European Migrations: Infrastructures of Mobility, Confinement and Hospitality in the E.U.
Time
february 19, 2019 5:28pm - february 19, 2019 5:28pm
Location
249 Museum of Fine Art (MOFA)
Event Details
This photo exhibit and series of conferences explore the long history of migration in Europe and tracks the materialization of increasingly hostile migration policies in Europe. In the past twenty years, hardline immigration
Event Details
This photo exhibit and series of conferences explore the long history of migration in Europe and tracks the materialization of increasingly hostile migration policies in Europe. In the past twenty years, hardline immigration policies have changed the physical, cultural and political landscapes in Europe. Presenters will talk about the British handling of borders outside national limits, security infrastructure and confinement, incarceration, violence and the politics of deterrence, old and new networks of solidarity in France, Italy, and Germany, and representations of migration in France, Germany, and Italy.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, 21 FEBRUARY
5.00-6.00 PM – MOFA 250
Opening at MOFA, introduction by Vincent Joos (FSU)
Visit to photography exhibition by Eric Leleu
Followed by light reception
FRIDAY, 22 FEBRUARY
9:00-10.30 AM – DIF 009
Moderator: Martin Munro (FSU)
Session 1: Historical Contexts
Helen Solterer (Duke University) Enclaves: European Fictions for Locking People In & Keeping People Out
Max Scholz (FSU) >500 Years of Refugee Accommodation In Germany
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 PM – FAB 249
Moderator: Silvia Valisa
Session 2: Italian and German Perspectives
Dana Weber (FSU), “The Birthday of a New Germany:” Hospitality and Hostility during the Refugee Influx of 2015-2016
Susanna Antonielli (FSU), Framing Flows: Italian and European Debates on Migration and Asylum Law
Tenley Bick (FSU), Porta d’Europa: Art and Activism in Italy in the Age of the European Migration Crisis
12.30-1.45 PM Lunch at Suwannee Room
1.45-2.45 FAB 249
Screening of Calais, The End of the Jungle
2.45-3.00 PM – Coffee Break
3.00-4.00 PM – FAB 249
Moderator: Vincent Joos
Carolina Sanchez-Boe (Danish Research Foundation fellow, CERLIS Université Paris Descartes – Sorbonne Cité, IMC Aarhus University)
Infrastructures of Confinement. Migration Policies and the Criminalization of Migrants and their Allies in Contemporary France
Session 3: The Undeported
4.00-5.00 PM – FAB 249
Round-table with all speakers: The Future of Migration