatorio Vasco de Inmigración: “la casa como lugar, aspiración y símbolo para estudiar vidas en movimiento”
HOMInG Working paper no. 2_2018 Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti, Alejandro Miranda, Aurora Massa Home and Migration: a Bibliography The literature on homemaking and migration covers a vast array of disciplines, case studies, and substantive/methodological approaches. While being almost overwhelming by now, it also tends to be disperse and parcelized. There are several instances of mutually … Leggi tutto HOMInG Working paper no. 2_2018: Home and Migration: a Bibliography
HOMInG Working paper no. 1/2017 PAOLO BOCCAGNI “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing. Towards a ‘positive deconstruction’ of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home” The home holds an inclusive and supportive potential for vulnerable people which is both critical and under-explored. In order to advance research into it, this … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing”
At the London annual conference of the Home Renaissance Foundation - A Home: a Place of Growth, Care and Wellbeing - Paolo Boccagni will present a paper on Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing: Towards a “positive deconstruction” of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home (London, the Royal Society … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HRF 2017
HOMInG meets geographers A session on 'Migration and the search for home' at RGS 2017, London An author-meets-critics session on Migration and the search for home has taken place at RGS 2017 in London on September 1. Here is the youtube video with comments by Paolo Boccagni, Jorgen Carling, Lauren Wagner, Melissa Fernandez, Louise Meijering … Leggi tutto HOMInG meets geographers. A session on ‘Migration and the search for home’ at RGS 2017, London
An author-meets-critics session on "The home-migration nexus: Theory, research, prospects" will take place at the next Annual international conference of the Royal Geographic Society in London. The session, on Friday 1 September at 9am, will involve Marco Antonsich, Paolo Boccagni, Jorgen Carling, Melissa Fernandez, Louise Meijering and Lauren Wagner. More info: http://conference.rgs.org/AC2017/289
Migration and search for home: a symposium Rotterdam, IMISCOE Annual Conference 2017. June 29, 2017. Participants: Paolo Boccagni, Marco Martiniello, Marta Bivand, Maja Frykman, Alistair Hunter, Dirk Geldof, Godfried Engbersen. The Home-Migration Nexus was extensively discussed at a symposium at the IMISCOE annual conference, based on P. Boccagni's book Migration and the search for home.
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 